Resume

Summary

Experienced and innovative Director of Engineering with over 25 years of hands-on development, including with large multinational investment banks as well as small- and mid-sized technical firms. Microsoft Certified in Azure AI Fundamentals. Able to leverage both technical and soft skills to provide clean, efficient solutions while providing vision and leadership to product teams, which has been useful in a variety of additional roles including Product Owner and Scrum Master.

Lately I have been focusing on developer experience improvements, like implementing a blue/green deployment pattern to simplify and de-risk release activity. I also ideated and am championing an internal innovation effort focused on providing AI-as-a-Service to tech organizations within the enterprise. The goal is to democratize access to tools like on-prem LLMs and feature embedding capabilities via a subscription model.

I am experimenting with some side projects that also center around DX and AI. This has led me to discover some exciting platforms like Pulumi and Nitric while tinkering with OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-source models and APIs.

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Experience

2022 - Present

Senior Application Architect - DevEx Enterprise Engineering

Bank of America

Design data and API strategies for a suite of highly visible internal applications in developer experience and productivity domains. Lead delivery teams in development and Agile best practices, and leverage deep hands-on experience to guide product ownership, release train engineer, and peer delivery teams to scalable solutions. Accountable for successful delivery of major end-to-end features from a crowd sourcing initiative, consisting entirely of volunteers from disparate teams within the enterprise. Regularly engage with delivery teams via design session, technical code reviews, and hands-on development in Oracle, Java Spring Boot, Angular, etc.

2022 - 2024

Director of Engineering

Q2 Strategies, LLC

Design, architect, develop, and maintain operations management software at a multinational Fortune 500 financial institution. Led key effort to centralize and rationalize 45,000 SOP documents to reduce operational and regulatory risk, impacting 45,000 employees across 1,800 processes and saving many thousands of person-hours. Manage and mentor Scrum team for application suite supporting the Office of the CIO. Interface with executive leaders, product ownership, and peer dependency teams. Provide both senior leadership and hands-on development contributions in every sprint, including Angular, Q2DM API development, SQL Server, CI/CD DevOps, and Tableau.

Senior Vice President; System Architect

Bank of America

Charlotte, NC

Ideated and led development of an enterprise change management initiative, resulting in an $8M savings. Mentored cross-functional teams in best practices in cloud native/12 factor applications.

Lead Software Engineer

Advantor Systems Corporation

Orlando, FL

Lead UI developer of a real-time alarm monitoring and access control security suite for clients such as the U.S. military and large corporations. Integrated hardware such as biometric fingerprint readers, signature capture devices, and digital cameras. Developed and implemented corporate coding standards as well as leveraging industry-standard frameworks.

Web Development Lead / Information Security Manager

Amerinational Management Services

Orlando, FL

Managed full software life cycle of rich internet applications through disciplined coding practices. Developed components to interface with a variety of third-party APIs, including e-commerce payment applications. Established and maintained compliance with PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards).