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Seattle, Wa, Us

Enumclaw, Wa, Us

Instructing first-time and beginner skiers and snowboarders how to enjoy and safely ski and ride

Co-founded and building a new event ticketing experience with 2 other co-founders.Tech stack:* Front- and back-end developed with Next.js and Typescript* Infrastructure developed with Terraform's CDK* Service hosting on Vercel* Data hosting on Microsoft Azure* CI/CD via GitHub Actions

After 20 years of professional software development, I am taking some personal time to gain some fresh perspectives, explore startup projects, ski more, and listen to more loud music.

Owner of long-term, multi-family rentals in the Chattanooga, Tennessee, area and short-term, vacation rentals across the southeast US (Tennessee and Florida). Vacation rental management owner of Pioneer Ridge Vacations.9 Multi-family rental properties (26 units)10 Multi-family rental units remodeledSold 4 Multi-family rental properties (10 units)4 Single-family remodels4 Vacation rental houses

* Repurposed existing iOS and Android applications to make it more generally usable while using existing build tools* Added Canadian internationalization to existing iOS and Android applications* Updated mobile app build scripts to work with Apple's new App Store guidelines around no white-labeled applications under one developer account* Fixed various bugs in existing iOS and Android applications

Seattle, Washington, Us

Lead software integration engineer for integrating new warehouse management system to bring up new facilities and retrofit to existing facilities. Designing new platforms for integrating with the warehouse systems to abstract logical from physical concepts in an omni-center warehouse model. Supporting and mentoring senior and junior engineers, engineering managers, and technical program managers.Lead software engineer in Supply Chain Technology of a team of 6 senior and junior engineers and an offshore team building a system of event-driven microservices to integrate enterprise and COTS warehouse software for the Nordstrom West Coast Omni Center (WCOC), a fulfillment and distribution center for full- and off-price items. Created and drove new architecture (micro service from two-language, monolith). Mentored team engineers and technical program managers. Presented company-wide project presentations. Acted as technical program manager creating technical specifications and implementing Kanban and Agile methodologies (from Sprint model).System comprised of 20+ micro services and jobs orchestrated on Kubernetes, Apache Kafka as a message bus between services, Amazon S3 as a dead letter queue (DLQ), GitLab pipelines for CI/CD, Terraform for infrastructure-as-code, and Java as the programming language.Design reviewer and approver for technical projects across the company.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Engineering consultant for a major retailer in the supply chain division* Developed middleware service to convert data with dead letter queueing and reprocessing using a mixture of Java services on Kubernetes, AWS SQS, and Lambda* Architected processing pipeline for events and state with a dynamic, yet deterministic integration test framework with Kafka Streams* Architecting and engineer-leading new platform and framework (from old, monolithic service) to take data from multiple upstream services, process, and produce data to a downstream consumer using Kafka Streams and vice-versa* Implemented pair programming amongst skeptical junior and senior engineers* Coaching and mentoring junior and senior engineers to learn broadly, shift mindsets, understand problems, and write more maintainable code

Seattle, Wa, Us

Ruby on Rails full-stack developer delivering major features for customers worldwideDesigned and implemented dozens of RESTful APIs with public documentationDeveloped and improved existing Rails web app using Angular, HTML5, and JavaScriptPrototyped iOS application in one day with React Native; maintained two existing iOS Obj-C appsManaged contract team and co-developed white-labeled Android and iOS appsWrote automation scripts to provision, setup, build, upload, and publish apps, going from 2 hours to 20 mins

Built a pre-market V1 app and backend to deliver dance video instruction.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Publicly launched the Amazon Mobile Ads Android SDK (http://developer.amazon.com/ads)Instituted unit testing for the SDKCreated an emulated advertising service for rapid development of new featuresLead a team of 3 developers using agile and scrum methodologiesCreated development framework for interstitial adsMentored 2 internsConducted over 190 interviews

Redmond, Washington, Us

Architected, designed, and developed the e-mail application for Windows Phone 7Implemented features such as multi-select, list view, and folder pickerDesigned, architected, and led team of developers to deliver conversation viewSubject matter expert on user interface programming tools and languageFeatures are highly regarded for performance, stability, and usefulness, with an attention to detailCreated sessions for Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals to demonstrate upcoming features

Redmond, Washington, Us

Discovered and fixed bugs in testing framework for Microsoft Office’s internal automation system.Wrote test design specifications to outline testing effort for features and executed them.Wrote Message Queue monitoring tool in C# to monitor Message Queues on automation controllers.Debugged issues within Office source code and automation system in native and managed code.Managed session tracks as the Community Lead for Office System MVPs at the Microsoft MVP Summit.

Developed internal student discipline tracking website and teach intranet using ASPRepaired teacher computersWorked with teachers to utilize computers and technology in their curriculumTaught C# programming to a class of students after school

Redmond, Washington, Us

Fixed bugs in automation test harness software for Office.Designed and developed a COM interface to support testing the automation software using C#.Implemented managed classes to wrap functionality exposed by the COM Interop assembly.Wrote test cases using internal testing framework to stress test the COM implementation.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Contracted to deliver support to external and internal testers of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.Created and posted content to an internal support site using Windows SharePoint Services.Developed websites using ASP.NET for product team members to post release notes and scenarios.Triaged and reproduced over 300 bugs and submitted over 120 bugs for resolution.Managed self-development of BugCopier tool to copy bugs between Product Studio databases.Built the Media Center Quality Automation Tool to generate real-time performance metrics.

Chattanooga, Tn, Us

Troubleshooted and repaired computer systems and network issues