VisualCV

Agile Artist at Thoughtworks.

• Responsible for all ruby application development, support, and enhancements.
• Provide leadership, coaching and mentoring for employees and leaders within teams
• Build a powerful and dynamic software development team capable of delivering solutions on a number of new and existing platforms
• Recruit, train, and develop a motivated team of technical professionals
• Provide hands-on management direction and oversight for all application development projects
• Formulate, submit and manage team budget
• Establish, enforce, and improve overall standards and processes in accordance with best SDLC practices
  Manage multiple teams, including off shored activities and personnel
• Manages development budget and resources to ensure products are delivered on time and on budget
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships and interlocking business processes with other departments

Skiptree is involved in Ruby/Rails web application development, specializing in mixed media social sites. Skiptree also hosts its own micro-training community site which is currently under development, and provides technology consulting for enterprise web applications.

• Enterprise Architecture
• Technical Due Diligence
• Software Reviews
• Performance Optimization
• Web/Mobile Development
• Software Troubleshooting
• Technology Training

Clients:

  Primedia (Apartment Guide)

  Neighborhoods Social Component

  Metros (for each metro)

  R&D Allhomes

  The Creative Coast 

    The Creative Coast

  Teksymmetry
  Rummage Pad

• Provided technical leadership across the organization, from strategic decision making down to the project planning level. 
• Designed and implemented in-house information systems and networked software architectures that supported core organizational functions, and assured their high availability.
  
• Gained organizational commitment for all systems and software plans.
• Evaluated and selected all technologies required to complete all Software Plans.(WCF, ASP.NET, SQL SERVER 2005)
• Responsible for selection and hiring of all development staff,
• Defined and enforced the corporate software development lifecycle, development coding standards, and continuous integration processes.
  
• Managed and directed a team of 12 software and database engineers.
  

• Designed an extension to the existing Messaging framework to support the use of multiple data sources for the corporate credit score reporting system (Linux, C++, Python)
• Trained and mentored junior team members.
• Approved the selection and hiring of new team members.
• Designed and implemented Corporate wide Automated Testing Framework, Web Server, and Database to automate corporate QA processes. (Python, Apache, Oracle, DHTML)

• Optimized Existing Compliance and Policy engines and increased throughput by 400%. (C++/COM)
• Architected and implemented Custom email keyword searching and archive extraction tool (Lucene / Java)
• Normalized and redesigned the enterprise database architecture to improve system performance.

• Implemented futures and options (European) model into the Risk Based Capital project deployed by OFHEO to measure the capital adequacy of Freddie Mac. (UNIX, C++, STL)
• Developed test suite and environment for validation and regression testing of all financial models for the risk based capital project, including all code migrations. (PERL/Sybase/JSP/XML/XSLT)

• LINUX, C++ OOAD as well as some Java (1.2).  Developed high-performance web-server for receiving custom web metric data submissions.
• Implemented Database for storing wide pipe of transaction information (20gb/hour).
• Trained and mentored junior team members.
• Approved the selection and hiring of new team members.
• Optimized existing system architecture to improve throughput from 200 transactions/sec  to over 1200 transactions/sec.

• Led a team of 23 developers and analysts through a 6 month development effort of a major e-commerce site in London.  Responsible for project plan as well as technical design.  Final project costs were within 2% of my projected costs. (Solaris 2.7. iPlanet, Oracle, Interwoven, XML, XSLT, JSP)
• Assisted in the development of corporate methodology standards for software development, database deployment and requirements gathering.
• Provided technical expertise for strategic sales engagements, and wireless application development group.
  
• Prototyped wireless software applications.
  

• Rapidly prototyped several CORBA services for distributing access to financial models and data servers using C++, Rogue Wave and Orbix (UNIX based).
• Won the “ISS Premier Achievement Award” for extending a fixed rate prepayment model to include functionality for Adjustable Rate mortgages. (1999)
• Designed and Engineered a SYBASE decision support database for supporting bond market trading floor activities surrounding mortgage backed securities. Engineered Load processes, as well as production monitoring and support procedures, data correction algorithms and secondary access services. Database contained history for about 1 million securities and comprises over 500 gigabytes of data. Used transact-SQL, C, C++, RogueWave, Corba, KSH and in-house custom scheduling and monitoring software.