Responsible for leading and managing ongoing strategic direction, design, development, and support of GT Independence application platforms, ensuring predictable and reliable operations and capabilities.Accountable for building relationships and strategic alliances with business partners, colleagues, suppliers and managing organizational priorities. Responsible for ensuring that GT Independence's applications and investments continue to enhance our competitive and financial position.The scope of this position includes personal hiring and development, software application design, development, testing, deployment, and support across business functions, driving standardization and simplification. The position has a direct bearing on short and long-term IT investments supporting the organization and designing IT systems strategy and tactics.

Manage Solution Architects, development team leads and Product Owners.Consult the business management team to clarify objectives and functional requirements for new or modified products.Work with the domain, product management and product engineering teams in solution engineering efforts.Define product requirements that address market opportunities.Understand product vision and business needs to define product requirements and product architectural solutions.Develop architectural and design principles to improve the performance, capacity, and scalability of the product.Work with Product Manager in planning and execution of new product releases.Work with pre-sales and product management teams in solution demonstrations.Maintain product roadmap and architectural standards that assure product development projects optimally align with business objectives.Define product validation policies so as to deliver products that meet system and project expectations.Facilitate the creation, review, and sign off of project deliverables.Provide support for production escalations and problem resolution for customers.Assist technical team with issues needing technical expertise or complex systems knowledge.Develop broad knowledge about current and future product features.

Determining, designing, creating, and implementing solutions aimed at business growth, innovation, disruption, savings, prototyping, and developing new business and service models in search of new growth opportunities for in-store and employee experiences. -- see listed projects under projects area.

Effectiveness: Lead delivery coordinator MyBiz ABO digital B2C sales tools for use with millions of Amway ABO's worldwide. Global digital client lead on behalf of India and China ABO's in partnership with Amway China. Implement early prototypes and client review of MyBiz ABO sales tools framework. Weekly review of project and requirements with global team.Work with Okta on initial corporate and worldwide Single Sign-On project implementing SSO across the ABO and corporate environments, 8 million dollar contract.Work closely with global digital sales and marketing to understand the business strategy and provide strategic solutions.Meet and participate with global technology representatives on alignment initiatives and collaboration exercises. Assist with innovating in the B2C space and shepherding projects and teams through product delivery.Insight: User experience advocacy interacting with Design leads and vendors in marketing and IT. Interact and work with Amway Innovation team to determine potential BVA adds. Participate and lead Amway ABO California off site tool brainstorming and collaboration events. Determine work requirements, priorities, and best use of resources for design and technology teams. Direct and focus efforts of technical project teams and draw appropriate resources together. Work with clients to frame problems in a way that lends itself to solution initiatives. Work with owners and other executives on corporate strategic initiatives.

Senior technology position with People Design, working with clients and designers on strategic corporate-wide branding initiatives. Industries include sales, manufacturing, and education. Review corporate industry positioning. Determine alignment initiatives based on industry trends and research.Determine work requirements, priorities, and best use of resources for development projects. Direct and focus the efforts of technical and design project teams. Draw appropriate resources together to address brand, design or technology initiatives. Work with clients to frame problems toward solution-oriented initiatives. Work with owners and executives on strategic initiatives. Manage client expectations on software initiatives. Work with clients on strategic goals. Present on technologies and design direction to internal stakeholders and clients.

Leadership position determining the vision and strategic direction of digital services for organizational positioning within the education market. Work with marketing on visual and advertising campaigns. Partner with retention and CRM on strategic policies around student satisfaction and retention. Partner with senior faculty on faculty tools, analytics, and support mechanisms. Partner with marketing on digital ad campaigns and community outreach.Initialize and communicate portfolio prioritization and alignment to strategic goals.Direct internal teams of developers, technical assets, designers and administrators.Work with executive leadership team on strategic initiatives and tactical solutions.Implement strategic initiatives on behalf of executive stakeholders and Davenport main constituents staff, professors and students.Prioritize development goals and resources against strategic goals and priorities.Develop for and integrate with existing ERP systems (Banner SCT, BlackBoard, PeopleSoft, Luminus ... etc.) on tactical initiatives.Work with admissions on lead generating software/systems and reporting.Work with marketing on strategic initiatives around the branding of the university as well as tactical initiatives in support of the same.Development in support of Human Resources involving a customized performance evaluation system for the university.Lead team of BlackBoard administrators on initiatives involving long-distance learning and integrations/reporting on the same.Lead media specialists on digital signage initiatives in support of student and professor awareness of university initiatives and marketing initiatives.Implement and integrate strategic initiatives using proximity cards on behalf of facilities security.Act (FERPA) where it touches on software initiatives and proprietary software systems at the University.Acting head of IT on software and development related issues.

Designing and deploying web applications for Microsoft Content Management Server, DotNetNuke open-source portal software, Luminis portal software, Banner SCT ERP implementation, SqlServer Development. The public facing web site as well as the back-end student, faculty and staff portals for Davenport University.Work on tactical initiatives around embedded systems and web application development in support of Students, Professors, Marketing, Human Resources, Student Services and Executive Leadership..NET web applications development.Web applications security principles.Solid understanding of the ASP.NET applications event model.XML data access in ADO.NET 2.0 applications.Data synchronization in ADO.NET 2.0 applications.Data access implementation by using Microsoft SQL Designer.Planning and designing user interaction solutions.

At Manatron we developed an enterprise A-Z level application using C# .NET, HTML, JS, XML and CSS to maintain personal tax parcel information for State and County government agencies (Gwinnett County Georgia)Work with a massive team of .NET developers (75+) on API’s for state personal parcel taxation software.Work on tactical initiatives around embedded systems and web application developmentWork with API’s for handing off data between the applications differrent functions.Solid understanding of the ASP.NET applications event model.XML data access in ADO.NET 2.0 applications.Data synchronization in ADO.NET 2.0 applications.Data access implementation by using Microsoft SQL Designer.Planning and designing user interaction solutions.

Application and Project management from A-Z. Every Stage from initial sales and lead development to application development, deployment and client post project management.Search Grand Rapids Internet application and Content Management toolsSecond Story Properties Internet application and Property Management toolsProvia template development (with SageStone & Median Group)Urban Business Xchange Internet application and Content Management toolsSilver & Smith Inc. Administration Site and XML interface applicationVB.NET winforms data migration application.

At Parker Hannifin I have been developing an application using VB.NET, HTML, JS and CSS to allow competitor products to be compared against Parker Hannifin products based upon product features. Some of the tools built to respond to this need.● Work on a product filtration and dynamic product comparison application supporting marketing and sales internally.● Web applications' security principles.● Solid understanding of the ASP.NET applications event model.● XML data access in ADO.NET 2.0 applications.● Data synchronization in ADO.NET 2.0 applications.● Data access implementation by using Microsoft SQL Designer.● Planning and designing user interaction solutions.

Consulted with clients to determine needs based measurable solutions. Ensured a timely, value based solution using Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) throughout the development process. Responsible for deliverables and documentation throughout the life cycle of application development.Consulted with clients to determine needs based measurable solutions.Ensured a timely, value based solution using Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) throughout the development process. Responsible for deliverables and documentation throughout the life cycle of application development.Solid understanding of the ASP.NET applications event model.XML data access in ADO.NET 2.0 applications.Data synchronization in ADO.NET 2.0 applications.Data access implementation by using Microsoft SQL Designer.

Designed programmatic solutions, front and backend. Created secure content management and content display applications / personalization solutions (CMA, CDA) for existing clientele. Responsible for deliverables and documentation throughout the life cycle of application development.Work with Herman Miller (hermainmiller.com, hermanmillerred.com and others), Steelcase (steelcase.com) and others on web applications in the service of marketing.Implement design concepts.HTML, Javascript, database (mysql, Oracle) development.relational database design, and database protocols.Compatibility issues between different browsers and computing platforms.Functional requirements gathering.Technical design and development production.Documentation of features, technical specifications, and infrastructure.Languages/

Serviced customer web page / html css needs.Serviced customer internet service configurations.Accomplishments: Aided in the construction of many of UsXchanges client websites.

Helped clients find and research books. Managed Booksellers in daily activities and scheduling.