Digital 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, ChatGTP, 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
Corporate Headquarters, Chicago, IL
Digital Architect
Practice Leadership
- Manage 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
Department Leader
Solutions Architect December 2016 - September 2019
Managing Consultant March 2015 - December 2016
Restaurant Marketing Chicago, IL
Lead Java Developer August 2013 - March 2015
Systems Engineer July 2011 - August 2013
Computer Science Tutor Virtual Nationwide
University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Engineering
Master of Science, Computer Science
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Founder, Computer Science Graduate Student Association