I am working directly with Small Busines Owners to increase their online e-commerce presence, from graphic designs and full-stack development of API to meet the needs of their business, utilizing AWS components such as S3, CloudFront, EC2, and RDB to lower startup costs to small businesses.

Site Reliability Engineer: Truist BankTruist is a merger between SunTrust and BB&T Banks. Provided backend site support for merging and rebranding their APIs and frontend applications. Enhancing production support monitoring and troubleshooting integrations with Fiserv and Zelle. Escalating issues discovered to leadership and developers to prioritize based on impact. -- Executed investigative and impact analysis on integration issues with third-party APIs. -- Utilized regex and search processing language (SPL) to deep dive into application logs and generate analytical insights into application operation performance.-- Produced new Splunk & Tableau dashboards and drill-downs for real-time monitoring and research. Project Manager: Charter Communications (Spectrum) Performed as a scrum master to manage authorization and authentication microservices. These APIs allow Charters customers access to OnDemand content like HBO, Cinemax, and Showtime on multiple device types. Championed the team’s initial transition to a SAFe work environment, to align with the client. -- Shifted daily work patterns by implementing daily stand-ups, story grooming sessions, demonstrations, and retrospectives. -- Performed capacity and resource planning for Sprints and leadership reporting on team performance metrics. -- Took ownership of the team’s Confluence site to share accomplishments with other teams across the company.-- Authored a white paper on adopting SAFe methodologies to the knowledge transfer process to improve the onboarding of new team resources. -- Collaborated with product owners to refine requirements, prioritize, and align with strategic goals and initiatives.-- Managed API changes between third parties like Adobe, HBO/Cinemax, and CSG biller solutions. -- Communicated with release manager and DevOps teams to ensure successful sprint releases through environments and release gates to production.

Daddy's Bar & Grill in downtown Denver was a collaboration with my partner in pursuing and acquiring a business opportunity. Oversaw all business operations of a local bar and restaurant, increasing the average monthly sales under the previous owner by 75%.-- Performed vendor management and contract negotiations.-- Coordinated with state and local agencies to ensure proper compliance with licensing, permits, and health regulations. -- Evaluated and deployed Square's Merchant Solution for managing food orders, liquor sales, inventory management, and a customer loyalty program. -- Utilized Adobe Creative Cloud to design company logos, menus, merchandise, and promotional campaigns. -- Promoted the business through designing and maintaining a website, creating online marketing campaigns, and establishing a social media presence.-- Collaborated with other local businesses and nonprofit groups in promoting fundraising events.

Performed test-driven development on a fast-paced agile team, building cloud-native services for satellite ground control systems and image processing while on a contract for Digital Globe/Maxar. Assimilating Pivotal Cloud Foundry cloud-native concepts and best practices.-- Maintained user stories defining scopes of work to be completed during the sprint and performed peer reviews on features being delivered at the end of the sprint.-- Collaborated with developers to outline functional and integration test cases to be developed.-- Combined Maven build profiles with JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber/Gherkin, and environment configurations to develop CI/CD pipelines. -- Containerized microservices utilizing Docker and executing testing. -- Provided lead test support across multiple agile teams, including training new team members on environment management and procedures.

Led multiple offshore project teams to support a platform of SOAP APIs and integrations with financial partner products and offerings. Implementing standard operating procedures for defining projects, outlining standards of quality, projected timelines, and metrics for measuring success. Acted as architectural lead to strategic partners like Walgreens (US), Banamex (MX), Woodforest Bank (US), W.H. Smith (UK), and many others throughout the Americas and Eastern Europe.-- Collaborated with compliance office team to define project scopes and gather requirements for integration and provided updates throughout the process to apprise the client of changes and progress.-- Created a virtual environment model using CA Service Virtualization (LISA) and SoapUI to overcome the limitations of a shared development environment and enable comprehensive performance testing. -- Created solution to integrate Western Union services with Walgreen’s photo kiosks by meeting with client executives, coordinating the development teams, ensuring compliance with federal regulations, and overseeing the strategic release.-- Designed XSLT style sheets to transform compliance SOAP messages into HTML and CSS for dynamic compliance collection from the end-user.

Built a replacement application to grow its competitive edge in the industry. Partnered with Oracle utilizing their Fusion Middleware Suite to build state-of-the-art asset management and analytics application. -- Participated in architectural discussions and designing sessions as a subject matter expert. -- Designed the data model based on business requirements and implemented the model in Oracle 11g ADF.-- Oversaw all aspects of setup, configuration, maintenance, and stability of highly-available environments, including disaster recovery. -- Implemented continuous integration and testing with Hudson for improved software quality in a fast-paced agile development cycle.-- Implemented software release procedures, and provided production support with troubleshooting new code releases -- Engineered Apache Ant scripts for building and deploying the application’s web user interface in addition to more than 600 BPEL components.-- Tasked to prove out and plan a migration of existing environments to a new Oracle Exalogic – Exadata hardware platform. Coordinating efforts with Oracle teams to POV the technology as a suitable replacement for existing hardware.

Application owner and lead developer of the application responsible for qualifying and applying promotional credits to customer accounts. -- Analyzed functional requirements provided by business units and project managers to write technical requirement documents, use cases, and testing scenarios within established SDLC process.-- Designed a replacement application that utilized the JBoss Rules engine, separating the business rules from the application’s logic increasing flexibility of the application, while reducing development time for promotions-- Provided team leadership, ensuring developers were working effectively and successfully completing assigned tasks.

As the Software Engineer, I collaborated with various business groups to translate website concepts into environmental, functional, and technical requirements. I was responsible for designing and implementing several applications in an IBM WebSphere stack. A corporate informational website, providing customers with background information about the company, employment opportunities, and links to other company websites.Established a website for the company's sales force to deliver interactive sales reports, real time policy information, and corporate documentation, reducing expenses by eliminating printed and faxed reports. Then reusing components from the sales force website, quickly implemented a customer website, to deliver customized policy details and payment options to reduce customer service calls.Successfully developed and launched an automobile insurance quoting and sales website by utilizing a legacy mainframe rating system, it provided a new direct sales revenue source.