Data Solutions Architect

• Mar 2021 - Present

Vice President and CTO

• 2017 - Mar 2021

Vice President and CTO. Achievements: • Provide guidance on company’s vision, business plan, strategic initiatives, product sales, corporate expansion, and partnerships. • Established a continuous integration, continuous delivery, always available, software mentality paramount to small businesses by leveraging cutting edge, and innovative, Azure cloud infrastructure and solutions. • Converted all infrastructure to the cloud to leverage automated horizontal and vertical scaling. • Infrastructure scales down off hours for cost savings using Automation. • Applications were made highly available, high performance, and modern. • Backoffice applications and DNS were moved to O365. • Board member. Show less

Software Consultant / Owner

• 2017 - Mar 2021

Expertise Areas: Cloud Architecture • Cloud Engineering • High Availability Design • Progressive Web Applications • Full-Stack Development • Proof of Concepts • CI/CD Pipelines • Technical Leadership • Real-Time Design Patterns • Strategic Roadmaps • Data Ingestion and Enhancement Cloud: Azure SQL Databases, CosmosDB, AAD, Functions, App Services, B2C Tenants, Identity, KeyVault, CDNs, Gateways (WAFs), APIM, Traffic Manager, Automation, DNS, IaC (ARM), Azure DevOps • AWS Lambda, IAM Users/Roles/Policies, RDS, Aurora DB PostgreSQL, SNS, SQS, S3, Kinesis, Redshift, Athena, DMS, VPCs • Google BigQuery, Auth Other: JavaScript • Typescript • Powershell • .NET • dotnet core • Git • JSON • Angular • Vue • Knockout • HTML5 • CSS3 • SCSS • C# • MVC • EF • LINQ • WebAPI • Visual Studio • Visual Studio Code • PowerBI • IIS • SQL Server • REST • OData • Task Based Patterns • Service Workers • Talend • Python Achievements: • Technical leader and mentor. • Establishing software standards, best practices, and architecture. • Experienced in the automation of deployments with IaC and prescriptive configuration. • Driving secure cloud adoption through practical hybrid transition and education. • Full-stack development, consultancy, and solution delivery. • Lead teams in architecting, designing, implementing, and supporting numerous high-profile applications and initiatives: o Lead a data team in modernizing their pipelines to support more real-time data ingestion patterns that are hyper scalable and dependable, transitioning them into extract/load/transform processes which leverage cloud capabilities. o An online application to entice and ease payments which has increased monthly revenue $100K+. o Architected and managed the implementation of a multi-region, cloud, highly available topology for a crucial sales application. • Advocate of modern technology stacks, best practices, and deployment automation. Show less

Microsoft Azure / SharePoint / K2 Solutions Architect

• 2014 - 2017

Solutions Architect, primarily a Microsoft Azure/SharePoint/K2 consultant. Achievements: • Provided strategic roadmaps, project delegation, project management, implementation plans, implementation oversight, and ultimately project deliveries to companies. • Architected and designed custom web applications. • Participated on agile teams across the full-stack of development. • Migrated numerous clients to O365. • Migrated numerous client’s applications to the Cloud. • Created an implementation plan for a Fox Valley area manufacturer’s embedded software. Also provided re-engineering suggestions, componentization for extensibility, and drafted a high-level project plan for this initiative which they used for resourcing and budgeting. • Created an extensive, automated, OCR cloud replacement solution in Azure as an example of how companies can cheaply migrate off of expensive on-premise software using ever-more accessible cloud technologies. Presented the solution at a Tech Talk - an internal training forum. • Demonstrated at a Tech Talk how to accomplish DevOps with Azure and VSTS given 2 new preview features, Continuous Delivery setup through Azure, and Azure Team Services Accounts. • SharePoint Lead and K2 Lead for the Business Process Management consulting services practice. This included providing assets to the sales team, refining back-office processes, drafting operating documents, resource planning, and technical sales. • SharePoint installations, migrations, Online administration, governance policies, custom solutions, design, training, InfoPath forms, and K2 integrations. • Established as a premier K2 resource, advisory board member, and community user group member. Discovered an authentication bug in the first release of Appit. • K2 Certified. Technical Skills: Azure, VSTS, CI/CD, TFS, Solutions Architecture, SharePoint, .NET, C#, LINQ, EF, MVC, MVW, JSON, XML, XSL, HTML 5, jQuery, TSQL, OOD, PowerBI, Web Services, REST, AngularJS, Knockout. Show less

Owner, Software Consultant

• 2007 - 2017

Primarily a Microsoft Technologies consultant providing turn-key .NET web application architecture, development, and custom integrations. Primarily a Microsoft Technologies consultant providing turn-key .NET web application architecture, development, and custom integrations.

Softare Engineer

• 2013 - Jan 2014

Primarily a Microsoft Technology software engineer, designer, and developer. Achievements: • Supported finance and logistics. • Extensive SSRS, SSIS development, support, and maintenance. • Microsoft Dynamics GP AR, AP, and GL integration using a custom C# eConnect wrapper. Technical skills used: .NET, C#, LINQ, EF, MVC, TSQL, SSRS, SSIS, Service Layers, TFS. Primarily a Microsoft Technology software engineer, designer, and developer. Achievements: • Supported finance and logistics. • Extensive SSRS, SSIS development, support, and maintenance. • Microsoft Dynamics GP AR, AP, and GL integration using a custom C# eConnect wrapper. Technical skills used: .NET, C#, LINQ, EF, MVC, TSQL, SSRS, SSIS, Service Layers, TFS.

Senior Software Engineer

• 2007 - 2013

Primarily a Senior JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and SharePoint developer. Achievements: • Supported finance and manufacturing. • Autonomous Implementation, upgrade, customization, management, and support of the company intranet, hosted on SharePoint Server 2010. • SharePoint solution implementation, training, maintenance, and support. • Extensive business process experience through all JD Edwards ERP modules. • SharePoint architecture. Technical Skills: SharePoint, .NET, C#, C, LINQ, EF, XML, XSL, CSS3, jQuery, TSQL, OOD, Web Services, EnterpriseOne Development Tools, Solutions Architecture. Show less

Consultant, Software Engineer

• 2004 - 2007

Primarily a lead developer in the eBusiness practice, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne developer, and SharePoint consultant. Achievements: • Resource management. • Custom integrations. • Estimating. • Web application architecture. Technical Skills: ASP, .NET, C#, C, C++, Java, Coldfusion, PHP, XML, XSL, TSQL, PL/SQL, UML, OOD. Primarily a lead developer in the eBusiness practice, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne developer, and SharePoint consultant. Achievements: • Resource management. • Custom integrations. • Estimating. • Web application architecture. Technical Skills: ASP, .NET, C#, C, C++, Java, Coldfusion, PHP, XML, XSL, TSQL, PL/SQL, UML, OOD.

Application Developer

• 2002 - 2004

Primarily a FoxPro client/server and web developer. Technical Skills: ASP, .NET, XML, TSQL, OOD, HTML, CSS, VBScript, JavaScript, FoxPro. Primarily a FoxPro client/server and web developer. Technical Skills: ASP, .NET, XML, TSQL, OOD, HTML, CSS, VBScript, JavaScript, FoxPro.