Experience

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  Aurea Software

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Vice President of Client Services

    • Apr 2015 - Feb 2017
    • Houston, Texas Area

    Originally hired as Technical Delivery Manager.

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  Tectonic: insight to action

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Senior Manager

    • Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
    • Houston, Texas Area

    Tectonic acquired Stryve Advisors in February 2015.

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  Stryve Advisors

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Manager

    • Aug 2011 - Feb 2015
    • Houston, Texas Area

    MD AndersonDeveloped a road map for a Mobile Center of Excellence to centralize and mature mobile strategy and efforts.•Helped assess current mobile capability and define vision for future state•Interviewed different levels of IT and business leadership for how mobile enabled their resources or customers and what processes were accelerators or road blocks•Provided a framework and example operating model for mobile CoE with high level recommendations/timeline for implementationUnited AirlinesSenior programming/architect resource in crew operations, on a team developing a high transaction trip trading engine in C#/.NET interacting with several other systems/services. Client side uses AngularJS and Breeze with testing done in Jasmine and run by Karma. Web API 2 and Entity Framework 6 used to develop a restful client for internal customers and external vendors.Federal Reserve BoardEstablished an enterprise wide eDiscovery policy to ensure accurate, purposeful retention of emails in response to increased demands from Congress, media, general public•Worked with legal eDiscovery experts to draft a comprehensive policy and set of processes•Evaluated the technical environment and provided recommendations on best practices configuring their MS Exchange environment•Provided strong business cases for client to procure funding for additional resources and toolingCreation of an Audio/Video group in enterprise IT to centralize and standardize AV services •Wrote an operations management plan and socialization strategy for new business line•Worked with AV partner in establishing technical baseline and upgrade plan•Evaluation of and creation of business cases for staffing based on service goals, expectations

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  RR Donnelley

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Developer

    • Aug 2008 - Aug 2011
    • Houston, Texas Area

    N-tiered web and desktop application development with update and maintenance of legacy work flows•Support, development and system integration of critical, enterprise fulfillment system handling orders from entry to production at printing facilities worldwide•Project lead on multiple applications managing expectations, requirements, and updates with direct day to day contact with internal and external (FedEx and UPS) customers•Barcode calculation, encoding applied to a variety of products•Authoring services in a MSMQ workflow•Part of change initiative in source control migration to Team Foundation Server

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  RD Squared Ventures

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Independent Consultant at RD Squared

    • May 2004 - Mar 2008
    • Houston, Texas Area

    Lead developer, project manager in full software development life cycle for clientele•Dashboard and reporting development for Memorial Hermann, Baker Petrolite, Texas Children’s Pediatric Association and Froedert•Development of web site for PAC group to help volunteers with encouraging voter registration•Built public Ecommerce website pulling data from an internal SharePoint 2007 implementation•Project management included working with external vendors, tracking resources/work and constant, clear communication of costs, timelines and deliverables•Updating, sourcing content, analyzing traffic and SEO for company web portfolio•Evaluation of emerging tools and technology to use in-house and for clients

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  Smith International

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Consultant

    • May 2000 - Apr 2004
    • Houston, Texas Area

    Consultant on a team of 3 beginning new web and Intranet initiatives•Met with internal customers to gather requirements and develop web applications to streamline business processes that were financial, clerical, organizational and in the production facilities•Documentation, support, and training of employees in application usage•Installed and maintained IIS for application availability and monitoring•Migration of applications to .NET 1.1 and ASP.NET