Larry Duke Email Address

Director of Software Development

An international travel and lifestyle organization with a global network of corporate, leisure and affinity-based alliance partners. It provides cruise and travel programs, membership reward programs and cruise and vacation fulfillment services to major corporate brands.

I am a motivated, self-starting and experienced Technology Solutions Director with full SDLC knowledge having experience in most IT leadership positions. I came through the ranks as a software engineer and have led multiple teams in most areas of IT departments including DevOps, Development, Quality, Change Management and Operations. My strengths include excellent written and verbal communications; building, motivating and leading strong technical teams; reducing manual support through automation thereby increasing team and individual capacity to focus on important business solutions rather than day to day maintenance. I am passionate, forward thinking and love collaborating and learning. My most recent responsibilities have centered around implementing a DevOps culture and cloud strategies utilizing micro-services and REST API to expand our abilities in code reusability, faster prototyping, application and vendor integrations as well as improving core application SLA’s with monitoring and alerting. •Extensive experience building, motivating and leading operational, development and testing teams throughout the SDLC including agile development methodologies e.g. Scrum •Extensive experience in managing relationships with vendors and internal technical teams domestically and globally including contract negotiations •Experience administering and managing budgets to include resource models, software licensing, and projects for both capital and operational expenses •Extensive analysis and project management skills with an advanced technical background in supporting, implementing, and maintaining information systems. Familiar with both Rally and Azure DevOps (formerly TFS) ALM practices •Experience leading remote workers including dispersed teams both geographically and in different time zones •Software Engineer background with most recent work in architecting Cloud Strategies like microservices, logic apps, REST API management, SQL and noSQL database solutions