Rallyhood, Austin, TX Jul 2013 – Present

Position: Director of Web Development

Relevant technology: Ruby on Rails, MySql, Amazon AWS

· Took over the Rallyhood application from an offshore team and built a team of in-house developers to re-architect and enhance the existing system

· Built and maintain a new physical architecture on Amazon AWS servers

· Re-architected the monolithic code base to a Service Oriented Architecture

· Manage the development team

· Re-architect the existing application to increase performance and scalability

· Instrumental in developing strategic partnerships for the company

· Implemented Agile Scrum methodology

· Lead code reviews

· Coach interns and junior developers

Kanstex, Cedar Park, TX Apr 2011 – Present

Kanstex is an S corporation that I currently do business as

Relevant technology: Java/J2EE, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, SQL, Amazon AWS

· Provide custom software development and management services to numerous clients

· Accelerated Vision

• Served as Development Manager and Senior Developer

• Worked with Lead Architect to design the system architecture

• Mentored the development team

• Led code reviews and daily scrums

· National Association of Basketball Coaches

• Architected and coded the membership management application

• Architected an online web portal for NABC members

• Managed a team of offshore developers to implement the web portal design

• Built and maintain the web and application servers on Amazon EC2

• Provided business process analysis and made recommendations to streamline the membership team’s business processes

· Digital Sports Ventures

• Provided software development and mentoring of developers

· Kana

• Customized the Kana software package for Standard and Poors

• Built custom JReports for several of Kana’s customers

· Maternity Media

• Developed enhancements to their Belly Bunch web application.

• Setup and maintained their physical architecture on Amazon AWS

Digital Sports Ventures Inc, Overland Park, KS Sep 2008 – Apr 2011

DSV specializes in social media platform for sports related web sites. DSV is also the sole distributer of ACC, Pac-10, SEC and Big 12 football and basketball videos on the web

Position: Vice President of Engineering

Relevant technology: Java/J2EE, Spring, Struts1.3, PostGreSQL, Tomcat, JSON, REST, Flex, Ruby on Rails, MySql, Memcached, RSS, Amazon AWS

· Architected and developed a highly scalable, highly available multi-threaded backend Java application server that serves nearly all of DSV’s applications.

· Developed a custom architecture that automatically generates a custom DAO and BD layer used to connect to the various backend systems that are used (PostgreSQL, Twitter, Facebook, Brightcove, Salesforce, etc)

· Implemented a caching strategy using memcached to dramatically increase system performance

· Developed custom front-end stubs that are automatically generated based on a custom XML file for Java, Flex, PHP, and Ruby.

· Architected and built a social network athletic site similar to Twitter for a Major League baseball personality.

· Designed and built multiple mobile websites.

· Designed a social network site for pregnant women

· Architected and built a social network public website for a large sports arena

· Architected and built utility for retrieving videos from the NCAA and uploading those videos to the DSV custom video viewer for distribution to various media outlets

· Architected and built multiple sports widgets for distribution to partners including a Men’s NCAA Basketball tournament bracket application that was distributed to over 300 different websites across the country including Lowe’s Senior Class Award website

· Integrated multiple applications with Facebook and Twitter

· Provide leadership and direction to the development team

· Evaluated various technologies and made design/technical decisions

· Administer/configure/maintain the linux-based Amazon EC2 servers.

Kana Software (formerly eVergance), Overland Park, KS Oct 2007 – Sep 2008

eVergance is a professional services company specializing in the implementation, customization, and integration of knowledge management systems.

Position: Development Manager

Relevant technology: Java/J2EE, Spring, Struts2, Oracle, Maven, Websphere, Javscript, JReports, SQL Server, Tomcat, LDAP, SSO

· Managed eVergance’s team of 15+ developers across multiple projects

· Provided direction and leadership to the development team.

· Responsible for staffing decisions that include maintaining proper headcount levels to support client needs while keeping the team at least 85% billable

· Spearheaded and implemented a virtualization strategy that dramatically increased developer productivity and maximized hardware efficiency

· Provided detail designs as well as review technical designs built by the team

· Reviewed developer code to ensure the highest quality of code was released

· Provided detailed and high level estimates to be used in the sales process

· Designed, developed and implemented multiple projects for numerous customers including US Postal Service, TD Ameritrade, RIM, and Macy’s

· Led joint application design (JAD) sessions with customers onsite at customers’ location

· Worked closely with the VP of Solutions Delivery to attain the highest level of profitability

eVergance, Overland Park, KS Jan 2005 – Oct 2007

Position: Senior Developer (Contract - Independent)

Relevant Technology: Java/J2EE, Javascript, CSS, Velocity, WebMethods, AXIS, Webservices, XSL, C#, Crystal Reports, Spring, Struts, Xfire, LDAP, SSO

· Designed and developed custom software for numerous Fortune 500 clients

· Provided Professional Services for various software partners (Kana, Knova, Jive)

· Provided leadership to the development team

· Provided estimates used in the sales process

· Designed, developed and implemented multiple software projects for customers including Adobe, Avaya, Business Objects, Capital One, Dendrite, Ford, LDS Church, Novell, Philips, QLogic, RCIG, Reynolds, Sasktel, T-Online, TrendMicro, VMWare, Verizon, Wachovia

Argus Health Systems, Kansas City, MO Mar 2004 - Jan 2005

Position: Senior Developer (Contract - Tri-Com)
Relevant Technology: Java/J2EE, DB2, XSL, FO

· Based on user requirements, designed and coded a generic call tracking system from the ground up as part of the new Medicare CMS program

· Designed data model

· Wrote use cases

· Generated dynamic PDF reports using FO technology

Sprint, Overland Park, KS Jun 2003 - Mar 2004
Position: Technical Lead (Contract - Princeton Info.)
Relevant Technology: Java/J2EE, SQL Server, Weblogic, XSL, Struts

· Developed a retail J2EE web application used by Sprint retailers (Best Buy, Circuit City)

· Dynamically built web pages using XSL transformations

· Provided a SOA interface using XML messaging to interface with disparate systems

Johnson Controls, Holland, MI Jan 2003 - Jun 2003
Position: Senior Developer (Contract - Teksystems)
Relevant Technology: Java/J2EE, XSL, FO, Powerbuilder, Oracle

· Designed and coded enhancements to the General Ledger application

· Upgraded and built numerous enhancements to multiple Powerbuilder systems

· Created numerous stored procedures

· Generated dynamic PDF reports using FO technology

Intel, Folsom, CA Jun 2000 - Aug 2000
Position: Senior Developer (Contract - CRG)
Relevant Technology: Powerbuilder, Sybase, MS Sql Server

· Worked part time to help Intel get through an enterprise release of a new SAP system

· Developed client interface to the SAP database

· Created numerous stored procedures

Surewest Communications, Roseville, CA Feb 1998 - Dec 2002
Position: Technical Lead (Contract - Independent)
Relevant Technology: Powerbuilder, Jaguar, Javascript, Sybase, Java/J2EE

· Architected and developed an e-business application

· Developed EJBs and JSPs for various projects

· One of the technical leads on a large development team that built Surewest's custom billing and order entry system using distributed Powerbuilder

· Designed a multi-threaded distributed approach to greatly increase performance

· Wrote over 100 stored procedures to aid in data migration from the legacy system

· Designed and developed a generic reporting application

Intel, Folsom, CA May 1995 - Feb 1998
Position: Release Manager / Developer
Relevant Technology: Powerbuilder, Sybase, MS Sql Server, MS Access

· Managed the monthly release of Intel's global enterprise business dashboard application

· Coordinated the releases across multiple geographies around the world

· Travelled overseas to provide training and coordinate the releases

· Managed a quality assurance team with members across the globe

· Worked as a software developer 50% of the time on the business application

· Pioneered the introduction of the application to the intranet by building a prototype

· Designed and coded a release management software

· Designed and coded a call tracking application to support a global support team

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