Aki Perez
Software Development Manager
Personal Information
- Name: Aki Perez
- Nationality: US Citizen
- Location: Miami, FL
- Phone: (267) 333-7599
- Email: aki@akiperez.com
Professional Profile
Senior development manager with more than 20 years’ experience as a full stack website and applications development engineer. Experienced as a Manager, Technical Lead, Application Developer, Database Administrator, Graphic Designer, Programmer and Project Manager in a wide variety of enterprise web-based business applications. Employers include Spirit Airlines, Cisco, eBay Enterprise, Hearst Newspapers, NYCPD, and AT&T. Flexible and adaptable in various working environments having positioned for startups, hybrid studio-agencies, large privately held and Fortune 500 companies. Primarily focused on creation of agile teams and building front-end / backend architecture for large scale CMS websites, e-commerce applications, enterprise level software, and client-side responsive web and mobile applications.
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Work Experience
Mar 2021 - Present
Lead Software Engineer
Spirit Airlines - Miramar, FL
Providing architecture, front end code setup, release management, unit testing and e2E tesing capabilities, thought leadership and mentoring for distributed team of front-end / back-end developers.
- Technical lead for System and feature teams, delivered high quality softeware products.
- Participate in the feasibility analysis for new systems/applications
- Lead or play a leadership role in the technical design of new systems/applications for moderate to small, high-level technical complexity projects, working from functional specifications
- Direct junior staff in the coding and/or configuration and testing needed to meet documented needs
- Monitor the operating efficiency of existing application systems and provides (or arranges for) proactive maintenance
- Review, analyze, and modify programming systems, including coding, testing, debugging and installing for a large-scale system; maintain records to document program development and revisions
- Provide technical support, root cause analysis and lead the effective problem resolution for business and 3rd party partner inquiries to resolve production issues
- Provided architecture, leadership and mentoring for distributed front-end / back-end development team of Senior and Junior US based developers on various internal projects.
- Conducted Interviews for Senior and Junior level development team prospects.
- Managed code base builds and code release deployments.
- Created processes for Code Management, Code Review, Code Documentation, and Unit Testing Standards and process/project documentation for various project teams.
- Design and Develop clean user friendly interface and customer experience
Aug 2019 - Mar 2021
Customer Delivery Manager
Cisco - Herndon, VA
Providing architecture, infrastructure setup and management, devops, unit testing and e2E tesing capabilities, thought leadership and mentoring for distributed team of front-end / back-end developers.
- Rearchitected Digital Engagement Center Service Provider Marketing Platform from WordPress based architecture to Java backend / Angular based micro front-end architecture.
- Created architecture for internally distributed/hosted/managed angular components library to be leveraged across several internal angular applications as an external dependency,
- Creation management of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery build and release pipeline from manual code release processes.
- Converted platforms Angular applications to Angular Universal applications.
- Managed Google Cloud Platform Server/Database infrastructure.
- Provided architecture, leadership and mentoring for distributed front-end / back-end development team of Senior and Junior US and India based developers on various internal projects.
- Conducted Interviews for Senior and Junior level development team prospects.
- Managed code base builds and code release deployments.
- Created processes for Code Management, Code Review, Code Documentation, and Unit Testing Standards and process/project documentation for various project teams.
- Mentored Senior / Junior front-end and back-end developers.
March 2018 - Mar 2021
Lead Web Developer
Cisco - Gaithersburg, MD
Provided architecture, leadership and mentoring for distributed front end / back end development team of Senior and Junior Developers both US based and abroad on various internal projects. Execution of multiple concurrently running projects for various telecomunications providers ex. Rogers, Verizon, Orange, Comcast, AT&T all with various unique technical specifications, frameworks, requirements and complexities.
- Managed front end architecture and development execution of several internal/external applications including cross browser code development, code review, QA/UAT, deployment,release management, backlog prioritization and post launch issue resolution
- Created processes for Code Management, Code Review, Code Documentation, and Unit Testing Standards for various project teams
- Provide technical leadership and promoted best practices
- Conducted Interviews for Senior and Junior level development team prospects
- Managed multiple projects code bases and managed releases
- Created mock services to accelerate front end development while RESTFul API’s were developed
- Created project build scripts for automated code builds for various project environments
- Mentored Junior Front End and Back End Developers
- Wrote Jasmine/Karma/Protractor unit test suite and mentored junior developers on how to test our web-based software
- Conducted Code Reviews
July 2016 - March 2018
Web Developer
BroadSoft (Acquired by Cisco 03/2018) - Gaithersburg, MD
Provided Leadership/Mentoring for front end development team of 10+ Senior and Junior Front End Developers on various aspects of Comcast Xfinity Mobile Projects. Execution of multiple concurrently running projects across various channels for newly founded Xfinity Mobile Brand at Comcast with various unique technical specifications, frameworks, and complexities (TeleSales, TeleCare, Retail Sales).
- Hired and lead a team of 10 developers; ensured software deliverables were delivered on time and on budget.
- Architected and developed a new greenfield retail web app using Angular 4 and Webpack for Comcast’s XFINITY Mobile platform.
- Execution of multiple concurrently running projects for various telecommunications providers Rogers, Verizon, Orange, Comcast, AT&T all with various unique technical specifications, frameworks, requirements and complexities.
- Conducted Interviews for Senior and Junior level development team prospects
- Created processes for Code Management, Code Review, Code Documentation, and Unit Testing Standards for various project teams
- Created automated code builds for codebase that was previously manually built/deployed
- Created mock services to accelerate front end development while RESTFul API’s were developed
- Created peer programing exercises and tests for technical interview processes
- Provide technical leadership and promoted best practices
- Managed code base and created releases
- Mentored Junior Developers
- Conducted Code Reviews
July 2014 - July 2016
Web Development Lead
eBay Enterprise - King of Prussia, PA
Led front end development team of 15 Senior and Junior Front End Developers both local and offshore deliver over 96k hours of project work. Led front end development teams onshore/offshore in the execution of five concurrently running projects with unique technical complexities and budgets up to $500,000 each (RLEU Optimized Checkout, RLEU Expanded Top Navigation, RLUS Online Returns, RLUS Estimated Delivery Date, RLUS Notify Me When Availaible).
- Managed front end architecture and development execution of US and EU projects including cross browser code development, code review, QA/UAT, deployment, and post launch issue resolution
- Successfully managed onshore/offshore front end development team members to execute projects for Ralph Lauren US, Club Monaco Us, Club Monaco Canada and Ralph Lauren EU platforms on both mobile and desktop
- Trained junior/senior developers on responsive mobile development practices, workflows and troubleshooting techniques for both iOS and Android devices.
- Introduced development & testing workflows that aided in reduction of development and QA testing efforts against projects.
- Lead development team in introduction of practices that yeilded a reduction of 40% in High Priority (P1/P2) post launch defects
- Enterprise level web application development for various high profile clients including Ralph Lauren, Toys R US, Dick’s Sporting Goods, GNC, Club Monaco, MLB, Bath and Body Works, & Aeropostale.
July 2011 - July 2014
Front End / Mobile Development Engineer
Hearst Newspapers - New York, NY
Full-Stack development including front end, responsive, mobile, social media, UX, delivery optimization, backend development, and XCode/iOS application development.
- Hands on leadership, innovation, evangelism, and best practices implementation using HTML5, CCS3, responsive design, Ajax, jQuery and JavaScript, REST/JSON in an agile environment.
- Collaborate with Product, Analytics, Ad Ops, and Design teams to represent development services across all digital newspaper products.
- Led development on blogging network of approximately 2700 sites, WordPress themes development, WordPress plugins development, developed new functionality for WordPress blogging platform networks on several newspapers properties including San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express News and Albany Times Union Newspapers
- Developed responsive front end for proprietary CMS on Digital Newspaper Websites
- Developed Digital Newspaper iPad applications
Jan 2011 - Jul 2011
Web Developer
Delphi-US - New York, NY
- Design, build, and maintain web sites, using authoring or scripting languages, content creation tools, management tools, and digital media.
- Write, design, or edit web page content, or direct others producing content.
- Analyze user needs to determine technical requirements.
- Research, document, rate, or select alternatives for web architecture or technologies.
Aug 2008 - Jan 2011
Lead Web Developer
Coactum Group Interactive - ARECIBO, PR
- Delivered rich user experiences by leveraging HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, XML, JSON, Flash and Ajax.
- Developed proprietary Classic ASP / VBScript CMS and custom content modules for client websites.
- Research, document, rate, and select alternatives for web architecture technologies.
Jul 2006 - Aug 2008
Web Developer
Anexo Group - San Juan, PR
- Web designer/Developer for a digital agency creation of proprietary ASP CMS.
- XML Driven Flash CMS modules.
- Database development, web design, coding, SEO integrations.
- Produced over 100 projects a year including content management systems, logos, print advertisements, brochures, web layouts.
Education
2001 - 2003
St. Joseph’s University, Brooklyn, NY
Masters of Science, Organizational Management
1998 - 2001
St. Joseph's University, Brooklyn, NY
Bachelor of Science, Organizational Management Minor Computer Information Systems
- Certificate in Information and Technology Applications
- Certificate in Marketing Advertising & Public Relations
- Certificate in Leadership and Supervision
- Certificate in Management
My Portfolio
Technical Skills
Angular
Expert, 6+ year
TypeScript
Expert, 5 years
WebPack
Advanced, 4 year
Gulp
Advanced, 5 years
BootStrap
Advanced, 6 year
NodeJS
Advanced, 7 years
Grunt
Advanced, 5 year
Javascript
Expert, 19 years
HTML5 & CSS3
Expert, 10 years
React
Proficient, 5 years
jQuery
Expert, 13 years
Wordpress
Expert, 12 years
PHP
Expert, 12 Years
Adobe Photoshop
Expert, 20+ years
Adobe Illustrator
Proficient, 12 years
Back-end Development
Advanced, 14 years
Contact
I'm always interested in new and exciting projects, so if you have a cool idea in mind and think I can help just send me an email at aki@akiperez.com or use the form below and I'll follow up on your inquiry ASAP.