Led the effort to invent and build new solutions that solve a variety of customer-facing problems for an international software vendor offering enterprise-level solutions for financial management, human resources, and planning.• Directed the day-to-day activities of a team of up to 15 Software Engineers responsible for developing software for securing the Workday services comprising the platform; provided ongoing coaching, development, leadership, direction, accountability, and support.• Managed and prioritized projects across locations and teams; planned and assigned resources and drove the delivery of platforms and applications while eliciting, receiving, and applying feedback.• Collaborated with other Senior Managers/cross-functional business partners, including technical architects and product and program management teams, on common goals.• Partnered with world class engineers to facilitate the development and security of data platforms.• Buoyed the development of a complex automated software build processes in support of ongoing deployment, maintenance, and development software efforts.• Created and maintained architecture and process standards, and designed and implemented deployment strategies, in accordance with enterprise-level needs, including commercial package and custom software.• Designed and developed core software services providing real-time access to provisioning security solutions through a REST API with a keen eye for data quality, integrity, and availability.• Championed tool and process integration across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).• Planned and implemented solutions that delivered faster/more efficient software delivery for enterprise platforms. • Drove real-time insights across multiple applications with a focus on the development of a large-scale security platform to support mission critical Workday applications. • Wrote efficient software that scaled horizontally and tuned and scaled large clustered systems.

• Built:o Stream processing software to ingest, process, enrich, and store various data assetso Critical data infrastructure serviceso Data capture and collection services using the latest technologieso API services that scale to millions of requests per second • Evaluated/applied/implemented new open source and cloud native tools and technologies. • Remained abreast of leading market trends and proper application. • Resolved escalated/significant/unique issues through data analysis and evaluation. Selected Accomplishments:• Well versed in software resilience and system reliability engineering; started and staffed a new team with the mission of supporting testing of DevOps and Infrastructure services; enabled testing of new services to the Workday ecosystem through product maturity and acquisitions and its success is measured in more reliable initial service offerings to customers.• Actively worked with managers across organizations to build mentoring relationships and improve Workday’s front-line leadership team.• Worked closely with the Principal Architect to develop a Principal Software Engineer into an architect-level role. • Earned three performance-based promotions throughout tenure: Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer to Sr. Manager QA (November 2011); Sr. Manager QA to Manager, Software Development (December 2016); Manager, Software Development to Sr. Manager, Software Development (October 2017).• Recipient, Team Player Award in support of building Workday in public cloud offerings starting with AWS, 2018.

Collaborated in the software release planning for Deal Management, a SaaS/cloud application used to negotiate and manage workflow of promotional funding between suppliers and retailers.• Spearheaded software test planning directing lifecycle deliverables to achieve quality and performance goals including test case design and problem resolution.• Performed:o Load and stress testing to help engineering identify and address performance issues o Automated testing of output data o Testing of web services components used to interact with other objects i.e. cross application functionality and UI services layer• Recorded scripts for use by the development team to automate UI tests.• Employed white box test methods to conduct code reviews and validate SQL and SQL objects used in a data-driven application.• Trained development, QA, and internal customer teams on application design and features.Selected Accomplishments:• Identified performance bottlenecks within software configurations during production; recommended improvements that drastically increased performance by approximately 200%+.• Performed load and soak testing to improve software resilience.• Evaluated and demonstrated multi-tenancy which reduced the datacenter footprint and lowered the cost-to-serve.