SUMMARY:

• Proven cloud architect with a focus on Azure, burgeoning full - stack developer, highly experienced .NET developer 14 years using SOLID principles, experience in public, private and hybrid cloud solutions including IaaS, DaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DRaaS, and VSaaS. Further experience with distributed systems, product/software development lifecycles, management of distributed teams, and cost modeling. I also have a strong willingness and ability to learn new technologies and fine tune my domain expertise. My professional experience extends to both enterprise and start-up environments, including the co-founding of two technology companies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Azure Solutions Architect

Confidential

• Providing consultation and contractor services to startups, nonprofits, medium-sized businesses, government, and Fortune 1000’s alike, with guidance and implementation surrounding cloud readiness, adoption, migration, management, security, shared responsibility, and improved application development.
• Experience migrating applications and other customer workloads to Azure. Collaborative plan/strategy creation including, but not limited to: analysis, experimentation, migration, transformation, networking, security, DevOps, optimization & testing, and operations management. Analysis includes both top-down business and bottom-up technical models.
• Experience utilizing many facets of Azure, e.g., Compute, Network, Data, IaaS, PaaS - App Services, Azure SQL Databases Data Sync, Data Factory, Elastic Database/Pools, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Redis Cache, Azure Service Bus w/ AMQP, Security & Identity, Monitoring & Management Operations Manager Suite .
• Increasing ability to identify performance antipatterns, and implement proper cloud design patterns guided around the fact that failures will occur; therefore a need for architectural resiliency encompassing proper availability patterns, loose coupling, data management, and management & monitoring.
• Experience creating highly scalable, highly available, and thus region/geo redundant App Service Environments.
• Providing best practice guidance for API design and implementation HATEOAS included: APIM, ASE, ASP, autos-scaling, data partitioning, sharding strategies, API versioning, WebJobs, caching, traffic manager with health probes, external & internal load/health balancing, WAF/Application Gateway, DDoS Protection, naming conventions, intrinsic transient fault handling, and retry guidance for API consumers. Proponent for the use of the Azure API Management Service.
• Proficiency using Azure CLI, AzureRM PowerShell, ARM Templates, Azure Policies, RBAC, Azure Building Blocks, mild use of DSC, ASR DR/Azure Migration, and creation of Azure CI/CD pipelines.
• Greenfield development utilizing, among other technologies: ASP.NET Core 2.x, C#, JavaScript ES5, ES6, Vue.js 2.x, Vuex, Axios, Yarn, Webpack, Kendo UI, Git, VSTS, a multitude of Azure Services, and various data repositories, e.g., Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Redis Cache.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

• Utilized .NET Framework 4.6.1/4.6.2, ASP.NET MVC 5, ASP.NET Web API 2, Team Foundation Server, Unity Dependency Injection, Swagger, AutoMapper, PostSharp AOP, Azure, and SOLID design principles.
• Introduced the team to Aspect Oriented Programming, Azure Application Insights, and Azure DocumentDB now Cosmos DB as part of re-architecting various xfinity.com back-end web services.
• Created internal NuGet packages for assemblies that addressed cross-cutting concerns, so that other teams could easily access them, with the simple goal of preventing duplicate efforts.

Senior Cloud Architect

Confidential

• Provided guidance and implementation to enterprise clients regarding public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions with a focus on Azure for public cloud.
• Architected and configured a cloud management platform for Azure, AWS, IBM SoftLayer, and private cloud resources to provide a homogeneous experience for billing, provisioning, and management.
• Worked with clients to ensure on-premise “cloud” resources meet the 5 essential tenants of cloud computing: on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and a measured service.
• Utilized ASR to migrate on-premise virtual machines and physical servers to Azure.
• Designed, configured, and installed Azure Pack for an “Azure public cloud” like experience, within an entities public or private datacenter. It has since been circumvented in several ways by Azure Stack.
• Implemented cross-platform integration extensions that enabled Azure Pack to provision resources on hypervisors outside of Hyper-V, e.g., VMware vSphere.
• Provided technical sales support on a regular basis.

Software Architect

Confidential

• Provided guidance and implementation assistance to a portfolio accounting SaaS provider; to assist in a front-end rewrite, back-end performance and scalability concerns, improved security & regulatory compliance, improved consumer SLA, geo-redundancy, and disaster recovery with a defined RPO/RTO.
• Migrated critical workloads to Microsoft Azure in order to improve performance and most of the aforementioned concerns.
• Authored technical documents in response to security and compliance evaluations from TD Ameritrade, Fidelity, and other financial institutions.
• Implemented and exposed the development team to best practice CI/CD strategies and tools.
• Implemented and guided the use of SSDT for SQL Server to improve ALM, the addition of CI/CD for SQL Server, and SQL unit testing to reduce team friction.
• Used SSDT to rewrite and change hundreds of SQL Server stored procedures to adhere to Azure SQL database compatibility standards. Also assisted in identifying problematic queries that over utilized resources.
• Development utilized .NET 4.5.2, C#, ASP.NET MVC 5, JavaScript, NPM, Durandal, AngularJS prototyping, Silverlight, SignalR, WCF, ASP.NET Web API, SQL Server 12, Azure SQL Database, Azure Table Storage, Azure Storage Queue, and Azure Service Bus.
• Guided evaluation and proof of concepts for MSTest, NUnit, Moq, SpecFlow, and Jasmine for BDD/TDD. Multiple evaluations where performed to allow the team to make a collective decision on what tool s would initially provide the most value.

Co-Founder CTO | Principal Cloud Architect, Software & Systems Engineer

Confidential

• Managed teams of developers, system engineers, and technical support staff.
• Collaboratively designed, architected, implemented, and managed the core platform that delivers IaaS and DaaS offerings.
• Worked directly with Microsoft’s legal team and licensing department to break new ground, which ensured our products had the most efficient licensing costs, while remaining lawful.
• Worked with Citrix to pilot their Service Providers CSP program and provided on-going feedback to ensure mutual success.
• Collaboratively architected, configured and managed large VMware vSphere clusters. Performed all aspects of provisioning, troubleshooting, and performance diagnostics.
• Architected, configured and managed Citrix PVS, XenDesktop & XenApp farms t0 provide VDI/DaaS.
• The development of our cloud management platform utilized .NET 3.5 - 4.0, C#, ASP.NET MVC, WCF, ADO.NET, EF, jQuery, Kendo UI, SignalR, Win32 API, WMI, VMware API, Citrix API, etc.
• Collaboratively architected and designed our cloud services web portal to provide customers with the ability to access their services, e.g., VDI/DaaS, from nearly any BYOD. The portal also allowed MSPs to provision new resources and white label them to their customers.
• As a large revenue generating project, I led the effort to re-write an investment portfolio analysis application using HTML5, Foundation, Kendo UI, Angular, .NET 4.0, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, SignalR, AppFabric, and SQL Server.
• Assisted with developing product verticals for RIA, FO, MFO, and VC/PE firms.
• Performed R&D and co-wrote a pro forma for VSaaS Video Surveillance as-a-Service .
• Architected and assisted in building a mobile, distributed social networking application, for the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Race for the Cure, which totaled over 100 races across the country. Development utilized .NET, Silverlight, industrial RFID, custom hardware, GPS, social media integration (Facebook API), cellular data networks, and ad-hoc networks.
• Routinely collaborated with Cisco CCIEs on best practice network design, standards, and troubleshooting in a shared responsibility environment.

Co-Founder | Software & Systems Engineer

Confidential

• Founded DSi to provide innovative and quantifiable business optimization, software solutions, and managed services to SMB and enterprise clients including Bank of America, Wilmington Mortgage, Swift Financial, Susan G. Komen Foundation, Major League Baseball, NASCAR, the NFL, Super Bowl XLIV, Eagle Security, and others. Frequently worked with the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, in tandem with Eagle Security to provide solutions to emerging security challenges.
• Participated in and managed the entire SDLC for the aforementioned clients and their respective projects.
• Development mainly utilized C++, .NET 3.0/3.5, ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, Kendo UI, SQL Server, SQLite, various encryption protocols, etc.
• Performed R&D to address the pain points of traditional and server based computing, application deployment, and the challenges of a multitenant computing environment, which led to the founding of Confidential see above .

Software Engineer

Confidential

• Learned and practiced the teams SDM - Microsoft Solutions Framework.
• Used continuous integration and other concepts for shipping, upgrading, and hot fixing commercial software.
• Development utilized .NET Framework 1.1 - 2.0.
• Led effort to migrate the medication management platform from .NET 1.1 to 2.0, with the principal goal being to identify any potential regression after migration.

Lead Developer | Enterprise Architecture Group

Confidential

• Designed and developed in .NET, a highly scalable and stateless message broker that handled all branch and ATM transactions. Translated messages targeting various platforms where pushed to multiple RDBMS and IBM z8000 mainframes via WebSphere MQ.
• Assisted in providing senior management with technical and cost analysis of SOA technologies and principles - ESBs, MS BizTalk, MS HIS, service interoperability, design, security, agility, and risk analysis.
• Utilized WS-* specifications and manually created WSDL documents for all .NET ASMX web services to ensure interoperability with all cross-platform consumers.

Software Developer | Data Solutions

Confidential

• Built unique data integration and workflow applications to support all business units within Consumer Finance and Business Lending.
• Utilized IBM DB2, Oracle, Informix, MS Access, and SQL Server RDBMS.
• Applications were written in VB6, C++, and later on C#.
• Worked closely with senior management and associates to provide business process optimization for Consumer Finance collections, acquisition, retention, and fraud business units.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

.NET 1.1 - 4.7.1, .NET Core 1.0 - 2.0.2, Active Directory Domain Services, AMQP, AngularJS, AOP, AppFabric, ASP.NET MVC, Aurelia, Azure, BGP, BitBucket, C#, C/C++, Citrix PVS, Citrix XenApp, COM, Continuous Deployment & Integration, Cosmos DB, CSS3, Cypher, DaaS, Dependency-Injection, DevOps Practices, DHCP, DNS, DocumentDB, DRaaS, Durandal, Entity Framework, ESBs, Foundation, Git, HDInsight, HTML5, Hyper-V, IaaS, IIS, IIS Application Request Routing, IoC, IP CCTV, IPsec, Jasmine, JavaScript, Jenkins, Jira, jQuery, JSON, Karma, Kendo UI, Knockout, Licensing, Linux, MFC, Microsoft SSOM, MongoDB, MPLS, MSTest, Multi-Tenant Infrastructure & Software, Neo4J Graph Database, NoSQL, NUnit, PaaS, PowerShell, QoS, RDBMS Design & Optimization, React, Require AMD, ReSharper, RFID, Routing & Switching, SaaS, SCRUM, SignalR, Silverlight, Slack, SOA, SOAP, SOLID Design Principles, SPA, SpecFlow, SQL, SSDT, SSIS, SSL, Swagger, TDD, Telerik Controls, TFS, TLS, Trello, Twitter Bootstrap, TypeScript, Unity DI, Unix, VB6, VConnect, Veeam, Virtualization Performance Optimization & Diagnostics, Visual Studio Aspen to 2017, VMTurbo, VMware Enterprise Plus, VMware vCloud, VPN, VSaaS, Vue.js, Web API 1/2, Windows Azure Pack, Windows Server 2003+, WinForms, WSDL, XAML, Xen, XenDesktop, XML, XPath, XSLT