Joe Brinkman Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, California, Us

• Lead and manage teams of engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to drive high performance and achieve business objectives• Develop and execute the technical strategy, aligning it with company goals and driving innovative solutions to deliver high-quality products and services• Foster effective collaboration with product management, design, and other cross-functional teams to ensure seamless coordination and delivery of engineering projects• Identify areas for process improvement and implement scalable solutions to optimize engineering processes, increasing productivity, and enhancing operational efficiency• Drive talent development initiatives, including recruitment, onboarding, and professional growth plans, to attract top engineering talent, foster a culture of learning, and build a high-performing engineering organization

Palo Alto, California, Us

• Work with leadership across Earnin to build a financial system that works for people• Create team roadmaps and drive their implementation while working with dependenciesacross the company• Recruit great engineers for my teams and help in recruiting efforts for other teams• Mentor and coach engineers on my teams and help them advance their careers and dothe best work of their lives• Provide technical leadership to developers within my teams and across the engineeringorganization• Manage cross-functional relationships with all teams to deliver high quality servicelevels

Palo Alto, California, Us

• Build, test, and release product-facing market data, trading, accounting, authentication, or security features with stringent correctness and scalability requirements• Drive the implementation of new features and break down complex problems into essentials while creating high quality, maintainable code• Design and deliver thoughtfully crafted REST services to drive the interactions between client applications and back end services• Debug production issues across the services infrastructure and multiple levels of the stack• Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a bias towards action and results

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

• Designed and develop highly scalable cloud-based enterprise software using latest technologies, frameworks, and tools• Led architecture and solution design, data analysis, software configuration, and production rollout project activities• Identified the appropriate software architecture based on the requirements and design elements contained in a system specification• Led technical design sessions with development teams, including the creation of class models, sequence diagrams, component models, and detailed design specifications

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

• Contributed to the design, implementation, and maintenance of a highly-efficient CI/CD pipeline• Established and oversaw Microsoft Azure environment best practices with regard to monitoring, logging, performance, and cost• Procured and monitored virtual machines and other resources for builds, functional and automated testing, and product releases• Aided in Tier 3 escalation to support systems and network-related issues across platform and application domains• Designed and implemented a system to aggregate and report key metrics of the build and delivery pipeline to identify areas of improvement and foster a quality-minded culture

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

• Produced software features on Microsoft Azure as part of a strong, cross-functional team according to design and user stories• Developed new programs, analyzed current programs and processes, and made recommendations which yielded a high-quality, scalable product• Resolved bugs identified through internal testing and customer feedback using issue management software and processes• Participated in project planning sessions with team members to analyze development requirements, provide design options, and refine and estimate user stories• Provided training and technical aid to our Client Services resources

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

• Led a Scrum team in the design and development of Angular 2 web applications and Spring Boot/Web API REST services in Pivotal Cloud Foundry to replace a legacy price and promotion optimization tool• Accountable for ensuring the team produced robust code using CI/CD best practices with appropriate unit testing using NUnit, Junit, and SpecFlow• Facilitated discussions with architecture, user experience, technology operations, and leadership teams in a scaled agile environment (SAFe)• Worked with product owner, product management, and Scrum master to review product backlog items, provide work estimates, and add technical details• Mentored junior team members, interviewed job candidates to assess technical and cultural fit, and helped maintain documentation in Confluence

• Led the design and development of major components of the company’s in‐house CRMsystem (Magellan) and helped create the roadmap for future development.• Designed and developed a tracking and alert system for customer technical supportcases so that digital product teams could see issues in real‐time.• Worked with many other teams such as ERP, data warehouse, e‐commerce, and productmanagement to integrate business systems using BizTalk and Oracle Service Bus.• Identified best‐fit implementation paths, created application logic and user interfacedesigns, and developed applications using .NET, AngularJS, and Oracle/SQL Server.• Participated in requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders and translatedbusiness requirements into functional specifications.

Riverside, California, Us

• Lead technical consultant for a multi‐million dollar project to implement CincomAcquire Express CRM and Cincom Guru product configuration applications in .NET andintegrate them with the customer’s SAP system.• Led the development of a pilot product configuration application using Cincom Guruknowledge engine and .NET SOA for a complex electrical device which allowed endusersto easily quote and price from a CRM or ERP system.• Helped customers leverage guided selling and significantly decrease quote andengineering turnaround time from weeks to minutes through sales document and CADdrawing automation on Microsoft Azure.• Mentored customers on how to use Cincom software, create new product applications,expand the user base to all company divisions, and maintain their investment as thebusiness grew.• Assisted software engineering with the design and implementation of enhancements toCincom’s standard products.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

• Assisted with the development of a custom ASP.NET MVC content management systemwhich brought all of the company’s magazines onto a single publishing platform.• Managed enhancements to the content management system’s advertising and videofeatures, including administration of Amazon Web Services’ Simple Storage Service andCloudFront delivery network.• Led the architecture and development of a new web service and application front‐endfor Google Analytics which integrated website, advertising, video, social sharing, andcontent delivery network statistics.• Worked on a team to architect the company’s new order entry and customerrelationship management system and migration from multiple, unsupported legacyapplications. Trained team members on Visual Studio and C#.NET.• Performed regular SQL Server 2005/2008 maintenance tasks and led development ofIntegration Services projects to move data between systems.• Maintained other various websites and applications, including the company’s intranetand wiki and readily offered help in solving issues.

Weston, Ma, Us

• Developed web-based business applications and client-facing websites using ASP and SQL Server for divisions which provide leadership training and advise students on how to maximize their education. • Initiated use of new frameworks (Ajax JavaScript libraries, custom classes for data abstraction, HTTP sessions, site searching) to reduce development time, standardize coding practices, and greatly decrease maintenance.• Worked extensively with HTML, XML, CSS, and JavaScript to build clean and efficient user interfaces based on best design and SEO practices.• Planned and implemented application data models in SQL Server 2005, from object-relation design and procedure/function generation to security configuration. Also responsible for creating and scheduling SSIS packages in VB.NET which made use of package configurations.• Worked with development, QA, database and network operations teams across the world in product testing and release, and support.• Communicated effectively with project stakeholders and efficiently managed a range of existing applications and new releases. Readily accepted the challenges of complex projects.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

• Developed web-based business applications and client-facing websites using PHP/MySQL on Windows and Linux/UNIX servers for a variety of industries. • Initiated use of the CakePHP MVC development framework to reduce development time, standardize libraries and practices, and greatly decrease the time spent troubleshooting issues.• Communicated effectively with clients and employees in all departments, and efficiently manages a workload consisting of multiple projects and bug fixes.• Readily accepted the challenge of complex project tasks and issue resolution.

• Developed web-based business applications using PHP/MySQL and ASP.NET/SQL Server for production job management, fulfillment/inventory management, and data entry. • Programmed and design print-ready files to be imaged on Xerox DocuTech/Nuvera and DocuColor production printers using a variety of publishing software. • Modified client artwork to follow print specifications using graphic design tools when required. • Responsible for administration of the organization’s servers, PCs, and networking hardware/software.

Us

• Hired as an assistant programmer; promoted to programmer within six weeks. • Created and modified customized applications to process customer data in preparation for imaging on Xerox DocuTech production printers, transmission via electronic media, and mailing. • Efficiently managed a workload of five to ten projects simultaneously. • Communicated with customers, sales, management, and team members on a regular basis to ensure product met contract specifications. • Researched and developed solutions to a variety of data and imaging problems on a daily basis, such as improving process efficiency.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

• Performed individual projects as requested, including: digitizing a conference transcript and distributing it on professionally packaged CD; digitizing and reformatting research papers using OCR software, Adobe Acrobat and MS Word; conversion of analog audio transcripts to digital format.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

• Created a new dynamic website for the physics department that was easier to use and provided more information.• Site was built using PHP and later ColdFusion scripting for ease of maintenance. • Created a CD-ROM of presentations with video of physics demonstrations. • Created web-based repository of physics alumni. • Serviced department PCs (hardware and software installation, troubleshooting) as needed, including deployment of operating systems and scientific applications.

Mba, Management Information Systems

Non-Matriculating, Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies

Bs, Physics