CAREER SUMMARY:

• I have 21+ years of professional software development, architecture, operations, leadership, management, and executive experience.
• I have been a software and network enthusiast for over 30 years, developing and operating BBS systems.
• I exercise solid design and development principles, software development lifecycle, best practices and design patterns, and Agile methodologies while balancing business and technical goals.
• I produce highly scalable and maintainable solutions that in corporate service oriented architecture (SOA), object oriented design (OOP), and relational database modeling.
• Recently, I have exercised Director and CTO - level experience (filling in for the step down of a CTO).
• Principal level architect, developer, and consultant with 21+ years of solid experience
• Director and CTO-level experience, planning and managing 2+ year corporate roadmaps and budgets
• Managed and led development teams of up to 11 employees including remote teams and individuals
• Provided services for a wide variety of industries including software companies, finance, banking, health care, biotech, energy, retail, food service, automotive, manufacturing, hotels, casino gaming, non-profits, and government
• Designed and developed for product software, SaaS, middleware, cloud (AWS), web, desktop, mobile, and enterprise IT
• Key contributor across the entire lifecycle of software development from concept to delivery and support
• Extensive experience with distributed systems involving middleware, enterprise service buses, and integration
• Leadership roles for some of the highest trafficked sites and systems, strong focus on scalability and reliability

TECHNICAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

C#, VB.NET (.NET)

C/C++, Visual C++

SQL, PL/SQL

XML, XSLT, XPath

Java, JavaScript

.NET, ASP.NET

WCF, Web Services, SOAP

REST services

LINQ, WF, WPF, Silverlight

COM/DCOM

AngularJS

SAP R/3, Siebel, and CRM

EMC Documentum

FAST Search & Transfer

EDI 835 and 837 (health care) eCTD (biotech, FDA submissions)

Agile, SCRUM

Development Lifecycle

DevOps

Object Oriented Design

Relational Database Modeling

Service Oriented Architecture

Enterprise Patterns, Design Patterns

MVC (AngularJS)

Visual Studio .NET

Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Subversion (SVN), CruiseControl

MSBuild, nAnt log4net, nUnit, nDoc

RedGate Software Suite

JIRA and Confluence (Atlassian)

Octopus

Microsoft Office

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

IIS

BizTalk

Commerce Server

SharePoint

SQL Server

Oracle

Personify (CRM)

DotNetNuke (DNN, CMS)

CAREER HISTORY:

IT Development Manager & Architect

Confidential, San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Directed and managed a development team of 5 employees, including 1 remote, while overseeing all development activities.
• I assisted with assigning team resources to projects, helped plan and direct their work, and was knowledgeable about their past, current, and future activities.
• I established and managed the implementation of the architecture, standards, processes, documentation, and tools my team needed.
• I also provided technical coaching and assistance (primarily with .NET/C# including a lot of LINQ and SQL).
• Also assisted with grooming, planning, tasking, and user story management within an Agile/SCRUM environment.
• We utilized Atlassian JIRA for all user stories and tickets and held daily standups.
• For DevOps and configuration management, I/we implemented Octopus for deploys across all environments.
• I implemented all of our TFS (Team Foundation Server) builds and deploys. Octopus later expanded our capabilities with deployments. For development, we used Angular JS (MVC), WebApi (.NET REST web services), legacy ASMX, and DotNetNuke (DNN). I also managed our AWS (Amazon Web Services) initiatives (S3 buckets, EC2, and Route 53). In addition, I managed all web servers (IIS).

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Implemented various web services for integration with third-party web applications.
• Implemented TFS (Team Foundation Server) builds and deployments.
• Also incorporated data access integration with Personify (AMS -- Association Management System / CRM -- Customer Relationship Management).
• Developed within a DNN (DotNetNuke) environment.

Director, IT Development

Confidential, San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Directed and managed a development and QA team of 5 employees while overseeing all development activities.
• As the CTO stepped down, I helped fill in the CTO role by creating and maintaining a 2 year roadmap for IT “Goals & Objectives” and the accompanying budget.
• Identified, recruited, and hired 4 employees for development, QA, and IT Operation’s. I was instrumental in a significant round of investment by facilitating a full scale IT audit.
• In addition to e-commerce, all systems except accounting, payroll, OTC point of sale, and timesheets are driven entirely by custom code developed in house.
• Every integration layer between these systems is my responsibility.
• We developed 30+ applications and over 100,000 lines of C#/.NET code that support the organization.
• In addition, we develop and maintain an Apple iOS codebase for our iPad kiosk application.
• Every integration layer between systems was my responsibility.
• I developed Agile/SCRUM project management methodologies while managing resource allocation and priorities.
• To better facilitate project management, I utilized Atlassian JIRA for issue tracking.
• I directed and managed development projects from concept to delivery and support.
• I introduced the first phase of formal QA processes for a company that is transitioning from start-up to mid-sized company.
• While staffing was low, I facilitated System Administration of all production web servers (Windows Server and .NET/IIS) and databases (SQL Server).
• To assist with database management, I introduced RedGate Schema Compare and source control with TFS.
• I also formulated business intelligence and reporting strategies (involving SQL Server Reporting and Analysis Services) which will better enable Confidential to scale in to the future business-wise. More than 50 reports were developed and a full round of OLAP cubes for sales data.
• I introduced Network Automation’s Automate9 platform for IT Automation.
• Incorporated Amazon AWS cloud servers for a backup data center.
• Integrated Responsys email campaign cloud services for email campaigns.
• I introduced EDI 810 processing for automated invoicing with vendors while utilizing WinSSHD secure FTP servers.
• I managed a 1 ½ year new web site project as well as countless other IT development projects including a custom CRM system, an entirely custom e-commerce platform, store management, extranet, etc.

Senior Software Architect

Confidential, South San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed systems for FDA regulatory submissions using eCTD biotech standards.
• The application automates most of the document and data submission processes using .NET 4.0 with C#, VB.NET, Windows Forms, Windows Services, MSMQ, Documentum, Adobe Acrobat, MS Word, and Oracle (PL/SQL).
• I designed and developed the integration with EMC Documentum using DQL, WCF, and LINQ.
• Migrated Windows Forms UI to Microsoft Silverlight for deployment across Europe and Asia.
• Developed data import processes using XML and PL/SQL.
• I also developed a mobile device application for Windows Phone, Android, and Apple iPhone using .NET Silverlight, Java, and objective C.
• The mobile application allows business users to browse and approve document changes in Documentum.
• Leveraged SubVersion (SVN) and CruiseControl for source code control and automated build processes.
• In addition, I created tables, indexes, and deployed all schema changes for Oracle with RedGate.
• Platforms were Windows Server 2008 and Oracle.

Senior Software Architect

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Amazon AWS cloud instances for both Windows and Linux.
• This eventually became the company’s primary data center environment.
• I also architected and developed solutions on Microsoft .NET and Java using SQL Server and MySQL.
• IIS as well as Apache TomCat utilized.
• I also implemented automated build and continuous integration with SVN and jetty and CruiseControl.

Senior Software Architect

Confidential, Exton, PA

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and designed reporting and business intelligence systems for Confidential ’s MicroStation AEC product.
• This was for licensing reporting and accounting purposes.
• Microsoft SQL Server was the primary technology with .NET/C# web services.

Technical Lead/Architect

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Led more than 10 developers, DBA’s, and system administrators for an implementation of Commerce Server 2009 which includes an extensibility kit with more than 30 WebParts for SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS).
• Introduced Agile’s SCRUM methodology for managing development tasks.
• Various integration points with Onyx (CRM), Axapta (financials), and other internal systems was done utilizing Oracle’s ESB Server.
• The services were all developed with .NET 3.5 using C# and WCF.
• The primary Commerce Server modules we developed with were profiles, product catalog and orders.
• Several operation sequence components were developed for the profile system.
• Several order processing pipeline components were developed as well. Leveraged SubVersion (SVN) and CruiseControl for our source control and build processes.
• Platforms were Windows Server 2008, Oracle, Commerce Server 2009, and SharePoint (MOSS) 2007.

Principal Consultant

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• My clients included health care, finance, banking, manufacturing, government, casino gaming, resorts, and hotels. As a Principal Consultant for the Custom Application Development and Connected Systems practices, I provided development and architecture consultation as well as development execution.
• Provided architecture guidance and implemented BizTalk 2006/ 2009, Commerce Server 2007/2009, and SharePoint 2007 (MOSS). I developed WCF services and LINQ components (.NET 3.5) for banking transactions, health care payments, and manufacturing execution systems (MES).
• Implemented WCF for SOAP and TCP transport protocols with various levels of security (message body encryption, digital s, client/server authentication) for .NET applications and BizTalk adapters.
• Also developed custom adapters for BizTalk Server using the adapter framework and developed BizTalk schemas, maps, pipeline components, and orchestrations.
• Implemented build and deployment processes for BizTalk 2006/2009 using MSBuild, MSI’s, and MS Team Foundation Server.
• I integrated Confidential ’s Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product with procurement systems while leveraging LINQ and WF.
• Designed and developed .NET applications (ASP.NET and LINQ) for integrating accounting software with banking systems.
• Implemented Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 while leveraging ASP.NET Services for enterprise single sign on. I also led efforts for Commerce Server 2009 integration with MOSS 2007.
• Designed and implemented health care payment solutions using EDI 835 and 837. High scale (10% of North America’s HIPPA payment volume) middleware was developed to facilitate processing between payers and payees.
• The primary challenge was performance for very large messages so a stream based XML and EDI transformation process was developed.
• Assisted in the development of a government lobbyist registration system. This application was built with .NET using C#, ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 with Reporting Services. Migrated encryption components used for single sign on from C++ Crypto API (Win32 WinCrypt) to .NET 2.0 using C# and PInvoke.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed with MS Commerce Server 2007 for the higher division.
• This was a service-oriented architecture for food sale and meal plan systems used by more than 200 universities.
• Various integrations with MS Content Management Server, point of sale systems, food production systems, and KIOSK menu systems.
• All systems developed with .NET 2.0 using C#, VB.NET, Windows Forms, Infragistics, and the MS Enterprise Library Block. MS Team Foundation Server (TFS) was utilized for an Agile development lifecycle.
• Confidential applications were implemented with ClickOnce deployment technology. Platforms were Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005.

Systems Architect

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Responsibilities:

• I performed architecture reviews for loan origination and disbursement systems which were implemented in .NET 2.0 using C#, ASP.NET, and Oracle.
• Various services were designed (SOA) using .NET Remoting and data entity objects.
• I designed a single sign on strategy across ColdFusion and ASP.NET.
• Worked closely with the data architecture group to align enterprise data across three database platforms (MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2), three operating systems (Windows, UNIX, AS/400), and two development platforms (.NET, ColdFusion).