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Professor Beekums LLC provides consulting services which include software development, project management, mentoring, hiring, and all other aspects related to building software products. Clients have primarily been located in the NYC and Boulder areas.Projects have included:- Refining interview processes to find more effective candidates- Improvements in communication between product and development teams- Building MVPs for startups- Reducing infrastructure costs from tens of thousands of dollars to hundreds of dollars a month

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Team lead for Schoology's assessments development team:- Mentored engineers on the team to help them grow in areas they needed to advance their careers.- Responsible for improving the velocity of the team as well as improving visibility for completion of the product roadmap.- Conducted technical due diligence for a third party that would handle a major aspect of Schoology's application.- Managed the technical relationship with the third party as well as created the architecture for the integration.- Convinced the entire engineering organization to conduct much smaller releases for new features to improve velocity and quality.- Improved communication loops between Engineering, QA, Product, and UX.- Co-leading an effort to create an automated testing suite for new features as well as the legacy application.- Project manager for one of the largest initiatives the company has taken.- Helped improve engineering estimates so that product managers could better prioritize feature work.- Increased the team's code quality by helping engineers conduct better code reviews, think more about how code runs on infrastructure, better prioritize cleaning up technical debt vs compromising, and write better unit tests.

Technical Lead for the Platform group at Shapeways:- Creating/modifying data models that scale- Metrics and monitoring of production systems to make identifying production bugs and performance problems much easier and quicker- Development of a geographically redundant and fault tolerant storage system- Development of a flexible system for running various 3D tools used to analyze 3D models to ensure that they can be physically printed in various materials such as plastic, ceramic, and steel.- Creating technical and non-technical solutions that can increase the velocity of other members in the company without requiring them to work more hours.

Worked on the Toga framework, which all of Large Animal's social games are based on. Involved in every aspect of developing a social game framework:- Database design that scales to millions of users- Multi-layered caching system to ensure that web servers retrieved data as fast as possible- Dynamic content creation system for anyone to create content with no added code- Service layer for client applications to make requests to the application servers- Statistics module for gathering key metrics on the effectiveness of features- Designed and managed server deployments using AWS EC2 and S3 with Rightscale- Mentored numerous engineers on creating scalable systems and flexible software design- Refined scrum process to make the Toga team more effective- Coordinated feature development across multiple teams- Convinced the organization to switch all engineers to full stack. I helped with this transition and it reduced the friction between front end and back end teams.- Refined the interview process to better determine the capabilities of engineering candidates.

Part of the development team for the Enterasys Network Access Control (NAC) product. While there was a large development team for the product suite, I was one of two developers working on the very core framework for the product. Projects included a major refactoring of the server application, creating a script that would upgrade old versions of the product, fixing bugs on the client side GUI, writing a DNS proxy and integrating the product with third party applications. Technologies involved were Hibernate, Axis, RADIUS, Navis RADIUS, Microsoft NAP, Kerberos, DHCP and SNMP.

Created new features and fixed bugs for an enterprise system that monitored the status of devices in a client's network. Spent most of my time fixing race conditions and most of them weren't mine! I swear.

Was responsible for developing the requirements on an Order Management System. Frequently interacted with the client (New York Stock Exchange) in order to ensure the quality of the requirements.