Experience

Backhaul Direct

• United States
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Chief Product Officer

  • Mar 2022 - Present



Richwine Technologies, LLC

• Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Managing Director / Principal Consultant

  • Feb 2017 - Present

  - Established a relationship with Midwest Transport Inc. (MTI). MTI was looking to utilize my strategic technical skills to analyze their back office operational processes and current procured systems to find opportunities in efficiencies and reduce costs. However, MTI got audited by the Department of Labor immediately changing the priority from a strategic objective to a tactical technical objective. They needed a solution to verify, validate and audit Hours of Service (HOS) of 500 employees (truck drivers) to scheduled work hours. Designed and developed a solution using c#, .NET Core, RESTful API and MS SQL Server (as well as other technologies) to integrate MTI’s 3rd party Electronic Logging Device system (GeoTab’s ELD and Fleet Management System). Using web API, REST and GeoTab’s object model to get a real-time data feed of HOS from GeoTab, provide real-time analytics, business insights and telemetry data to aid in decision making at the senior management level, auditing for accounting and DOL and contract negotiation with customers. - Work with 2 different clients’ Sr. Management team on business process management improvements. Focus on moving to Azure cloud and shorting cash flow cycle via business to business electronic communication (EDI). - Worked with a client, an internet startup company selling pharmaceuticals online, with annual revenue of 60 million, to provide an overall IT assessment and recommendations for - Worked with a customer / consulting company to develop 2 mobile applications for the logistics industry. Both apps were designed and built using MS Azure tools and both apps run in MS Azure Cloud. Responsibilities included cloud architecture design, prototyping, solution collaboration, technology stack recommendations and project management. - Filled the role of sales engineer / service delivery manager in closing sales within the sales cycle process for delivering solutions, partnership alignment and IT services delivery. Show less



Celadon Group Inc.

• United States
• Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Product Manager (Acting CEO for FreightRover) / Product Solution Designer and Architect

  • Mar 2015 - Feb 2017

  - After proactively engaged Celadon Trucking’s senior management and “C” level executives, which lead to collaboration sessions and the idea of FreightRover.com - Hired as the Leader to start a new division named Prosair Technologies, LLC. The project was allocated 1 million dollar annual budget and was to grow the team and complete the project as well as educate Celadon leadership on all aspects of custom software development. - FreightRover is a multi-dimensional, controlled and transparent load board market place that can be utilized uniquely by Shippers, Carriers, Drivers and Brokers. - Designed as a cloud based SaaS application comprised of a desktop web application and a mobile iOS and Android application. - Shippers utilize the application to post loads to a private load board where a collection of carriers defined by the shipper can access the loads and either dispatch the loads to their drivers or the carrier can allow their drives to self-select loads. If the load is not select or assigned to a driver then the load can then be pushed to the public load board where any carrier can select the load. - Carriers can utilize the application and place their overflow freight on the private or public load board. Carrier can use the private load board to allow only their owner operators (aka subcontracted drivers) to self-select loads to create business separation and avoid legalities that the drivers are truly not independent / non carrier employees. - FreightRover’s mobile application allows for the drivers to browse and select the loads. Once the load is awarded to the driver it then dispatches and routes the driver to the ship from location for pickup. Once the drive departs the ship from location it continues to route the driver to the ship to location and tracks the load for the shipper and consignee have visibility / track and trace the load through the transit process. Show less



ProTrans

• United States
• Truck Transportation
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Director of Application Development / Enterprise Solution Architect

  • Feb 2010 - Dec 2014

  - Director of application development. A staff of 37 with 7 team structure and 6 team lead managers. Two teams and managers were distributed offshore.- Co-championed company’s marketing website redesign, two times in eight years. Focused on the overall corporate objective to deliver an updated website that increased user experience. By utilizing Bootstrap we were able to reduce the project cost by 30% and reduced the project timeline by 50%.- Successful experience with product / program management, business process improvement, implementing supply chain management systems, Mobile/Handheld Applications, in addition to leading platforms of the future vision and execution, RFID and extensive A to A and B to B integration.- Educated senior management on change control process of switching from waterfall to Agile.- Responsible for full SDLC, procurement of software, training, mentoring developers and system architects, migration to new technologies and methodology, capacity planning, project estimates, IT strategies and personnel management and growth.- Designer and Manager of IT reorganization process including a worldwide distributed team.- Managed 3 major projects for ProTrans: Transportation Management System (TMS), Warehouse Management System (WMS) and RFID.- Converted integration platform to BizTalk. In doing so saved the IT department $200,000 dollars a year. Designed and implemented a standard Service Level Agreements (SLA) that reduced startup time of onboarding customers by 200%. Standardized a project estimating and billing pattern to be consistent, precise and above all turned customer integration's into a revenue generating process.- Implemented Team Foundation Server 2010, managed upgrade to TFS 2012 to aid in agile development process.- Traveled to India to select offshore company and team structure.- Focused on velocity matrix for agile development to hit long term goal of user stories to completion of the projects. Show less

• Manager of Application Development / Enterprise Solution Architect

  • Feb 2007 - Feb 2010

  - Manager of application development team and helpdesk team (staff of 12 - 15)- Responsible for full SDLC, procurement of software (including MS EA), training and mentoring developers and system architects, migration to new technologies and methodology, capacity planning, project estimates, IT budgeting ($5.5 million), work visibility and measurements, IT strategies and personnel management and growth. - Implemented programming standards by creating a base framework and a SOA approach (c#, vb, aspx .net), work tracking system (Microsoft Team Foundations Server), change control process, IT work process flow, team structure with defined expectations and roles.- Liaison between IT and all business unit management teams including executives, training and documented service level agreements (SLAs), technical lead on all third party software evaluations and purchases- Migrated all software systems to new hardware / server platform, implemented scalable and redundant hardware infrastructure to meet business units’ (customers) SLAs - Discussed and educated management on IT strategies from a risk analysis view, ROI assessment, prioritization, domestic and international outsourcing and scope management- Negotiated contracts for many IT projects and IT strategies and goals- Implemented a document imaging system that will save the organization approximately a half million dollars over a four year period along with other cost saving projects with internal and external customers.- Successful implementation of Microsoft SharePoint Services for company collaboration and document management. Corporate training on best practices for SharePoint- Trained business analyst on writing business requirement documents and statements of work. Also trained corporate and IT project managers. Show less



UnitedHealth Group

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior System Analyst / Architect / Team Lead

  • Sep 2005 - Feb 2007

  - System architect and team lead for all .net application development (SOA). Responsible for creating, teaching, and enforcing standards and best practices within the .net application and system integration team (BizTalk, MSMQ and MQSeries) development team. - Responsible for creating more efficient application development environment for full SDLC. - Technical lead in procurement and implementation of Business Process Management (BPM) system. - Manage outsourced (India) project work. - Lead designer and developer on all Microsoft SharePoint Portal and Windows SharePoint Services. This includes custom application development and out of the box functionality. - Interviewing and making decision of hire to building newly skilled web development team for many new projects of redesigning web application to meet a service oriented / distributed architecture for scalability maintainability. - Lead architect on implementing BPM solution (TIBCO) across many business sectors within Golden Rule. - Work with the Marketing department (and other business units) on majority of marketing software tools and automation of sales cycle applications (due to extravert personality and communication skills) Show less



Baldwin & Lyons, Inc.

• United States
• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Developer

  • Feb 2003 - Sep 2005

  - Application designer, developer and manager of technology for company’s largest revenue producing application. Baldwin & Lyons (B&L) writes insurance policies for FedEx’s entire independent contract trucking companies. Web portal application is constructed using VB .NET, ASPX , ASP, HTML, Java scripting, VB6.0 (Windows services, EXEs, DLLs) and MSSQL server. The system (overview) allows contractors to enroll in the insurance program, captures a digital signature of enrolling person, manages signed document lockdown storage, calculates expected premiums, reconciles paid premiums to expected premiums, generates monthly invoices, exports system data changes to FedEx, prints Insurance cards and endorsements. - Implementing internal processes for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and tools that aided in workflow processes for ensuring business requirements and issue logging, time tracking of programming tasks, estimating of task time and actual task time. - Managing design, version control, project completion dates, ROI of projects, presentations and demos to all customers for the entire system. Overseeing migration of system technology. Support upgrading hardware of entire system, updating coding technologies and implementing coding and architecture standards. - Implemented source code control, created multiple application environments for lifecycle development process, version control for project release patterns and backup plans. - Training developers and business analysts on the application and business rules. - Responsible for documentation of many business rules and system design using Design Patterns methodology/OOP, Visio (Use Cases, system process flow, database schema design (ERDs)). Show less



RealMed (Availity)

• Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Senior Technologist

  • Mar 2000 - Feb 2003

  - Application designer (OOP design patterns), onsite trainer, developer and integrator for enterprise n-tier healthcare claim system designed with many technologies and connecting to a variety of legacy insurance companies claim systems through web services and/or EAI tools. report generation, healthcare claim edit checks and connections to insurance systems for payment. - One role was to provide solution for transforming healthcare claims from the providers’ practice management system into an EDI standard format that meets national standards for transmitting healthcare claims over the Internet. The claims were posted to the application server using XML and HTTP protocols and inserted into a queuing model for Sybase’s PaperFree product and the claim system to process the claims. Once version one was completed this role evolved into a new group for implementing, supporting and enhancement of the tool. Managed and trained three technologists and one project manager for this responsibility. - Team lead that designed and developed a proprietary scripting engine that read XML scripts to interface / integration of many different types of mainframe emulations (VT220, VT320, IBM 3270, IBM 5250) in a variety of system environments. Also researched, aided in purchase decision and implemented new OCX emulation control for a wider variety of supported emulations for integration with providers practice management systems. - Direct work with and understanding of EDI documentation standards and the ability to develop systems based on documentation. - Designed and coded client user interface (thin browser application) using Java script, XML and web services for many solutions for main claim processing system. - Administration of IIS, COM+, MSMQ, and system services. Show less



THE NAVIGATE GROUP

• Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Integration Consultant

  • Jan 1998 - Mar 2000

  - Integration consultant and application developer for client server order entry application that integrated windows client application with enterprise application inventory system that resided on a HP3000, for company in San Jose, CA. Managed clients’ needs and expectations for all application needs and requirements. Managed other programmers on larger projects for this application and to expedite application development turnaround time. Defined business object interfaces and implemented the middle-ware third party software for communicating with HP3000 mainframe. - Project manager and developer of pension fund application for international company headquartered in Indianapolis, IN. Managed client expectations (all programming requirements) and relationship. - Preformed R&D of migrating client server application to an n-tier design. Tested and implemented code in thin web client application, business components and the HP (the data storage layer and business applications layer). - Researched / purchased / implemented third party ActiveX toolbar component for use in the graphic user interface of an order entry application. - Implemented internal DHTML web based application for all system consultants to use as external billing software / timesheet application. - Research and development of Access 2000 Workflow Designer using MSDE, SQL7.0, IIS and data access pages. Show less