SUMMARY:

• Intrepid, solutions - oriented professional with robust career history in software development and architecture leadership
• Extensive experience building foundations for business growth through vision, leadership and development of strategic direction of technology usage and engineering innovation.
• Reputation for cultivating order from chaos and seizing opportunities for driving growth in products, people, and departments.
• Advanced technical competencies spanning design of enterprise software architecture for a variety of industries, including distribution, refineries, hospitals, convenience store chains and non-profits.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases/Environments: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, Windows, MacOS, AIX, Agile development

Languages/Frameworks: SQL, Java, Rails, .NET, c, C++, C# and familiarity with many others

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Grapevine, TX

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Helped redefine marketing vision, planning of communication processes, and development of KPIs to monitor success.
• Evaluated project needs, reviewed third party options, performed risk analysis, defined solution, oversaw implementation of product to manage partner growth track and engagement experience.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Principal Data Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conceived and sold vision of improved enterprise-wide email marketing model to CTO and other executive leadership, laying pathway for five years’ sustainable service growth.
• Designed enterprise SaaS solution to use the latest of external services while keeping enterprise products independent of third-party specifics by creating an expansive RESTful API of services.
• Oversaw evaluation, selection and proof of concept verification of major enterprise products purchases.
• Led complex migration from disparate existing email systems to new centralized, standardized email marketing service; completed project without break in service to over 20M consumers.
• Improved web site traffic by 23% through strategic redesign of consumer newsletter email system, with 250M emails delivered in 2017 contributing to significant increase in total event transactions.
• Spurred 65% reduction in consumer newsletter and marketing emails, simultaneously reducing transactional costs while enhancing overall consumer engagement.
• Designed architecture for standardizing all consumer communication events into dimensional database for use and analysis throughout the enterprise without knowledge of communication systems.
• Honored with President’s in 2017 for contributions to consumer communication service solution and dedication to enterprise success.

Confidential, Abita Springs, LA

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed project to eliminate inefficiencies and reduce redundancies for and event registrations system through consolidation of data and functional systems into single SaaS solution.
• Created customized web-based worker scheduling system, improving labor management and tracking for tech startup.
• Met client objective for migration of data from live legacy PC application to web-based accounting system using VB.NET for large nonprofit organization.

Confidential, Covington, LA

Director of Software Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Lead high-profile, large-scale SaaS project to improve collaborative sales efforts among national network of distributors and manufacturers through enhanced data insight collection and data sharing; excelled in coordination of staff and contract team members to attain targets for successful integration of cross- corporate systems.
• Generated three-fold increase in customer base in 24 months through strategic product redesign, enabling flexibility in hyper saturated custom solutions market and effectively securing top industry position.
• Spearheaded transformational change to object-oriented programming paradigm using .NET and java. Defined strategies for embracing advantages and for staff to rapidly bring products and benefits to company. Results included rapid to market capabilities that moved company from 5th in market share to 1st over a two-year period with no increase in personnel.
• Delivered significant reduction in customer support workload (75%) by introducing improved software product development methodologies yielding improved quality, reliability, and maintainability.

Confidential

Software Development Manager/Senior Software Architect

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw architects’ work on other projects, including development of web-based federal reporting system providing distributors with tools for reporting sales and tax figures for regulated tobacco and alcohol products as well as distributed sales force management system for large distribution company.
• Defined testing activities requiring synchronization across multiple sites.

Confidential, Mandeville, LA

Software Research & Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided vision to upper management to improve hardware sales through increased market by building business needs solving software solutions around the hardware.
• Defined strategic long-term development plan to transform company from a hardware products focused company to a solutions-oriented company with both hardware and software products as part of the overall solutions.
• Sold business owners on advantages and led shift from single user DOS systems to multi-user UNIX based scalable software solutions. Opened door for solutions to move from single function to enterprise wide set of services.
• Directed selection and use of vendor services to achieve rapid and long-term positioning of solutions.
• Defined, selected and built software development team to implement development plan.
• Designed solutions for multiple vertical markets at multiple sizing tiers to help company become leader in industry.