SUMMARY:

Seeking to exceed expectations in a Software Development Manager role for a company that is looking for a results - driven individual with many passionate years of distinction and success in delivering measurable impact across various business types and engineering disciplines using an eclectic set of techniques by an emotionally intelligent, business and tech savvy thought leader with terrific soft skills and adept at engaging and influencing all levels of an organization who also has an entrepreneurial mentality and an insatiable desire to lead, collaborate, grow employees, continuously improve, practice excellence, make impact and deliver value.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Leadership
• Architecture Problem Management
• Software Business Cases Change Management
• Strategic Planning Budgeting People Management
• IT Governance Cost - benefit Analysis Incident Management
• Root-cause Analysis Process Design Product Management
• Databases Mentorship Program Management
• Custom Initiatives Quality Assurance And much more

EXPERIENCE:

Expert Engineer

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Lead corporate programs, community engagements and Town Halls at our Tech Hub of 2K people
• Lead engagements with CIOs, receive mentorship from Senior Executives and Distinguished individuals as well as provide mentorship to numerous employees, many of which have as a result grown their career
• Matrix manager that also regularly builds/executes end-to-end on biz and tech cases and strategic roadmaps
• Firm-wide Talent Xchange program initiative architect, owner and manager
• Firm-wide solution architect to problem of the production of invalid infra architecture diagrams
• Lead and develop a cross-functional team of 15 o Functional Test Automation program creator, architect, owner and manager - reduced QA function sign-off from ~ 45 calendar days to 4 through Cucumber, Java, Selenium and Appium (Node.js) technologies; OPEX reduced $30K+ per release
• User-engagement Analytics program creator, owner and manager multi-department (risk, controls, legal, business, third-party oversight) stakeholders/involvement and delivered through mobile application integration with Google Analytics
• Deliver custom reports using mix of Oracle queries and Shell Scripting o Lead root-cause analysis and remediation of Priority 1 incidents o Drive adoption, manage and improve the transformation of Agile, Lean, Continuous Delivery and DevOps practices; significant improvements across many KPIs
• Conducted value-stream mapping and removed non-value-add activities, better data-driven decision making and user-centered design studies, introduced scrum, instituted TDD in conjunction with automated functional testing, Pair Programming, migrated repo from SVN to GIT and now use Jenkins for Continuous Integration and Delivery with SonarQube for Continuous Code Quality -- now delivering more of the right things, in smaller chunks, faster and with higher quality and lower risk

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead and developed a cross-functional team of 18 o Became architecture and dev lead of the legacy Java and Oracle-based application
• Began refinement using 12-factor application principles to increase readiness of Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• Lead numerous production releases and was an Application Security Champion
• Lead Sustained and regular Disaster Recovery and Business Resiliency exercises
• Lead Incident Response, Management and root-cause remediation - reduced incident count by 23% over 3 quarters, MTTR reduced by 50% over same period
• Drove adoption, managed and improved the transformation of Agile, Lean, Continuous Delivery and DevOps practices; significant improvements across many KPIs
• Lead and developed a team of 6, direct influence over group of ~ 30 with operating budget of ~ $5MM/yr o Accountable for end-to-end delivery of application portfolio of ~ 150 apps/processes, directly responsible for ~ 30, influence over ~ 500
• Created, owned and delivered a department improvement initiative - projected $5MM/yr OPEX save, 12% software defect rate reduction, reduced task cycle time and more
• Architected and lead a workstream tied to CIO’s Cybersecurity-uplift agenda
• Saved $3.3MM/yr in storage costs and reduced surface area of risk by deleting ~ 3.5MM files totaling 515TBs, with no incidents, from a server cluster which had 3.5K active user accounts and no file management - initiative failed 3x before by 3 diff people
• Delivered on a RFP to C-level on how to spend $2MM for firm-wide solution
• Worked with "Big Data” across heterogeneous sources
• 50MM rows per table per day o Created numerous relational (with varied normalization) databases o Contributed to new Hadoop-based data warehouse strategy -- view architecture diagram o Lead on Analytics workstream of multi-million dollar consolidation of multiple systems
• Pitched, architected and delivered a .NET WCF/SOAP-based web service with Oracle backend and, to ease integration, a Java-based service consumer to solve a problem of error logging across app suite o Lead Incident Response and Management as well as many production releases

Technology Director

Confidential, Orlando, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Lead technology, management and business consultant for all customer engagements
• Includes creating numerous proposals as well as building, delivering and managing many solutions
• Managed numerous consultants and annual technology budget
• Created and lead three start-up digital businesses, building everything from scratch

Technology Team Lead

Confidential, Orlando, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 10 as well as managed IT operations and technical infrastructure
• Refined business and operational models off of KPIs
• Solely created PHP and SQL Server-based website which drove $100K+/mo digital business; database had 100+ tables and application had 75K+ LOC
• Lead architecture and development of numerous other solutions that were PHP and MySQL/SQL Server-based websites
• Created, managed and tracked multiple digital marketing campaigns using custom software

Technology Director

Confidential, Orlando, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Managed technical infrastructure, negotiated contracts, created numerous custom websites, created and managed multiple marketing campaigns, worked as a booking agent and assistant talent manager