Experience

 
 
 
 
 
August 2021 – Present
Fully Remote

Head of Engineering

Acelab

Responsibilities Include:

Executing, Leading, Coaching, and Evangelizing for the Engineering Vertical.

 
 
 
 
 
March 2021 – July 2021
Fully Remote

Full Stack Developer

Upli (Finance of America)

Responsibilities Include:

  • Custom Software Development
  • API design and 3rd party integrations
  • MySql Development
  • Flyway Db Migrations
  • Code Reviews
  • Sprint Planning
 
 
 
 
 
October 2020 – March 2021
Wilmington, DE

Senior Developer

Continental Finance Company

Accomplishments:

  • Created a Service Bus Architecture
  • Designing, Building, and Maintaining custom software and sites
  • Contributed to Build and Deployment Automation
  • Setup and Maintenance of AWS infrastructure
  • Enhanced and Modernized the Code Review Process
 
 
 
 
 
August 2017 – September 2020
Fully Remote

Dev Manager / Lead Developer

ezLandlordForms.com

Responsibilities include:

  • Hiring, Managing, and Mentoring full stack developers
  • Designing, Building, and Maintaining custom software and sites
  • Build and Deployment Automation
  • Setup and Maintenance of AWS infrastructure
 
 
 
 
 
March 2009 – October 2016
Philadelphia

Dev Manager / Lead Developer

DMi Partners

Responsibilities include:

  • Hiring, Managing, and Mentoring .NET developers
  • Designing, Building, and Maintaining custom software and sites
  • Build and Deployment Automation
  • Requirements Gathering, Project Management and Deliverable Accountability
 
 
 
 
 
April 2005 – March 2009
Horsham

Senior Technical Architect

Telerx

Responsible for building custom software to aid clients such as Nestle, Kraft, and Perdue, while also building common tools and architectures for other developers on my team and other teams to use in their work.
 
 
 
 
 
October 1996 – November 2004
Philadelphia

Director of IT

J. G. Wentworth

This is where I got my big break. What a title for a nobody right? I was in the right place at the right time and was blessed to be sought out by this company back when it was just exploding in size and revenue and they knew they couldn’t run the company just on Excel spreadsheets and an Access database using IT consultants anymore.

While I was most directly involved with software development, I was also responsible for everything from phone systems, building electricity, networking, server maintenance - everything electronic. This was when “the web was born” and I was a big believer in it. Massive amounts of CGI was built and later converted to ASP, and when ASP.NET was born… wow!

Responsibilities include:

  • Hiring and Managing all IT Staff
  • Mantenance and Admin of all Technology (Phones, PCs, Mainframes, More..)

Recent & Upcoming Talks

It’s great! But it has its challenges…
Nov 17, 2018 8:30 AM — 9:45 AM Philly.NET Code Camp 2018.2
Slides

Advice from your manager’s perspective…
Mar 24, 2018 8:30 AM — 9:45 AM Philly.NET Code Camp 2018.1

It’s really a good thing, I promise!
Feb 25, 2017 3:00 PM — 4:15 PM Philly.NET Code Camp 2017.1

Services

I have a full-time job and I’m very happily employed. But that doesn’t prevent me from taking side jobs just to keep my experience and perspective fresh.

I’d never commit to a project that would prevent me from fully supporting my employer, but the following types of projects are very welcome:

  • Speaking at your event or user-group meeting
  • Developer training and mentoring
  • Small website development, hosting, and maintenance
  • Consulting on workflow automation and process improvement
  • Helping your church with any technology matters

Finally - I have lots of friends in the business. If I can’t help you, maybe I know someone who can. Let me know!

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