SUMMARY:

Proven Technical, Management & Process Expertise in a Career Spanning 20 Years. IT professional with a broad range of corporate, NFP, and consulting experience in helping IT organizations grow and learn. Developed strong leadership qualifications coupled with “hands - on” technical expertise. Focus on delivering technical solutions that align with business objectives with an emphasis on integrating software deliverables within an agile environment.

EXPERTISE:

• Architectural Design
• Application development
• Risk mitigation
• Agile methodologies (SCRUM, SAFE, KANBAN)
• Integrations
• Database design and tuning
• Technical migrations
• Performance testing and scaling
• REST API/SOAP Protocols
• Capacity and resource planning
• MVC/MVP
• Test driven development
• ITIL
• Release planning & issue mitigation
• .NET technologies
• Technical resource & team management

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Financial Manager/Technical Lead

• Served as the platform technical lead of various Card projects and initiatives. In this role, I had responsibility of developing component designs, representing platform concerns over technical approaches and approving overall solution architecture. I was selected into the Circle of Excellence - which is Confidential ’s highest employee recognition award.
• Provided technical oversight of Enhanced transaction implementation for online card servicing platform requiring working in new development model involving consuming REST API’s and Google Maps to create an industry first customer experience
• Introduced MVP (Model-View-Presenter)-based development into the Card agent application by overseeing an initiative that involved creating a POC, presenting and selling the value proposition to senior management.
• Manage key contracting/vendor resources including approving work orders, progress tracking and obtaining budget approvals.
• Serve as a team leader in recommending, designing and approving design solutions within an agile team environment. Requires close collaboration with the product owner, business analysts and development resources to plan and implement works tasks that implement recommended solutions.
• Oversaw implementation of MVC coding approach with an emphasis on unit test development, continuous integration and refactoring
• Designed a new tracking mechanism for allowing the agile team more accurately track development ‘check-in’ events which involve live demo’s from the developers to the product owners and business stakeholders that verify business line acceptance of the sprint stories

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Senior Developer/Team Leader/Senior Architect

• Served as Team Leader/Manager of the Corporate Web Systems team. Position involved assigning work tasks to team members, providing time estimates on specific development tasks, and other managerial duties for the team. Interfaced with business lines in resolving outstanding development issues.
• Provided expertise as the lead developer for the re-write of the company internet site. Involved attending technical training for Microsoft Content Management Server. The site was re-written in Microsoft .NET using ASP.NET, C#, and SQL Server 2000.
• Served as the technical lead for the re-write of the QA Data Manager system. This system serves a mission-critical purpose of evaluating LandAmerica-affiliated agents for potential risk to the company. Responsibilities included developing technical specifications, managing development resources, database design and development for all phases of the project. The project was developed using .NET Framework 1.1, Visual Studio 2003 (C#), and SQL Server 2000.
• Served as the chief architect for the re-write of the Directory system. This intranet-based application serves as the company’s central repository for employee information drawing in data from numerous data sources. The project involved the extensive use of web services and was the initial project intentionally developed with a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in mind. Other facets of the system included role-based security, reusable code libraries, and Enterprise Application Blocks.

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Consultant

• Worked with a client (Southern States Coop, Inc.) to develop several functional automated solutions. One project involved developing a Process Control System that would “poll” over a WAN for newly produced material files (from geographically diverse plants) to update a centrally located relational database system. Developed an XML-based Intranet application that is used from different locations across the country to track raw materials and provides customized reporting and included server-side components for advanced functionality. Technologies utilized in these projects include MS-Interdev 6.0 (ASP, XML, XSL, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript), MS-Visual Basic 6.0, MS-SQL Server 7.0, DB2, and DB/400.
• Developed an Intranet-based product withdrawal system for a global pharmaceutical company (Bayer Corp.). The system met all FDA regulatory requirements and involved use of the following technologies: XML/XSL, ASP, and Oracle 8i.
• Developed an Intranet-based collection accounting system for a leading financial institution ( Confidential ). The system was based on ASP, XML/XSL, and COM+ technologies. Database processing required use of advanced SQL Server 2000 functionality.

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Systems Analyst

• Provided full lifecycle development for a new component-based Automated Data Access (ADA) system using Visual Basic 5.0 and Access 97. This system, used by the Crestar Investment Group, provides external Crestar customers with processed formatted output files from raw extracted Trust data.
• Participated with team developing a new Will File System using Visual Basic 5.0, SQL Server 6.5, and Crystal Reports 6.0. This system, also used by the Crestar Investment Group, provides for in-depth reporting and on-line modification for Crestar Trust Instruments (wills, ...). Responsible for all facets of report creation.
• Participated in all facets of the Crestar Bank to Confidential merger project. Involved in systems analysis and project definition, as well as serving as a technical resource involved in modifying existing systems to meet new system requirements.

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Applications Engineer II

• Provided full lifecycle development for a new Internet-based Tiedi (UNOS Scientific Registry) application. Duties included web page design in MS-FrontPage, Active Server Page (ASP) creation in MS-Studio (InterDev), developing client-side edits using JavaScript, Java applet development, and SQL Server 6.5 database prototyping and design. Also provided support in the development of Visual Basic 5.0 components for the containment of business rules.

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Systems Analyst II

• Involved in full lifecycle development and application support of the Client/Server-based Regional Scheduling/Page Layout System using FoxPro.
• Designed and developed full-scale Sales Tracking/Brand Fractioning System for Advertising Department to use in quarterly reporting process in Paradox. (Luminary Award nominee)
• Two-time Key Award recipient for outstanding performance.