Troy, Michigan, United States
Innovative, reliable, and experienced professional with a proven track record in driving business growth and leading high-performing teams. A visionary leader who thrives on transforming ideas into tangible results, possessing a unique ability to conceptualize and execute innovative strategies that propel organizations to new heights. Fosters collaboration and cultivates a dynamic work environment and excels in motivating and empowering teams to exceed expectations and achieve ambitious goals. This prowess is rooted in a robust foundation encompassing team leadership, software and database development, product management, and systems analysis/design, all within an agile environment.
Responsibilities: • Leads the Programming Services team supporting and enhancing K2, our proprietary ERP, for North American offices. • Serves as product owner for K2, gathering feature requests, building wireframes, and collaborating with offsite development teams in India to prioritize and deliver features. • Oversees cross-functional initiatives including web development, Windows apps, AI, business intelligence, and process automation, ensuring alignment with KPIs and business goals. • Champions the Digital Transformation (DX) Committee, guiding software evaluation, process improvements, and build/buy decisions across Tooling and Manufacturing business units in the Americas. • Fosters collaboration between onsite and offsite teams, driving delivery excellence, stakeholder engagement, and continuous process improvement.
Responsibilities: • Managed a diverse team of Developers, QA Engineers, and Network Administrators. • Oversaw IT budget, optimizing resource allocation and procurement of hardware, software, and services. • Negotiated contracts with technology vendors, service providers, and consultants to obtain favorable terms, pricing, and SLAs. • Fostered an innovative IT culture, encouraging the exploration and implementation of new technologies for business growth. •Enforced ISO 27001 policies, ensuring database encryption, password security, and secure storage of connection strings, as well as secure coding practices. • Led the transition from Team Foundation Server to Azure DevOps Server, implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment for efficient code testing before deployment. • Conducted thorough code reviews, identifying issues, and mentoring developers in debugging and code problem resolution. Key Accomplishments: • Spearheaded the design and implementation of an Innovation Hub within our company, serving as a dedicated space and platform to nurture new ideas and drive the development of innovative products, effectively expanding our company's portfolio and market presence. • Successfully achieved a 5% cost reduction in our contract with the Cloud services provider while simultaneously enhancing our service offerings, optimizing our resource allocation, and maximizing the value of our partnership. • Efficiently managed a disaster recovery incident, orchestrating collaboration among our cloud providers, database administrator, network administrator, and lead developers. This swift response resulted in the timely restoration of our production environment, well within our SLA commitments, allowing us to seamlessly continue our nightly production
• Collaborated in the design and implementation of an enterprise-level ETL system with a SQL Server backend, supported by several web portals and API frontends. This system processed tens of thousands of records daily, generating vehicle-specific labels for our in-house production teams. • Designed database tables, optimized database structures, and reviewed Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD) for scalability and performance. • Created C# ETLs using Adapter patterns, Factory patterns, and reflection to support multiple data formats provided by clients. • Evaluated legacy applications in VB6 and VB.NET, conducting functionality assessments to determine migration necessity and cost-effectiveness. • Proficiently gathered requirements from stakeholders and departments, proposing tailored solutions to meet unique needs and enhance product performance. • Responsible for migrating legacy functionality and developing timelines to roll them into a new framework and web solutions. • Demonstrated strong code analysis skills, consistently determining code functionality, streamlining processes, and minimizing technical debt.
• Designed and built new utility focused data processing/document composition “Print & Mail” framework using C#, .NET 3.5 framework. • Created C# ETLs using Adapter patterns, Factory patterns, and reflection to support multiple data formats provided by clients. • Developed new utility bill layouts using GMC PrintNet T (Quadient Inspire) document composition application. • Designed fully integrated SQL Server Database for “Print & Mail” framework. • Designed and developed new batch email process using integrated database to build recipient lists, and html email templates. • Integrated new postal processing software (Satori’s MailRoom Toolkit) into our new framework. • Provided leadership and guidance to application development team. • Quoted projects and set priority for inclusion in internal software releases. • In charge of redesigning legacy applications and developing timelines to roll them into new “Print & Mail” framework, and web solutions. • Responsible for writing functional and technical specifications for new software modules and products.
Placement at Utilitec, An Ancor Company (March 2009 to January 2010): • Part of a three-person team that designed and developed a prototype .NET ETL/Document Processing application. • Ported customers from legacy VBScript/VB.NET application to new C# adapter classes. • Created and maintained tables and stored procedures in SQL Server 2008 database. • Created utility bill templates using Adobe Acrobat and form fields. Placement at Thomson Reuters (February 2009): • Integrated a third-party control (Aspose.Words) into existing .NET mail merge application, allowing application to fill MSWord form fields with database values. • Refactored, and migrated functions written in VBA document macros to the .NET application. Placement at Synovate Motoresearch (September 2007 to January 2009): • Part of a two-person team that developed and maintained the Ford EU & Asia/Pacific dealership website used to report on customer satisfaction with third party graphing and PDF reports, using Visual Studio 2005 and ASP/VBScript and .NET technologies. • Created and maintained SQL Server stored procedures and tables. • Created SSIS packages to run a quarterly user access review, with website, and email user notification, along with manager approval pages.
• Developed and maintained browser based General Ledger Accounting software using .NET. • Maintained legacy VB6 client / server Law Enforcement Records Management System. • Created an internal web-based bug tracking system written in VB.NET that allowed Product Support and Quality Assurance teams to write and track software defects and suggestions. • Led a team of 7 people to maintain internal bug tracking system. • Enhanced and maintained a web-based briefing summary interface written in ASP with XML report. • Developed a C# program to deserialize XML data files and import them into Law Enforcement Records Management System. Installed the application on site at the Delaware State Police HQ.