Tech Lead

People and team management

75% Tactical

Thought Leader

Process Maturation

Build Culture of Trust

Servant Leadership

January 2000

August 2006

Washington State Department of Social & Health Services

Developed new organizational structure, increasing overall development shop by 100% (10 people plus 3 contractors).
Managed a multi-disciplined software engineering team comprised of FTE’s and contractors.
Re-wrote Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration's legacy case management system to service-oriented architecture and modern development platforms.
Introduced Agile and Scrum where there were no previous methodologies or frameworks in place.
Defined the architecture for a hybrid-mainframe and SQL environment to allow incremental movement to modern architecture.

Notable Accomplishments

Saved $2M annually for mainframe-related expenses through conceptualizing and defining technical plans and architecture for complete modernization effort.
Introduced new technologies to promote the continual evolution of software.

Technologies: C#, VB.Net, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JS frameworks and libraries, ASP.Net, Classic ASP, Windows Forms, MVC, WPF, WCF, SQL Server, Windows Server, Team Foundation Server