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Work Experience

• System Architect, The Ventura Group Inc./Systems Plus, Inc.

  Dec, 2020 - Jul, 20254 years 7 months

  Developer and Technical Lead for a small multidisciplinary team to maintain and modernize web applications. Consultant for the National Foreign Affairs Training Center’s Azure Government development environment.

  • Integrated database schema into source control and CI to auto-generate deployment scripts, reducing deployment time and enabling consistent, versioned releases.

  • Rebuilt and deployed a production-only API into the dev environment using the latest .NET version and configuration as code, enabling testing and development in Azure.

  • Rearchitected and modernized the Overseas Briefing Center’s Post Info to Go app using the latest .NET Framework, clean architecture, and Dependency Injection for improved maintainability.

  • Boosted client productivity for the Post Info to Go app by developing a Batch Account Request system to streamline bulk user onboarding.

  • Led migration of source code from an on-premises air-gapped dev environment to the enterprise cloud platform, significantly improving developer experience and collaboration.

  • Expanded development capabilities by deploying the first cloud-hosted microservice to audit data from an on-premises database, serving as a prototype for Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines from development to production. This also supported the initiative to reduce reliance on a legacy air-gapped environment.

  • Collaborated across multiple government divisions and bureaus to help architect a shared DevOps environment, strengthening cross-team coordination and technical alignment.

  • Established source control standards for branching, merging, and CI/CD pipelines, providing consistent practices that improved team collaboration and deployment reliability.

  • Created comprehensive governance and technical documentation to streamline onboarding and ensure best practices in the cloud-hosted development environment.

  • Contributed to the redesign and infrastructure upgrade of the Foreign Service Institute’s website, migrating from ASP Web Forms to MVC with HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, and Sass to create a modern, mobile-friendly experience.

• Senior Web Applications Developer, The Ventura Group, Inc.

  Feb, 2017 - Dec, 20203 years 10 months

  Develop, modernize, and maintain ASP.NET web applications for the Department of State’s National Foreign Affairs Training Center, collaborating within an agile team to deliver and support websites and tools essential to its operations.

  • Developed the HR Gateway, a mobile-friendly ASP.NET MVC ticketing application that replaced manual email and walk-in requests with a streamlined system for submitting, tracking, and reporting HR assistance requests; designed the database with SQL Server including ERD, stored procedures, user roles, and authentication.

  • Contributed as part of a team to develop the FSI Training Internet Site in ASP.NET MVC, delivering Post Info to Go—a secure app enabling approved users to access Department of State post information previously restricted to the intranet—and an Internet Course Catalog that replaced static PDFs with a searchable, user-friendly course directory.

• E-Learning Applications Developer, Paltech, Inc./The Ventura Group, Inc.

  Dec, 1997 - Feb, 201719 years 2 months

  Lead programming and maintenance of software development lifecycle for distance-learning products within the Instructional Support Division of the Foreign Service Institute.

  • Developed several dozen SCORM-compliant custom courses using modern web standards for Learning Management System deployment.

  • Contributed to project management activities through effort estimates for planning, task breakdowns for organization and scheduling, and status reports for tracking.

  • Partnered with Lead Graphic Designer to implement a consistent Bureau of Consular Affairs branding using CSS3, creating a reusable style framework applied across multiple courses to reduce custom styling efforts.

  • Purchase Card Training Course – Created the distance learning division’s first Flash ActionScript-based custom course.

  • Supply Chain Management Course – Created the distance learning division’s first SCORM and 508-compliant custom course.

Projects Experience

• Survey Microservices Project

  Nov, 2023 - Jan, 20241 month

  A learning project where a deployed Platform as a Service (PaaS) ecosystem serves as a solution for a survey submission/consumption scenario.

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