Technical Solutions Architect and Software Engineering Lead with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering high quality and high-performance software solutions. Skilled in team leadership, application design and development, cloud computing, APIs and service oriented architecture (SOA). A proven technical leader and mentor, excels in communication across organization levels, leading geographically distributed teams and organizational change management (OCM).

Java   JavaScript   Node.js   REST   API   Spring MVC   Spring Boot   Cloud Native   AWS   OpenShift   Docker / Kubernetes   Maven   AB Testing   SOA   Agile / SAFe   Software Development Lifecycle (SLDC)   Microservices   Tech Architecture   SQL   Domain Driven Design  

Title	Start Date	End Date	Company	Role
Software Developer	2020	Current	State Farm Insurance	Software Developer in the Enterprise Technology space, focused on improving the software development practices around, and the stability of the target platform.
Software Engineer Lead	2018	2020	USAA	IT Leader ressponsible for modernizing the technology stack and applications within the Property and Casualty division. Technical Lead of a 6 person development team focused on designing and developing a suite of microservices to support the Acquistion and Servicing domains, within P&C.
IT Architect & Senior Software Developer	2016	2018	State Farm Insurance	IT Leader responsible for establishing and implementing the companies tactical short and long-term strategies for Business Experimentation and an API-first development culture Simultaneously led two different teams through industry scans and current state analysis for both Business Experimentation and API Development . Outcomes: Evaluated, selected, stewarded contract negotiations and enabled a SaaS solution for Experimentation Designed and led developed 3 custom integrations for the SaaS solution to work with our private cloud Increased Experimentation by 50%, in the 2 quarters since acquisition of SaaS, while achieving a 45% reduction in time to market for experiments Delegated evaluation of available API Portal / Gateway products, collaborated on the selection of best fit for our organization. Collaborated with infrastructure to stand up trial instance for POC Established and socialized best practices for API development, responsible for a 50% increase in APIs under development
Lead / Senior Software Developer	2005	2016	State Farm Insurance	Collaborated in a team-focused environment providing high quality software solutions Helped build and enhance highly available, scalable, real-time and secure systems used by both internal business partners and external customers. Outcomes: Completed 12 major projects, working closely with business partners, led agile development teams to develop, test and maintain Web based software applications. Responsible for maintaining high-quality development standards while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget. Team Lead for Advanced Software Engineering group, setup as internal results based development Lead Developer for rewrite and migration to private cloud, for all Services associated with flag ship Auto Quote and Purchase application; realized 25% performance improvement for end to end quote
Software Developer	2000	2005	State Farm Insurance	Java Developer and software development team lead primarly focused on projects and efforts in support of Property & Casualty systems.

Certification	Subject	Date Completed	University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)	Computer and Information Systems	2000	Illinois State University