Cloud Solutions Architect

• Sep 2021 - Present

Technology Innovation Manager

• Apr 2021 - Sep 2021

Applications Development Manager

• Sep 2020 - Mar 2021

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Principal Architect

• Sep 2019 - Aug 2020

• Principal Architect with a wide range of experience within IT, specializing on Cloud transformation maturity assessment, Cloud business office establishment, Hybrid Cloud design, application portfolio assessment, application migration and modernization. • What I’ve learned over the past years from helping numerous customers is that each company has its own distinctive set of challenges and that there is no “one size fits all” solution. I pride myself on my uniqueness and have a distinct advantage of specializing in modernist architecture and implementation, which means that I am able to gather and analyze business requirements, architect the necessary technology agnostic framework, then plug in the required technologies to successfully deliver the final customer focused product. • Trusted advisor to multinational corporations, and partner with them to understand their requirements for cloud implementations. • Provide recommendations to clients with respect to cloud migrations and prepare technical implementation roadmaps for AWS, Azure and Google adoption. Helping clients understand the impacts of technical decisions, and aiding them in analyzing priority of those decisions. • Create functional design specifications, reference architectures, and assist with other project deliverables as needed. • Design state-of-the-art technical solutions on AWS, Azure and Google that address customer’s requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance. • A conduit for communications to flow between the team, product leadership and portfolio leadership. • Collaborate with other project teams on technical solutions and help improve service IP. Mentoring and supporting peers and engineering teams, particularly in reducing technical debt and complexity in solutions. Enable the team to deliver faster, better and happier. Show less

Development Team Lead

• Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

• Facilitate collaboration with engineers across teams, as well as product owners and designers, in order to solve interesting and challenging delivery problems. • Foster a culture of collective responsibility for delivery and quality. • Contribute towards a culture of continuous improvement. • Suggesting and facilitating process improvement experiments, measuring, adjusting, following up, and reporting back on success. • Ensure the team is supported and that help is proactively requested from supporting teams. • Contribute towards a culture that recognizes and praises individual efforts and team successes. • Encourage and facilitate cross-team communication and alignment within the larger team. • Ensure that technical progress created within the team is shared with the wider business. • Help to grow the technical expertise of team members based on their agreed career development plans. • Ensure any individual performance deficiencies that are affecting the team are identified, steps are put in place to rectify. • Work closely with the head of development and the recruitment team to hire. Show less

Development Team Lead

• Jul 2016 - Sep 2018

• Respond to RFPs, including strategies, benefits, risk management, cost, duration, and change management. • Present the most customer-centric solution to the client. • Constantly balancing the technical strategy with commercial realities. • Lead weekly architectural review meeting to keep up with latest technologies, create technical strategies and design the architecture of the system including security, application, infrastructure, information, network, integration and DevOps. • Create product backlog with product managers based on the highest valued requirements and priorities outlined by the customer for each sprint. Decide on technologies to fit the team, not just the problem. • Parallelize development, and enable small, frequent and continuous releases. • Delegate tasks, and create achievable sprint goals with team members in planning meeting. • Monitor team performance and achievement in daily scrum meeting. Mentoring and coaching individuals to achieve sprint goals. • Present team accomplishments to stakeholders in review meeting, and find out what can be improved in retrospective meeting. • Support and maintain existing products including creating service pack or hotfix. • Cooperate with business and technology stakeholders to create future solutions for current business problem, business strategy, business process improvement, business process re-engineering and business adventures. • Develop shared components between teams for resource efficiency. Show less

Head Of Engineering

• Dec 2014 - Jun 2016

• Worked with Executive Staff, Product Management, Marketing and Technical Support to define and prioritize product requirements and features for 3 major releases. • Collaborated with Founder/CTO to manage and design software development for several major new features per release. • Managed development and release of quarterly updates and emergency service packs to existing released software. • Directed all activities for the Release Engineering and Quality Assurance groups. • Chaired cross-functional company quality team that identified several areas of quality improvement throughout the company. • Participated in designing, documenting and implementing a Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC). • Created and managed processes for software releases, test management and defect tracking, resulting in more streamlined, accurate and high quality software deliveries. • Developed and implemented scalability and load testing, resulting in a 50% reduction of royalty costs and an 80% reduction in system requirements calls to Technical Support. Show less