Managing a team of extremely talented and excellent Java developers. Continuing the management philosophy of putting people first and servant leadership with trust and integrity my most important goal. Working with each team member to build development plans and set goals to push their career in the direction that they want to go. Encouraging each member to participate in setting the direction and vision of the team as a whole. Additional responsibilities included: - Removing barriers that impact engineering creativity- Handling non-engineering issues- Work with project managers on time estimates, assignments, and deployments.Additional Role(new 2016) : Technical Project Lead - As part of this role, I work with a team of Technical Project Leads to collaborate on our overall projects to identify opportunities of re-use common to all projects. This team works with the Director of Operations and the Director of Software Development to establish the high level architecture strategy of the company. Documenting and presenting solution designs and ideas, learning technologies such as Docker, ELK, Micro-services, etc.

Managing a team of awesome Salesforce developers supporting our main front end application. As a manager at CHG, we put people first. It's a management style that I firmly believe in. If our people are appreciated and encouraged, results follow. If our people trust their leaders and their leaders are worthy of that trust, results follow. Highly skilled and trained people stay with the company longer decreasing training expenses and learning curve. Additional responsibilities included working with our project management team to get time estimates on functionality enhancements and changes for our main sales applications. Also responsible for determining what is in each sprint, making development assignments, coordinating production support issues and patches and managing production deployments.

Salesforce Apex and VisualForce Development, Java Development. MS SQL Server and Db2 Stored Procedures. Part of a team responsible for implementing and enhancing our main sales application with major customization on the Salesforce Platform. Worked on a large integration process between Salesforce and MS Sql Server / Db2 AS/400 databases that replicated almost the entire Salesforce data. Developed and enhanced Java applications that connected and manipulated data in Salesforce.

Technical lead responsible for distributed remittance processing system. Translate business requirements into vendor build requirements. Validate proposed architecture changes meet long term portfolio vision and business requirements. Perform code reviews, testing. Code where needed using Java, PL/SQL.Participate in portfolio vision setting with lead architects.

Responsible for web based prepaid gift card ordering system. Lead out tasking vendors in translating business requirements into application development changes.Performed code reviews. Coded where needed using Java. Validated proposed application changes met business requirements. Worked with testing teams to complete testing.

Responsible for prepaid gift card authorization system. Performed requirements gathering, design, build, implementation, production support, performance testing and enhancement, problem resolution. Coded in C/C++, Visual C++, Coolplex and Java. Created shell scripts on Sun Solaris and Linux. Performed migration from Oracle to Db2 UDB. Designed and built application monitoring alert process that reduced outage times by alerting team members immediately when application parameters where out of threshold.