Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area
Driven and committed Senior Engineering Manager with over 19 years of industry experience delivering high-impact, critical projects on time with outstanding results. Passionate about fostering both team and individual growth, ensuring high levels of engagement and satisfaction, while building strong, lasting relationships with stakeholders to support business goals. Expertise in Agile methodologies, Java, Spring Boot, SQL, REST APIs and Full-Stack Application Development, leading several globally distributed teams, and driving cross-functional collaboration to achieve operational excellence.
● Led cross-functional initiatives across Product, Engineering, Operations, and external partners to deliver complex integrations and client migrations ● Directed successful data center migration (Denver → Louisville) with zero service disruption ● Designed and launched a new MFA application, significantly reducing support ticket volume ● Driving platform modernization improving security, performance, and long-term scalability ● Partnered with third party groups to expand payer integrations and authorization workflows ● Maintained team stability and delivery momentum through a major leadership transition ● Contributed to hiring and onboarding of engineering talent, strengthening team capacity ● Recognized contributor to a first-place Hackathon project ● Championed engineering excellence through strong ownership, proactive execution, and transparent communication
● Spearheaded the design and implementation of a full-stack PDF publishing solution reducing organization spend by over $600,000, streamlining the processing of thousands of documents resulting in faster processing times, an improved user experience, and enhanced support for critical customer-facing applications. ● Turned around a high-risk, mission-critical project that had failed three previous attempts into a successful, innovative solution delivered on time. Achieved this by setting a clear vision, prioritizing tasks, and fostering team collaboration, resulting in a 2x increase in velocity and a boost in application quality, with code coverage rising from 0% to over 80%. ● Acted as a release manager, coordinating the production deployment of 30+ microservices and 4 applications, working with cross-functional teams, ensuring on-time deployments with minimal downtime and customer impact. ● Drove continuous performance improvement for over 20 direct reports across various experience levels through targeted coaching, actionable feedback, clear expectations, and consistent follow-ups, resulting in ongoing development and progress. ● Reduced maintenance downtime of a critical application by over 75% while navigating multiple architectural pivots and redesigns. Managed significant change while taking on multiple roles and responsibilities to ensure uninterrupted team support and operational success.
● Successfully transitioned a team of 6 full stack engineers from legacy technologies to a modern tech stack, architecture, and product by providing strong mentorship, comprehensive training, and clear guidance. The team emerged as a high-performing, cohesive unit, consistently delivering exceptional value and critical features.
• Partnered closely with product managers as a key individual contributor within a cross-functional team of 10 software and QA engineers, consistently delivering high-priority customer-centric features and enhancements on schedule, ensuring quality and exceeding expectations.
● Developed the strategy and architecture for future initiatives by designing and implementing a scalable, secure suite of Spring REST APIs, enabling customers and partners to seamlessly integrate custom solutions into their applications. ● Successfully launched a redesigned, refactored customer-facing web application, supporting over 5,000 global partners. Led a small team through the entire architecture, design, planning, and implementation process, delivering the project on time and meeting all requirements. ● Streamlined and automated the revenue process for over $1 million in monthly transactions by designing a comprehensive payment processing and invoicing program. This solution served thousands of global customers, reducing invoice processing and delivery times by 100x.
• Delivered the design and implementation of an innovative biological specimen tracking app, significantly enhancing efficiency and convenience for cancer researchers by providing a user-friendly platform to visually record and catalog specimens.
• As a technical lead, successfully delivered multiple high-priority features on schedule by overseeing technical planning, collaborating with business analysts, and setting clear engineering goals within a small, agile team of in house and offshore engineers.