SUMMARY:

Experienced technology and dynamic leader who thrives in mentoring and leading teams through all software development lifecycle phases. Passionate, tenacious problem - solver focused on continuous improvement and innovative results. Enthusiasm for talent development, coaching, and leading cross-functional teams to positive solutions

SKILLS:

• Requirements Analysis eCommerce & CMS
• API Implementation & Integration
• Agile Development
• Azure Cloud Computing & Services
• Web Services (REST/SOAP)
• Scrum Framework
• SOA
• Salesforce.com/Force.com/APEX
• Quality Assurance (QA) & Rollout
• Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• .NET, C#, ASP.NET, WCF
• Software & Systems Architecture
• Database Design
• AJAX
• Enterprise Implementation & Migration
• MS SQL Server & Oracle
• HTML/JavaScript/JQuery
• Vendor Management
• SharePoint Development
• Fluent in Spanish

EXPERIENCE:

Agile Coach Consultant

Confidential, Culver City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Transforming and coaching Scrum and Kanban teams, including software development and service/operational oriented teams
• Coaching teams in Technical Agile practices such as Confidential, pairing, test automation, product quality, and CI/CD
• Mentoring apprentice Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters
• Conducted Agile training for Agile Leaders/Managers and Product Owners
• Lead team workshops that included user story creation/splitting/estimating, continuous improvement metrics, and team safety
• Successfully initiated an ongoing Scrum Master community of practice
• Advising and coaching at the management and executive level on transformation impediments, goals, and identification & use of business value

Agile Coach Consultant

Confidential, Downey, CA

Responsibilities:

• Coached various teams on Agile principles, Scrum and Kanban frameworks
• Training and mentoring apprentice Scrum Masters
• Educating non-team employees on Agile cultural shifts and promoting why Agile matters
• Coaching Product Owners on the importance of continuous prioritization, great user story creation, and understanding what true product & customer value might mean
• Advisor on a multi-year Agile transformation proposal and roadmap

Sr. Manager

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Owned technical architecture solutions that spanned across multiple platforms, including SharePoint 2010, SQL Server, SSIS, .NET/C# applications
• Led technical client delivery, including designing and/or implementing robust and secure RESTFul Services, custom SharePoint SAAS application, and ETL orchestration
• Propelled engineering best practices that include secure coding practices, security reviews, lifecycle documents, and retrospectives
• Modernized ETL and system notification design to allow robust and efficient customer implementations and engineering support
• As Scrum Master, instilled culture of innovation and team accountability
• Vastly improved rich user story creation with clear acceptance criteria, estimation process and improved testing processes to ship more often, with higher quality, doubling our productivity
• Immediate impact over four sprints, improving team velocity and burndown, positively influencing management expectations, and helping forecast more predictable software releases
• Continual collaboration and planning of next generation highly redundant and scalable architecture, infrastructure, and strategy on the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform
• Navigated team through cutting edge software architecture running in Azure Commercial and Government, using Azure technologies such as App Services (C#, RESTFul API's, WebJobs), Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage Queues, & Application Insights
• Reduced wasteful Azure services and computing by implementing Microsoft Governance best practices and adding cost overrun monitoring
• Slashed Azure Cloud expenditures by 13% as a result of converting classic Azure technologies to newer, more efficient PAAS models

Technical Project Lead

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Provided solution design documentation, feasibility assessments, research, development estimates and guidance on technical product implementations. Guided product implementation of mobile (iOS, Android), web applications (.NET, RESTful/SOAP web services), and database (Oracle, MSSQL)
• Achieved clear communication and delivery paths between onshore delivery and offshore technical teams
• Built technical POC’s, design decisions, and analysis of customer environments to properly articulate and uncover the nuances of each project

Manager, Software Development

Confidential, Pasadena, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for in-house software development and line of business applications, including public website, e-commerce, and critical custom apps for product licensing and electronic distribution.
• Managed department budget, hiring, full end-to-end project lifecycle as well as hardware and software acquisition, vendor management, and consultant resourcing.
• High Quality - security & code reviews, paired programming, Confidential, refactoring, peer reviews, automated Selenium testing, and UAT sign-off
• Regular releases through the Scrum Framework, zero-interruption schedule blocks, code freezes
• Talent Development - various training, team building activities, coaching requirement gathering & analysis, fostered a dynamic and flexible environment
• Bi-weekly sprints, hotfix deployments as needed, multiple monthly production releases
• Coached team through matrixed teams, cross-functional developers & QA, multiple competing PO’s
• Achieved regular retros, backlog grooming, (pre-)sprint planning, sprint reviews
• Managed backlog in JIRA, measuring velocity, burndown, planned vs completed metrics
• Custom APEX programs such as lead assignment for Confidential team and sales lead routing
• 3rd party integrations into Confidential
• Visualforce page enabling new search capability to verify if a customer is entitled to premier product support

Application Developer

Confidential, Pasadena, CA

Responsibilities:

• SQL Server Database development intended for Confidential ERP customizations and all reporting needs
• Development customizations to Confidential ERP system & various ASP.NET, C# Single Page .NET Applications
• Maintained and developed SQL objects, batch scripts, and C# .NET for product licensing system
• Maintained and developed corporate, public facing website using ASP.NET, C#, HTML, and JavaScript

Application Developer

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• With a multi-purpose role, full stack developer (VB.NET, ASP, HTML, JavaScript, SQL), also played key roles in all phases of SDLC and Administrator for Hyperion Enterprise, HFM (Hyperion Financial Management), and Essbase systems.
• Reverse engineered COBOL programs and legacy reports into Oracle PL/SQL Stored Procedures, Business Objects, Crystal Report reports