Architected a data migration for a tax preparation company that will result in a net savings ofgreater than $1M USD per year in direct licensing costs, as well as a significant reduction in operatingexpense.Architected and managed a team to implement a vertical slice (microservice+front-end) generationtool to dramatically simplify and speed up time-to-market for new slices. Reduced slice setup timefrom weeks to minutes. Taught members of another team how to implement the vertical slice architecture.Architected and implemented the containerization of a 2 year old suite of tax preparation applicationsto reduce developer setup time from over a week to hours. Architecture was designed to be extensibleto support production deployments.Architected and managed a team to implement a custom CRM system to present insurance salesassociates a unified dashboard of all of their actionable items. Changed architectures with minimal disruption of ongoing work during the project in response to changing business requirements.Architected and led a team to implement an online ordering application for health products. Migratedfrom a global mutable in-memory data store with distributed queries and mutations to a data storageservice, dramatically reducing defects and accelerating time to market. Project was two monthsbehind schedule at start of engagement, but by including a change of architecture and training, theteam delivered a higher quality product within the sub-six-month time constraint.Performed latency and performance analysis across a myriad of Amazon Web Services productsculminating in a change in direction of the organization toward a novel data storage architecture.Performance analysis uncovered new-to-AWS defects in released services. Worked with AWS Archi-tects to validate resolutions of discovered defects.

Identified and implemented a checksum based validation mechanism to detect and disallow URL manipulation attacks in a banking application in fewer than six hours.Designed and implemented a robust software update service for IOS and Android applications runningon a mobile web framework in fewer than ten hours.Performed build optimization of mobile application, reducing production build times from severalhours to single digit minutes and dramatically reducing error rates.Acted as technical and architectural troubleshooter. Joined teams for weeks to months at a timeto add developer velocity, solve devops challenges, and remedy application architectural problems.

Performed forensic software engineering, reassembling a large ( ̃50,000 lines of code) application fromdecompiled binaries and hundreds of scraps of unversioned code. Restored majority of functionalityof the software within a week of complete server failure without source code in version control.Acted as Android subject matter expert in an investigative committee convened to measure increasedrisk to Android based in flight entertainment software brought about by vendor changes.Maintained and enhanced Android internal travel application.Taught a Test Driven Development (TDD) class for AA.com developers.

American Airlines Development Program for Technology (ADEPT) is a college recruiting program designed to bring future leaders into the American Airlines Information Technology area. As an ADEPT I learned soft skills such as personality profiling and leadership techniques.Another aspect of ADEPT is the capstone projects. During the second year of the program, ADEPTs brainstorm on, propose, and implement a project using American Airlines Agile methodologies.

Employee Technology Group

Oversaw a small team of three to ensure that all home games were properly recorded, produced, and distributed to the league and teams.

Tutored students in basic to intermediate computer science topics, up to and including data structures. Contributed to hardware and software maintenance of a 40+ computer laboratory.

Owned and managed a small business, providing programming and computer support services to local business and individuals.

Oversaw a team of two to ensure that all home games were properly recorded.

Performed reference interviews. Helped students access online journals and publications. Re-shelved books and periodicals.

Fielded phone calls to sell and support RAM. Maintained office PCs and server.

Tutored students in basic to intermediate computer science topics, up to and including data structures. Contributed to hardware and software maintenance of a 40+ computer laboratory.