Experience

University of Illinois Chicago

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Software Development & Delivery

  • May 2020 - Present

  - Lead a unit of 15+ engineers (mix of students/FTE/consultants) in efforts for enterprise level applications, deployment, and data pipelines to accelerate innovation and ensure high product quality- Provide technical vision and strategy for the team; design and lead a multi-year technical roadmap, balancing short-and long-term technology investments in a highly distributed campus.- Partner with a breadth of stakeholders and collaborators to ensure services are highly available and modular.- Build and lead an outstanding, highly functional engineering teams to foster innovation, invent, implement, and deploy complex software solutions in a mission critical env - Develop and grow talent through effective mentoring, coaching, succession planning and retention strategies for key talent in fast growth, highly competitive economic env. Show less

• Assistant Director Of Development

  • Jun 2017 - May 2020

  - Direct a diverse and distributed team of developers, architects, and DevOps engineers in providing centralized IT support to 16 colleges on UIC campus; created infrastructure, processes, and overall web strategy to align all department projects to the broader University’s mission and vision-Developed platform to avoid external consulting costs, eliminating reliance on custom work and on 3rd party consultants and harnessing greater control over tools- Built on campus open-source developer inclusive community comprised of 50 developers meeting biweekly to share best practices and collaborate on development - Identified 20 years of untouched code, outdated monolithic applications and modernized with more secure code and repositioned into cloud, building sustainable models for the future Show less



Brackets Code Club

• Founder

  • Jan 2017 - Dec 2020

  - Developed curriculum and taught CS fundamentals kids from KG-5 - Developed curriculum and taught CS fundamentals kids from KG-5



Benedictine University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Adjunct Faculty Instructor

  • Aug 2018 - Dec 2019

  Design and develop a unique blend of theory-based and applied science curriculum for my classes to ensure student engagement and establish a foundational path for a career in software engineering. CMSC270: Data Structures and Algos II 1. Trees, Graphs, Heaps 2. Algorithm Efficiency CMSC391: Topics in Machine Learning. 1. Supervised Learning 2. Unsupervised Learning 3. Reinforcement Learning. Design and develop a unique blend of theory-based and applied science curriculum for my classes to ensure student engagement and establish a foundational path for a career in software engineering. CMSC270: Data Structures and Algos II 1. Trees, Graphs, Heaps 2. Algorithm Efficiency CMSC391: Topics in Machine Learning. 1. Supervised Learning 2. Unsupervised Learning 3. Reinforcement Learning.



Girls Who Code

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Computer Science Learning Facilitator/Volunteer

  • Jan 2017 - Dec 2019

  - Developed curriculum and taught in Flask to develop websites for 6-8th grade girls - Developed curriculum and taught in Flask to develop websites for 6-8th grade girls



Exelon

• United States
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Analyst in Corporate Innovation Team

  • Apr 2014 - Jun 2017

  - Technical Lead and implemented various B2E mobile apps part of the Center of Mobile Excellence; Tech stack NodeJS and NativeScriptJS on Azure, Google TensorFlow - Responsible for all phases of software development lifecycle; expert at translating business requirements into technical solutions and dedicated to quality, usability, security, and scalability. - Execute complex proofs of concept and prototyping projects to test design, usability, and functionality of projects and programs. - Technical Lead and implemented various B2E mobile apps part of the Center of Mobile Excellence; Tech stack NodeJS and NativeScriptJS on Azure, Google TensorFlow - Responsible for all phases of software development lifecycle; expert at translating business requirements into technical solutions and dedicated to quality, usability, security, and scalability. - Execute complex proofs of concept and prototyping projects to test design, usability, and functionality of projects and programs.



Northwestern University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Developer

  • Feb 2012 - Mar 2014

  - Harnessed Agile/SCRUM Development Methodologies to identify department inefficiencies and create and implement client solutions. - Led and mentored graduate and undergraduate computer science student developers; Tech stack PHP, VanillaJS

• Systems Analyst/Programmer

  • Mar 2010 - Feb 2012

  - ETL tasks. Student financial data analysis and processing in PL/SQL and Spring



Harpo Productions

• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Application Developer

  • Apr 2006 - Mar 2010

  - Architected oprah.com website which received 150 million-page views each month - Team player; collaborated with outside Development and QA team on new architecture/redesign in Spring/XMLDB - Implemented and debugged Ad and CDN platforms for oprah.com - Architected oprah.com website which received 150 million-page views each month - Team player; collaborated with outside Development and QA team on new architecture/redesign in Spring/XMLDB - Implemented and debugged Ad and CDN platforms for oprah.com



DePaul University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Assistant

  • Jan 2005 - Jun 2006

  - Web Developer for the Assistant Dean of Admissions - Grader for computer science professors. - Web Developer for the Assistant Dean of Admissions - Grader for computer science professors.



AT&T

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Intern

  • Jun 2005 - Sep 2005

  -Summer Internship at at&t (formely SBC). Worked on SBC Online Team. -Debugged/Resolved database/file system issues in J2EE, XML and Perl -Summer Internship at at&t (formely SBC). Worked on SBC Online Team. -Debugged/Resolved database/file system issues in J2EE, XML and Perl



Chicago Computers

• Naperville, IL

• PC Hardware Technician

  • Sep 2002 - Jan 2005

  -PC Hardware Technician -Sales representative for a local PC Hardware Repair shop. -PC Hardware Technician -Sales representative for a local PC Hardware Repair shop.