Senior Technical Architect

• Jan 2021 - Present

Software Development Manager

• Mar 2018 - Jan 2021

Discovery purchased Scripps Networks Interactive in March of 2018.• Grew development capability from three to five well-running agile/devops teams to meet business demands, in part by mentoring staff to fill needs as technical leads.• Direct & matrix responsibility for developers, testers and analysts.• Retained top talent through the acquisition with a single exception. Overall transition turnover in my group was less than 6%. Discovery purchased Scripps Networks Interactive in March of 2018.• Grew development capability from three to five well-running agile/devops teams to meet business demands, in part by mentoring staff to fill needs as technical leads.• Direct & matrix responsibility for developers, testers and analysts.• Retained top talent through the acquisition with a single exception. Overall transition turnover in my group was less than 6%.

Software Development Manager

• Feb 2014 - Mar 2018

• Sponsored and helped formulate current CI/CD implementation that provisions and deploys code automatically in lower environments and "push-button" in controlled/production environments.• Completed the migration of nearly 100 applications and services from SNI's on-premise data center to AWS, accompanied by technical changes to leverage AWS services and frameworks.• Reduced license software costs by replacing commercial products with open-source solutions.• Responsible for technical approach, engineering practices, and technology evaluation for media management teams.✦ Key Technologies: Java, SpringBoot, Docker, Postgres, Oracle, Neo4J, Elasticsearch, Angular/TypeScript, PrimeNG, RESTAssure, Protractor✦ Additional Skills: Vendor Management, Budget/Finance, Cloud/Hybrid Operations, Agile, Enterprise Software, Staffing

Technical Product Manager

• Dec 2011 - Dec 2013

Ultimately responsible for the value proposition, quality, and on-time delivery of strategic technical product enhancements.• Delivered key RESTful services capability to support integration with external orchestration products, opening a multi-million dollar revenue gate.• Helped to formulate and then grow new corporate HTML5 user interface, working across organizational units.✦ Key Technologies: Java, REST, HTML5, AngularJS/Javascript, CSS3, jQuery, Scrum, automated testing

Implementation Support Manager

• Jun 2010 - Dec 2011

My team is responsible for ensuring that our strategic customers are successful from a technology & operations perspective. • Identified opportunities for solution sales in performance methodology and single sign-on.• Demonstrated adherence for performance SLAs in our largest customer in the face of anecdotal challenges using data and multi-variate analysis. Presented analysis and proposed solutions in a manner that allowed all parties to claim victory and still solve the underlying issue(s).• Maintained team morale under extremely stressful circumstances and competing high-visibility priorities.✦ Key technologies: Java, JEE, Enterprise Application Integration, capacity planning, load/performance simulation & measurement.We work intimately with our most important customers around the world to adapt SunGard's complex fund accounting software to our clients' unique data centers, assist them in evaluating and tuning system performance and capacity planning, and serve as an advocate on their behalf during SunGard's software release planning process.

Architecture Manager / Lead Distributed Architect

• Nov 2005 - Jun 2010

Provide architectural vision for our mixed-technology midrange application suite; participate in corporate architectural initiatives and ensure that we are aligned with such; prioritize and direct work of architecture team members.

Founder

• Oct 1999 - Nov 2005

Provided software architecture and development services across a number of verticals, including financial, health, retail, insurance. Highlights include:• Creating one of the very first self-order, kiosks for McDonalds. It was so far ahead of its time that the bill/coin acceptor it was integrated with was still widespread at the time.• Providing the first version of Chicago Board of Options Exchange's trade message diagnostic and tracing tool that monitored roughly 80 million messages per day at the time.• Spearheading the creation of Caremark's leading edge outbound call center application to provide health education to chronically-ill patients.• Helping Citadel Investments launch a cash management system for their security lending business line to support cash position optimization through reporting, forecasting and cash transfer.• Rescuing an html-based account management project that was using SilverStream at a large insurance client.