Energetic engineering executive with 25+ years of experience who leads with compassion and tenacity. Ability to provide guidance in architectural decisions and complete hands-on development tasks. Excels in finding great talent and deploying tech tools and methodologies to allow engineers to build quality solutions.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering manager
Zip Co
01.2020 - Current
Led two teams, in eCommerce, dealing with merchants and the end customer's checkout process.
Managed 20+ employees plus an offshore team of consultants.
Senior cloud architect – 10th Magnitude, 2019 - 2020 Led an engagement, with a renowned email threat company in Silicon Valley, to convert their existing AWS environment into Azure.
This included enterprise messaging, caching, traffic flow, redundancy to process over millions of emails per day.
Leveraged Microsoft AME:AI program to bring 5 additional clients, into the cloud, from their on-premise data centers.
Once applications, databases, and other components were migrated, I remediated custom-built applications to run inside Azure services and utilize best practices.
Provided support to sales team by writing Statements of Work, Letters of Engagement, and providing evaluations of existing infrastructure to assess gaps in moving to the cloud.
Provided teaching assistance to customer teams, without Azure experience, to educate them on cloud best practices, available services, cost analysis, and long-term strategy.
Senior Architect
Insight
Cincinnati, OH
01.2018 - 01.2019
Created a Precision Dosing application, for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, that allows clinicians to accurately determine the concentration of morphine in an infant in the past or future through modeling.
The application was built with Angular 7 (user interface), .NET 2.2 API, Cosmos DB (Azure) to cache data, Azure Functions to handle integration with the hospital management system (EPIC).
The application was then white-labeled and packaged for sale and distribution to other major pediatric hospitals.
Engineering Manager
Green Dot Corporation
01.2016 - 01.2018
Lead a team of backend developers to create and maintain network handling prepaid VISA transactions for rushcard.com.
Team handled 1400 updates from MasterCard, per minute, along with $11M in daily ACH transactions.
Handled hiring, technical screens, and placement of developers, quality assurance, and database engineers.
Architected, developed, and deployed dispute system handling customer disputes and fraud.
Benefits include faster turnaround, more readily accessible status, and 3rd party vendor integration.
Educated team through weekly webinars on design patterns, development languages, and best practices.
Senior Software Architect
Matson Money
01.2014 - 01.2016
Lead team of developers to create custom CRM system to handle account relationships, stock trading, and custodial integration.
Handled team building, played SCRUM master, and incorporated Agile tenants into daily development.
Redesigned MatsonMoney.com website using C#, Foundation CSS, jQuery, MVC, and SQL Server.
Lead the Enterprise Services team tasked to consolidate common business applications into a set of REST-based services to promote reuse and standardize data usage.
Assumed IT Director Role during search for new candidate.
Senior Practice Architect
Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions
Cincinnati, OH
01.2011 - 01.2014
Developed and managed several ASP.NET MVC websites using MVC 4/5, jQuery, Bootstrap, and Entity Framework for a healthcare processor.
Acted as business analyst and lead developer for large automotive company project using ASP.NET, Telerik, Entity Framework, and SQL Server.
Developed solution for analysis of product images upgrading Visual Studio projects from VB6, VS 2005 to the latest 2010 version.
Built auditing system for Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial processing of claims utilizing ASP.NET, C#, web services, and jQuery.
Special consideration was taken to ensure security requirements and data visibility requirements where compliant with HIPAA laws.
Revamped and rewrote Medicare Eligibility inquiry system that allows providers to query patient insurance eligibility.
Worked closely with billing consultants, product managers, and customers to create a clean, efficient output of information received from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).