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Skills
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- Strong Team and product Leadership.
- Possess technical, analytical, planning and organizational skills.
- Excellent communication skills; both verbal and written.
- Experience of managing project deliverables on time and as per expected quality.
- Experience leading and building high performing balanced teams that utilize Agile XP principles (Pair programming, TDD, CI / CD).
- Extensive knowledge of building 12 factor cloud native applications.
- Strong knowledge of building custom applications using Ruby / Rails, Java, and Java Spring.
- Comprehensive knowledge of testing tools and frameworks Capybara, Selenium, Rspec, Poltergeist, Mockito, Cucumber and Junit.
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Experience
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Home Depot / Staff Software Engineer
June 2000 - PRESENT, Atlanta, GA
Home Depot engagement with Pivotal Labs:
- Special project, worked at Pivotal Labs in NYC as part of the initial engagement with Pivotal to help Home Depot with the transformation to Modern Software Development.
- Immersed in an Agile XP team and paired with Pivotal Engineers, Product Managers and Designers.
- Chose to be part of this engagement to help lead the charge of Home Depot’s IT transformation.
- Full stack development approach to rewrite of Rental Systems using Ruby on Rails, Javscript and some Angular JS for frontend.
- All code written using red-green-refactor TDD cycle using Capybara, RSPEC and Jasmine.
- We were the first Home Depot team that used Pivotal Cloud Foundry PaaS for application hosting to set up Continuous Delivery.
- Used Jenkins for automating build, test and delivery for CI / CD.
- Mastered Agile XP engineering practices: Pair Programming, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
Highlights:
- Product Manager of a team focusing on solving problems that many large managed Pro customers have doing business with Home Depot, using customer centric Lean Agile Methodology for continuous improvement and incremental changes while measuring results. We created lean solutions hosted in Pivotal Cloud Foundry, written in Java Spring, Node.js and some Angular JS, tested with Cucumber (BDD), Karma and JUnit.
- Team Lead of a multiyear strategy to upgrade Rental Systems with the latest Software Development and Cloud technologies, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, written in Ruby on Rails and building collaborative teams using Agile XP principles.
- Team lead for several Rental Systems projects that consisted of major enhancements to a Java / Flex application with annual $2-5 million budget.
- Team Lead to rewrite Inventory Management Store to Store Transfer using Java Struts framework for web application and, .NET for mobile application.
- Led the integration of a Java based Return to Vendor System to SAP XI services as part of a major SAP installation for all Canadian stores.
- Deployment Captain for SAP rollout to Canadian store. I was responsible for onboarding assigned stores, collaborating with store management, leading them through a 12-week program to prepare them for cutover. I coordinating all cutover activities before go live, during the night of deployment and follow up after going live.
- Senior Engineer for major enhancements to the in-store Return to Vendor system.
- Software engineer for globalizing Inventory Management systems to prepare for store opening in Quebec Canada and Argentina.
Leadership experience:
- Lead software development projects and product teams that focused primarily on retail store systems deployed to 2000 plus retail locations in US and Canada.
- Hands-on team leader, mentor and coach with a record of success in making quality custom software.
- Determine priority and assign work to software engineers and contractors.
- Responsible for leading multiple projects and/ or initiatives.
- Ability to communicate to a wide range of audiences, both business and technical.
- Coordinated all aspects of the projects including matrix teams, influenced decisions and leveraged partnerships.
- Ensured the team comprehended and applied the established processes, policies, security, standards and procedures.
- Reviewed and provided input on project financials.
Interactive Business Systems / Consultant
1999 - 2000, Atlanta, GA
Consultant to the Home Depot to prepare existing store systems for the globalization of the retail chain.
Nobel Systems / Programmer Analyst
1998 -1999, Atlanta, Ga
Full life cycle development of Telecommunications related systems written in Informix 4GL
Health Systems Resources / Programmer Analyst
1997 -1998, Chamblee, Ga
- Maintained Hospital Information System programs written in COBOL for Billing and Electronic Claims modules.
- Designed and developed new GUI applications written in Progress 4GL for Accounts Payable System.
DeKalb Technical Institute / Programmer Analyst
1997 -1998, Chamblee, Ga
- Responsible for setting up quarterly calendars for processing. Responsible for the printing and distribution of all reports and notices.
- Supported portions of a 1000 node four campus network, troubleshooting TCP/IP connectivity issues revolving around RS/6000, terminal servers, dummy terminals and Windows 95 workstations.
- Installed a 50 node Novell 3.12 network.
- Enhanced and maintained existing COBOL application.
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Education
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Georgia Southern University / Core classes
DeKalb Technical Institute / A.T.S., Computer Information Systems
1996, Clarkston, Ga
Kaplan University / B.S., Information Technology
2009, Online
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