San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area
Experienced IT professional with 20+ years of experience in Software Development, Software Quality Assurance, Project Management, Software and Hardware requirements gathering and research, enterprise-level software and hardware deployments and team leadership. Proficient in managing and cultivating Development and Quality Assurance teams from the beginning to end of the Software Development Life Cycle. Adept in each of the following areas: technical leadership and direction, technical design, test and build automation, test planning, processes creation, improvement and implementation, use case development, test script creation and execution, defect tracking, interfacing with developers, business analysts, vendors and end users. Specialties: Project and process management, balancing multiple simultaneous workflows, fostering good relationships with business and development partners, team management and allocation, and project budget management.
I'm the Solutions Architect/Engineering for the USAA Federal Savings Bank Anti-Money Laundering organization. My focus is on large scale systems architecture, design, and implementation. I currently support an organization of 16 agile teams, and provide technical guidance, mentoring, and support for 150+ engineers and technical resources. I'm well versed in architecture design patterns, software design patterns, event-driven architecture, microservice architecture, distributed systems, and enterprise applications.
Technical lead of a multi-million dollar infrastructure hardening effort. Prototyping of an enterprise-wide virtualization solution capable of supporting environment and infrastructure emulation with an emphasis on expediting development and testing, continuous delivery and integration, and increasing the integrity and quality of the test infrastructure within the organization. Prototyping a big data analytics and warehousing solution intended to provide useful and pertinent metrics of test coverage, component integration, environment health and integrity, and identifying processes in need of refinement and improvement. Managing team of between four and ten software developers in a scaled agile ecosystem. Providing technical guidance on multiple concurrent tracks and features that interact with numerous enterprise systems. Working with system architects to implement appropriate software functionality that is extensible, reusable, measurable, and that are easily maintained within the enterprise software ecosystem.
Technical lead of a multi-million dollar infrastructure hardening effort. Prototyping of an enterprise-wide virtualization solution capable of supporting environment and infrastructure emulation with an emphasis on expediting development and testing, continuous delivery and integration, and increasing the integrity and quality of the test infrastructure within the organization. Prototyping a big data analytics and warehousing solution intended to provide useful and pertinent metrics of test coverage, component integration, environment health and integrity, and identifying processes in need of refinement and improvement. Managing team of between four and ten software developers in a scaled agile ecosystem. Providing technical guidance on multiple concurrent tracks and features that interact with numerous enterprise systems. Working with system architects to implement appropriate software functionality that is extensible, reusable, measurable, and that are easily maintained within the enterprise software ecosystem.
Oversaw and performed title research geared towards accurate creation of ownership reports to aid in mineral acquisition for a multi-million dollar fossil fuel venture. • Conducted cursory, final and held-by-production title research. • Supported leasing landmen with initial title and vesting research.
Lead, coach, and motivate a team ranging from four to twelve testers. Develop, extend, execute, and analyze regression, functional, and performance test case specifications and test summary results. Define testing risks through a partnership with developers, business and operational partners. Participate in and contribute to requirements gathering for new software projects. Manage, develop and improve processes and procedures within the FedEx Support Services organization.
Responsible for test case creation from functional and technical requirements and execution of testing efforts for numerous projects. Liaise with development and business partners to ensure deployment of new products followed compliance processes. Executed hardware and software installation, testing and qualification for enterprise level deployments
Owned the deployment and configuration of hardware and software in stores across the United States. Communicated vendors to achieve center readiness. Function as liaison between New Center Setup teams and Field Technology Support group.
Acted as a liaison between center team members and the tech support organization. Promoted and encouraged teamwork between with in-center team members and the Field Technology team. Performed hardware, software, and network maintenance, installation, configuration and troubleshooting. Trained team members on workflow and best practices