Oversee best-in-market architecture and engineering, including online partner SaaS platform, unique dynamic sales funnel, cloud architecture, code architecture, security, DevOps, tooling decisions, corporate web site, and hiring and mentoring high-functioning engineering team. Continuously improve engineering team agile process and serve as Scrummaster. Coordinate with cross-functional project management on projects, tasks, maintaining compliance, and budget. Work with customers for onboarding and resolving concerns. Collaborate with customers to implement automated data delivery solutions. • Drove 20% growth in base team velocity by refining Agile process, including making sprint velocity more visible, clarifying processes for efficiency, implementing retrospectives and quarterly reviews of KPIs, OKRs, and processes, initiating company-wide demonstrations and backlog grooming, and balancing flexibility and accountability. • Platform established market leadership early, scaling production to support high growth revenue in 2 years. • Established stable, secure, and scalable architecture to provide consistent 4-9s uptime. • Architect for maintaining lead generation platform, implementing inexpensive, effective high availability (HA) solutions in AWS, and driving real time lead delivery with comprehensive documentation for easy-to-implement APIs and Zapier components for integration. • Aligned IT, tools, cloud and DevOps cost and utilization, resulting in 1/3 cost reduction in AWS, reduced cost in IT tooling, improved production and team tooling stability, resulting in higher company productivity • Foster engineering culture of collaboration, hard work, quality assurance and ethical responsibility through leading by example, utilizing solution-focused problem solving, consistently exceeding industry standards to ensure ethical responsibility and operational excellence.

Work as VP of Software Engineering for Datalign Advisory

Worked with Scrummaster and lead architect to prioritize stories for team and across product in USA and India. Audited and resolved product vulnerabilities. Maintained OPTIC Data Lake code base and integration with Kubernetes and Kafka. Reviewed OPTIC Data Lake DevOps processes, testing, and architecture. • Performed audit on DevOps environment for ongoing failures, improving process such as build stability, auditing, and time with Artifactory and resolving build failures related to misconfiguration and tool platform instability. • Designed new customer-facing command line diagnostics with k8s pod for OPTIC Data Lake, implementing command line tool that provided critical product status and actionable alert information for customers to troubleshoot system.

Principal engineer for maintaining and expanding CaseCracker architecture, implementation, operating system integration, hardware integration, firmware updates, DevOps and manufacturing. Updated product security to pass FBI, and various police and sheriff audits. Created parallelized manufacturing process to decrease times for servers by creating OS installers delivered over PXE servers. Consistent and successful customer pre-sales, on-site installations and customer support escalations. Improved overall product quality by resolving video capture bugs, threading bugs, automating server OS configuration, networking inefficiencies. Created reliable, trackable updates for customers with isolated systems. Monitored and analyzed severe security threats, gathering patches for customer server security through regular updates. • Automated delivery of pre-installed docker containers in images as well as packaging for offline security update RPMs into single RPM for customers that could not be attached to the Internet. • Created flexible, automated bulk export add-on product in Python, ensuring progress recover restart through use of journal and implementing drivers for S3, SFTP, local attached storage, and proprietary node-to-node. • Designed server configuration service to manage operating system resources that automatically built and managed storage with partitioning, virtual, crypto, and filesystem configuration as well as networking configuration for v4 and v6 interface configuration, iptables, and dhcp. • Implemented client / server localization (i18n) that provided software availability in English and Vietnamese therefore creating opportunity to target markets in Canada, EU, and Vietnam.

Team lead and architect for complex DevOps project team for Helion CloudSystem, serving team of 100+ engineers. Operated with teams across 3 US, India, and EU on two products simultaneously. Led all security and vulnerability concerns and updates for CloudSystem and engaged in highest customer support escalations. Served as security expert, performing low-level threat vector security analysis for critical threats in CloudSystem product. Worked on storage drivers for OpenStack Cinder, wrote VMWare configuration parser, and served as expert for HP Server Automation. Maintained Java codebase for virtual system provisioning software, HP Matrix. Wrote efficient, flexible XML parser with SAX in Java for data returned from VMware APIs. Provided Scrummaster support for team for 1-1⁄2 years as Certified Scrummaster. • Led DevOps / release design and implementation for Helion CloudSystem product, improving build by decreasing build times 2 hours with significantly improved execution reliability, testing, audit, and quality. • Delivered OpenStack based enterprise private cloud by integrating and debugging cinder drivers, creating framework to auto configure, error detect, and disable as well as find and resolve bugs in JavaScript, Java, Python, and Erlang. • Served as team expert for HP Server Automation, delivering in depth knowledge of maintain product, Linux daemon-based solutions and scripts, shell and python, answering customer and developer technical support for HP Server Automation, and providing customer pre-sales support for integration into environment.

• Create and implement company-wide software strategy. • Lead software architecture and design decisions for all software products. • Manage engineering team and set weekly team goals utilizing agile techniques. • Collaborate with customers to define features for future releases. • Solve customer problems as top level technical support. • Customer facing technical evangelist for all products. • Lead development on software to georeference photos, audio clips and video using handheld GPS data. • Lead development on software that displays spatial multimedia in FalconView and handheld devices. • Write foundational COM libraries: read GPS logs, access GPS devices, manage GIS metadata. • Interface XML database to implement back end storage for GIS-based server. • Recover lost development environments for legacy software products and libraries. • Provide primary IT support for company-wide infrastructure.

• Technical team lead, 2+ years. • Help design, implement, and extend agile software methodology tailored to the HP-UX kernel. • Design and developed Object-Oriented USB host controller drivers and device drivers for HP-UX. • Help develop and maintain C-based Object-Oriented language designed for a kernel environment. • Design and develop Object-Oriented device driver infrastructure for HP-UX. • Maintain, integrate, and deliver multiple releases for USB drivers on different HP-UX versions. • Investigate accessibility (Section 508) issues and potential solutions for HP-UX.

• Lead initial design and development of award-winning GIS-based software (AgLeader SMS). • Help design data model for transfer of data between data collection hardware and GIS system. • Design visual language for creating customized data analysis flows for agriculture industry users.

Held 3 hours per week of office hours answering student questions.Led 1 hour per week classroom recitations, often attracting students from other sections.Taught students fundamentals of programming and programming languages, and specifically C++.Graded and provided feedback for better software design and implementation for student work.

• Maintain and improve data collection and visualization software for pulsed eddy current system. • Lead team and created design for successful second generation pulsed eddy current software system. • Write 16-bit Windows drivers for an analog-to-digital (A/D) and a in-house designed PCI card. • Create interactive language controlling PCI cards at the register level ◦ Revealed errors in hardware documentation for A/D card (reported to manufacturer) ◦ Resolved several year hinderance enabling MMIO transfers, 2x+ boost in data collection

Develop and implement test design and plan for a distributed object architecture in C++ using CORBA.

• Maintain and improve data collection and visualization software for pulsed eddy current system. • Lead team and created design for successful second generation pulsed eddy current software system. • Write 16-bit Windows drivers for an analog-to-digital (A/D) and a in-house designed PCI card. • Create interactive language controlling PCI cards at the register level ◦ Revealed errors in hardware documentation for A/D card (reported to manufacturer) ◦ Resolved several year hinderance enabling MMIO transfers, 2x+ boost in data collection

• Hold 3 hours per week of office hours answering student questions. • Lead 1 hour per week classroom recitations, often attracting students from other sections. • Teach students fundamentals of programming and programming languages, and specifically C++. • Grade and provide feedback for better software design and implementation for student work.