Experience

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  Air national guard

  Jun 2008 - Oct 2014

  Aeromedical evacuation technician

  - Providing patient care in the air.- Supervised multiple aeromedical missions ensuring safe and prompt medical transportation.- Managed the unit's safety section ensuring regulatory compliance.

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  New york state education department

  Oct 2014 - now

  -Lead a team of developers in the design, development, and maintenance of large-scale applications-Manage the full software development lifecycle, from project planning to deployment-Collaborate with business analysts and project managers to define project requirements and scope-Ensure that project deliverables were completed on time and within budget-Mentor and trained team members, providing guidance and support as needed-Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and best practices in software development Show less - Manage teams of application developers responsible for the modernization of projects.- Manage efforts in migrating processes out of mainframe systems.- Provide architectural leadership for development and maintenance of projects.- Develop JIRA dashboards in order to align new application development with Scrum processes.- Manage consultants through quality assurance programs via on-boarding and code reviews.- Manage the development of QA/UAT testing frameworks using selenide to ensure consistent regression testing.- Ensure vendor's work adheres to NYSED established standards, through agile methodologies like paired programming and code reviews.- Develop architectual committees to ensure best practices are thoroughly vetted and kept up to date. - Coach program offices in the utilization of project intake and acquiring funding approval. Show less - Managed the rewrite/modernization of the Comprehensive Special Education Information System.- Managed multiple HBITS contractors while ensuring the quality and timeliness of deliverables, using agile methodologies like code reviews.- Mentor new developers on how to maintain and modernize existing systems.- Changed the effort's processes from waterfall to agile using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Confluence and Jira.- Managed the acquisition and distribution of the O'Rielly learning platform licenses.- Responsible for the completion of the modernization effort.- Technologies used in this position: Oracle 12c, Spring, JAVA, REST Services, and JavaScript. Show less - Developed and re-architected the PD System.- Re-developed a mainframe-esq system moving into a low code modern environment.- Created a new developer on boarding process that streamlined the management of probationary periods.- Mentored new hires by on-boarding them into the agile, and service oriented architecture efforts underway at NYSED.- Modernized PD's workflow by switching to agile methodologies by utilizing Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence.- Migrated PD's legacy authentication system into an active directory service.- Technologies used in this position: PHP, Java/JavaEE, PLSQL, Spring, Oracle 12c, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript. Show less

  • New Application Development Unit Technical Lead

    Mar 2022 - now

  • Lead Technical Architect

    Apr 2021 - Mar 2022

  • New Application Development Unit Supervisor

    Oct 2019 - Apr 2021

  • Special Education Quality Assurance Modernization Project Lead/Architect

    May 2018 - Oct 2019

  • PD Technical Lead Developer

    Oct 2014 - May 2018