SUMMARY:

• An accomplished IT professional with more than 20 years of experience including all aspects of technical department and team management, project management and delivery, solution design, and hands - on development. Has strong leadership skills and a natural aptitude for foreseeing technical issues and identifying successful solutions.
• Highly trained with notable field experience in cutting edge technological areas such as Mobile Applications Development (including iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone), BPM products including Lombardi’s Teamworks and Blueprint, and many others. Experienced in a wide variety of business and system application areas, both from a developer and a leadership perspective. Has led or developed many end-to-end applications using Microsoft technologies (C#, VB, .NET, VC++, ASP, etc.) and has worked extensively in Java and C/C++, and Objective C. Previously on faculty Confidential Akron University for over 4 years teaching Java programming, HTML, and Visual Basic and has significant other teaching and mentoring experience. A highly dedicated consultant motivated to the success of each project. Prepared to work as team member or assume a leadership role. Learns new technologies readily, and thrives on technical challenges.
• Over a year on a project for a Confidential / Dot Net (C#), including both integrating with the required corporate frameworks and with the Blackberry / Good Dynamics API for client and server interaction. Additionally, I lead several coordination efforts Confidential the New York branch of our project team and interacted with teams in London, Poland, and Latvia as well. In addition to multiple types of development work, I administered our Blackberry / Good Dynamics server for our development environment and provided development support in association with the Blackberry / Good Dynamics API (using their Confidential interface and C#).
• Primary developer on a very aggressive Confidential project using C# and Xaml for a customer who provided credit information to clients. Performed primary development lead and primary client contact. Also charged with leading a team of 4 offshore developers during development.
• Worked as lead Confidential developer for full project life cycle on the redesign of a major utility company monthly inspection process using iPads in place of paper forms. Served as primary client liaison, project manager/lead, and technical / development lead until successful delivery.
• Assistant Director of Mobility Group for a major consulting firm where I performed full-time field work in on-site C# development, Mobile Project Leadership / Mobile Project Management, Mobile Technical Leadership, Client Liaison, Account Management, Mobile Architecture and Mobile Application and Solution Design, and Mobile Development.
• Principle, hands-on (as lead Confidential develoepr), Mobility Architect (Director / Senior Manager level) performing roles of Mobile Idea Generation, Research and Direction Planning to assist major financial clients in determining future direction in mobility, presentation of technical and user / business concepts to corporate decision makers, and technical functions from hands-on development in native code for iOS and Android to high-level application and system architecture.
• Lead developer and trainer (BPMC) Confidential several clients who were learning and implementing Lombardi Teamworks products using Java and C# for customization and integration.
• Technical Lead and Architect on several internal Enterprise iPhone development projects including website customization as well as numerous custom iPhone native applications.
• Successfully led as technnical lead and lead developer on a high-profile project Confidential a major insurance company that would allow complex outgoing correspondence to be generated and populated automatically, including populating internally and externally designed legal compliance forms. System was enterprise oriented and needed to be platform neutral to work identically across desktops, laptops, mobile devices (including embedded systems), and web applications.
• Co-architect for a mobile application on an imbedded device platform to allow efficient collaboration between field and office personnel. Project required research and development into custom-modified devices to support the company’s primary business objectives effectively and to reduce costs of previous methods of inter-team communication.
• 5-year Development and Project Lead Confidential a major manufacturing company on a multi-million dollar FileNET initiative. Parts of this system were accessible via multiple mobile paths including cellular phones, hand held devices (primarily Palm OS), and laptops loaded out for this specific purpose.
• Chosen via a Navy-wide selection process to run a new technical facility that tested new technologies prior to sending it to the fleet. Responsibilities included project planning, development, system and network planning and design, data analysis, problem analysis, management of a team of up to 12 people,, cost analysis and reduction. In one project, I initiated an effort to develop a software replacement for an aging hardware system that saved the department over 7 million dollars annually.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: Platforms / Architectures iOS / IPhone / IPad Android PhoneGap / Cordova PC / Windows Mac / Cocoa / Touch Good Dynamics Xamarin / Mono XNA / Monogame ElasticSearch Agile (Certified) Windows Mobile / Windows Phone MVVM Pattern MVC Pattern SOAP Messaging REST Services Development Software Operating System iPhone XCode Cocoa / Cocoa Touch IPhone / Cocoa Touch Mac OS X Android SDK / ADK Xamarin / Mono PhoneGap / Cordova Android (up to 4.2) BPM (Lombardi) Angular 2+ / Ionic 2+ Visual C++ / C#.NET Elasticsearch / Nest Windows 3.0 Win 7 Mobile / Win CE Kony MS - DOS Sun Java JDK Objective-C Palm OS Eclipse NUnit / Nmock Eclipse / Netbeans Vax VMS Several Embedded Adobe Experience Mgr. Others Languages Database/File Formats Obj-C / iPhone / Mac Java / J2EE / J2SE Oracle XML Lombardi Teamworks Visual Basic .NET SYBASE JSON JavaScript C / C++ / C# / Obj-C Microsoft Access Palm PDB Angular 2+ / Ionic 2+ PHP XBase / DBase SQL Server SQL HTML / CSS Fox Pro CSV ASP.NET Others FileNET Others Applications Development Mobile BPM / Process automation Financial / Banking Medical Satellite Communications Imaging / OCR / ICR Virus Protection Insurance Compression / Encryption Time Management Image Enhancement Stock / Broker Trading

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Tyson’s Corner, VA

Mobility Architect / Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Architectural lead on a project to replatform the customer facing mobile app for a large credit union to new technologies with some feature additoins.
• Technologies used included Cordova / PhoneGap, Ionic 2+, Angular 2+, and Adobe Experience Manger using ContentSync
• Responsible for reporting progress and activities to all levels of client management, including C-Level reporting on a regular basis.
• Responsible for maintaining a positive client relationship with all levels of management.
• Travelled weekly to work Confidential client and home on the weekends.

Confidential - New York, NY

Mobility Architect / Confidential Dev Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Good Dynamics to set up full server access for securing applications with their security platform. Worked on several Blackberry / Good secured apps that use the Blackberry / Good network platform as well.
• Coordinated U.S.-Local team under the lead of a project owner out of London.
• Advised project owner on technological direction for project under tight deadlines and significant budget constraints while providing value-added capabilities to the business user.
• Spearheaded effort to build out back end services for Blackberry / Good Dynamics infrastructure in order to update aging VPN system and increase end-user satisfaction of software experience.
• Provided face-to-face liaison for U.S. Local management decisision makers and disparate team leads in order to drive project forward for London-based project owner.

Confidential - Cleveland, OH

Mobility Architect / Mobile Dev

Responsibilities:

• Short term project under a very aggressive deadline to deliver a mobile solution on both iOS and Android that would provide detailed credit history and status data to customers of our client.
• Worked in Confidential using C# and Xaml including development of customized screen display components to provide precise look and feel based on client request.
• Worked as development lead over a team of 4 offshore developers and handled client change requests, interaction with the UI Designer, quality assurance, and change requests.
• Developed multiple UI candidates for a weapons control system under contract for the U.S. Marines.
• Provided technical advisory services for cost efficiency of app development based on numerous criteria and under a limited budget.

Confidential

Enterprise Mobile Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Hired by a previous manager from Cognizant (see below) to build out a mobility department for the newly formed Confidential, Inc
• Worked primarily as technical and development lead with additional heavy focus on the business from presales and sales to design, architecture, project management, client interaction, team lead, and delivery.
• Delivered solutions to several different clients including a major commercial food supplier, a major utility company, and a major online real estate company.
• Worked on a Windows Mobile contract for an online real estate company that was paid for by Microsoft as part of their initiative to bring notable apps from iOS and Android to Windows Phone
• Provided onsite and assistance to a client in moving from traditional Waterfall and desktop development into Agile/Scrum and Mobile development as well as them and helping them ramp up in Confidential and C#.
• Lead speaker in a two day seminar provided to a client to help them determine their direction for moving forward with mobility (this led directly to us gaining another project)
• Attended multiple and conference sessions with Confidential as well as worked on multiple Confidential projects.

Confidential - Detroit, MI

Practice Director, Mobility

Responsibilities:

• Contracted to help in planning and establishing a mobility group within the company.
• Kicked off development effort on a project for specialized inter-company communication using Confidential and C#.
• Received direct in MobileForce software from Fonemine in order to support their growth in that business area.
• Performed in a development, presales and presentation role of MobileForce to clients and potential clients.
• Provided introductory to MobileForce for internal personnel.

Confidential

Principle Mobility Consultant Confidential Assistant Director level

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead, Development lead, or Architecture Lead on a numerous projects writing banking and credit apps, both client facing and internal use by leveraging onsite and offshore personnel (as many as 40 Confidential a time) to provide Confidential change turn-around and high client satisfaction.
• Led or guided numerous Mobile Initiatives, often with multiple simultaneous and Confidential disparate locations, by traveling to each location and working with each onsite team for both management and development / technical work.
• Assistant Director reporting directly to VP (primarily in a technical / architectural capacity). Work involved project planning for Mobile initiatives as well as presentation to C-Level execs, architect / project / technical lead to mobile platform development teams and account managers for these accounts, and hands on technical work as an architect, lead developer, and mentor for mobility project work.
• Heavily involved in business development by assisting clients in determining future mobility direction as well as being involved with numerous accounts around the country in a technical capacity on live projects.
• Responsible for application design recommendations, architecture planning, high-end development, and in-depth familiarity with the current mobile market place in order to provide on-hand information to clients as needed.
• Directed and participated in projects to provide proof of concept work for clients attempting to determine future mobile direction as well as product evaluation of a wide variety of mobile development and cross platform development options.

Confidential - Monroeville, PA

Lead Consultant / Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed in multiple significant roles on Lombardi Teamworks and iOS (iPhone / iPad) development efforts. Roles include offshore Team Lead, Program / Project Manager, Developer, Technical Lead and Architect and Trainer.
• Also Functioned as Architect, and Technical Lead, and Team Lead to an offshore development team in India for the development of a major pharmaceutical subscription, billing, and tracking application. Provided front end development on urgent client needs while managing offshore team for longer development efforts as well as handling growth and development to both offshore and on site personnel (both client and TCS).

Confidential- Akron, OH

Software Development Preparations for new IPad platform

Responsibilities:

• Prepared for the release of the iPad prior to its official release date by studying the new O/S and hardware capabilities using the SDK pre-release in order to respond as businesses began to adopt the new platform.
• Acquired an iPad on initial release day and began work on development on the new platform.
• Familiarized with several iPhone / iPad development Environments including XCode, Interface Builder, Objective C, Unity, Cocos2d, OpenGL, OpenGLES.

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Consultant / Project Lead - iPhone / Objective C / Cocoa Touch

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and implemented a tracking application for flight crews to track in-flight information concerning schedules, departure and destination location details, security information, emergency procedures, etc.
• Guided and assisted in the development of the user interface as well as the architecture of the internal functionality of the more complex parts of the in-flight tracking application. These included details like the ability to store and display PDF data in a mobile format, keep track of mobile access to the server and provide updates as the data is available (while still providing the latest known version of the data if the server is not available), strategic planning with upper management, demonstration and speaking to upper management, etc.
• Worked with crew and pilots to determine appropriate choices during development to provide optimum value to the end user. Also worked with Security and other external groups in preparing the application to be launched in a phased release.
• Provided guidance for information concerning capabilities and standards for IOS applications and assisted in setting standard development practices for IOS development.

Confidential - Kansas City, KS

Consultant / Project Lead - iPhone / C# / Web developer)

Responsibilities:

• Assisted client in planning development direction to move current products to iPhone platform.
• Designed and architected several solution options in order to provide maximum benefit to the business.
• Developed both Application and Web App solutions to solve the business problem Confidential hand.
• Identified several ways of dramatically reducing development time while still providing full problem resolution.
• Trained on-hand personnel in iPhone and OS X development technologies and industry standards for these platforms in order to allow them to continue to support the products I developed on-site.
• Documented processes necessary to allow client to continue development other mobile products as the need arises.
• Set up standards and practices for future iPhone support as well as for development using Apple technologies as this client had no experience in this area.
• Developed materials for formal classes in several different iPhone development technologies in order to assist the organization in preparing its own personnel to move into iPhone / OS X development.

Confidential - Oklahoma City, OK

Consultant - iPhone / BPM (Lombardi) / Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed several iPhone apps to support project in process - technologies included Objective C, X-Code, Dash-Code, and the current version of Apple's SDK for iPhone.
• Designed and researched the details of an embedded systems application for Windows Mobile (to be developed using Visual Studio / Visual C#).
• Senior Developer on a team to replace major mission-critical, legacy software solution with a Lombardi Teamworks BPM solution using web services written in Java and C# for integration with local client data.
• Developed several small, iPhone specific web site front ends to previously existing sites.
• Developed several IOS applications in Objective C using Cocoa Touch, IOS SDK, and X-Code.
• Served as technical advisor to existing team for general BPM and Teamworks specific details.
• Developed custom Java tools that integrate with Teamworks to simplify and accelerate development
• Worked as BPM Consultant and Teamworks knowledge expert to provide technical assistance to other developers during development cycle and to advise new directions for standards of development and quality control
• Initiated policies and procedures to insure fallback options in case of catastrophic failures, code loss, data loss, etc.
• Determined and implemented a solution for compatibility issues between Teamworks development environment and Windows Vista-Only PCs using Sun's virtualization software.
• Taught Apple iPhone development using Objective C, XCode and the iPhone SDK
• Updated skills in Windows mobile development

Confidential - Austin, TX

Business Process Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the creation of the Teamworks 7.0 Platform.
• Worked as a BPMC for Confidential, maker of the popular Teamworks and BluePrint product lines. Received extensive and field experience Confidential several major clients.
• Led a client team on a major initiative to replace a Workflow solution with a BPM based one.
• Trained / mentored client developers in the use of Lombardi products and procedures and the implementation of .NET web services integration points.
• Designed and developed both major and minor BPM solutions.
• Attended numerous seminars concerning the current and future state of BPM technologies.

Confidential - Los Angeles, CA

Senior Developer / Architect / Mentor

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead on a major financial services trading and tracking application written in .Net
• Introduced Agile development methodologies (including Test Driven Development)
• Trained team in modern development methodologies including Object Oriented Development, MVC, Inversion of Control (IoC), Dependency Injection (DI), Interface Decoupling, etc.
• Enhanced existing trade application with modern development techniques including adding missing unit tests and preparing the code base to use Test Driven Development practices.

Confidential - Cleveland, OH

Senior Developer / Architect / Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Business, Management, and in-house Technical Leads to gather requirements for a major project to replace critical software with updated, .NET equivalent.
• Worked with in-house technical leads and architects to complete system-wide architecture for
• Led a development team in planning, prototyping, and implementation of end-user UI and day-to-day administrative details
• Developed web pages as the front-end of a full-scale AJAX enabled application.

Confidential - Mayfield Heights, OH

Senior Developer / Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• During my final 7 months, worked with Objective C for OS X development on Apple hardware in preparation for the upcoming release of the iPhone platform and SDK.
• Worked as developer and co-architect on a mobile project to allow field inspectors to wirelessly transfer on-site photographs to the main office for management approval in order to reduce the need for multiple trips onsite.
• Led C# / .Net / XML project to automate outbound correspondence (external and internal forms as well as custom letters) by integrating with many enterprise-level applications.
• Designed and built C#.Net utility software to simplify development and testing of MQ Series Queues accessed via proprietary Queue Management software - this software later became the basis for several other in-house software packages.
• Developed several C# reporting systems to gather data on request or on schedule and deploy web-based reports
• Developed both client and server (Web Services) based pieces of a major insurance tracking system including parts for tracking the details of a claim and generating and tracking repair cost estimates.

Confidential - Cleveland, OH

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted client in setting up and configuring an IBM Websphere Portal and in preparing to begin development of Java based Websphere portlets to run under this portal.
• Provided and mentoring for a group of developers to bring their Java and networking skills up to date in order to do development on the new Portal.
• Designed and implemented the Java framework and several early screens for a significant inventory tracking system running under the new portal.

Confidential - Mechanicsburg, PA

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on many projects Confidential a major manufacturing client as well as acted as primary liaison between up to 7 consultants and the home office. The liaison work included client meetings concerning status, performance, job satisfaction, etc. as well as administrative functions related to Confidential . The technical work included replacement of an outdated system that had been designed in-house and had no on-hand expertise and little documentation. -Technologies used include Java, JAI, J2EE, UML, Visual Studio.NET and VB.NET. Also worked on a major redesign of the clients web interface using HTML, C/C++ (including Pro-C), CSS, Dream Weaver, HomeSite, and JavaScript running Websphere under Solaris. Received an for client excellence based on work for this client.
• Worked on in-house technology advancement project intended for nationwide demonstration. Technologies used included Sun JDK, Eclipse/WSAD, Java SWING and AWT, Microsoft COM, sMicrosoft Visual C++, FileNET, and UML.
• Performed multiple functions Confidential a major government client, including design and architecture analysis, program and system design, technology research & recommendation, user interface design and development, security implementation and others. Primary technologies used were Java, FileNET, Websphere and VB.NET. Tools used were Eclipse / WSAD, Visual Age for Java, and Visual Cafe.
• After hours during this project, I completed a Microsoft certified course in Visual Studio.NET, the .NET Framework, and VB.NET to update my Visual Basic skills to .NET technology.

Confidential

Consulting / Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed client-need contract consulting through various contracting companies, and on a private contract basis. - Contracts have included client liaison work, Visual Basic 5, Visual Basic 6, HTML, Java and JSP development, Web Application Design and Architecture, Database Design (DB2, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, etc.), and Technical Project Lead. Additional technologies used were Websphere, J2EE (servlets, JSP, and EJB), MySQL, and Solaris.

Confidential - Cleveland, OH

Senior Technical Manager / Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed a mobile support architecture and worked that would allow an on-site auto insurance estimator to track estimates, notes, and damage details of a vehicle that had been involved in an accident. Daily, each estimator connected to the central system for a bi-directional sync of the data with the parent database.
• Analyzed problems and developed the system architectures to provide a resolution for the client switching to J2SE, J2ME, MVC, UML, and Agile methods.
• Led the company in updating to new technologies and maintaining current technical excellence via new technology introduction and providing in these new technologies.
• Formed business alliances with outside companies to generate additional incoming business.
• Led a project for a client that would allow easy web display and updating of real estate data (including interactive photos of houses for sale). Project primarily used LAMP (Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP).
• Presented demonstrations of our service offerings and technical capabilities to potential clients in a pre-sales role.

Confidential - Cleveland, OH

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created a Windows CE based mobile shopping cart by customizing an ASP shopping cart to run locally on a Windows CE platform that would communicate with the original shopping cart when synced to allow the end user to make purchasing decisions while disconnected and complete them automatically Confidential a later time.
• Worked as part of a team to develop a major client website which required the use of many tools, including Java, VB Script, C/C++, JavaScript, JSP, HTML, and NetObjects Fusion.
• Led an in-house team in development of a replacement for the existing time management system while to the in house staff on several technologies including Java, Java servlets (J2EE), Java Beans. Technologies used on the project but not used for included DB2, Rational Rose (and UML), HTML, and JDBC/ODBC, Websphere Application Server, and Apache.
• Developed a database engine that used HTTP tunneling to access a server side JDBC database from a client applet.
• Developed a completely configurable ASP / VB Script shopping cart system that allowed hierarchical display from a database and images for each product.

Confidential - Akron, OH

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead developer for a FileNET based workflow system. Developed primary system in Visual Basic (3-6) with a design that allowed easy porting to other customer locations and changing of imaging system back-end (FileNET) as per customer’s need. Other technologies used were C/C++, Access, FoxPro, Oracle, Palm OS, SQL, and others.
• Developed a report writer that was used Confidential several client locations to replace in-place report writing software due to needs of flexibility and development speed. Technology used was Visual Basic 5-6.
• Developed a Microsoft ActiveX image viewer to replace FileNET’s built-in viewer for several departments Confidential a major manufacturing firm. Technologies used were COM, Visual Basic 5, and ActiveX.
• Taught several Visual Basic and C/C++ classes to other consultants as well as to clients.
• Developed a Palm organizer application to track Real Estate data.
• Often used as a Microsoft technologies consultant when projects had problems that the on-hand team could not solve.
• Served as strong technical advisor to several other teams Confidential various times.

Confidential - Akron, OH

Java Programming Instructor

Responsibilities:

• Founded the Continuing Java classes.
• Taught approximately 25 intro and intermediate Java, and HTML, and Visual Basic classes during a 4+ year period on faculty and received excellent student evaluations.
• Received consistently positive reviews from students and class / course evaluators.
• Based on this work, taught approximately ten in-house corporate classes under contract to help modernize / update the skill sets of employees of the various corporations in their attempts to switch to java based technologies.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Selected from a Navy-wide candidacy to serve as technical manager of an IT department that tested new computer technologies for security, functionality, stability, etc. before sending them out to the fleet.
• Scored third highest score ever (as of 1981) on Pennsylvania military entry exams (ASVAB).
• Attended several management and technical classes.
• Led a project to re-write the Navy’s outdated Underway Replenishment system.
• Developed a satellite data collection package to allow display and printing of satellite images for selected areas of the world. Also developed a custom printer driver, the user interface, data extraction programs, and reporting facilities. Led the hardware installation of an Confidential &T 3B2 running Unix System V, several graphical workstations, and a bridge to a CDC mainframe.
• Led a team, on an emergency need, in the development of a virus detection package that was later adopted for use Confidential several military facilities and a commercial institute.
• Attached a Confidential &T 3B2 system to the Internet as a new primary node site
• Headed a team to develop a system to use existing analog lines for the transmission of satellite data.
• Set up and administered several different network systems, including OS’s from DEC (Micro VAX II and PC), Artisoft (PC) and Confidential &T (3B2 and PC).