Vice President .Net Core

CAREER SUMMARY

• Executive Principal Engineering and Solution Architecture Leader with 20+ years of

experience and a proven background operating at the Vice President level for both startups and Fortune 100 companies, ensuring success throughout all phases of complex, high-profile technology initiatives from greenfield through maturity

• Responsible for leading teams of upwards of 30 on- and off-shore developers spanning India, Ukraine, and Mexico, consistently providing mentorship to influence cohesion

• Identified roadmap and critical path to resolve scalability and reliability issues identified with the onboarding of larger customers, including significantly improving data import speeds from 20 minutes for 20K records, down under 20 minutes for 1M records, representing a 5000% improvement

• Retained to aid in porting technology acquired by Charles Schwab from an acquisition by evaluating existing systems and begin migrating those systems from the acquisition into official Schwab Systems in AWS

• Performed as a consultant and served on-site at Microsoft Corporate Headquarters in Redmond, Washington, collaborating with users, managers, and development teams while defining requirements and leading design, architecture, implementation, and testing for a quality project, migrating an on-prem prototype into a fully functional production version in the Azure Cloud

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FISERV INC – BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ

Senior Developer September 2023 – March 2025

• Developed and implemented automated deployment scripts to streamline complex SDLC workflows, reducing manual effort by over 75%, eliminating release errors, and enabling automated rollbacks and deployments.

• Led development of critical security and performance enhancements for the flagship product, ensuring improved stability, scalability, and compliance with industry standards.

• Facilitated the team’s transition from Waterfall to Agile methodologies, introducing best practices that improved collaboration, sprint efficiency, and iterative development.

• Worked extensively with .NET Core and Framework, SQL Server, Harness, GitLab, Visual Studio, Kafka, XML, JSON, PowerShell, SonarQube, integration pipelines, and deployment workflows. VERTEX INC – KING OF PRUSSIA, PA (REMOTE)

Lead Developer August 2021 – May 2023

• Responsible for leading teams of upwards of 30 on- and off-shore developers spanning India, Ukraine, and Mexico, consistently providing mentorship to influence cohesion

• Implemented the deployment via GitHub Actions for the build/test including Checkmarx and SonarQube, ArgoCD, and Kubernetes (EKS), including all necessary database, secrets, s3 bucket creation, for Dev and QA, allowing the UI to finally connect to real API services, which was important for demonstrations to clients

• Technology: .Net Core, C#, Entity Framework, Docker, Artifactory, NuGet, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, GitHub (Actions), AWS (S3, RDS Aurora, EKS, SQS, Secrets Manager, IAM, ElastiCache), React, Python, Selenium, XML/XSL(T), OAuth, Node JavaScript, Java, Spring Boot, CSS

• Microservices Architecture for Global Compliance and eInvoicing, which I architected and led development. Terry J. Hardin

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• Senior Development Architecture

• Critical Thinking

• Strategic Planning Execution

• Relationship Building Communications

• Team Leadership

• RDBMS NoSQL Data Warehouse

• REST SOAP

• Microservices SOA N-Tier

• AWS Azure Cloud Development

• High Availability Disaster Recovery

• Automated and Performance Testing

• .Net Framework .Net Core

• C# Python Java

• React Angular UI Development

• Startups Fortune 100 Enterprises

• SAFe Agile Waterfall

• Passionate Hands-On Polyglot

CORE COMPETENCIES

CHARLES SCHWAB – NEW YORK, NY (REMOTE)

Consultant: Personalized Investing Web November 2020 – June 2021

• Retained to aid in porting technology acquired by Charles Schwab from an acquisition by evaluating existing systems and begin migrating those systems from the acquisition into official Schwab Systems in AWS

• Utilized Windows expertise to oversee a project migrating multiple Java microservices following an acquisition, addressing the issues of all developers working on a Mac and coming into the Charle Schwab Windows environment, getting employees up and running locally on their dev environments, all while maintaining compatibility for both environments

• Technology Windows, Linux, MacOS, Stack: Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Gradle, Maven, Groovy, AWS (EC2, SQS, IAM, S3, RDS, IAM), JQuery, Mustache, Zookeeper, Artifactory, and Bitbucket; microservice architecture on AWS, CSS, HTML, LESS

BANK OF AMERICA – JERSEY CITY, NJ

Vice President / Programmer: Electronic Trading Risk November 2015 – May 2020

• Responsible for leading teams of on- and off-shore developers spanning India, Ireland, and the East Coast, with many team members possessing little to no knowledge of Python and Angular, ensuring team was up to speed through mentorship

• Single-handedly designed the Python system to import hundreds of Excel files into the proper tables and structures in SQL Server, including designing and implementing the respective tables in the database, migrating all user data into the system

• Functioned as a developer for Production Support for releases to production, directing the administrators in the execution of scripts, backups, code retrieval from repositories, and the execution of encryption and end-to-end security

• Partnered with project managers and business analysts to understand requirements and timelines while also evaluating and recommending strategic solutions, ultimately leading the implementation and testing of the product

• Directed teams to design and develop architecturally sound custom applications, as well as implement and integrate with SQL Server and MicroStrategy for reporting

• Enhanced the website portal with new features developed in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and prototype.js MICROSOFT CORPORATION – REDMOND, WA

Consultant: Azure Cloud Solutions Architect June 2014 – August 2015

• Performed as a consultant and served on-site at Microsoft Corporate Headquarters in Redmond, Washington, collaborating with users, managers, and development teams while defining requirements and leading design, architecture, implementation, and testing for a quality project, migrating an on-prem prototype into a fully functional production version in the Azure Cloud

• Directly responsible for building a service offering based on the Microsoft Azure platform, utilizing Azure Queues, Table Storage, Blob Storage, SQL Azure, and both Worker and Web roles to automate testing and quality functions within the organization; other tools included Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server (TFS)

• Designed interrelated Microservices and deployed to DEV and QA environments on Azure ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Alexanders – Developer, NopCommerce Migration for a printing company storefront SirsiDynix – Solution Architect, Product Owner, e-Resource Central for eBooks and Libraries Microsoft (Niche Cubed) – Lead Developer Support Engineer for Azure Developer Support Venture Industries – Co-Founder / CIO for an online video conferencing software Citibank – Vice President of Internet Development for white label, international customer portal Merck-Medco Medco Health Solutions – Solution Architect, Lead Developer Automated Pharmacy Security Complete Data Solutions – Senior Software Developer, consulting for The Bureau of National Affairs in DC Intra-Light Software Development – Applications Developer for a Product useful to Fuel Distribution companies EDUCATION

University of Phoenix – Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / eBusiness (3.93 GPA) FEATURED TECHNOLOGY STACK

Languages: C# Python Java JavaScript Typescript SQL XPath XSL(T) Regular Expressions Frameworks: .Net Core RESTful Web APIs SOAP .NET Framework Entity Framework Django React Angular NUnit/XUnit SpecFlow/Behave (Cucumber) JQuery Bootstrap Jasmine Node JS NPM Spring Boot OpenAPI Swagger Databases: SQL Server Azure SQL AWS RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) MongoDB Redis Oracle Tools: Visual Studio VS Code Eclipse PyCharm IntelliJ IDEA Git (GitHub and BitBucket) SVN Jira Confluence Align MS Office

(Excel, VBA, Access, Word, PowerPoint) Draw.io MS Teams PowerShell DevSecOps: GitHub Actions Docker ArgoCD Kubernetes Terraform Artifactory Jenkins Ansible Checkmarx SonarQube IAM

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