Building a legacy application which had 9 development teams that needed to build at the same time for a successful deploy. Our challenge involved us moving to a 'super build' - which we tried to combine all developments into a 'monorepo'; including our challenges with the the legacy mainframe.

Phillip is a senior manager for American Airlines, the world's largest airline, located in Dallas Texas. Although he resides in New York City, he commutes each week. Originally, Phillip hails from Melbourne Australia, where he received his degree at Monash University, a BS in Computer Science.

After graduation, Phillip launched his career with General Motors, where he began his career as a programmer/analyst. Initially, working on ERP systems and warehousing he then moving into their e-Commerce space where he successfully led the Holden Special Vehicles website to the number one auto-manufacturing website in the Australian Market. Soon afterward, Phillip's career led to him to the State Government of Victoria Australia where he worked for 3 years and was responsible for overseeing the smooth operation of over 40 government websites.

Phillip's career shifted to the US when he moved in 2006. Phillip spent four years in consulting working for various companies in several roles; he was especially involved in building several commercial software products, the biggest one being Econometrix for Manpower but also instrumental in architecting/designing several applications in the desktop, cloud and mobility space.

It was in this capacity that Phillip "landed" at US Airways in 2010 and is one of the key players in ensuring a smooth integration into the newly reborn American Airlines. While his roots are in application development and architecture, he oversees infrastructure, platform services, desktop support and network support in the technical operations division at American.