SUMMARY:

A life - long technology enthusiast with over 11 years of business experience, my key strengths are adaptability, flexibility, and passion for learning. I am driven to help businesses succeed by finding the right technology for the job, bridging the gap between developer and end-user, and ensuring that project and development teams stay focused on the mission.

BUSINESS DOMAINS:

• SDLC & Agile Methodology
• Project Management
• DevOps
• Operations Management
• Continuous Integration / Deployment
• Finance & Accounting
• IT Infrastructure Management
• Business Analytics

TECHNOLOGY:

• .NET Framework 3.5 / 4.0 / 4.x
• Database (MS SQL Server, SQLite, MySQL, Oracle)
• .NET Core 2.x & dotnet CLI (Mac + Win)
• Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2012R2, 2016
• C# / VB.NET / VBA
• IIS Configuration & Deployment
• ASP.NET MVC, Razor, WebAPI
• TFS 2010, VSTS, Bitbucket (TFVC / GIT)
• Entity Framework & Dapper
• VSTS Build & Deploy pipeline creation
• Angular 5 & CLI / JavaScript / HTML
• Report Building and Analytics (including SSRS)
• Node & NPM
• Virtualization (VMware, MS Hyper-V)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software Engineering Manager

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Oversight of and responsibility for development teams working on several SaaS projects: Nationwide Auto Titling, Florida T21 Enterprise, Enterprise microservice architecture, design and buildouts of new California T21 Enterprise product and new Enterprise Billing platform.
• Coordination of development efforts across the Titling software portfolio.
• Work closely with developers to provide guidance on technology selection, solutions and architecture design, and hands-on problem solving.
• Lead modernization efforts to bring Enterprise T21 projects from AngularJS to Angular 5, improve billing processes to reduce dependency on MS Dynamics/Great Plains, and migrate from Entity Framework to Dapper for tighter database optimization control.
• Lead sprint grooming, planning, and sizing efforts to ensure developer pipelines are full and product improvement efforts are prioritized.
• Perform code reviews of all ticket changesets before deployment to QA.
• Monitor JIRA tickets to ensure completeness and accuracy from creation and throughout the ticket’s development lifecycle.
• Ensure timely delivery of new-to-market products, existing product enhancements, bug-fixes, and new features.
• Participate in regular conference and in-person meetings with multiple state governments and their DMVs, as well as internally with business stakeholders and management teams to facilitate knowledge transfer into the software engineering department.
• Manage and maintain the development & QA server environments including IIS and software package installs.

Business Technology Manager

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Manage the Business Systems Analyst, Database Administrator, and Systems Administrator job roles, providing training, support, and guidance to enable their success.
• Manage and maintain code repositories (TFVC / GIT). Oversight of deployment merges and code conflict resolution.
• Liaison between operations and software engineering. Responsibilities include converting business requirements into technical specifications and development tasks.
• Investigate business technology options to solve business and customer needs.
• Participate in product design review sessions and sprint planning.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of product function and application workflow.
• Perform QA testing on all products as well as investigate product errors by reviewing and debugging source code, creating unit tests in Visual Studio, and ensuring effective communication with software engineering managers.
• Development tasks and dev team overflow support as requested by VP of Development and development managers.
• Coordinate system modifications between software engineers, DBAs, and systems administrators.
• Management of production and office infrastructure including business and application servers, networking, storage and file sharing, backup and recovery, firewall (Cisco ASA), SQL databases, workstations, IP telephony, and others.
• Perform production releases and provide 24x7 support for office and production environments.
• Compliance evidence collection and review for monthly SOX audits and enforce compliance in daily operation.
• Advisor to VP of Development in matters of systems capabilities, limitations, and product requirements for software engineering department.

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, interpreted, and summarized data for statistical and analytical reports.
• Developed predictions based on historical trends.
• Developed and maintained all reporting required by both the client and internal customers (financial and operational reporting).
• Built a set of SQL scripts and queries to support account teams across the company that previously had no reporting capabilities.
• Worked closely with account managers and IT to ensure data integrity. Remediated any discrepancies by consulting and reviewing transaction data with accounting department or DBA.
• Processed enhancements, modifications, and corrections to ensure reporting met client needs.
• Presented reports and research results to client and senior management.
• Developed software tools and dashboards (VBA and SQL) to provide on-demand data to internal customers.
• Developed MS Access tools to assist teams throughout the company and improved operational capacity.

Budget & Financial Reporting Manager

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of analysts and reporting specialists.
• Created budget projections and long range financial planning.
• Managed and maintained the accuracy and consistency of position control files.
• Directed the preparation and processing of data to ensure compliance with the Texas Education Agency.
• Assisted with annual audits; worked directly with internal and external auditors to compile and review compliance evidence collection.
• Compiled comprehensive annual financial reports ( Confidential ).
• Ensured that classification on all accounts and control files was in compliance with state law and local policy.

Accountant

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Reconciled and certified more than 50 accounts according to daily or monthly schedules.
• Researched, substantiated, and recorded daily network fee payments via journal entry.
• Developed a multi-user Access database solution for the Accounts Payable department that allowed them to double their daily reconciliation counts.
• Engaged network payment processors to find efficiencies in daily processing and general ledger transactions.
• In-house support for Access/Excel VBA dashboard applications and solutions.

Fixed Assets & Tax Accountant

Confidential, Elk Grove Village, IL

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and analyzed financial statements.
• Ownership of year-end tax apportionment for over 50 production plants across North America.
• Served as ‘SAP Super User’ for the Fixed Assets department.
• Configured SAP Fixed Assets modules and worked with Perot Systems to migrate the company from a previous solution provider’s asset accounting package to SAP.
• Worked with accounting manager for monthly and fiscal year close journal entries and adjustments.