SUMMARY

• Provide leadership and technical expertise to teams in broad technical areas: systems analysis, architecture, software design, software development, quality assurance, performance characterization and release engineering.
• Significant stakeholder and contributor in the end to end experience for representatives and customer from application development thru to end user adoption
• Assist in developing Design Delivery Schedule along with client, Project Manager, Design Team Lead and consultants.
• Develop comprehensive SOW and contract document deliverables list for each related discipline.
• Work closely with multiple teams and members to identify needs and modifications in Agile training and methods for success.
• Train team and management members in Agile methodologies and processes.
• Implement appropriate tools to track progress and identify any obstacles and remove them in the planning, development and delivery process.
• Continued “hands on” assistance with team members during training and becoming proficient in Agile/Scrum processes.
• Negotiate scope - of-work, deliverables and price with consulting firms.
• Assist Project Manager in incorporating all internal and external design and cost issues.
• Manage distribution and production of project workload within team.
• Determine need for use of outside studios or vendors working with Director.
• Collaborate on new design issues and research projects with team.
• Ensure service level agreements are met daily.
• Manage and maintain record keeping of original artwork files and all projects.
• Project prioritization of design, assignment and management to designer & development teams.
• Lead with effective supervision an experienced design team toward greater creativity.
• Evaluate and motivate designers toward continued growth and leading design solutions.
• Participate in departmental strategic planning. Assist technically internal and external customers.
• Manage expectations with business and technology partners
• Detect and solve technology delivery issues effectively. Strong problem solver.
• Ensure contingency activities are covered related to system/application availability
• Participate in design meetings and provide continual input to optimize design and minimize wasted work.
• Ensure projects and finished graphics are accurate and precise.
• Identify technical risks and mitigation strategies
• Strong People Leadership, ability to form effective teams, assess talent, develop people, coach, mentor
• Effectively and strategically collaborate with business and technology groups on technology definition and delivery
• Foster and champion innovative technology solutions to solve complex business problem as part of a product model
• Frequently perform team assessment and evaluate associates based on goals and expectations.
• Comply with technical standards, policies and procedures and best practices
• Foster Agile development practices

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe Photoshop
• Webstorm
• Adobe Muse
• Adobe Illustrator
• Brackets
• Adobe Flash
• Angular JS 1.x
• Sencha
• Adobe Flex 1.5/2.0.1/3.0
• Angular 2/4
• Lotus/Domino Notes R5 (Certified)
• Adobe Flash Builder 4.0/4.6
• RobotLegs
• Microsoft Visual Studio 6
• Adobe AIR
• PureMVC
• Microsoft Access
• Adobe Flex Data Services
• Caringorm
• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Fireworks
• Parsley
• Perforce
• Visual SourceSafe
• MXML Visual Basic 6
• Subclipse HTML5 VB Script
• Enterprise Manager jQuery SQL
• Stored Procedures Bootstrap JS Lotus Formula
• Eclipse Node JS Lotus Script
• Stylus Studio Grunt Java Script
• Tortoise Gulp TypeScript
• Toad SASS HTML
• GitHub LESS PHP
• SQL Developer CSS Javascript
• Oracle CSS3 DHTML
• MySQL C XML
• C++ XSLT
• Action Script 1.0 - 3.0 Objective C

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Technical Lead Front End Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for establishing and creating Front End division for company
• Direct responsibility with estimation of Budget for projects
• Identify resource needs and acquire candidates
• Interview/Evaluate candidates for hire
• Work closely with Directors and Stakeholders to translate requirements into tangible features and tasks
• Assist in estimation and budgeting for resources and project planning
• Architect and Lead Development Team to successfully design, develop and deliver "state-of-the-art" dynamic applications developed in Angular 2.x and 4.x technologies
• Train and mentor junior and senior team members in Angular development
• Establish standards with which the Team and the organization development applications
• Work closely with Enterprise Architects and UX Specialists to identify best approach to productivity
• Oversee several resources including on-boarding, training and creation of development SDLC processes
• Established Agile and SCRUM project management methods
• Lead grooming and planning sessions for Agile sprint processes
• Develop complex Architecture and components in Angular 2.x and 4.x
• Identify, interview and hire resources to join development teams
• Meet with upper leadership to establish front end development division in organization
• Evaluation of developer's coding practices and establish standard development processes at Essilor
• Lead and demonstrate progress for Clients and Product Owners

Confidential

Angular Consultant and Development Architecture Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead UI development team and mentor junior developers
• Developed numerous features of application that is in the process of migrating from legacy platform
• Agile and Scrum consulting on development practices
• Develop complex features and platform based code artifacts utilizing Angular 2 platform
• Connect to data services and utilize Swagger and additional tools to increase productivity and delivery
• Advised on Angular 2 Best Practices
• Mentored team in Angular technologies
• Assist with code reviews on other team member's development in Angular 2
• Advise upper management in development process to increase FE team productivity
• Implement 3 rd party products into architecture of application
• Separate features into module driven architecture to assist with separation of resources during development phases

Confidential

UI Development Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead UI development team and mentor junior developers
• Migrated 4 Angular 2 applications developed in previous versions to production level 2.0 release
• Advised on Angular 2 Best Practices
• Assisted team with understanding and learning Angular 2 development platform

Confidential

UI Development Team Lead - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead UI development team and mentor junior developers
• Advise as Scrum Master to ensure team progress and communication
• Using Rally, Webstorm2016, Git and additional technologies required, assist leadership in implementing foundation practices to optimize team productivity
• Agile coach for Confidential development teams to ensure Agile methods are implemented into organization - modifying current practices where necessary
• Development of new Features and Bug Fixes using AngularJS 1.5
• Instructing and mentoring teams of developers in uses of Angular 2.0 technologies to include, Node.js, Grunt, LESS and additional technologies to ensure current migration from AngularJS 1.5 to Angular 2.0
• Meet with and advise upper management leadership team on Angular 2.0 and component driven architecture
• Assist with development of refactoring of current code base to optimize to AngularJS 1.5 for future migration/upgrade to Angular 2.0
• Development of training documents and SCRUM Demo documentation
• Presentations to company of Sprint release demos and team progress
• Using Rally track and identify tasks and tracking of Sprint burn-down
• Working closely with Product Owners to facilitate smooth transition and on-boarding of new team members
• Facilitate knowledge transfer meetings with additional teams
• Research and Innovations of applications to modify current application architecture to be component/view driven
• Develop complex Features and code structures to delivery to QA and Automation Testing teams
• Work closely with DevOps teams to deliver features and fixes to Production

Confidential

UI AngularJS and Angular 2.0 Lead Technical Lead (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Lead front end development team on optimization of JCPenney.com retail site
• Feature and refactoring of retail products display and styling
• Using AngularJS 1.4 developed and mentored teams on modifications to current dot-com retail site
• Research of evaluation against competitor's retail sites
• Evaluation and metrics of load time, page load and graphics optimizations
• Worked closely with leadership to design and implement modifications to development processes and Agile methodologies to enhance productivity in the team

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Advise development team and management of usage of AngularJS as a front end development technology
• Evaluate and recommend modifications to existing processes, architecture and development SDLC of classified application
• Attend and assist with development and architecture meetings
• Worked with upper management to implement Agile methods into existing teams
• Assist with defects and code modifications to ensure best practices in AngularJS development
• Advise management of new technologies Angular 2, Gulp and associated dependent technologies for architecture and development
• Advise management and teams on feature architecture for implementation into existing application structure

Confidential

Senior UI Architect and Team Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Plan and manage UI Design & Development teams in complex mortgage lending applications
• Agile Team Coach
• Encouraged team members through transition and training in Agile methods
• Train, mentor and provide direction as SME in front end and enterprise architecture of several large applications
• Provide training documents and training schedule for 20+ software engineers
• Advise upper management on UI/UX Best Practices and project application architecture
• Advise Teams on problem solving in current build processes and application feature development
• Mentor and pair with Leads & Designers as needed to create success.
• Attend management SCRUM meetings to advise on team progress
• Advise middle-tier team members on data and data services contracts between Front End and Middle-tier Java methods
• Provide expertise for project management during change management of IT department integrating into single office complex location
• Assist in interview of candidates for hire for building out design and development teams
• Research and Development of proof of concepts utilizing alternate technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript jQuery, ExtJS, AngularJS, etc.
• Create next-gen version of mortgage lending application utilizing HTML5, Angular JS 2, CSS3, Bootstrap, Node and jQuery
• Identify new resources for team and vet current team members
• Work closely with Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst and others to determine requirements to then translate into specifications

Confidential

Director of Software Engineering / Sr. Application Development Manager / Agile Methods Coach

Responsibilities:

• Application analysis for clients with respect to using a variety of Technologies with special emphasis on RIAs utilizing Flex Technologies for projects.
• Identify, vet and hire resources for teams
• Release of team members as necessary
• Trained team members in Agile/Scrum methods and implemented tools to accommodate processes
• Encouraged team members through transition and training in Agile methods
• Performs tech screens and qualifying interviews for Flex candidates as a courtesy to several Recruiting agencies in Flex.
• Consulted companies and other Flex Developers on solutions.
• Design and Development of complex web sites and applications using various technologies including Apache Flex, HTML5, jQuery, CSS3 and additional JavaScript frameworks to produce visually exciting sites and applications
• Works closely with other team members of all three development tiers.
• Works closely with Human Factors and Usability Specialists to facilitate the creation of Enterprise Application Designs.
• Utilized JIRA and Agile project planning to radically enhance the projects productivity.
• Work closely with clients and product owners/managers to gather requirements and define processes and goals
• Translate requirements into working development schedule and define use cases and development cycle
• Managed design teams and other technologists to determine enterprise architecture as it relates to goals and requirements of application
• Design rapid prototypes for instant sign off by business department and product owners
• Design mockups of screen based on requirements and functionality of product