Shawn P Cicoria

United States | LinkedIn | www.cicoria.com | GitHub

Summary

Hands-on Technical Lead driven towards action and sense of urgency towards prioritized delivery targets; resolve issues, move forward. Bias to action. Results-oriented engineering project teams across Retail, Automotive, Financial Services, eCommerce, and Manufacturing. Startups and large enterprises. Results-oriented lead spanning team sizes of 5 to 50+. Production continuous delivery, agile, DevOps, Security and Cybersecurity. Dissertation on Cloud and Cloud Native migration framework. Cloud Scale, Building Teams, CI/CD, GitHub, DevOps.

Experience

FDE Principal Software Engineer Architect Lead Manager | Microsoft Corporation

January 2007 - Present

• Initial incubation and creation of Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) team 2016 to present, global footprint.
• Azure cloud services engineering design, build, deploy Cloud Native Solutions servicing millions of users.
• Full stack cross-platform engineering, architecture, development best practices for CI/CD Cloud Native distributed systems at scale.
• Agile-oriented Kanban and scrum practices for team delivery and continuous delivery of quality product.
• Leveraging Open-Source (OSS) for customer solutions and guidance for production systems.
• Developer real-world experience publication, both writing and implementation of publication platform https://devblogs.microsoft.com/.
• Engage customers ranging from OSS startups to large Enterprise and strategic partners.
• Lead an agile development team of engineers on dozens of projects.
• Engineering manager with Top Box rating from MS Poll; Top Box from Client Surveys.
• Developer advocacy part of Developer Platform Evangelism (DPE) and Developer Experience (DX) global audiences, cloud native, conferences.

Director Global Industry Solutions | Avanade | New York, NY

June 2003 - April 2007

• Part of Accenture Financial Services team drove architecture solutions and capabilities.
• Services and solutions to clients, Accenture partners, and Microsoft internal teams.
• Awards for migration solutions: 1) Desktops and 2) Lift and Shift.
• Lead technology, tradeoff analysis, and best practice.

CTO Vice President - Product Manager | SunGard Securities Finance | New York, NY

• Global provider of Securities Finance stock-loan, securities lending, and repurchase agreements, a $2.6 trillion industry.
• Founded and built OmniConnect (ISV integration product), which was acquired by SunGard.
• Created OmniLend message broker for integration platform needs generating $5 million sales first year.
• Group generated over $1B current sales after rewrite of primary Mainframe system for Distributed Architecture.

Adjunct Professor | Pace University - Computer Science | New York, NY

• Top box scores for CS 612 Concepts and Structures in Internet Computing.

Project Examples

• ReactJS authentication with Azure Active Directory, effort eventually migrated to SDK team.
• Blockchain Workbench, complete enterprise-ready Ethereum deployment, migrated to Blockchain product team.
• React Native for Windows, cross-platform tool eventually migrated to Product Team.
• Cloud scale web apps, backend, such as eCommerce (Jet.com as an example).
• NLP Drive Through, AI/ML Anomaly detection at scale.

Volunteering

Youth Group for Appalachia Engage local contractors and volunteers in Harlan, KY on fixing, building, and repairing homes for less fortunate members of society.

Education

• Doctorate in Computer Science (3.8 GPA), Pace University, White Plains, NY, 2017
• Master of Legal Studies, Cyber Security, Texas A&M University School of Law (expected 2027)
• Master of Data Science, Computational Track (3.8 GPA), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Jersey City, NJ, 2020
• Master of Data Science, Cyber Security and Privacy (3.8 GPA), New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2023
• Master of Business Administration, Finance and Information Systems, Pace University, New York, NY
• Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Computer Science, Stockton University, Pomona, NJ

Skills

Cloud and Technical: Identity, OAuth, Blockchain, Cloud, Azure, PaaS, Containers, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, DevOps

Software: TypeScript, C#, C/C++, Python, Java, Kotlin, Golang, Rust, Assembler

AI/ML: Machine Learning, AI, SpaCy, NLP, Chatbot, TensorFlow, PyTorch, NumPy

Soft Skills: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Leadership, Audience Presentations