Sr Director Software Engineering

• Apr 2018 - Present

Summary - Results-driven software engineer with a passion for designing, developing, and optimizing robust APIs. Adept at transforming complex requirements into scalable solutions. Proven track record in creating and productizing APIs, now leveraged by 25,000 healthcare provider offices and serving over 4 million participants. Strong communicator and collaborator with an eagerness to tackle challenges and deliver impactful software solutions.•Led a team of ~25 software engineers in the design, development, and delivery of a SaaS platform that is a B2B and B2C loyalty site for a major pharmaceutical company.•Direct reports consisted of 5 managers and architects.•Designed, developed, and led the implementation of a suite of APIs that serve as the backbone of our healthcare platform.•Created and productized APIs, enabling seamless integration of our services into over 25,000 healthcare provider offices.•Architected a highly scalable and fault-tolerant API infrastructure that handles millions of requests daily with high availability and low latency.•Successfully implemented cloud-based infrastructure, resulting in a 50% reduction in costs and a 50% increase in scalability•Implemented Agile methodologies, leading to a 40% increase in productivity. •Empowered a growing team to conquer challenging delivery milestones through effective scaling, while fostering motivation and engagement to consistently exceed expectations.•Worked closely with the marketing and sales teams to ensure that the SaaS platform met the needs of target customers.•Led the development of a mobile app that integrated with the SaaS platform, resulting in a 20% increase in user engagement.•Managed a $15M annual budget for the SaaS platform development. Show less

Senior IT Manager

• Apr 2017 - Apr 2018

Summary - Led software engineering team for the company’s global SaaS employee engagement product. The SaaS product is multi-tenant, providing service across many countries, representing 8 different languages, with over 15 clients launched, and 3 million participants. Migrated from on-premise and containerized and hosted in the cloud, utilizing Kubernetes. Built on Java & JavaScript, multiple databases including Graph, with APIs hosted within an API Gateway and shared with a developer portal.• Strategically guided the engineering and product teams to be more efficient by improving productivity through rearchitecting and adding innovative and next-generation technology.• Led technical strategy by assisting architects in selecting and designing architecture, technologies, and platforms by evaluating options and aligning them with the overall corporate strategy and budget.• Led an agile team, including SAFE 4.5, Scrum, and Kanban, migrating the organization from a variety of home-grown methodologies.• Modernized the product technical stack by moving from a monolithic architecture to a microservices architecture focused on Google Cloud Platform, Google Kubernetes, Neo4J, Launch Darkly, MongoDB, and Apigee using the strangler application pattern.• Responsible for an annual product budget of $6M. During modernization, the budget was approximately $13M.• Led a mobile engineering team that created a native multi-tenant app that worked in real-time with a SaaS platform. The mobile app is in the top 75 within the app category and has a 4.9 out of 5 rating with over 5K ratings. Show less

Senior Manager Project Management Office

• Mar 2016 - Apr 2017

Lead strategic transformation for PMO where helped create and maintain a project management database and data content. Oversaw Project Portfolio of more than 40 projects ranging from process improvement, IT services, to system implementations. With over 15 project managers reporting into PMO. Lead strategic transformation for PMO where helped create and maintain a project management database and data content. Oversaw Project Portfolio of more than 40 projects ranging from process improvement, IT services, to system implementations. With over 15 project managers reporting into PMO.

Sr IT Manager

• Feb 2015 - Apr 2016

The lead IT manager on a yearlong software development team to upgrade the software database, client website and several other front-end client facing platforms to provide the customer a more transparent experience and adhere to compliant regulations, saving the company $30 million dollars. Managed the requirements, design, development, implementation, testing, and closure for the upgrade of the following; web, mobile, databases, mid-tier, server farms, business intelligent tool, and other platforms. Show less

Project Manager

• 2014 - 2015

Senior IT Manager

• Nov 2011 - Oct 2014

Solutions Architect

• Nov 2009 - Nov 2011

Software architecture and programming. Software architecture and programming.

Information Technology Engineer

• May 2002 - Apr 2006

Software programming. Software programming.