Solutions Architect with over a decade of experience managing Agile teams with members across the U.S. and offshore. Will conceptualize, design, implement and deploy mission-critical products that significantly increase your bottom line.
AI and Data Science: Anaconda, Beautiful Soup, ChatGPT, Copilot, Python, Pandas, NumPy, Tableau
Azure: AZ-900 Certified, Agile, AZDO, Functions, Key Stores, Logic Apps, Pipelines, Projects, Wikis
Content Management: AEM, Contentful, Cloudinary, Gatsby, Storybook.JS, Markdown, GitHub Pages
Databases: CosmosDb, MS Access, MS SQL, MongoDB, Oracle, Salesforce Workbench, Quickbase, XML
Java: Core Java, Java EE, JSF, Apache Tomcat, JUnit, Mockito, Spring Boot, Hibernate, ANT, Eclipse
.NET: ASP.NET Core, C#, Entity Framework, MVC 4, IIS, TFS, WebForms, Visual Studio, VS Code
Web: Bootstrap, CSS, HTML5, jQuery, JavaScript, KendoUI, Next.JS, React, REST, Storybook.JS, XML
Dalas, TX
Solutions Architect
- Lead a cross-functional engineering team architecting and delivering a secure, scalable C# API and SSO platform on AWS for enterprise deployment.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture and DevOps teams to align infrastructure design, CI/CD pipelines, and security controls across AWS and Azure, improving deployment cadence by 30%.
- Establish onboarding frameworks, engineering standards, and technical documentation that help a growing team deliver more frequently while maintaining architectural integrity.
Corporate Headquarters, Chicago, IL
Digital Architect
- Managed software engineers from junior to senior levels.
Birthday Party Booking Engine
- Consult with group sales leadership to identify points where the birthday booking process could be improved.
- Mock web service endpoints to allow front-end and backend developers to work side-by-side.
- Design time-slot availability and payment rest web services.
- Present stories to developers in grooming sessions to gather feedback and estimate stories with story points.
Night Owl: Night Audit Automation
- Designed a night audit automation solution for 9 critical bookkeeping processes that run nightly.
- Developed the prototype with a team of two developers and four IT specialists using Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint.
- Scaled the solution to 22 resort locations across the country.
- Provided a turn-key solution for the IT department to manage for 200+ team members.
Great Wolf Digital Wiki Redesign
- Reviewed 100+ pages of documentation that were added to the wiki.
- Devised a hierarchy to organize all our documentation.
- Moved and relinked all stories with an Epic, Feature and Story approach.
Formerly Solstice Consulting, Chicago, IL
Principal Technical Architect
Practice Leadership
- Managed software engineers from junior to senior levels.
US Foods - Ecommerce Modernization
- Assisted software architects with backend web services, DevOps and database query optimization.
- Improved REST web service performance using Spring Boot, Kafka and Nest.JS Web Service framework.
Lippert Components - Tech Support Platform
- Gathered requirements from key stakeholders and submitted our design and architecture plans.
- Established DevOps for our Agile board, source code management and CI/CD enabled deployments.
Trimble, Inc. - Content Management and Search Modernization
- Led Algolia Search implementation for Trimble.com, product websites and internal career website.
- Worked with customer, creative and UX teams to refine Miro wireframes to optimize the user experiences.
Formerly Navigant Consulting, Chicago, IL
Associate Director of Software Engineering September 2019 - July 2021
- Played a key role in talent strategy and organizational growth by interviewing and hiring frontend, backend C#, and QA engineers while strengthening team capability through Agile onboarding and training.
- Led a bi-weekly Agile delivery team of 4 engineers and 1 QA resource for mortgage-industry asset monitoring, including SSO authentication for banking customers using SAML and Ping Identity.
- Maintained and documented 20+ small and legacy internal applications generating passive revenue, improving supportability and continuity across the application portfolio.
Solutions Architect December 2016 - September 2019
- Architected high-volume transaction processing into a healthcare billing database using SQL stored procedures and C# batch services, improving data accuracy and processing efficiency within the revenue cycle.
- Led design and delivery of an automated denied-claims response solution using a Random Forest algorithm, reducing manual review workload and accelerating reimbursement timelines.
- Expanded call-center application capabilities for smaller medical practices by gathering requirements, designing workflows, and coordinating delivery across business and technical stakeholders.
Managing Consultant March 2015 - December 2016
- Incubated and architected Navigant Predict, a machine learning-enabled evidence review platform for email and SMS data, translating data science models into an intuitive lawyer-friendly application.
- Designed and developed a C# application using Telerik widgets and deployed to the kCura/Relativity platform; the final product was offered to clients and recovered project costs within two years.
Restaurant Marketing, Chicago, IL
Systems Engineer / Lead Java Developer
- Served as technical lead for Shell Fuel Rewards and United Airlines API integrations, contributing to 300,000 new loyalty members for the company dining program.
- Reduced banner ad preparation time from two days per month to two hours per month with a custom C# automation application.
- Co-led onshore and offshore delivery to launch 11 mobile-optimized websites, coordinating integration dependencies, release timelines, and cross-functional execution.
TV Ratings Division, Chicago, IL
Web Application Programmer
- Modernized legacy TV Ratings processing systems from FORTRAN to Java by redesigning and rewriting core logic, improving data accuracy, maintainability, and long-term scalability.
Computer Science Tutor, Virtual Nationwide
- Deliver one-on-one and small-group instruction in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, data science, and modern web architecture for school-age, undergraduate, and graduate students.
- Conducted 2,800+ tutoring hours with 150+ students, translating complex technical topics into practical, confidence-building learning experiences.
University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Engineering
Master of Science, Computer Science
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Founder, Computer Science Graduate Student Association