Director, Architect, Manager, Developer

A senior IT professional with over 15 years of experience developing enterprise level software systems, constructing teams, implementing and defining process, learning customer domains in addition to training and mentoring team members and applying that knowledge in designing and developing software systems.

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Professional Experience

Confidential

Technical Director

• Working with Definition 6 as a technical director has included opportunities working on development, process improvement, and personnel development.
• Organized and managed a large account and client relationship growing it in excess of one million dollars within a calendar year.
• Managed and developed team using a SCRUM based methodology allowing multiple products to be developed simultaneously for the customer.
• Gathered requirements, designed and developed products and website architectures for multiple industries including hospitality, insurance, Church, and the service industry.
• Architected new web eCommerce product for Extended Stay Hotels integrating multiple vendors resulting in an increase in daily revenue from 500,000 to 1,000,0000.
• Mentored and taught PMI based curriculum on project management enabling the company to increase on time, on budget delivery for products and web systems.
• Improved processes and developed internal forms increasing quality of products and more consistent delivery.
• Architecture and development process for a catalog based web effort for an international customer resulting in greater visibility and improved user experience.
• Refactored an architecture and development process for a project in crisis and produced project plans, architecture, wireframes and other artifacts to correct project.
• Developed complex reports and algorithms for a system that enable a customer to provide detailed analysis to their customers.
• Began a code standards documentation effort as well as a process to help get grassroots adoption of standards. This included evaluating the review process and other aspects of development.
• Re-architected a digital dashboard data analysis application to provide stronger information allowing the project to meet customer needs. Resulting in stronger key business metrics to be delivered to the customer.

Confidential

Technical Director

• Working with Credability to grow its development team and development processes in a rewrite of their internal core product.
• Wire framing the system, assisting in the selection of integration tools, and training a pick basic staff enabled the company to retain critical in house knowledge to develop new platform.

Confidential

• Working with CDC as well as the Office of the Chief Technologist this position's purpose is internal focused to bring focus on future solution concepts and improvement of tools supporting internal operations.
• Created a virtual Research environment collaborating with the network services team and bringing real world scenarios enabling Northrop Grumman to better display capabilities to potential customers.
• Consulted across CDC with projects on difficult technical and team issues enabling Northrop Teams to meet their goals.
• Introduced an innovative prototype for a new internal Northrop Grumman system using .net 4 and Ajax technologies.
• Collaborated with capture teams on technical approaches for various new business opportunities.
• Successfully developed a low turnover collaborative and productive 13 member team that originated from a single software developer model increasing business and team capabilities simultaneously resulting in contract growth over 1 million dollars.
• Created and led high performance application development team utilizing mature processes that ensured successful on-time, in-budget delivery and resulted in project growth of over 200 within 3 years.
• Successfully implemented sustainable development methodologies for project development utilizing RUP, agile and waterfall methodologies that were implemented to each project's needs.
• Optimized productivity of the team, decreasing ramp up time, and enabling matrix environment by successfully implementing a learning environment that included unit testing, code review process and team generated development standards. Resulting in creating an environment that reduced ramp up time on projects from 2 months to 2 weeks.
• Architected re-useable windows products and web control library enabling reuse of controls in multiple systems for custom functionality and scalability. This reduced development time on projects, decreased maintenance time, and increased scalability across the portfolio of projects.
• Designed and constructed OLAP multi-dimensional analysis cubes enabling for exploratory analysis data. This enabled the customer to provide new levels of analysis that were reported to the US Congress and White House.
• Architected an Enterprise level system for National Outbreak Surveillance. Integrating web, windows and service components that improved the capabilities of national outbreak surveillance becoming a lynchpin for foodborne, waterborne, animal contact, and Norovirus outbreak surveillance collaboration between states, CDC, and FDA partners.
• Architected and developed an innovative prototype of web based Pathogen discovery tool, MicrobeNet, which included reference library documents. Enabling valuable CDC developed data to be made available worldwide assisting in identification and research of pathogens.
• Designed and developed a web based project budgeting tool that enabled the CDC divisions to work at a project level and track financial data flow including funds received and dispersed.
• Developing Web, Windows, and Mobile applications utilizing multiple technologies while working within best practices and OOAD design patterns.
• Developed a web based program tracking system capturing program information, budget information, and mapping to division goals and objectives.
• Developed a data input monitoring system that included the ability to set dynamic cleaning rules, monitoring interfaces, and a dashboard style interface for quick reference. This enabled the CDC to receive data from states and health partners while reducing the labor intensive cleaning process, thus resulting in several months of personnel time saved per year.
• Implemented and taught advanced .net and beginning .net curriculum that enabled both team members and non-team members to develop their skills further. This also resulted in team members having similar technical vocabularies which in turn led to greater efficiency.

Confidential

Manager/Technical Lead

• Lead a team focused on developing cutting edge solutions for current and identified Galaxy Scientific customers as well as research and development efforts. Solutions for web, windows, and mobile environments that enabled continued customer growth and innovating solutions.
• Developed agile processes to rapidly meet goals and get products to market quickly while retaining product quality.
• Established and maintained R D software development processes based on Rational unified process and Extreme Programming standards. This allowed the R D team to work efficiently and meet market needs quickly.
• Accomplished the Architecture, Design and Development of the Next Generation Aircraft Inspection system as a part of internal research and development. Secured work for the company for the next several years.
• Architected and developed a reporting tool to allow FAA Inspectors to create data extractions and reports based on database tables with little to no knowledge of how to write queries.

Confidential

Programming and Databases

• Responsible for instructing students in developing client/server applications with multiple languages. These included Visual Basic, Java, C and Web Languages
• Confidential
• Developed and led a team of developers that included establishing development processes as well as creating web sites for the company.
• Architected solutions for Oracle database optimization in both database structure and query design for performance and search ability, enabling search to provide more valued results.
• Built an integrated and collaborative team by hiring as well as using existing resources and incorporating team building activities, resulting in a highly efficient team that led to increased revenue capture.
• Confidential
• Taught students basic database design and construction.