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Hughesville, Md, Us

Reston, Virginia, Us

• Currently manage a team of 5 direct reports and 3 non-direct reports • Responsible for determining the QA platform for the department, and getting procurement from the US AirForce for the appropriate amount of licensing• Implementation of the Cucumber framework removing manual testing where possible and implementing automated testing• Working with the development and design teams to ensure fluidity of the systems and end to end functionality met the SOW agreed upon with the US AirForce• Meeting with department heads to ensure the QA process does not impede scheduled deliv-ery. This has been accomplished by ensuring the QA team stays informed of changes in daily standup meetings, have access to the designs and requirements• Implementation of Jira Xray, this is in the infancy of being implemented with the goal to have Jira stories be able to run automated QA and report back to the developers. • Utilization of SonarCube during the QA process to ensure tracked changes decrease bugs and complexities.

Run daily operations, explore new opportunities and make decision on direction the company goes. Devise marketing and technological strategies.

Cary, Nc, Us

• Responsible for the hiring and firing of resources and manage a team of 11 developers and 3 QA’s. • Responsible for budgeting and forecasting and control scheduling of project deliverables• Responsible for annual portfolio planning• Create and foster a resilient team and ensure resiliency of products maintained and created• Work with internal and external customers to gather requirements and provide project up-dates• Increase team velocity by shortening deliverable schedules to follow a more agile method-ology• Initiative to merge IT and Business into one team so that IT takes care of the business ana-lyst duties• Continue to find creative ways to control costs and operate the business unit as lean as pos-sible• Responsible for ensuring a 99.99999 uptime for critical applications • Responsible for ensuring we have capacity to continue to handle increase message volumes • Devised the plan to move applications from on prem to cloud ready to cloud native.• Manage applications that handle all the messages that flow into the company which is around 100 million messages per day

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Working with IBM Global Solutions Sales and Distribution organization as a Senior Team Lead/Technical Lead. Accomplishments: - Help bring in more than $200k+ of new business for the department by preparing solutions and cost estimates for new opportunities. - Brought in more than $150k in new business due to reaching out to other organizations withing IBM. - Refined business processes that took 6 months down to one month and saved IBM as a whole over $400k annually. - Host a weekly technical leadership meeting to help mentor other technical leads and help technical leads find solutions to problems.- Mentor other technical leads and developers in career guidance, technical guidance, and personal guidance.- Lead the cost estimation efforts of the team and helped develop a sanity check system to ensure that cost estimations were as accurate as possible. - Brought open source software certification awareness and process to the GS organization continue to lead the effort in getting the team to re-certify each year.- Brought the idea of monitoring social media such as twitter to the organization and put together a business case for this nickname TIMS and presented this to upper management. - Actively pursue new knowledge within IBM by attending educational seminars and attend IBM strategic meetings.- Foster innovation of new strategic technologies by setting up training programs for IBM Bluemix and getting management buy-in to use the new strategic technologies. - Bring continued innovation IBM as a whole by actively participating in trying to develop new patents of which one has moved into the USPTO office and is pending approval. - Teach time management and leadership skills to other technical leads which lead to a development lead type position within the organization. - Worked with management team, project managers, technical leads, and development teams to alter the SDLC from a waterfall to agile utilizing SCRUM and XP methodologies.

Manage software engineers and designer. Technologies used are Object Orented PHP, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, MySql, JQuery, CSS, and HTML. Utilizing these technologies I architected an enterprise level system that comprises over 500 different e-commerce daily deals, and business directory websites that compete with companies like Groupon.com and LivingSocial.com. The development of this system started from a clean slate without any existing code or database structure. Development plans were created utilizing the SCRUM methodology. Primary duties where to architect the server farm, application, and database. Write code in OO PHP 5 using the CakePHP framework. Utilize third party systems on the CodeIgniter PHP framework and integration with the SugarCrm. Analytics for the sites leveraged Google Analytics API with custom integration utilizing Google Gears. Other Duties included: Translating high level business requirements into detailed user experience designs that are intuitive and leverage the latest best practices. Gather requirements to analyze user needs. Participate in user research and usability testing. Assess and categorize all existing and proposed content utilizing Scrummy.com. Development prioritization and planning for scheduled releases. Incorporate Search and SEO strategies and requirements. Develop site maps, use cases, wireframes, prototypes and storyboards that incorporate all technical, editorial, and usability specifications of the assignments. Develop detailed interaction and visual design specifications and work closely with the development teams to implement them. Create and adhere to the financial budget for needed technologies, software packages, travel, technology conferences, employee raises. Create development and database standards.

Manage software engineers and system admins. Assist in creation and enforcement of company policies. Mentor development team. Maintain and create new software tools and automate manual processes. Recruit new engineering talent. Primary coding language OO PHP 5, bash scripting. Mysql server administration and maintenance. Interface with other teams in order to create applications that make their jobs easier. Provide reporting for senior management.Major AccomplishmentsImplemented Version ControlImplemented SDLCCompleted Conversion from old system to new syste.Created testing environment Implemented Automated tests using Selenium.Implemented coding and database standards.

El Cajon, Ca, Us

Maintain and enhance current enterprise application for the home and commercial construction industry. Architect new tools and features in the current application. Design, architect, and maintain new products. Integrate with third party vendors and applications to include open-source applications along with proprietary software. Technologies used are SVN, PHP5, PostGreSQL,, XSLT, Agavi PHP framework, Zend Framework, Propel, JAVA, ANT and C#, AJAX libraries to include YUI, EXT, and JINX. Manage VOIP Telephony Phone network

Assist in managing a group of developers and designers. Meet with clients to help define project scope, and develop a project plan. Help clients determine technologies for their applications. Project accurate time estimates for the project work that needs to be done. Design application and databases. Technologies used are; Java, Hibernate, Ant, Struts, JSP, MVC and JUNIT, PHP, MySQL, Perl, JavaScript, DHTML, Ajax, ASP.NET, C#, and VB.NET. Databases used are; MySQL, POSTGRESQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2003, and 2005. Applications are developed for mid to enterprise level companies. Configuration of Apache and Tomcat web and java servers, by adding SSL certificates, Light system administration work. Java, PHP, MySQL, POSTGRESQL, troubleshooting network outages, Additional duties to include QA testing of applications, code reviews for other programmers, R&D on new technologies, write documentation, create development policies and procedures, and define/enforce development standards.

Embedded C developer where I wrote telecom software for medical messaging appointment reminders and prescription refill services for large corporations. Devised a way to create a thin client web application where the front-end of the application was able to communicate with the application services.

South Jordan, Slc, Utah, Us