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San Luis Obispo, California, Us

As a seasoned Technical Leader, I am a driving force within a core team dedicated to the transformation of our infrastructure. Specializing in modern .NET Core services and domain-oriented microservices architecture, I am passionate about crafting resilient solutions. With a strong commitment to software design best practices and patterns, I lead by example in shaping a robust architecture. I'm an advocate for comprehensive behavioral testing strategies that instill confidence in our engineering teams, facilitating rapid development cycles. Emphasizing resilient microservices design principles, I contribute to the creation of a scalable and fault-tolerant architecture, ensuring our systems are well-prepared for the future challenges of software development.

San Luis Obispo, California, Us

Architect and Technical Leader helping to drive the modernization of core business functionalities in the critical domains of the business.

San Luis Obispo, California, Us

Product Management counterpart, stakeholder of architectural product backlog items, creating detailed software requirements for features and API endpoints, working closely with engineers to align with expectationsMentoring engineering teams, providing detailed code reviews and guidance on best practices and design patterns while ensuring appropriate test coverageConducting interviews, onboarding and training of new engineers in core infrastructure systems, payments microservices, appointment scheduling domain and various other areas of the system

San Luis Obispo, California, Us

SDLC owner and Technical Leader on the Booker by MINDBODY product, managing project deliverables, dates, dependencies, mitigating risks and issues across the Spa and Salon business unit, primarily in the payments domain.Guided and mentored a team of engineers in various aspects of the business operations and accompanying microservices.

Fort Lee, Nj, Us

C# .NET Software Engineer in an Agile team working directly with the Lead Architect and collaborating with core bank operations teams to develop the back-end infrastructure for a retail bank.• Implementing and maintaining a RESTful API to back retail banking web, Android and iOS applications.• WCF, Entity Framework code-first, all Azure cloud resources including Service Bus for message queuing / pubsub, SQL Server and Database, Key Vault, Redis Cache, Blob Storage, Application Insights.• SOLID best practices throughout the API using domain driven design to clarify cross-team communication and establish microservices from bounded contexts with minimal coupling between domain components.• Developed API features to handle ACH, credit and debit transactions in the API to support client applications.• Integrations with multiple vendors for customer on-boarding, including Auth0 for authentication, Iovation for fraud protection, Alloy for identity verification, SmartyStreets for address verification, Twilio for customer SMS and Plaid for linking external accounts.

New York, New York, Us

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer for a SaaS appointment booking and customer management system working primarily on the API (internal and partner) and customer facing Ember.js applications collaborating with other engineers, product owners and QA automation engineers to create scalable, decoupled services, effectively solving system stability issues and adding new features to the system.• Promoted to Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer in recognition of my front-end skills in Ember.js and overall ability to consistently meet project deadlines and solve complex problems effectively.• Developed an appointment availability service in ASP.NET Web API hosted in Azure to move traffic off of the monolithic database. Achieved 85% unit test code coverage utilizing XUnit with the Builder pattern for mock data.• Converted legacy WCF endpoints to utilize the new Azure availability service resulting in 87% reduction of availability usage on the monolithic database.• Built reusable .NET libraries for common functionality and consolidating them, as well as 3rd party DLLs, into NuGet packages hosted in MyGet to better manage dependencies in the platform.• Enhanced Booker’s API partner access utilizing Azure API Management (APIM) subscriptions in order to monitor and throttle partner’s usage of specific endpoints.• Integrated Azure Application Insights logging and telemetry allowing quicker debugging of system issues.• Rebuilt customer-facing Ember.js application, upgrading Ember from version 1.7 to Ember-CLI 2.10 using best practices with DI, services, Ember Data and automated unit / integration / acceptance tests.

New York, New York, Us

Software Engineer for a SaaS appointment booking, point-of-sale and customer management system working primarily on the API (internal and public) collaborating with other engineers, product owners and QA automation engineers to create scalable, decoupled services in order to tackle a monolithic, legacy system, effectively solving system stability issues and adding new features to the system.• Designed and collaboratively developed microservices in ASP.NET Web API to manage credit card payments and voucher based payments for a POS (Point of Sale) system that integrates with the Clover POS system.• Created a system for managing the merging of Entity Framework code-first migrations across multiple developers making simultaneous schema changes.• Implemented RESTful/SOAP API endpoints for a Business Intelligence Dashboard project in WCF to elegantly display sales and booking attribution data enabling the merchants to see which marketing campaigns and attribution sources are bringing in the most revenue for their businesses.• Integrated with NoSQL data store solutions, including Redis and MongoDB as caching mechanisms, drastically improving performance in all applications.• Managed bidirectional merges between team repositories using Mercurial and GIT version control systems for feature and emergency releases into production.

Stamford, Ct, Us

My role at Cenveo was an ASP.NET Software Engineer, but quickly transitioned into more of a .NET tech lead for their eCommerce web and internal applications, introducing new technologies such as Entity Framework, Test Driven Development, Dependency Injection, and Continuous Integration. I worked directly with Business Analysts, Project Managers, Quality Assurance, stakeholders, and the VP of Technology through an Agile Development process utilizing JIRAMy achievements while working at Cenveo:• Lead developer for an ETL project built on ASP.NET 4.5, Entity Framework (Code First), WCF, SQL Server 2014 and Bootstrap UI for that spanned one month, resulting in $4.9 million in revenue• Designed and implemented a .NET 4.5 WCF service utilizing Structure Map, and Entity Framework 6 (database first), to connect user accounts between SQL and Sybase data sources in order to map customers in the SQL database to their unique customer IDs in the Sybase DB.• Integrated ASP.NET websites with Salesforce API using a custom WCF service• Planned and configured a build server for Continuous Integration with TeamCity/MSBuild/IIS Web Deploy with automatic builds and deployments• Administer release/deployment management to staging and production environments• Onboarded developers, QA analysts, contractors, business analysts, and trained developers in .NET technologies• Converted all websites to use Google Tag Manager (GTM) and configured GTM to use different tracking IDs across testing and production environmentsA few of the sites I worked on:• http://www.discountlabels.com - ~$20M online revenue/Total Revenue ~$65M (~300K pageviews/month)• http://www.lightninglabels.com - ~$3M in online revenue (~120K pageviews/month)• http://www.cenveo.com - redesign and implementation of entire site, adding custom AJAX contact forms with jQuery validation (~60K pageviews/month)

Yorktown Heights, Ny, Us

Planned, designed, implemented, supporting a web-based, dynamic data-driven application to manage the ordering of staff uniforms utilizing a custom designed form generator for creation of order forms by client.Tools & Technologies: Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 3.5, C#.NET, SQL Server 2008, T-SQL Stored Procedures, JavaScript, jQuery, OpenXML, EPPlus

Develop, maintain, debug, and modify web-based applicationsDeveloped news sections of company websiteRewrote bug tracking web based application for all customersHelped develop parts of eClubhouse application for USGAExtensive use of JavaScript/jQuery including jQuery validation, cookie, and virtual keyboard pluginsTools & Technologies: Visual Studio 2008/2010, Visual SourceSafe, ASP.NET 3.5/4, VB.NET, WebForms, WCF Web Services, JavaScript, jQuery, Ektron XML based data solution

Yorktown Heights, Ny, Us

Planned, architected, and implemented a web-based application to automate and manage an internal asset distribution management system built on ASP.NET 3.5, SQL Server 2008 R2, ADO.NET, jQuery, OpenXML.