Feb 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 3 mos · Greater Tampa Bay Area

• Executive Technology Consultant and Strategic Advisor for C-Level at Fortune list companies.
• Advisor CIO, BrightDrop, General Motors
• Get team and project back on track
• Assessment, CFO, Plenty
• Assessment of Development Organization in preparation for hiring VP
• Advisor CTO, Deloitte
• Lead Cloud Migration of Critical Tax Delivery System
• Lead Cost Optimization reducing cloud spend by 21% annually
• Lead architect, product owner, over 200 person team, building new global tax platform
• Azure Migration, EY
• Featured in Microsoft BUILD 2017
• Globally deployed, highly secure system with 100s of GBs and 100,000s of new documents uploaded globally each day.
• International compliance
• Azure Migration Assessment
• Assessment of the current system, recommend a custom cloud centered architecture, and a migration plan including cost estimates for Azure spend and the migration effort.
• DevOps Transformation, Healthcare Company
• Customer difficulty preparing for and during software releases taking weeks to prepare and hours to deploy. I helped the customer overcome these resulting in releases being just a few minutes.

Jun 2013 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Microsoft Services help customers realize their full potential through accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. We are a global team of exceptional people who deliver world class services with partners, earning customer confidence, trust, and loyalty by improving the overall Customer and Partner Experience, serving as the customer advocates within Microsoft and driving customer-centric product improvement. Providing customizable solutions complete with enhancement and add-on services, Microsoft Premier Support helps customers proactively address risks, minimize downtime, and streamline operations to improve efficiency and accelerate business growth.
• The Premier Application Development Manager (ADM) acts as a trusted business advisor to Microsoft’s Premier Support customers, providing Premier Support Services aligned to the customer’s priorities in order to maximize the business value of their Microsoft investment. The ADM is responsible for the overall growth, quality and satisfaction of the customer’s support services relationship as well as providing our customers access to a wide range of product and application development expertise to help software developers accelerate the development cycle and produce successful applications.

Jun 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr · Saint Petersburg, florida

• Take ownership of the Batch Reporting, Transaction Reconciliation, and Asynchronous Processing in the Globalization Team. The team worked with China partners / companies. Performance testing, analysis, and improvements to meet SLAs.
• Leverage TFS APIs and reporting to build dashboards and custom reports and integrate into business operations. Guidance on implementing improving the ALM and SDLC by implementing TFS especially automated pipelines.

Jun 2010 – Jun 2012 · 2 yrs · Sandy, UT

• Lead the SCRUM team, backlog management, and technical owner for delivery. Leader on Architecture team.
• Introduced next generation of User Interface build on WPF including introducing standards & architecture patterns, libraries, and team upskiling.
• Technical owner and team lead of flagship web-based product. Collaborated with the CEO to understand requirements, scope, and customer needs and to share progress. Analyze system enhancements required, security and scalability risks for a new public facing interface (previously only internal).
• Resource planning, screening, interviewing, and hiring.
• Lead internship program.
• Initiated Load Testing practices.
• Key player in setting up offshore team. Training, team integration, candidate selection, communication tooling, etc.
• Provided Business Justification for and then lead setup of continuous integration builds and unit testing with CruiseControl.NET. Later provided business justification for purchasing MSDN licenses and upgrading to TFS.

Oct 2008 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 8 mos · Midvale, UT

• Start as developer on custom IT support tools. Transition to Quick Response Team responsible for production support, proactive fixes, small quick turn-around high impact customer features (for strategic clients) on the flagship next generation platform.
• A high-throughput 99.999% SLA (Five 9s) distributed system with complex user defined workflows to manage incoming calls. Early days SAAS product.
• Quickly became a key asset on understanding end-to-end system behavior, capabilities, limits, debugging & troubleshooting. Worked hand-in-hand with Chief Architect and most influential team lead.
• Implemented end-to-end managed customer database multi-tenant solution including research, scalability, resiliency, and implementation of MS SQL DB Mirroring (newly released MS SQL feature at the time).
• Performance, traceability, and security improvements proactively identified and fixed throughout tenure.

Oct 2006 – Oct 2008 · 2 yrs · South Jordan, UT