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Franklin, Tennessee, United States

Managed engineering teams across multiple engineering disciplines including Development, CRM, Data, Analytics, DevOps, Cloud, Infrastructure, etc. Consulted directly with clients on technology strategy and enterprise architecture. Served companies in a wide range of industries including health care, manufacturing, technology, and transportation.

Franklin, Tennessee, United States

Franklin Tn

Consulted with companies interested in moving their on-premise solutions to Azure. Consulted on cloud architecture, application architecture, application strategy, build pipelines, and development processes.

Franklin, Tennessee

📊 I led three product teams with applications in the live events, publishing, and podcasting industries designed to sell educational materials that help clients manage finances and enhance leadership skills. My responsibility extended to building the development team, selecting vendors, and introducing digital product processes, reporting, and road mapping of the software development process (SDLC). The Digital products we produced included mobile applications, web applications, marketing websites, and data reporting. Notable Accomplishments:📌 Rebuilt and retooled the B2C development team through ongoing training, collaboration, and the introduction of enhanced development processes that improved product quality, efficiency, and throughput for the company.📌 Effectuated a full SDLC Kanban project management approach to guide the development effort to meet the demands of organizational growth.📌 Improved product performance and better served our clients by organizing and leading a digital transformation that retired and replaced nearly all legacy platforms across the division. 📌 Collaborated with stakeholders to capture requirements for new products and directed the product team in customer research to validate products and features through user testing.📌 Orchestrated on-time delivery of product releases by creating reusable components and end-user powered workflows, synthesizing customer feedback to provide additional features desired by the target market.

Rolling Meadows, Il

📊 I directed three cross-functional product teams of 12 developers, project-based contractors, 3rd party development groups, business analysts, and quality assurance team members. My responsibility included spearheading a division that managed a ticket resale clearinghouse and a large e-commerce resale platform. I oversaw the development, testing, and deployment of all internal tools and utilities, including desktop applications, e-commerce websites, web services, and accounting applications. We mastered the integration of hundreds of remote ticket broker systems in a nearly real-time manner.Notable Accomplishments:📌 Improved product deployment velocity, product throughput, and reduced error-prone manual processes by implementing push-button deployments and testing automation. 📌 Provided technical product leadership and oversight that seamlessly integrated ticket broker platforms. 📌 Delivered a first to market and full-featured event ticket inventory sharing and validation clearinghouse with our nationwide and international ticket brokers that provided them with a market advantage over their competition.📌 Ensured tight collaboration with Dev, Design, QA teams, the Product Owners that allowed us to meet all internal measurement of product and timeline success and fueled globalization into markets like Australia.📌 Revolutionized how our division did code deployments by introducing an Agile Scrum process and an advanced CI/CD deployment pipeline.

Arlington Heights, Il

📊 I directed a team of developers, offshore development groups, and project-based contractors serving the restaurant industry. My responsibility extended to site architecture, code reviews, and general troubleshooting. I led project engagements and collaborations with the VPs of Technology and Product, and outside architecture consultants. My contribution included training the development team in coding standards, framework usage, and coding techniques. I introduced Source Control and Branch Management with TFS (Team Foundation Server). Notable Accomplishments:📌 Facilitated the data center move to the Azure cloud by implementing modern dev practices. 📌 Implemented a data access code generation process using T4 templates that dramatically accelerated our development process and led to significant gains in revenue and market share.📌 Improved Web Site performance by leading essential feature reviews, risk assessments, current traffic and throughput analysis, the architectural design for new systems, and road mapping.📌 Architected an e-commerce site able to handle more than fifteen million-page views a day and five hundred orders per minute at peak usage.📌 Improved order throughput by 10X through database refactoring, process flow improvement, and order processor redesign.📌 Awarded Employee of the Year for outstanding contributions to the company. 📌 Stabilized, a very brittle production environment, using push-button deployment systems, which was a new concept at the time. 📌 Achieved significant cost savings by transitioning physical servers to the cloud.

📊I oversaw a team of developers, offshore development groups, and project-based contractors. My responsibility included site architecture, code reviews, and general troubleshooting. I trained the development team in coding standards, framework usage, and coding techniques. Interviewed all engineering applicants.

📊 I was contracted on a part-time hourly basis by small companies needing web development work. In this role, I conducted the required needs analysis, performed accurate requirement gathering, provided job estimation, and communicated technical terms in a non-technical format. This experience helped to build the self-direction and sales acumen which I have found invaluable in my later full-time positions.

📊 As sole developer on the RBP team I was responsible for all aspects of software design, system installation, and product management. This included websites, databases, data integration, and anything else pertaining to maintaining RBP's retail presence. I was also involved with integrating accounting and CRM software packages and supporting the accounting and customer service teams.

Mba, Marketing And Entrepreneurship

M.S., Computer Science

B.S., Management Information Systems