Responsible for maintaining and evolving the consumer facing applications (Web/Frontend) we make available to our network (B2B2C), that enable millions of consumers to search, compare and convert on the financial product offers they need.

As the CTO of Birch, I am working on building out an enterprise grade web application that will analyze user's spending habits and trends using transaction histories gathered by 3rd party banking APIs to provide data and recommendations to increase user's financial success. This involves:1) Coordinating with internal and external business objectives, including investment strategies and pitches. 2) Managing internal software development resources and coordinating with external API providers. 3) Designing and developing a scalable enterprise web application for acquiring, monitoring and providing active recommendations to users with regards to credit cards, loans, bills and more. 4) Designing and developing an internal data acquisition platform for public credit card data, flight data, hotel data and more to provide better recommendations to our users.

In a partnership with UWF and iSpace, we have developed a STEM center in which students of all ages are encouraged to innovate and immerse themselves in cutting edge technologies like 3D modeling and printing, mobile app development, laser communications, 3D gaming, robotics, and more!www.discoveryspot.com

As a Founding Partner and Chief Technology Officer, I oversee the technological developments at RILE inc and coordinate people, resources and ideas between the business, education, hardware and software departments within the company. I also take a particular role in the software development process as a lead programmer.RILE is now a part of Discovery Spot, a group of projects dedicated to STEM education.

Working on RILE in partnership with UWF has given me opportunities to work for the university leading grant based projects, organizing students and team members as well as contributing to labs and other course content provided UWF to its students and community.

During this internship, I worked on:- Custom, in-house automation testing frameworks- REST and SOAP APIs to expose and connect UltiPro with 3rd party solutions like Informatica. - Mongo/NodeJS based event notification solutions- Unit and Integration Testing for various services using SpecFlow and NUnit- Regular use and creation of MS SQL Tables and Views in an Enterprise Environment - Research and Interaction with client escalations- Experience with packaging and deploying one-off updates to SAAS customers.

Trovy is giving control back to television consumers. The platform will be easy to use, allowing consumers to create an account, subscribe to channels, and watch live television within minutes. Trovy’s customers will have the freedom to add or remove channels as they please, without any contracts in place, saving them hundreds to thousands of dollars a year. Customers will not need to rent equipment in order to watch television either, they can use their laptops or current streaming device, such as Apple TV or Roku, saving them even more money.

Developed web and server applications to provide developers access to low lever server tools while maintaing security, role management, and audit history. Platforms included IBM Services, Enterprise Java, Spring, DB2.

A Pleasure turned Business, I started Whiteside Photography to market my photography skills in the Emerald Coast. I worked with Wedding Planner, Event Coordinators and Local Clients to provide my Photography Skills.

As an Engineering Aide at the U.S. Air Force at Eglin Air Force Base, I worked with the Air Force Research Lab on developing physics based simulation software and worked on networking and other software development projects.

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