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United States

Project Start-up specialist for Federal and DoD programs covering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and custom code systems. Establish and organize project teams, design SDLCs to fit with DevSecOps, create baseline architectures, and design software solutions. Essentially, I put the right train on the right track, with the right crew, and start it going in the right direction.Lead Engineer for the Curriculum Data System at Naval Education and Training Command (NETC). Responsible for software design, legacy systems integration, and system modernization for all Navy training curriculum.Lead Engineer for the Navy eCRM Salesforce platform, serving 20,000 users, over 400,000 Navy personnel, and millions of potential recruits. Architected the transformation of eight legacy systems into a modern platform, separated into 5 applications. Transformed over 12 years or Navy physical fitness data to fit in a modern SaaS platform, reduced errors in legacy data and improved historical models. Designed and executed three major data migrations containing millions of records, remapped the data, and reduced downtime below customer requirements.Reworked the CI/CD pipeline with Gitlab and Atlassian tools for traditional DoD software delivery processes to work with modern SaaS paradigms and DevSecOps processes. Designed a testing automation framework based on Behavior Driven Development that reduced regression testing from five days with four testers to six hours with no manual intervention. Created a DoD friendly Agile approach for SaaS and PaaS software deliveries, increasing releases from quarterly to monthly.Re-engineered legacy architectures from static servers to auto-scaled containers based on AWS Fargate, and orchestrated by EKS. Adapted large scale CloudFormation infrastructure code to Terraform to allow for cloud service provider portability.

Orlando, Florida Area

Led the architecture and delivery of a large-scale U. S. Navy system serving over 50,000 users an hour hosted in the GovCloud region of AWS. Led the software migration efforts from a legacy system, including 15 years of data, to a modern, highly available architecture. Transitioned application search from Apache Solr to Elasticsearch and Kibana for improved analytics. This project saved the Navy over $200,000 a year in operating costs and allowed the system to integrate with a larger application base.Redesigned a software architecture to double performance of a DoD application while staying within the bounds of DoD approval and security processes. Automated the creation and deployment of application stacks, reducing start up time from two weeks and three full time engineers to one hour and zero touch. Revamped development and deployment processes to provide near continuous integration and delivery while lowering error rates by over 80%.

Lawrenceville, Georgia

Delivered implementation of complex video on demand systems for customers including Shaw, Verizon, and Cablevision. Planned internal development and testing labs supporting eight simultaneous customer efforts. Developed software tools and processes using Ansible and Python to reduce project startup time from two weeks to three days. Created and administered large Oracle databases in support of customer development activities. Consolidated and simplified technical documentation processes with Cisco and a recently acquired subsidiary. Responsible for maintaining customer relationships.

Lawrenceville, Georgia

Built customer relationships to increase satisfaction scores and foster a better technical relationship. Customized solutions based on customer architectures and security processes. Supervised overnight maintenance windows for critical customer upgrades and issue resolutions. Developed software to automate database health checks and improved customer efficiency by 580%, reducing downtime during unplanned outages.

Melbourne, Florida

Led software development across five software teams during a time sensitive FAA proposal worth over $500 million. Revamped four large software development teams into five smaller and more focused teams to reduce development time. Overhauled the software development process to eliminate redundant documentation and encourage flexibility while maintaining schedule. Resolved architectural and implementation issues between five software teams and two hardware teams.

Melbourne, Florida

Software Scrum Master and Engineer, including development of geospatial client and server software as well as iOS (iPhone, iPad, and iPod) software. Delivered a situational awareness product early and under budget for field trials at major forest fires in the northwestern United States. Proposed and then headed the effort to expand a mapping application onto the Android, iPhone and iPad platforms.

Melbourne, Florida

Leader of a software development team of seven engineers handling external data interfaces with our customers. We ensured fast, secure, and accurate exchange of tens of millions of database transactions between physical locations.

Melbourne, Florida

Develop applications to analyze, divide, and assign large spatial and statistical datasets into manageable pieces based on individual field worker abilities. Also responsible for automatically redistributing workloads based on worker performance and attrition.

Melbourne, Florida

Software engineer for handheld mapping applications on the Windows Mobile platform. Responsible for reducing complex GIS data rendering times while simultaneously extending battery life. Also worked with geographic databases and high volume transactions over limited and intermittent cellular data connections.

Melbourne, Florida

Responsible for production GIS data operations. Wrote applications to automate spatial corrections, generate relevant metadata, image referencing, and visual reporting.

Mba, Business

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science