Rice University

Manager, Software Engineering at Dialexa

Dallas, Texas, United States

Dialexa

Manager

- Led a technical team of 4-5 on focused issues involving bill pay, business banking, and transfers/ACH.•	Conducted weekly one-on-one feedback sessions to discuss performance and goals.•	Completed biannual performance reviews with team members and coached on career development goals.•	Identified process improvement areas and worked with team to streamline workflow.•	Performed role of Scrum Master for team and planned weekly sprints.•	Continued work on implementing clients toward go-live on Alkami platform.

Alkami Technology

Lead Technical Implementation Engineer / Manager

- The primary engineer responsible for implementing Alkami’s two largest and most complex clients.•	Created new conversion processes to handle business banking needs.•	Developed script for new CheckFree bill-pay conversion process.•	Create new microservice that served as the foundation for other tools that needed to access internal database.•	Created multiple templates to help speed up integration time and minimize future configuration work.

Senior Technical Implementation Engineer

- Install, configure, customize and resolve all technical issues related to the online-banking platform.•	Worked heavily in SQL, C#, and Powershell to properly set up banking implementation for customers.•	Maintained, supported, upgraded, and debugged software and hardware issues across all environments including Production.•	Created and improved internal tools written in C# and Powershell to automate processes.•	Worked with IoC enterprise application frameworks (MEF, LightInject).•	Support and troubleshoot N-tier architecture design in distributed environments.•	Develop and support multithreaded programming tool used for converting digital banking users onto the Alkami platform.•	Pioneer Alkami integration with new Miser banking core•	Troubleshoot complex third-party SSO / API provider configurations requiring coordination with multiple parties.

Technical Implementation Engineer

- Developed and enhanced core infrastructure technology in a fast-paced agile development environment.•	Supported distributed risk analysis, position, and query service systems that provided data for the trading desk and front office.•	Worked closely with the front office to develop, enhance, and support Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) systems.•	Architected, designed, and implemented automated deployment tools to facilitate the maintenance of over 130 production servers.•	Worked with third-party vendors to develop bridging services and libraries to integrate external trading systems with proprietary HBK systems.

HBK Capital Management

Systems Engineer / Production Support Engineer

I developed UI features to extend the LabVIEW graphical programming environment to allow large-scale project development and engineering use in the real-time industrial space.  • Designed and developed UI tools that plug into a framework using COM-style interface programming.•·  Created new project views in the IDE to differentiate physical and logical representations of project file organization after multiple customer meetings and user testing sessions.• Integrated multiple plug-in provider components and responsible for supporting and extending the existing COM interface API as necessary.• Pioneered development in the LabVIEW for Real-Time Industrial group, working on abstracting principals of virtual instrumentation to the real-time embedded design space.• Served as a technical reference for the integration of external components into existing application architecture.·

National Instruments

Staff Software Engineer

- Supported customers developing applications with LabVIEW, DAQ, and GPIB.  •	Worked continuously with R&D, Sales, and Marketing to identify top customer issues and product improvements.• Wrote a plug-and-play driver program that would auto-launch upon detection of a NI-USB device• Taught several LabVIEW training classes, both internal and external.• Co-chaired ELP Mentoring Program, mentored 3 new AE engineers, coordinated multiple events• Worked on an academic textbook initiative to put LabVIEW in more university classrooms and labs.• Helped deliver marketing presentations on NI USB DAQ devices launched in Aug 2004.• Completed formal ELP Foundation and Leadership Series training program.• Project managed 10 engineers to successfully create ~60 example programs shipped with LabVIEW 8.0.• Continuously worked closely with sales, marketing, and R&D for customer and product support.

Applications Engineer

- Developed C++ engines that serve as core infrastructure tools allowing for further automation of VLSI artwork. •	Worked with third-party vendors on a weekly basis. Cooperating with Open Access Coalition community for submission of code into open source software.

Hewlett-Packard

Software Intern

- Created a production quality software-debugging tool for Code Composer Studio that would parse object files and output relevant information in both ASCII and XML format. •	Wrote code to generate interrupts on a `C62X board as well as verify the validity of saved registers upon occurrence of interrupts. •	Updated compiler code to ascribe to C99 standards from previous C89 specifications.

Texas Instruments

- Created a software tool written in C++ and C to allow for the detection of RLC interconnect differences and the characterization of the significance of these differences using a circuit simulator (HSPICE). • Interacted with IC designers to develop program specifications, gathered model information and developed product through full test, demonstrations and final release to meet customer requirements

Kileen Valenzuela

Kileen Valenzuela