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I'm working with the Post Road Foundation in conjunction with the Stanford SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the DOE to build out the next generation of transactive energy solutions.

After acquiring new skills within mobile and web development, and new customer relationships with larger tech firms. Archiviz Studios, LLC was created to offer new mobile/web development consulting services while maintaining relationships and contracts within the 3D Design fields that were maintained through Archiviz Studios, Inc.

Austin, Texas, Us

Built a scalable energy broker custom RFP (request for pricing) platform in AWS from the ground up with the assistance of a junior developer. Once the initial platform was completed, I assisted the CEO, CTO, and Product Manager in hiring a team of remote developers consisting of full-stack engineers, data science and AI specialists, UI/UX designers, and DevOps engineers. I then guided the new team in the development of 3 more flagship products including an AI OCR solution for auto ingesting utility bills and supplier pricing quotes, a consumer residential energy purchasing app, and an automated daily matrix pricing dashboard for energy brokers.

Redmond, Wa, Us

Developed the frontend design, ran cloud DevOps, and assisted in developing and deploying the backend architecture for the Chromata platform which utilizes blockchain technologies to issue and verify credentials for individuals and companies. Utilized React for frontend and node.js/express and mongoDB for backend. All frontend was deployed on S3 with Cloudfront and backend is deployed on AWS lambda/API gateway using Mongo Atlas as a fully automated horizontally scalable platform.

Memphis, Tn, Us

Worked with the University of Memphis computer science department as a consultant to help guide 3 Senior class teams in their development of a native app POC using various development frameworks as part of a Capstone project. Picked a final POC candidate, then leveraged Firebase and the Ionic / Cordova / Angular frameworks to continue the development process and produce a public beta with a fully scalable backend and multi-platform frontend.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Helped a startup SAAS streaming platform fix various frontend and backend issues in their codebase and tech stack (Heroku / Django / Postgres / Angular) which was beginning to have stability issues after extensive spikes in usage from the Coronavirus pandemic. Developed and deployed a fully custom web socket server in node.js that uses a Redis pub/sub connection to retrieve and deliver real time data to online platform users thereby eliminating all the costly polling database reads and writes that were crippling the site. Designed an architecture and plan to roll off of Heroku and into AWS Fargate with RDS for a fully automated horizontally scalable architecture.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Developed an iOS based Augmented Reality proof of concept app to display automotive electrical harness CAD models in relationship to a real vehicle, essentially creating X-Ray vision for auto technicians to quickly find connector locations and wiring locations in the field. Also developed an automated ingestion engine to process data from Mentor Graphics into AWS DynamoDB and models from Creo Parametric into AWS S3 for import to Unity3D. The production version of ARTech was released to certified Peterbilt dealer technicians and service partners in 2022. https://www.peterbilt.com/news-and-events/press-releases/peterbilt-deploying-augmented-reality-tool-for-dealer-service-technicians

Redmond, Washington, Us

As a Solutions Architect for the Microsoft Enterprise website, I collaborated with a team of developers to build out a custom PHP / WordPress based marketing platform in Azure for marketers within the Enterprise group to post and promote blog articles and other marketing related materials and assets. Developed an analytics bridge that pushed analytics data per market visitor into Power BI for easy analytics reporting. Worked extensively on every facet including DevOps to ensure the site met availability, page load, and recovery SLAs. Developed a custom Percona cluster across 3 data centers to ensure that the site could still be accessible from multiple data centers, and would automatically recover and go into read only mode if database corruption occurred, or maintenance was needed.

Arlington, Va, Us

Assisted Boeing and Aeroinfo-Canada teams in developing a pipeline for an internal Boeing iOS app that gave on site mechanics digital access to Boeing’s newest service manuals. Developed a secure delivery system that retrieved data from Boeing’s internal fire-walled network, analyzed and parsed manual data to ensure validity, packaged that data specifically for ingestion by the app, then delivered those packages to onsite distribution points for secure access to mechanics in the field throughout airports in the west US. Developed a dashboard system to monitor package deployment processes per airport location, and detail which locations were in or out of compliance for Boeing's internal review.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Designed and developed an interactive website and native app for the Microsoft Sharepoint team.Developed a plugin for the Microsoft Office Educational team in pure PHP that integrated Microsoft Office365 Web Apps, SharePoint Features, and Azure Active Directory with Moodle PHP based Education/Training software.Created and designed Bing Offers app for Microsoft internal that delivered nearby daily deals to MS Phone, IOS, and Android devices.

Developed a platform to gamify sales training, new product training, and security training for surrounding Seattle companies.

Developed gaming platforms for Facebook, HTML5, Android, and iOS for a variety of clients in the Silicon Valley area. Lead development that helped companies pull away from Adobe Flash and introduce concepts and platforms using newly browser accessible HTML5 technologies that were compatible across all current mobile devices.

Developed a patented media delivery and monetization system from the ground up using Flash, Adobe Air, PHP, XML, Ajax, and Java technologies. System includes upload, download, conversion, and payment distribution modules that work in correlation with one another to create an automated video marketplace. Gained experience in working with RTP streams comprised of Mpeg2, Mpeg4, H.264, H.263, Windows Media, Flash Video, DivX/XviD and many other popular codecs. Worked with DRM solutions from Microsoft, Janus, and OMA. Developed a robust and automated transcoding system that utilizes multiple incoming and outgoing audio and video codecs through an integrated FFMPEG and PHP based solution utilizing the Rackspace Cloud Server System along with Rackspace Cloud Files and Amazon S3 cloud storage solutions. Developed an Adobe Air based video analysis system that ensured uploaded files would be readable by our servers, thus reducing wasted upload bandwidth. Oversaw development of custom mobile platform tools which allow access and utilization of popular current video formats over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and 3G/4G connections.

Created promotional and technical 3D Images and Animations for hundreds of Architecture and Engineering firms in the US, England, Scotland, Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland, India, Costa Rica, and Italy. Developed interactive web tours, DVD Media tours, and promotional print and digital content for the media, architectural, and real estate industries using Autodesk 3DS MAX, Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Combustion, V-Ray, Quark, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Flash, and Adobe InDesign along with emerging PHP and AJAX technologies. Trained and managed employees and delegated workloads to ensure projects were completed in a timely manner and deliverables met or exceeded client expectations.

Built, distributed, deployed, and secured customized server, workstation, and networking hardware and software configurations for a wide spectrum of businesses including attorneys, government offices, and large financial firms. Gained massive experience in complex network infrastructures, hardware, and software maintenance. Set up, maintained, and secured server apps such as Microsoft and Linux based Apache, Exchange, Oracle, DB2 and mySQL on hundreds of corporate servers. Developed custom integration applications for automation of tedious and repetitive database entries and web data updates.

Created 3D characters, scenes, and animations for leading entertainment studios, including Sega of America, Red Storm Interactive, Akklaim, and Sony. Developed both full motion 3D animated video, 2D composited video, and real-time 3D assets and animations utilizing Lightwave 3D, Maya, 3DS Max, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe After Effects. Assisted in developing and streamlining the proprietary Power Render 3D game engine used in both game consoles and the Windows DirectX platform.