Software Engineer - Backend Lead

• Oct 2018 - Present

Software Engineer (Expert) – Full Stack Engineer / Global IT Analytics

• Mar 2016 - Oct 2018

⭢ Leading the technical development of a social media sentiment analysis pilot program using Azure Cloud Services and node.js custom connectors to collect and analyze data from 10 social media platforms in order to establish a company-wide social media marketing analytics platform. ⭢ Acting as chief designer and development lead of an internal real-time web reporting platform built using node.js, meteor, and mongoDB that has enabled real-time management and on-time delivery of 2 separate multibillion-dollar company divestitures. Platform was adopted by thousands of global users including senior management and the CIO and led to receiving a 2017 CIO IT Excellence Award. ⭢ Designed and implemented horizontally-scalable and highly-available infrastructure using RHEL 7, NGINX, mongoDB, and DevOps toolchain on an internal private cloud service platform to host a mission critical web application reducing deployment time by 200% and providing zero downtime. ⭢ Use PowerBI and other Microsoft tooling to create IT operations related reports and dashboards used specifically by senior management and the CIO to track all aspects of IT operations Show less

Software Engineer (Expert) – New Methodology Expert / Enterprise Architect

• Aug 2013 - Mar 2016

⭢ Co-led an intrapreneur effort to develop a gamification platform and ideation game called “Make It Happen” using node.js, meteor, and MongoDB to promote a culture of innovation across the company. The gamification engine and game earned several backers and was highlighted several times in various forums around the company.⭢ Part of a team that architected and developed a pilot to production future state Information Management platform using open source technologies to replace legacy systems and act as the single information refinery for the company. Resulted in future plans to implement the multimillion dollar project. ⭢ Co-led a team focused on rolling out the Scaled Agile Framework across the company resulting in hundreds of SAFe certified practitioners and an official pivot away from Waterfall practices. Show less

Software Engineer (Expert) – Domain Architect

• Feb 2012 - Aug 2013

⭢ Defined and promoted strategic direction, target architecture, and software development methodologies across multiple Channel IT domains for large multiyear high visibility programs resulting in on-time delivery of projects that reduced business costs by 10 million dollars.⭢ Formulated strategic architectural roadmap and transformation approach to transform 9 legacy mission critical applications processing 18M transactions globally per week to an Event-Driven Service Oriented Architecture using an Agile methodology.⭢ Defined architecture principles used by technical leads to design and develop mission critical HP systems reducing project timelines by 50%.⭢ Established a metric-based software development estimation framework used to size major business projects that reduced the estimation time by 150% and greatly increased accuracy.⭢ Participated in ongoing activities to establish and promote Agile processes, SOA, and Business Process Modeling (BPMN) across multiple IT and Business domains. Show less

Software Engineer (Specialist) – Technical Lead / Solution Architect

• Jun 2009 - Feb 2012

⭢ Utilized domain knowledge, architecture, and software development methodology best practices on a large scope project spanning 4 mission critical applications with a global team of >30 people.⭢ Led the development and adoption of modern web front-end technologies on a mission critical application by championing the technology and leading the team through the domain's first Agile development approach.

Software Engineer (Intermediate) – Lead Developer

• Jun 2007 - Jun 2009

⭢ Re-Architected and stabilized a mission critical Channel Data address matching application increasing transaction throughput by 200% enabling business visibility to millions of dollars in less than half the time.⭢ Led the development of a data enrichment application to the EMEA region enabling the retirement of two redundant regional applications which reduced cost by over a million dollars.

Software Developer Intern

• Jan 2006 - May 2007

⭢ Developed software to integrate offline door access control locks into an enterprise access control application using C++. ⭢ Developed software to integrate offline door access control locks into an enterprise access control application using C++.

Freelance Software Engineer

• May 2006 - Apr 2007

⭢ Designed and implemented internal data management application and ad-hoc reporting tool for an engineering consulting firm using Ruby on Rails and MySQL that replaced a fully manual paper process. ⭢ Designed and implemented internal data management application and ad-hoc reporting tool for an engineering consulting firm using Ruby on Rails and MySQL that replaced a fully manual paper process.