South Florida Tech Podcast
April 25th, 2022
Host interviewing the CEO of Tech Hub South Florida - Nikki Cabus
A Developer by heart, Manager by trait,and a Speaker by Passion living in beautiful South Florida
A Developer manager with over 15 years experience in the field and 5 years experience leading teams of up to 10 people in 4 different cities.
You can find more about me from my social cloud:
GitHub: TheDamian
Twitter: @DamianMontero
LinkedIn: Damian Montero
Contact me: You can email me by simply adding "Damian@" to this domain name.
HeadShots:
Host interviewing the CEO of Tech Hub South Florida - Nikki Cabus
co-Host with Amanda McDermott at the React Miami 2022 Conference
Serverless apps - Getting up and running without an IT Staff
Web Sockets & Notifications: Or how to play an interactive game with 60 other people live!
Also created the Official South Florida Code Camp Mobile App (See left side of site)
Presented to a group of 50+ attendees the power of docker to get their projects up and running and eliminate the saying "it works on my box".
In this presentation I showed over 80+ attendees the power of Web Sockets with an interactive game played with several of the attendies live.
I have been very honored by several Hackathon Wins.
Here are some of them:
Prior Member for the >Blackberry Elite Hall of Fam
Here is my Interview with Crackberry.com at the last Blackberry Jam
My Microsoft Certifications can be found by Clicking Here
Currently working hard and have been nominated as a Microsoft MVP
I have been very honored by several Hackathon Wins.
Here are some of them:
Miami in Tech - 2nd place for the Near Protocol prize - $2,000
Best HTML5 app at the AT&T Hackathon in Las Vegas for $5,000 Event Details - Recap
Best HTML5 app for $1000 and an all expenses trip to Las Vegas to complete for the top prize Recap
Won 2nd place by creating an app that finds the face of the person that's sitting in front of the phone. shows a thought bubble and then shows and reads out loud the latest tweek from the event.- Event Details
WhatUpBridge - An iPhone apps to find when the Bridges in Miami are up or down - Recap found here
Manager / Developer / Architect
Download a version of my resume in Word Format or PDF (username and password is my first name)
Service Robotics & Tech - Remote Jan 2022 – Present Role: Developer Mentor & Trainer Description: Helping developers is my passion and at SRT it’s my job. I help developers move to the next level and make them the best version of themselves possible Teach Lead JM Family Enterprises, Inc. Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 Description: As a Tech Lead my role is simple. provide the guiding technology for the projects that delight our users. In my role I get to lead some of South Florida's best talent as eventually all good developers and IT staff are employed by JM Family once in their career. IT Architect Nations Benefits June 2020 – Jan 2021 Description: As a Software Architect I oversee and work closely with development team to release the best software for our company. My role also includes working with our business executive team to make sure our company's vision is seen and felt by our customer by having the best software in the industry. Our difference is in technology and my role is to make sure that difference stays ahead of our competition and always utilizing the best in industry standard that we are known for. Teach Lead JM Family Enterprises, Inc. Oct 2019– May 2020 Description: As a Tech Lead my role is simple. provide the guiding technology for the projects that delight our users. In my role I get to lead some of South Florida's best talent as eventually all good developers and IT staff are employed by JM Family once in their career. Senior Application Developer Vertical Bridge REIT Nov 2018– Oct 2019: Boca Raton, FL As a Senior Application Developer, I worked with my team to improve the existing internal real-estate management system. I also architected their first customer facing website bringing my security knowledge and reactive design knowledge to create a project that was mentioned in the yearly company meeting as one of the best projects to see the light of day in the company. With a special honor given by the CEO of the company himself. We used all of the latest technology while still making sure that the website worked on all browsers and on all platforms. Lead Application Developer Nebular Agency Sept 2016 – Oct 2018: Boca Raton, FL As a Lead Application Developer for Nebular Agency, I am responsible for designing the customer experience using great design and functionality. As part of the development and R D Department we make sure we create the best quality for our customers at the best price. At Nebular there's always 100% chance of Awesome. Lead Application Developer Arrow Consulting and Design April 2016 – August 2016: West Palm Beach, FL As a Lead Application Developer, I lead the team that built applications for our many clients. I manage the delight of our customers as well as made sure the team was working on exciting and worthwhile projects and that was delivered, not only on time, but with the highest quality and customer joy as possible. Senior Software Engineer Norwegian Cruise Line July 2015 – April 2016: Doral, FL As a Senior Application Developer; my role was not only to add my skills to the already very capable team of 3 senior developers but also to guide and architect all aspects of our customer facing web properties from the front-end design pattern practices to the back-end technology. This created an easy to use system and customer pleasing experience. Being part of this Agile environment meant the team moved quickly and features are added often. My experience and knowledge also expended to helping to implement their Selenium for mobile testing solution. This allowed the company to add the 4 mobile platforms to their existing Selenium project. Helping not only implement the Selenium project but helping design how the testing was going to happen. Developer Manager Everst Business Funding March 2015 – July 2015: Doral, FL As a Manager of the Development team, I am responsible for leading a team of senior developers in the creation of all facets of business requirement. Meeting all the needs of the division in our company are my primary goal but also providing our business users and outside clients with the best tools and overall experience to make their business and personal needs the best in the industry. We have taken an existing system that had a response time of 3-5 minutes and moved that to 2-3 seconds. I love motivating developers, designers and DBAs and getting their best work in the most efficient way. We work in an Agile Environment that I have implemented and we work as a strong team. Senior Applications Developer III / Team Lead BulletLine Oct 2014 – March 2015: Hialeah, FL I was in charge of the architecture & release details of two large applications used by both the Vendors of Bulletline and the Auditing department. I was in charge of not only working with the designers and other developers, but also working with the business department for all requirements and initial data. All front-end, middle-ware components and Backend systems were designed and implemented by me as the architect and team lead. Senior Web Developer / Desginer Skype Inc / Microsoft April 2014 – Oct 2014 Palo Alto, California I was in charge of several marketing full websites for the marketing department of both Skype and Microsoft as a whole using the full Microsoft Technologies Stack. I was responsible for Full-Stack creation, design and implementation of these marketing directed websites usually created to emphasize a feature, platform or partnership that Skype or Microsoft want to market for. Some examples are Xgames.skype.com and Guardians.skype.com Senior Developer Level 4 / Software Architect ADP Dealer Services Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ADP; Computer Software industry June 2010 – February 2014 (3 years 9 months) Fort Lauderdale As a Software Architect for ADP's Dealer Services Division I was in charge of the complete life cycle of our software which is in use in over 70% of the large car dealerships in the united states. I lead a team of 10 developers and QA personnel using Agile Methodology. I built the team from scratch twice having interviewed all new members of the team. All development was using the Microsoft .Net Technology using C# and VB.NET script with a SQL Server 2008R2 server on a distributed server farm built by myself and my team. Senior Developer www.Moned.us December 2007 – November 2010 (3 years) Fort Lauderdale Developed all systems used by our company to track the leads that we sold to our clients. Our system was unique in the business as our clients could bid on the leads they were interested in Senior Developer Black Diamond Services Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry April 2007 – June 2010 (3 years 3 months) pompano beach, FL * Designed and co-ordinated the implementation of an automated EDI billing system which allowed Black Diamond to be able to bill their clients in an electronic format; lowering their cost and collections time from 3 months to an average of 2 weeks. This was achieved by working face-to-face with several of their brokers on a system that eliminated errors and automated the dispute process. * Designed and co-ordinated the implementation of an automated EDI Client entry exchange system that allowed all of Black Diamonds broker partners the ability to submit their new claimants information eliminating any entry errors, duplications and discrepancies. Also eliminating the need for data entry personnel to perform these tasks manually. * Moving an existing proprietary system that controls their whole reservation system, used by this 300 person transportation company, over to ASP.NET implementation from their existing PowerBuilder internal Application using C# and VB.NET and SQL Server 2005. Several Transactional systems were created and a 3-teered system was created to allow the web front end to be able to use the same functionality as an internal VB.NET application. Consultant - Developer Calvin Giordado November 2006 – April 2007 Fort Lauderdale, FL I created a proposal workflow system in VB.NET using Visual Studio 2005 and MS SQL 2005 to allow them to control the processing of customer’s requests, and bid on customer’s projects. This involved several senior level officers whom I had to report to and keep up with design and requirement changes Lead Developer Alliance - Circuit City.com September 2005 – November 2006 Coral Springs, FL * Work on their main E-Commerce system which is run for several Top 500 Firms such as Circuit city & Samgoody using C#.NET using Visual Basic 2005 & MS SQL 2005 * Created and enhanced Websites with a front ending interface having millions of visits a month. The systems were designed with many webservers, load balancers, database servers and middleware servers in mind. Sr Software Engineer Global Resource Systems May 2005 – September 2005 Sunrise, FL * Created and deployed several of the client-facing ASP.NET websites used to collect leads. These sites where created in VB.NET and C# depending on project requirements. * Created VB.NET Automation systems to alleviate system administrator tasks. * Created VB.NET NT Services in C# to synchronize several webmail systems. Consultant - Web Developer TTADirect & StoreWOW.com January 2004 – April 2005 Hollywood, FL * Leading a small team of ASP.NET Developers I integrated their e-commerce website with their accounting software as well as redesigned a lot of the existing web site to a more professional look and functionality. The two websites went from being mainly static pages, to fully functional e-commerce websites, with integrations with distributors through XML and automating a lot of the daily activities. The Web sites were redesigned using ASP.NET using VB.NET and C# depending on system requirements and past developer’s work. Also with some changes to some existing ASP pages using VBA. The database in use was MS SQL Server using T-SQL, and All pages used Javascript & CSS Consultant - Web Developer AeroToy Store LLC March 2003 – January 2004Fort Lauderdale, FL * Redesigned their website and several internal systems to create an automated system for listing their planes & exotic cars on Ebay and other retail websites. Also headed the project to bring all websites, and systems in-house to better control what could be done, this allowed several new projects to take place and more opportunities for this corporation. All websites were created using a combination of ASP, ASP.NET using VB.NET, and PHP. The database used on these systems was MySQL 3.23. All web pages used Javascript & CSS. Web Developer Inktel Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry July 2002 – March 2003 (9 months) Miami, FL * Leading a team of ASP.NET using VB.NET programmers on managed tasks for several divisions in Inktel and meeting tough schedules with quality as our number one goal. We worked integrating several companywide systems with databases from companies like Sprint, Bellsouth, and BankOne. Worked with a team on several projects often taking the lead and creating team wide systems to be used on all future and current projects. All projects were a combination of ASP & ASP.NET using VB.NET, with MS SQL using T-SQL as the database. There were several web services from the client companies that required XML and XSLT. All web pages used JavaScript and CSS. Several of the systems were n-tiered and I personally created not only the client tiers but several of the middle tiers as well Web Developer TakeToAuction / Perfumania.com December 1999 – July 2002 hollywood, FL * Designed and develop the company website which linked to our database to present a dynamic database driven pages using ASP technology which contains a various module for each function of the web site menu. * Designed Drop shipping operations web site using ASP.NET using VB.NET technology * Project Leader for the web designer team, including but not limited to, task delegation for each module/function, graphic/art lay out, pages structure, etc. * In charge of every aspects of the order processing of all stores and membership based websites, from credit card to eCheck processing systems. * In charge of all security issues regarding with customer information. * All web pages were created using ASP, and ASP.NET using VB.NET. The database used for all projects was MS SQL Server using T-SQL, and all web pages used javasscript and CSS Web Developer Transolutions Public Company; 1-10 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry March 1999 – December 1999 Fort Lauderdale * Designed and implemented the company website for proprietary booking/reservation software over the internet working with Java server pages. * Enhanced the web site function by adding a various module, pages lay out, and information structure. * Other than the redesign of the web site which required HTML, all projects were done using Java on Borland Jbuilder. Jr Web Developer / Support Staff Accubid Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry November 1996 – March 1999 Toronto, Canada * Designed and implemented the company website adding a dynamic wizard using Perl for Order Management form and Questionnaires. * All pages were designed using HTML and Perl for the back end Scripts. * I originally started a IT support staff but the opportunity to created their web front end and back end processing system arrived and I took the position.