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Williamsburg, Va, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Support our international supply chain team as we build and evolve our orders and transportation platform, and work with the broader supply chain org to define system boundries and clean contracts.Develop and implement our data platform strategy. Embed as need directly with tiger teams for critical deliverables that span multiple orgs.Mentor staff and sr. staff engineers and managers tailored to their needs (thought partner, coach, guidance/direction, etc.). Work with other PEs and infrastructure on horitizonal initives across engineering.

Washington, Dc, Us

Joined CTO leadership team to build a world class tech team and insourced all development and operations. Assembled one of the most hard-working, good-natured, and talent dense teams I've had the pleasure of working with. Established tech stack, development patterns and practices not through ivory tower architecture, but by trial and collaboration with the development teams using a champion-challenger model. Led the development efforts for our loan product, enabling a full spectrum product suite for all point of sale financing needs. Led architecture, design, planning, and was also hands-on coding with the team.Modernized our legacy data platform, bringing it from a slow and brittle series of jobs to a modern platform that builds much faster, more frequently, and safer with constant data validation checks. Platform built on Snowflake, Stitch Data, dbt, and Databricks.

Mclean, Va, Us

Technical leader and architect across ten different data, application, and support teams. Mentored software engineers, worked across orgs for horizonal concerns around security, architecture, and patterns and practices. Design a modern replacement for connectivity to legacy mainframe systems that could replace the existing IBM MQ messages (10k+ TPS) with GraphQL endpoints, and built a working POC with our primary vendor.

Mclean, Va, Us

Technical lead within the Card organization responsible for taking Virtual Cards from inception to launch. Evaluated potential acquisitions, lead two core teams, and partnered with many others across multiple organizations to create the architecture and implementation for our Virtual Card platform. The VC platform allows customers to create one time or recurring card numbers, with multiple card controls for convenience and security, and is the underlying technology powering Capital One's Eno in Browser.

Mclean, Va, Us

Transforming our current one-way messaging into a richer, two way conversation in our customers' channel of choice, at the time of their choosing. Built team from ground up, using a "build it own it" model that spans development, devops, config and release management, and production monitoring within one small agile team. Technologies utilized include Kafka, Spark Streaming, Scala, and Go. Built automated functional testing tool in order to meet CICD goals for asynchronous messaging platform. Shared knowledge with multiple other teams interested in the platform, and well as external public speaking engagements.

Mclean, Va, Us

Led Capital One’s effort to be the first-to-market financial services skill on the Amazon Alexa platform. Build development team from ground up. Worked hand and hand with Amazon architects to help establish guidelines and best practices for privacy using Alexa in a shared environment. Delivery timeline expedited and skill delivered ahead of schedule in order to meet ambitious marketing and release goals. Skill received great reviews from the public, and achieved many cloud, analytical monitoring, and other technology related “firsts” internally at Capital One.

Mclean, Va, Us

Technical platform lead for Capital One's 4x mobile servicing app. Teams spanned multiple geographic areas, and consisted of mobile web and Android/iOS PhoneGap based apps with native platform customizations. Responsible for architectural designs, continual process improvements to reduce post code lock defects, and representing the development team during release planning. Responsible for maintaining the platform during our sunset phase while we ready our next generation fully native applications. Technical Lead for a feature Android team for our next generation native app. Features included credit tracker, rewards redemption, security features, and user personalization components.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Worked on a Mobile Agile team for a Fortune 500 financial institution creating industry leading security and convenience features for a Hybrid Mobile app (mobile web, Android, and iOS). Launched a pattern based quick login security feature that was a first to market for the financial industry which was received with rave reviews. IBM Worklight, JavaScript, HTML, Android, iOS

We’re a small custom software design firm, founded in 2002 and located in Williamsburg, VA. Our focus is on custom web-based software to aid internal business processes as well as customer facing websites and applications to improve customer relationships and growth. Our clients have spanned the spectrum of entrepreneurs, small businesses, not for profit organizations, local governments, and Fortune 500 clients.

Blacksburg, Va, Us

Bethesda, Md, Us

Developer and project manager for web-tier of Marriott's Direct Connect project, creating their in-house web reservation system.Promoted from Senior to Lead Programmer within 6 months of hire.

Ca

Computer Science

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