Hands-on Technology Leader

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BERNARD APOLINARIO *******.**********@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/bernardapolinario 949-***-**** Director – Software Engineering: Strategic and operational leader accomplished in designing and delivering innovative, quality, enterprise-scale, high volume, high availability solutions while building and managing highly productive global teams. Skilled at uncovering improvement opportunities, evolving technology environments, and directing change management and transformation initiatives. Trusted partner to cross-functional leaders, including C-suite. Software Architecture Relational Databases Cloud Computing Web Applications Agile Methods Project Management Team Management Data Modeling Service Oriented Architecture Object Oriented Design Application Integration

Highlighted Technical Skills: Azure AI/Cloud, .NET, ASP.NET, C#, COM/DCOM, SQL Server, JavaScript, Kubernetes, MS Project, Oracle, SSIS, SQL, Tibco BusinessWorks, UML, Visual Basic, Azure DevOps, Visio, WCF, WPF, SignalR, Python PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Medtronic: Principal Software Engineer 08/2023-Present

Review and optimize current application development processes.

Perform database optimization.

Design & develop microservices and APIs in support of development teams.

Provide support for Windchill RV&S application.

Manage migration from PTC Windchill RV&S to Siemens Polarion PLM.

Created Business Continuity Plan.

Optimize CI/CD (DevSecOps) pipelines in Gitlab.

Avanade Inc.: Group Manager – Full Stack Development 04/2022-08/2023

Lead teams of senior engineering leaders and architects to design, build, and maintain the next-generation technology platforms.

Managed project budget and profitability.

Coached and developed human capital, managing matrixed team between 13-16 (Sr. Managers, Managers, Architects, Consultants, Developers); conducted performance reviews and aligned talent with business objectives.

Partnered cross-functionally to build consensus around strategy and orchestrate operations; communicated with all stakeholder groups, including status reports to senior leadership (e.g., CXO).

Owned solution architecture and guide strategy for technology transformation/modernization; assisted in sales pursuit opportunities, solution demonstrations, and value propositions.

Re-architected and modernized New York Fire Department dispatch system (FireCAD) in record time, improving performance, security, user experience (UX), and communications capabilities.

Designed Enterprise DataOps and DevOps platform for Kaiser Permanente, working with data science team on automated system and near-real-time data availability; created microservices and API for data extraction.

Designed and implemented DevSecOps (CI/CD) pipeline for large projects.

Technology Environment: Oracle, MongoDB, Python, TriFacta, GitLab, Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift, Helm, .NET, WPF, SignalR, Azure Cloud

Microsoft: Senior Application Development Manager 04/2014-04/2022

Managed Premier Support agreements and services/consulting for Fortune 500 accounts as a trusted advisor; led resource allocation and guided customers on multi-year IT strategies alignment with business goals.

Managed vendors and Microfot partner engagement for projects. Reviewed RFP, RFQ, SOW documents.

Devised technology transformation plans and envisioned proof-of-concept solutions; engaged in contract negotiations and reviews, ensuring customer consumption aligned with IT objectives and SLAs were met.

Revamped NORAD Tracks Santa website to alleviate pain points and amplify stability, delivering a performant site handling 23M unique visitors globally with fast issue remediation and quality feature deployments.

Rescued massive email migration project for GoDaddy, uncovering and remediating root cause issues while streamlining project deliverables, earning client trust and revenue gain via extended support agreement. 2/2

Led end-to-end project management, from planning through execution and support; monitored IT health via assessments and workshops, drove continuous improvement, and created action plans.

Guided clients on on-premises to cloud migrations and high performance, high availability cloud solutions.

Formulated major incident response plans (MIRP) for business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR).

Coached teams on Agile methodology, DevOps, and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) best practices and managed Support Engineers to ensure prompt issue resolution and customer satisfaction; conducted interviews and made hiring recommendations to build highly productive, knowledgeable teams.

Technology Environment: Azure Cloud, Azure DevOps, Azure SQL, Snowflake, O365, GitHub Enterprise, .NET KornFerry International: Lead Developer/Architect 07/2011-04/2014

Managed multi-discipline team (Software Development, Analysis, Testing) to produce leading-edge solutions in support of executive recruitment business; structured/prioritized workflows and optimized resource usage.

Rearchitected deployment of custom CRM application by leveraging Amazon S3 and Microsoft ClickOnce.

Designed solutions to integrate LOB data with 3rd party partners (e.g., LinkedIn, Avature, Aprimo).

Led projects to design UML architectural diagrams, refactor applications to enhance performance and exception handling, create RESTful services, and design websites (internal and customer-facing).

Technology Environment: Microsoft Project, Visio, TFS, Microsoft Extensibility Framework (MEF), ClickOnce, AngularJS, jQuery, MVC, ASP.NET, Bootstrap, WCF, JSON, OpenID, OAuth, AWS

Introduced and trained the development team on Agile and CI//CD methodologies Wynn Resorts: Lead Architect – Applications and Database 09/2010-07/2011

Designed and delivered solutions to enhance hotel/casino daily operations; managed team of 3 (Production Support, Solution Development), directed assignments, and conducted SCRUM meetings.

Built databases and designed efficient ETL processes to manage, view, and use data; optimized database performance and implemented standards and best practices.

Instilled master data management (MDM) methodology to improve data quality and prevent corruption.

Conducted root cause analysis and led issue resolution to minimize database/system downtime; created metric monitoring reports to proactively manage IT systems and prevent business interruptions.

Led project management (plans, sprints, delivery) using Agile approach.

Developed Wynn Poker web services to allow 3rd party applications (e.g., mobile apps) to integrate with existing Hospitality and Gaming systems.

Technology Environment: Tibco BusinessWorks SOA, Teradata, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Oracle 10G, MySQL, Microsoft.NET, Microsoft Project, TFS, Opera, IGT Cantor Gaming: Senior Database Administrator 11/2009-09/2010

Designed database solutions for wireless gaming, optimizing performance, scalability, and reliability; collaborated with developers to create highly optimized queries, reduce blocking, and increase performance.

Defined database standards and best practices to ensure highly available systems; created QA and Development database environments and ETL packages.

Developed statistical algorithms for sports betting odds and database for risk management on in-running bets.

Technology Environment: SQL Server, MySQL, SSIS

TechResults: Lead Solutions Architect 06/2009-11/2009

Designed solution for seamless integration of player data across multi-property casinos (OneCard); created fast, reliable, recoverable multi-layer architecture for scalability and ease of maintenance.

Created base components and helper utilities to promote code reusability.

Optimized hardware resource utilization by distributing process load across several servers.

Created business intelligence (BI) analytical tools to enable data-driven decision-making.

Technology Environment: .NET 3.5, C#, SQL Server 2005 & 2008, WCF, WPF, MSMQ, Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1, Silverlight 3.0 RIA

KornFerry International: Solutions Architect (Contract) 03/2007-01/2009 2/2

Migrated VB 6.0 Searcher desktop application to .NET 3.5 Winform application; designed re-usable UI components, performed object-oriented analysis, created service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework, optimized T-SQL Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions, and created exception handling/logging system.

Created multi-threaded asynchronous objects to mitigate delays in returning large query result sets.

Technology Environment: VB.NET, C#, WCF, WPF, Visio, UML, T-SQL, Microsoft Enterprise Library, Expression Blent, Visual Studio

Additional experience details and technical skills available via LinkedIn EDUCATION + PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT + PUBLICATIONS California Polytechnic University: Bachelor of Business Administration, Management Information Systems Microsoft Certified Professional – Cloud Platform: Architecting Azure Solutions (AZ-534), Managing Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-533), Azure DevOps (AZ-400), Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) Blogs: Custom AI Models with Azure Machine Learning Studio and ML.NET; Blockchain in a nutshell; GitHub Actions Overview; Premier Support Helps Keep Santa Flying

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