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Richfield, Minnesota, US

We curate the tech organization’s developer CI/CD processes into a cohesive experience, and also build and scale CI and feature flagging systems to support enterprise needs. We're also collaborating across multiple business units to plan and develop an enterprise-wide developer portal based on Backstage.io that puts developers at the center of our ongoing.

Richfield, Minnesota, US

Leading teams that own systems and APIs for customer and engagement data through technical transformations to enable new cool stuff.

New York, NY, US

Led distributed engineering teams responsible for web and mobile applications and underlying infrastructure for Kickserv, a Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK SaaS product for the field service management sector. Introduced agility practices that doubled velocity while focusing our efforts on shipping new functionality that directly supported business goalsScoped.

Mountain View, California, US

Designed and built developer-friendly CI/CD products and practices to facilitate developing for, deploying to, and scaling up the Samsung SmartThings IoT platform. Scoped, planned, and moved forward company-wide initiatives including service inventory and new environment deployments.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Developed, instrumented, and optimized a multi-platform social e-commerce system connecting parents to share, buy, and sell kids' clothing and accessories.Tech: Ruby, Rails, AWS, Docker, CircleCI, PostgreSQL, Redis, REST, hypermedia APIs, Android, iOS

Denver, CO, US

• Built on the success of the GovDelivery SaaS platform and ensuing organizational growth, scaling up to work for tens of thousands of regular application users and over 100 million subscribers.
• Served as a tech lead, coding, mentoring, and learning from product, cloud, and platform engineers as a member of a scrum team. Curated and refined values and agile processes such that they continued to serve us well.
• Served as technical product owner, defining requirements and acceptance criteria for technically-oriented products and infrastructure (APIs for mission-critical messaging and analytics, IaaS for continuous delivery, a.
• Researched new technologies and evaluate their suitability for our platform, with an eye towards scaling up for the next 100 million users. (GovDelivery became Granicus after an acquisition and merger in October 2016)

Saint Paul, MN, US

Planned and developed a next-generation SaaS platform used by 400+ government clients at the federal, state, and municipal levels to engage with the public as part of an eight-person development team.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Worked as a lead developer with designers and project principals to implement the American Time Use Survey data access system (http://www.atusdata.org), used by researchers and reference specialists to query complex.
• Met with researchers and designers to define requirements and develop and test low-fidelity prototypes.
• Implemented a Web application for targeted ATUS data queries.
• Devised and conducted (with research customer) usability tests using human subjects and made recommendations based on resulting data.
• Worked with developers to implement tools and processes for reformatting, cleaning and integrating hierarchical data using a custom Ruby-based data conversation library. Devised and implemented a domain-specific.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Developed the National Historical Geographic Information System (http://nhgis.org) witha team of two developers along with geographers, demographers, and data archivists. · Replaced legacy Java and PHP infrastructure with a new unit-tested system using Java 5, Struts, JSP, JSF, Hibernate, Spring, jUnit, and SVG · Worked with archivists to implement NHGIS.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Developed tools and processes to disseminate demographic micro- and aggregate data for research use for a leading institution of demographic research and data analysis. These took the form of both Web applications for querying/retrieving data, desktop clients for data entry and validation, and data transformation tools for cleaning and normalizing of.

Developed and maintained Web-based help desk and project management applicationsfor national retail clients using DHTML and Microsoft technologies (ASP 3.0, IIS, VB,COM, SQL Server). Worked with developers, management, and client representativesto isolate and implement software requirements, documentation, and training materials.

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Inter-College Program

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