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Professional Summary

Highly technical and team-oriented software engineering professional with over 10 years of experience in cloud development, DevOps, and software architecture. Proven track record in optimizing delivery throughput, elevating team quality, and driving large-scale projects. Committed to delivering practical, high-impact solutions and fostering a high-performing culture.

Technical Skills

  • Cloud Development: AWS Lambda, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Serverless, IAM, AWS Step functions, SNS, SQS, CloudFront, CloudTrail, Kinesis Data Firehose, Hashicorp Vault, CloudFormation, AWS Cloud9
  • .NET Technologies: C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC 5, Entity Framework, Microsoft Release Management
  • Architecture & Design: AOP, Build and deployment management, Code quality metrics, Design patterns, Framework design, IoC and DI, Legacy conversion, Load-balanced environments, N-Tier design, SOA, Automated system monitoring, Log design and aggregation, 3rd-party vendor integration
  • Lifecycle & Agile Practices: Agile/Extreme Programming, Estimation techniques, Inception and retrospective facilitation, Incremental delivery, Iterative metric tracking, Story creation, Value-driven development
  • Automated Testing: TDD, BDD, Spec-based documentation generation, Integration testing, Load & stress testing, Mocking, Test automation, Test harness creation
  • Database Management: DynamoDb, SimpleDb, Aurora, Oracle, PL/SQL, SQL Server, T-SQL, Schema design

Professional Experience

Manager, Software Engineering

Northwestern Mutual, Milwaukee, WI
2023 – Present

  • Led engineering team delivering Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) integrations for campaign management workflows, enabling personalized outreach to 2 million policyholders.
  • Drove campaign management platform enhancements, reducing campaign delivery time by 2 weeks, and enabling campaigns to run concurrently where previously single-threaded.
  • Mentored engineers across multiple teams through regular 1:1s, technical coaching, and structured growth plans.
  • Led adoption of AI-assisted development tooling, trunk-based development, and automated quality gates, increasing team productivity and code quality.

Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead

Northwestern Mutual, Milwaukee, WI
2020 – 2023

  • Led CACT initiative, delivering a streamlined and user-focused process for validating mailing packages.
  • Architected and delivered the Marketing Operational Datastore (MODS) V1, a MongoDB-backed system integrating with a third-party vendor and the existing leads platform to enable our marketing business-driven domain.
  • Championed C4 model adoption for system design documentation across 6 teams, raising the standard for architecture communication and onboarding efficiency.
  • Scaled pod infrastructure within the factory model to handle significantly increased load, enabling the team to support 2 to 3 times the previous volume.
  • Migrated legacy microsites to AWS CDK, modernizing deployment pipelines and reducing operational overhead.
  • Contributed to Northwestern Mutual's primary marketing site (nm.com), delivering up to date pricing models and statistics for our clients.
  • Built a Next.js / React application for Column Funds from greenfield to production, and maintained several existing microsites for partner teams.

Senior DevOps Engineer / Cloud Engineer

Volkswagen Credit, Libertyville, IL
2019 – 2020

  • Led cloud platform enablement initiatives, setting AWS standards and providing core tools and frameworks for development teams.
  • Assisted development teams in adopting AWS and SAFe Agile practices, accelerating cloud-readiness across the organization.
  • Deployed a company-wide SonarQube instance with supporting CI/CD pipelines, establishing a baseline for code quality across all teams.
  • Replaced Microsoft Release Management with Concourse CI and AWS CodeBuild, enabling cloud-managed CI/CD for on-prem deployments.
  • Migrated source control from TFS to Git with full history preservation, and moved NuGet hosting from self-managed to Artifactory.
  • Deployed company-wide security policies to managed AWS accounts and reviewed architecture proposals for new products.

Cloud Engineer / Full Stack Developer

Volkswagen Financials Digi, Berlin, Germany
2017 – 2019

  • Designed and delivered a unified AWS development landing zone for international teams, standardizing environments with pre-built security controls.
  • Built an AWS account vending machine with integrated Red Hat SSO (Keycloak) for 500+ developers across 15 countries.
  • Deployed and integrated a full developer toolchain: Concourse CI, GitHub Enterprise, Artifactory, Keycloak, RocketChat, and Hashicorp Vault — all backed by self-hosted SSO.
  • Built a Vue.js self-service user management portal for developer onboarding.
  • Established organization-level AWS security policies and conducted in-person and remote onboarding across 15 countries.

Software Developer

Volkswagen Credit, Libertyville, IL
2008 – 2017

Enterprise Shared Service

  • Built a centralized repository for account, customer, and vehicle information, establishing a common data model across the company.
  • Created configurable repositories supporting both legacy and new vendor backends, with SpecFlow-automated data mapping documentation.
  • Built a mock vendor service enabling development ahead of vendor readiness, and a test harness for rapid feature discovery.

IVR Composer Rewrite

  • Led reverse-engineering and full rewrite of legacy Genesys Voice Studio (GVS) application to Composer, decoupling data sourcing, business rules, and UI via WCF and repository pattern.
  • Delivered full BDD coverage, a web-based test harness, and detailed technical documentation; enabled user activity measurement via Splunk.
  • Built Composer-to-WCF connectivity using Java Metro and automated packaging and deployment with PowerShell.

Cell Phone Compliance (Scrubbing)

  • Built a real-time system to identify cell phone numbers and prevent non-compliant outbound calls, integrating with a vendor for accurate phone-type data.
  • Created a local contact information store to reduce external API calls and built a test harness for rapid validation.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Informatics
Minors in Business and Information Systems
Indiana University

Business Skills

  • Business analysis to develop or refine requirements.
  • Self-starter with initiative in business and technical domains.
  • Project management and team leadership experience.
  • Continuous research in new technologies for organizational improvement.
  • Developer mentoring and strong collaboration skills.
  • Documentation of technical and logical design.
  • Strong written and verbal communication.

References

Available upon request.

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