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Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

● Reported directly to the CEO as part of the executive team.● Led technical team through due diligence activities in support of investments.● Identified, retained, and grew the internal engineering talent, as well as recruited external talent.● Developed resource plans and organizational structure for the engineering department.● Established and ensured alignment towards the technical goals of the products with Product Owners, Project Managers, and stakeholders.● Coordinated engineering activities across FTE and contractor teams: local, remote, and offshore.● Established Agile (scrum) processes to ensure consistent and predictable deliveries while constantly improving the process through the feedback loop. This process fed directly into executive reporting on releases and other engineering progress.● Defined, implemented, and managed the SDLC processes and tool suite.● Created, prioritized, communicated, maintained, and executed development roadmaps.● Mentored development team engineers in both technical and career-path capacities.● Provided hands on architectural design and implementation (where needed) of various microservices and their larger architectural patterns using JVM technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS infrastructure, and other related cloud-based technologies.

Providence, Rhode Island, Us

● Managed the SDLC for the Consumer Online and Mobile development teams.● Directed (and implemented much of) the transition from a monolithic code base to a microservice based architecture.● Defined and implemented the continuous integration processes.● Brought a working Agile development process to the Consumer tower that became the template for the organization.● Acted as an Agile coach for the scrum teams.● Worked with business partners to define user stories.● Managed risk items and mitigation thereof.● Defined the SDLC process from story inception and task workflow through build and SCM tracing and onto artifact deployment.● Stood up the SDLC process tooling using Atlassian Jira, Jenkins, various env-specific build tools, code reviews through Crucible.● Created, prioritized, communicated, maintained, and executed development roadmaps.● Reported on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to stakeholders.● Evaluated vendor products through in-depth technology assessments.● Mentored developers on topics ranging from development practices to career goals.● Worked with our resource partners to acquire the best talent available within our partnership pool.

Glendale, Ca, Us

● Collaborated on, and largely implemented, the SOA architecture for AdMaxLocal, the company’s flagship product.● Designed custom NoSQL document store for schema­less storage.● Provided leadership in the ongoing process of moving towards a SOA based SaaS platform.● Restructured code base into discrete, composable services and spearheaded the integration initiative using Camel● Integrated ElasticSearch for full text and free text searching capabilities.● Standardized the SDLC using Jenkins CI to build, promote (alpha through final), and release software.

● Redesigned code base through modularization, improving its testability and reasonability.● Enhanced user experience by updating UI using jQuery UI components.● Lead team full time developers, contract developers, and offshore QA resources.● Created a customer support ticket system based on Atlassian Jira providing streamlined CS processes.● Streamlined the release process using gated automation leading to push button production releases.● Upgraded source management by migrating from CVS to Mercurial to provide strong branch/merge capabilities.● Created coding, SCM, etc. standards and guidelines providing consistency across the team.● Documented standards, processes, new hire ramp­up guides, and documentation guidelines.● Instituted Agile techniques including time boxed releases, stand up meetings, and testing leading to higher quality releases.● Managed production Debian Linux servers and PosgreSQL DBs.

Plano, Tx, Us

● Lead team of hybrid (Java/ColdFusion) developers.● Actively coded in Java and Coldfusion for middle tier development.● Introduced various advanced testing techniques using Fake Objects (Mocking, etc.), DB testing, as well as unit/integrationdesign and separation strategies.● Influenced architectural decisions across the company including the move to SOA as a means to manage the growingcomplexity of the company’s software and ease acquisitions and integration of other companies’ software.● Introduced Spring, EJB3, SOAP and other technologies to bear with high success.● Provided hands on leadership in database design and optimization techniques to increase the scalability of applications.● Oversaw design and code reviews and trained junior developers in design and implementation techniques.● Design customer driven technologies while working closely with Product Management.● Lead technical discussions for the company’s entire technical team.

Tampa, Fl, Us

* Assisted with keeping development costs down by assessing 3rd party software.* Maintained county internet and intranet using ColdFusion 5/MX.* Performed program analysis for several applications under my direction.* Trained junior developers in design and implementation techniques.