Associate Director of Software Engineering

• Oct 2021 - Present

Software Development Manager

• Jul 2019 - Nov 2021

At MCG Health we are making a difference in patient outcomes and improving the care patients receive. Managing two teams of engineers for the products Cite Connectivity Solutions and Care Web QI. Both products are leading the industry in patient care improvement.

Senior Software Engineering Manager

• Dec 2015 - Mar 2019

• Managed 2 teams of 6 engineers on each team with team members located on-site, remote, and abroad. Gathered requirements, devised technical design and scope, and led implementations. • Pushed team towards new technologies and implementing enhanced reporting website. Resulted in improving customer retention by 30% and great feedback from engineering leadership. • Improved code stability and implemented new features on website that receives 500K to 1M+ transactions per day from customers and contains over 1 terabyte of SQL Server data. • Met release date on 95%+ of releases by breaking down large tasks into smaller well estimated tasks, documenting the key work to be done, keeping sprints on track, and team motivation. • Prevented major outage and potential loss of $2M by making a failsafe solution which prevented major downtime and preserved company’s largest customer. • Moved product to new reporting platform, boosting both customer satisfaction and sales. • Played a large role in developing company-wide standards around interviews, REST APIs, unit testing, and architecture reviews leading towards better hires and better software development. • Received Circle of Excellence award for providing high level information and solution to a large customer which generated great feedback and satisfaction. As winners of the award we received an exciting trip to Costa Rica. • Gave customers access to patient eligibility and 40 reports, helping customers to improve patient care, increase visibility, and receive higher compensation. • Designed SSO reselling solution with a vendor, generating a $200K contract. Show less

Lead Software Engineer / Manager

• May 2011 - Dec 2015

• Managed team of 6 engineers while working as lead software engineer writing and designing code. Split time 50/50 between development and management. • Promoted best practices, code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, git, agile, and scrum. • Worked with several different products including building a successful Point of Care product from scratch. • Developed Point of Care site to receive patient assessments from mobile devices and would instantly notify customers if a patient needed any immediate attention. • Promoted from Senior Software Engineer to Lead / Manager by mentoring and building a strong respect from all engineers in the company, creating a successful and new website, and setting company standards in engineering around code reviews, brown bag sessions, interviewing topics, web security, and best practices. • Improved performance and stability of large application 35%+ by improving nightly ETLs, logging, and refactoring of backend services. • Helped to lead to better coding and development practices, leading to more code reviews and better software across all engineering teams. Show less

SDE / LEAD

• Oct 2010 - May 2011

• Led a team of 5 engineers to develop a new product known as Xperts using Microsoft Azure. • Designed application around responsive design, consistency, and scalability. Xpert program is now known as Ambassador program. https://ambassadors.microsoft.com/xbox • Guided team in developing program that enabled Xbox owners to support other Xbox owners with questions and help through online chat and receive credits towards Xbox-related icons and status symbols. • Created Xperts chat window to tie into background services that would find Xpert based on positive ratings and previous answers to similar questions, service would then use instant messenger SDK to link the chat to an Xpert online. • Enabled program to save results and survey score to database for reporting and usage, building proof of concept from scratch and releasing first successful prototype. Show less

Web Developer Contract

• Apr 2010 - Sep 2010

Built their website to handle all of there scheduling with their clients. Each stage goes through an approval process and updates are emailed appropriately. Technicians and Physicians can be scheduled for each case with conflict resolution. The website is built in ASP.NET C# AJAX and a SQL Server backend. Built their website to handle all of there scheduling with their clients. Each stage goes through an approval process and updates are emailed appropriately. Technicians and Physicians can be scheduled for each case with conflict resolution. The website is built in ASP.NET C# AJAX and a SQL Server backend.

Sr. Software Developer

• Feb 2004 - Apr 2010

Primary developer for all internal and external software. Utilizing .NET MVC, C#, Visual Basic, SQL Server, and ADO.NET. Engineering firm based out of Houston TX that builds heat transfer equipment for large oil and gas operations. NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Build primary engineering library engine that is embedded into multiple applications allowing customers to see how their product would perform in their plants. This helped to increase sales from $20 million a year to over $50 million in 5 years. • Built application to design heat transfer equipment and generating CAD drawings and CNC software used to machine parts • Built applications for estimating and pricing, document control, mechanical ASME software, Tube Layouts, and Heat transfer parallel processing design output • Received Idea award for creating a scaled down version of the heat transfer design program into a tool that sales engineers could use to quickly generate designs for estimating Show less

Sr. Software Developer

• Sep 2001 - Jan 2004

Built invoicing system used during bankruptcy and Risk Management software for stock forecasting. Built invoicing system used during bankruptcy and Risk Management software for stock forecasting.

Sr. Software Developer

• Jan 1996 - Aug 2001

As primary developer built the engineering design program to cut down design time by 70%. Created document control program used to improve product workflow by over 50%. As primary developer built the engineering design program to cut down design time by 70%. Created document control program used to improve product workflow by over 50%.