Dale Houghton

Partnering with business sponsors, product owners, engineers, and other architects in an agile environment to design solutions aligned to enterprise goals. Leading engineering team effort on mainframe application modernization and standardization across cloud platforms.

Conducted over 40 AWS demonstrations and POCs to 30+ enterprise customers, leading to increased AWS adoption. Strategic advisor for mainframe migration that saved customer over $4M annually.

Saved over $1 million annually in storage costs by architecting and engineering a REST API microservice. Managed a 7-person multinational engineering team and developed automation solutions.

Architected and engineered hybrid-cloud offerings for Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Created AWS architectures for Dev, Test, and Production accounts, enabling Scrum team development.

Architected and engineered CSC's hybrid-cloud offering marketed to Fortune 500 companies. Created AWS architectures connecting Austin office to management and tenant VPCs.

Engineered high-availability asset management system and CDN on AWS, enabling launch of $5 million e-commerce project. Developed CI/CD system for image assets.

Built new e-commerce catalog management system UI and API customizing CNET data. Modified Endeca search engine for improved SEO.

Designed embedded web-based GUI control interface for traffic light controllers, saving $1M+ in costs annually. Created AJAX and XML parsing functions for embedded system.

Modeled initiatives to optimize processes, eliminate backlog, improve employee satisfaction, and forecast staffing needs. Supplied 24/7/365 enterprise support standards for over 40 hospital and laboratory facilities.

Hired and managed a team of 7 software support analysts, reducing technical debt backlog from 6 months to 6 weeks. Supplied 24/7/365 enterprise support for over 40 hospital and laboratory facilities.

Modeled initiatives to optimize processes, eliminate backlog, improve employee satisfaction, and forecast staffing needs. Supplied 24/7/365 enterprise support standards for over 40 hospital and laboratory facilities.

Activities and societies: Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society

Master of Business Administration from Texas State University. Member of Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.

Grade: Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Saint Edward's University, graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Grade: Summa Cum Laude

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Saint Edward's University, graduating Summa Cum Laude.

Earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Business/Management from Saint Edward's University.

Bachelor of Business Administration in Business/Management from Saint Edward's University.

Activities and societies: Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society

Pursued a Master of Business Administration at Texas State University, with membership in the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.