PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced Technical Project Manager, Product Owner, and Solution Architect in the Aviation industry, skilled in Agile Development and AWS Cloud Technologies.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

- Bachelor’s Degree, Graphic Design, Salisbury University, 2008
- Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect, Associate
- CIW Certified JavaScript Specialist
- Edward Tufte Presenting Data and Information Course - Nielsen Norman Group Certificate in User Experience, UX Management Specialty

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Mac OS, Linux, Windows
Languages: HTML, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, Node.js, PHP, MySQL, JSON, XML
Software: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver), Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
Other technologies: Amazon Web Services (CodeCommit, CodePipeline, CloudFormation, API Gateway, Lambda, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, RDS, Cognito, EC2, S3, etc.), Command line, Google Analytics, Git

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Collins Aerospace IMS10/12 – Present
Technical Project Manager / Product Owner2/20 – Present
  • Technical Project Manager for ARINC Online Services Portal
    • Work with Program Manager and customers to define user requirements
    • Transform user requirements into technical requirements
    • Own technical requirements and product architecture
    • Work with Program Manager to plan and prioritize feature releases
    • Work with Program Manager to maintain the program roadmap
    • Communicate status, accomplishments, blockers to key stakeholders on a regular basis
    • Perform daily work in an Agile Scrum of Scrum / Team of Teams model
    • Comprised of 2 products (Portal & Data API) spanning multiple internal organizations
  • Product Owner for ARINC Online Services Portal: Data API Product
    • Partner with Program Manager, other Product Owner, and users to define product requirements
    • Own, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, comprised of epics and user stories
    • Create and manage the product vision, roadmap, & feature release plans
    • Lead cross-organizational multi-disciplinary team of engineers
Software/Cloud Architect4/17 - 2/20
  • Worked with other architects and developers to establish an API Management Strategy and Infrastructure
    • Designed API architecture based on Amazon Web Services serverless technologies
    • Presented to IMS Senior Leadership Team and Collins Aerospace Enterprise Architecture
  • Lead Engineer on multiple APIs and Web Services to streamline and automate data movement
    • For internal and external customers
  • Lead Engineer of the roll-out of a division-wide instance of Atlassian tool suite
    • Consulted internal customers to establish requirements
    • Hosted on Amazon Web Services
    • Architecture based on AWS/Atlassian best practices
    • Including Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket
    • Worked with Operations team to establish support model and documentation
  • Worked with executive level management on Strategic Financial Plan
    • Helped to translate ideas to visual illustrations
    • Provide design support to effectively present information
  • Propose a new User Experience initiative to improve our applications and processes
    • Co-Created User Experience Community of Practice
    • Presented to IMS Senior Leadership Team
  • Previous Member of the Steering Committee of the New Hire Employee Network Employee Resource Group
  • Previous Member of the Technology Services & Operations’ Design Approval Group and Innovation Team
Sr. Software Developer10/12 - 4/17
  • Redesigned / refreshed intranet platform (HTML, SASS/CSS3, JavaScript)
    • Met with stakeholders across the company to inventory and evaluate existing content
    • Removed ~18GB of data (out-of-date/irrelevant/orphaned files)
    • Designed new Information Architecture based on page content instead of page ownership
    • Designed new UI/template based on current trends and web standards
    • Manually redesigned and added new template to each page (~1k pages)
    • Created custom JavaScript functions to assist with site-wide automation and dynamic content
    • Implemented SASS to manage CSS
    • Added Font Awesome functionality to harmonize iconography
  • Created and managed intranet content
  • Tested and configured intranet for cross‐platform and cross-browser compatibility
  • Designed and developed “MyIT” Scheduling Application
    • Responsive web application for scheduling IT Service Center appointments
    • Deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Linux, Apache, PHP)
    • Integrates into Exchange calendar for scheduling (PHP-EWS) Utilizes SASS, Bourbon/Neat for responsiveness and CSS management
RG Steel, LLC Sparrows Point06/10 – 10/12
Web Designer/SharePoint Administrator
  • Designed, built and updated corporate external website (HTML, CSS)
  • Designed, built and updated corporate intranet (SharePoint, ASP.Net, CSS)
  • Designed graphics for print, convention signage, and newsletters (Adobe Creative Suite)
  • Designed layouts for policies, data sheets and other informational documents
  • Created SharePoint forms and systems, to be used companywide (Microsoft InfoPath)
  • Created and administered SharePoint sites and permissions
  • Assisted with front-end web application development (ASP.Net, CSS)
Poole & Associates, Inc.03/10 – 06/10
Multimedia Specialist
  • Designed graphics for presentations, training slides, promotional materials, briefings and web pages encompassing various technical topics and that are aimed at high level audiences. (Adobe Creative Suite, SharePoint)
  • Updated internal sites including animated content (HTML, Adobe Flash)
  • Created logos and other graphics for government customers (Adobe Creative Suite)
  • Developed technical diagrams (Microsoft Visio)
Mittal Steel/Severstal, Sparrows Point06/08 – 03/10
System Administrator/Web Designer
  • Set up and managed company wide user permissions (Active Directory)
  • Worked with users for desktop support and troubleshooting
  • Designed and developed website for Sparrows Point Environmental Department (HTML, CSS, Flash)
  • Worked with developers to create corporate Web applications (ASP.net)
  • Created both static and animated graphics (Adobe Creative Suite)
  • Designed print work for company events (Adobe Creative Suite)
  • Created diagrams of server room and server racks (Microsoft Visio)
Community College of Baltimore County09/08 – 11/08
Adjunct Faculty
  • Taught Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CS3
  • Taught Advanced Adobe Photoshop CS3