Tech Lead for all launch system 2.0 software programs. Also directly managing teams building ground software that tests our rocket and spacecraft engines, enables checkouts during manufacturing, and ultimately launches Astra’s rockets. Enabling our test like you fly mantra.

Ground software & whatever else needs doing.

Worked on balanced teams (Design, Dev, Product) alongside clients to build software for a variety of industry and government organizations. I’ve worked on iOS apps, Java Spring/Spring Boot web apps, react/redux single page apps, Rails back ends, Go services, and Infrastructure migrations and deployments on AWS and Azure and Google Cloud. I've used tools like terraform, docker, puppet, Cloud Foundry, BOSH and heaps of Bash.

Built an iPhone Accessory and companion app to control and monitor personal drones reliably at long range. Successfully navigated Apple's MFi accessory program and brought limited run of hardware to market after several iterations. Worked with a national cellular carrier to determine how streaming video from quad copters and fixed wing drones at various altitudes and flight profiles affect the cellular network.

One of two developers responsible for rewriting an enterprise social networking app, Socialcast for iOS, from scratch for v3 and launched the v1 version of Socialcast Messenger for iOS.

iOS Developer building casual games using cocos2d and Box2d as well as UIKit based apps under tight deadlines.

Responsible for functional testing of the Apple Wiki Server product in OS X Lion Server (10.7), QA Automation using internal Apple tools, and tracking down performance regressions. Developed tools in Python and Ruby and gained experience troubleshooting *NIX systems.

Managed all aspects of dozens of client's networks and technology for small to medium sized businesses. Primarily small to medium windows environments in diverse industries from accounting firms, to high profile VCs, to large hedge funds to manufacturing. Administered Exchange deployments, Active Directory, Blackberry Enterprise servers, on-site and offsite backup systems, patch deployment and general desktop maintenance.

Integrated and maintained portfolio management and trading systems used by First Republics asset management subsidiaries and developed internal reporting tools.

Maintained and ran custom software systems to generate thousands of individualized quarterly reports for our high net worth clients and acted as a liaison to parent companies IT department (First Republic Bank)