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Irving, Texas, Us

Washington Dc, Us

BDA Global is a business continuity planning and risk management consultancy. On a part-time basis, I build and maintain their proprietary survey tool, Continuum BCP, and manage their business technology solutions. Additionally, I’ve directly supported several engagements, leading clients through the BCP process and helping draft their business continuity plans.• Develop and maintain Continuum BCP, a LAMP web application• Developed and implemented their own COOP strategy• Migrated the company to Google Apps for Business• Developed ASP.NET risk management web application for a client

Chicago, Illinois, Us

I have worked as team lead and senior engineer on multiple teams as we've reorganized around different initiatives over time. I've done backend work (Big Data-scale analytics), front end work (including some UX design), and everything in between (i.e., a data pipeline transforming S3 flat log files into a SQL-accessible store for the front end). It's provided many great opportunities to learn and I plan to continue to help it grow!Cool stuff I've gotten to work with in Java, Scala, C#, and JavaScript:Cassandra, Spark, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Backbone, Kendo, Scalding, EMR, Amazon Data Pipeline, Amazon Redshift, Akka, MongoDB, and Postgres.

Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, Us

I worked at Redbox Instant by Verizon, a movie-streaming joint venture between Redbox and Verizon that launched in 2013. My team was responsible for the core backend services that enabled subscribing customers, processing purchases, and managing the content catalog.• Led team of five Java engineers plus a remote team• Worked with systems analysts to define requirements and communicate them to the development team as actionable user stories• Spearheaded Agile (Scrum + Kanban) practices for the team leveraging JIRA Agile• Developed web services using Java, Groovy, Mule, Spring, MongoDB, and RabbitMQ• Effectively employed TDD for defect resolution and BDD for integration testing• Used Splunk to accelerate root cause analyses with QA and Ops teams • Rolled out and maintained a continuous integration solution with Git, Maven, Jenkins, and Artifactory

Chantilly, Virginia, Us

Distributed Common Ground System - Army, Software Engineer, 2010-2013DCGS-A is a Big Data solution that packages a number of data ingestion, storage, and analysis tool into a mobile platform that can be deployed into active combat theaters. My team developed the data integration layer that enabled cross-product data fusion.• Led team of five engineers in developing a Hadoop/Accumulo abstraction layer• Developed requirements, design documents, and unit tested code• Chaired technical working group on Agile processes and procedures• Earned top 5-15% ranking in the company in annual reviewsFBI FISA Management System, Technical Lead, 2006-2010FISAMS is a workflow web application that is considered mission-critical to the FBI as it facilitates certain approvals for agents worldwide. My team was responsible for the requirements elicitation, design, development, and testing of the whole solution.• Led team of ten software professionals through multiple releases• Was primary FBI client consultant for managing the software project• Added on subsystems for other FBI departments due to the great reputation our system earned across the organization• Developed AJAX GUIs, web services, user security, document management, data synchronization, and other system components• Implemented an Agile, CMMI-certified software development lifecycle

After waking myself up an hour early for four years as a volunteer peer tutor in high school, I was thrilled to actually get paid and be able to schedule tutoring sessions when I wanted in college! I've always enjoyed sharing knowledge and working through problems with other people and it's a skill that's translated well into pair programming in my career.

Master'S, Computer Science

Bachelor'S, Computer Science, Psychology