Experienced Technical Architect and Team Leader with over fifteen years of experience working in consulting, custom software development, and product development organizations.

Experience

2018 - present

Senior Application Developer / Wizard Software, Chicago

Achievements

• Champion use of agile work flows on the core development team.
• Lead design and development of a public API for our products.
• Integrate web technologies into non-web based products to meet functionality requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build new modules for our products.
• Extend existing module functionality.

2013 - 2018

Solutions Architect / Netrix LLC, Chicago

Achievements

• Lead a DevOps team to identify areas of overlap between developers and operations and implement improved software deployment solutions.
• Modernized a large legacy Real Estate website using modern development practices.
  • Produced detailed design and architectural documentation and lead the team through implementation.
  • Participated in on-premises to AWS migration.
• Successfully orchestrated migration of software development processes from multiple disjointed procedures to a single streamlined course of action.
  • Reduced project overhead and startup time by using common procedures.
  • Reduced on-going costs by consolidating technologies and optimizing processes.
• Advocated for, and assisted in increasing cloud adoption within practice area.
• Reduced inefficiency in the processes of supporting existing infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and implement solutions to meet client needs.
• Lead project teams to meet release dates and produce client deliverables.
• Organize and lead requirements gathering and business analysis meetings.
• Mentor and guide team members.
• Report to Creative and Digital Solutions National Practice Manager.

2007 - 2013

IT Specialist and Software Developer / Wizard Software, Chicago

Achievements

• Architected, designed, and participated in the implementation of a large-scale infrastructure upgrade to a managed hosting environment. Including: network, storage, and compute resources.
  • Increased hosting capacity at reduced cost per unit.
  • Increased reliability and redundancy of critical systems.
• Was a key contributor to a successful migration of all hosting infrastructure from on-premises to managed colocation facility.
• Pioneered new product development in the web space, while assisting with existing thick client development.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for design, maintenance, and support of hosting infrastructure.
• Lead software development of internal systems.
  • Inventory tracking and system up time monitoring
  • Management instrumentation and KPI reports to support hosting infrastructure.
• Participated in product development.