Strong development leader and Enterprise Architect. TOGAF 9.1 Certified, results-focused, with proven ability to lead enterprise, multi-platform, multi-million dollar software projects from business requirements to final release, on time, within budget and with high quality. Capable of building and motivating high output teams while establishing strong role model and mentor behavior for team members. A true retail industry expert with experience acquired over the last 12 years working with multiple, tier 1 & 2, retailers worldwide.
My leadership style is leading by example. In my opinion, good leaders are first and foremost good mentors and by motivating and enabling personal growth a leader can create motivated employees and future leaders for the organization.
Specialties:
+ Software Architecture
+ Leading Development Teams
+ .NET development
+ Business Analysis
+ Problem Solving
Solutions Architect - Enterprise Architecture @ Provide Software Solutions that conform to the organization Enterprise Architecture Principles while maintaining a realistic approach to budget and timeline restrictions.
Active contributor to the development of the Enterprise Architecture Practice at GameStop.
Leading multiple Buy vs. Build vendor engagements, evaluating the best solution for the organization, alignment with the Enterprise Architecture Road Maps calling for increased SaaS model utilization and reviewing the financial justification and ROI.
Leading the Architecture engagements for the organization's HR, Finance and Corporate Systems.
Mentor and consult with Application Architects to produce the appropriate designs for the solutions provided.
Mentor and consult with development teams to help solve problems as they surface during the project life cycle.
Working with the business architects to build relationships with the users to help bridge between the business and IT From September 2013 to Present (2 years 2 months) Grapevine, TXSoftware Engineer II -Store Systems and Innovation Department @ + Architecture & Design of a centralized solution for the Company’s Furniture Orders system thus eliminating multiple store level systems and simplifying processes.
+ Participating as the stores group’s technical lead in the company’s latest effort to transform the store level legacy financial systems into a centralized Oracle based software suite. Providing architectural input, overseeing development team members’ efforts, writing technical documents and hands-on coding the integration modules between the store systems and the new centralized Oracle system.
+ Integrated new hardware components to the existing POS system from hardware models selection through production rollout of software and hardware.
+ Re-Architecture of the RFID .NET application that had performance challenges using .NET WCF services and MS-SQL Service Broker to create a scalable system that can support the jcp’s extreme volume of transactions in production.
+ Created a multi-tiered, self-deploying, zero footprint, generic software deployment tools to allow for immediate hot fixes deployment to jcp’s 1,100 server and 40,000 registers. The solution was built using .NET 4.0, parallelism and other mechanisms to accomplish full network deployment in a very short time (i.e. emergency hot fix).
+ Mentoring younger engineers, performing code reviews and suggesting alternate, performance enhancing methods when needed. Also making sure the code didn’t breach PCI & SOX compliance.
+ Analyzing, designing, writing program code, documenting, and implementing functionally appropriate, technically sound, and well-integrated custom and third party application systems in accordance with customer requirements and organizational methodologies and standards.
•.NET development for the point of sale system deployed at over 40,000 registers across the company stores including web services, windows services and stand alone apps.
+ Interacting with business clients to define, analyze, & deliver customer requirements. From July 2010 to September 2013 (3 years 3 months) Plano, Tx.NET Development leader, WMS @ From January 2009 to July 2010 (1 year 7 months) .NET Development Leader, Retalix Loyalty @ From June 2004 to January 2009 (4 years 8 months) .NET developer @ .NET development. From June 2004 to January 2006 (1 year 8 months) Teaching Assitant @ TA in the "software engineering" course. From 2004 to 2004 (less than a year) Assistant to the Director of Systems and Software Processes at Rafael @ Assistant to the Director of Systems and Software Processes at Rafael.
dealing with KPAs, CMM, CMMI and ISO standards.
development and participating in forming a knowledge community for the software engineers in the organization. From 2003 to 2004 (1 year) Software Developer @ development in C and Web env. From 2001 to 2002 (1 year) Administration @ Responsible of building a new location for the company. Found location, negotiated lease terms, found vendors for network, communications, hardware, furniture and more! From 2000 to 2001 (1 year)
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General @ Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi From 2015 to 2017 BSc, Information Systems Engineering @ Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel From 2000 to 2004 Joseph Gozlan is skilled in: .NET, Web Services, Microsoft SQL Server, Software Engineering, WCF, Software Development, C#, Business Analysis, SQL, System Architecture, Android, Agile Methodologies, Software Design, Object Oriented Design, Subversion, Program Management, Enterprise Software, ASP.NET, XML, C++, Web Development, Mobile Applications, C, SOA, Java, HTML, Scrum, Visual Studio, Software Documentation, Mobile Software, WinForms, SQL Server, Message Broker, MSMQ, Object Oriented Modeling, Programming, Program Development, Loyalty Programs, Loyalty Program..., ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, Entity Framework, JavaScript, Tortoise SVN, UML, Databases, Software Solution..., Enterprise Architecture, TOGAF