Led a team of 5 developers spanning from Jr to Staff Levels
Adapted team processes to use Kanban to increase productivity and remove unnecessary ceremonies. Project delivery predictability improved significantly. Team moved from being months behind on previous projects to on time delivery due to these changes.
Regular duties included performance management, career development, project planning and delivery, and ongoing process improvements
Led efforts on Architecture Reviews for transitioning the product to adopting RBAC. This is being done with the intention retaining customers as they transition from smaller firms into larger.
Projects shipped have included front end updates to permissions administration pages to adopt more modern frameworks like Hotwire & Turbo, Expanding permission assignment from single to multiple groups, as well as other permissions administration enhancements. This has led to increased customer NPS scores.

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Transitioned a startup company from using offshore software teams that built a prototype to building a team of 11 people in house
Transitioned the product from Proof of Concept to full fledged launch
Created overall 3, 6 and 12 month technical strategy plans for enabling both the product and team to scale
Achieved great performance gains by focusing on the “ 4 key metrics for high performing teams” and committing to a Kanban approach
* Cycle times reduced from 8 to 4.5 days over a 2 month period
Turned around a struggling offshore mobile project that was 6 months late and delivered within 3 months to the app stores using the in house team
Managed 11 direct reports.
* Facilitating planning meetings (standups, requirements refinement, retrospectives, etc)

* Performing monthly 1:1 check ins with all direct reports
Launched an Analytics and Reporting system using Quicksight

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Leading a team of Software Automation developers creating various automated tests for mobile applications using Appium. These tests are targeted at both iOS and Android applications.
Led the delivery of a high profile automated testing suite focused on emergency communications on the FirstNet Network for AT&T.
Added various API integrations using Spring Boot and Java
Designed and built an iOS application in Swift to allow a Java based application to query device information from the usb-connected iOS devices.
Introduced Behavior Driven Development (BDD) specifications to the team requirements using Given, When, Then statements to describe expected behavior of the tests.
Introduced Cucumber to facilitate the creation of tests using the BDD requirements listed above.

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Led four direct reports including the operations team and developers on upcoming and existing online games.
Introduced Docker as the primary virtualization/containerization strategy going forward. This made it much easier to create consistent orchestration across the development pipeline.
Introduced the Unity game engine to the company and led the design and implementation of a new game targeting the iOS and Android platforms (Fubar, Just Giv’r).
Led the implementation of a high throughput analytics system for mobile and browser based games that would allow the company to make more informed design and marketing decisions. This was done using the AWS offerings; Kinesis, Athena, and Quicksight.

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Moving the existing Java based application to a containerized Docker solution.
Moving slices of the application from a monolithic Grails implementation into a new API backend microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
Adding Redis as a datastore to allow for non-managed TTYL based data.
Implementing a new Continuous Integration System using Gradle, Jenkins, and Docker

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Part of a team building a browser based gaming portal at KIXEYE.com, designed to accommodate over 100,000 concurrent users.
Participated in the development of a mobile 3D mmorts game using the Unity engine.
Built a real time translation Restful API using Node and Redis acting as a proxy on top of the Microsoft Translation API.

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