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Durham, Nc, Us

Provided senior level bringing stability and enterprise level strategy into the company’s core products. Lead the team with new roadmaps replacing applications that were not able to be revamped to move the bar forward for the company at the same time as driving a new enterprise level mentality into the team. Delivering new products, enhancements to existing systems allowing for increased processing volume while reducing hours required to support the product. Drove consolidation roadmaps taking 12 acquired systems and standardizing on one consolidated system.- Led a Treasury project that automated the collection and remittance of $4.5 Billion annually across 40,000 payments. This included funding events, payments, reconciliation and automated communications with the customers.- Managed 11 teams with 8 direct reports and 113 total employees spread across 7 states and 2 continents. These teams are responsible for the Design, Development, Testing of 141 applications. - Introduced automation into a previously manual monthly returns processing cycle. At the same time as the volume of returns increased by 30%, the introduced automation projects decreased the employee hours by 52%.- Retooled the company’s returns process application in a SAS based designed. Allowing the company to extend offers to 3rd party accounting firms. - Designed and managed initiative to migrate all self-hosted applications to within the Returns team and Excise to Amazon AWS. This included Avalara’s first enterprise class production system hosted within AWS. This included taking advantage of AWS’s RDS, VPC, SQS, EC2, S3 and ElastiCache offerings.

Durham, Nc, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Direct best-practice development of motor fuels excise tax and supply chain management software products serving both commercial and government sectors, overseeing software architecture, development, testing, release, corporate business applications and data center infrastructure. Recruit, manage, and mentor development directors, development managers and managed service professionals; provide ongoing performance management. Plan, forecast, and administer budgets. Lead corporate office coordination and communication to ensure consistent corporate alignment.

Collaborate with internal and external subject-matter experts (SME) and though-leaders across motor fuels taxation, compliance, and reporting to inform short- and long-range product development and roadmapping. Orchestrate IT acquisition and implementation supporting product development and upgrade efforts; led a comprehensive overhaul of the ZyTax product architecture. Implement standards-based practices and processes for top product quality and performance.

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

Served in project management and application development leadership role for business-enabling solutions and strategic initiatives, coordinating project efforts across three sites spanning two continents. Seamlessly managed multiple concurrent initiatives and project teams, as well as consulted on short- and long-range IT strategies, enterprise architectures, and operational / project budget planning.

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Managed application development projects, collaborating cross-functionally to define requirements, validate designs, coordinate user acceptance testing, and lead go-live.