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Chicago, Il, Us

DevOps key mashing. Numerous projects, big and small. Some highlights: - Ported containerized apps from Heroku to AWS EC2 / Crunchy Data- Terraform / Packer major infrastructure- Help administer IAM IdC for engineering groups- Security monitoring with Cloudflare / Datadog

Columbia, Maryland, Us

Rails development, frontend and backend.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Helped grow the company from 2 to 8-10 engineers in advance of an acquisition by Discovery Education. I administered lightweight processes to empower engineerings working directly with their stakeholders in all growing areas of the business. Technical contributions included management of our infrastructure in Heroku, DBA duties for large Postgres instances, as well as designing key components around Single Sign-On, and merging of two codebases and environments, which included a Rails customization for handling multi-domain session handling.

In March 2016 I started an open source project for LivingSocial called bundler-patch. It's a Bundler plugin that allows conservative updates to gems in Ruby projects and was started as part of an internal effort to help automate upgrades on our 100+ services.In June 2016 I was invited by the core Bundler team to work on porting this code into Bundler itself. By September, my contributions on both conservative updates and elsewhere on the project led to an invitation to join the core team.

Washington, Dc, Us

SRE Manager (March 2016 - present)- Manager of a super-elite team of developers within the company to own approximately all 150 sites and services that run LivingSocial proper.Manager Core Services (Aug 2015 - March 2016)- Manager of a team of developers responsible for many core services, including Accounts/Single Sign On, various Inventory and Catalog services, as well as next-gen services written in both Ruby and Clojure.Manager Consumer Shared Services (April 2015 - Aug 2015)- Manager of a team of developers responsible for many consumer supporting services, including Payments, Accounts/Single Sign-On, and Inventory. Tech Lead of Consumer Payment Systems (July 2013 - April 2015)- Lead developer and production support for all consumer payment systems: credit card (via Braintree and Authorize.Net), Paypal, V.me/Visa Checkout, MasterPass, as well as the primary consumer checkout UI. Annual PCI audit support and security training.Sr. Engineer (July 2011 - July 2013)- Work primarily involved i18n and international payment provider integrations (iDEAL, iPay88 and a custom COD system in the Middle East).Rails and Ruby development. Other tooling/tech includes MySql, Resque and Redis.

Grapevine, Texas, Us

POS Group- Led a small team to develop a WinForms register application for processing hold requests from GameStop.com. Application included peer data sharing, zero-conf auto-discovery and automatic failover features to reduce WAN traffic and simplify deployment.- Wrote a register process to transmit inventory updates to GameStop.com.- Updated custom web browser (IE wrapper) to support functionality in new websites enabled on registers, including implementing a custom file downloader for IE to support PDF display.- Wrote a package tracker app to track UPS and FedEx shipments.All register apps are currently running in approximately 4400 domestic stores on multiple registers with no or minimal post-deployment patches. Core Services Group- Assisted development group with WCF services and a Windows Service to process DLC pre-orders and update catalog data from vendors.- Co-lead a Continuous Delivery effort with Dev, DBA, QA and Ops teams to help improve ALM bottlenecks. This work has included some custom tooling ranging from building and deploying 200+ Visual Studio projects with MSBuild and Workflows, to reporting on build and test status and code quality metrics as well as visualizations of project and assembly dependencies. We're working with NuGet to build an internal artifact repository to help componentize the architecture.

Plano, Texas, Us

Assist clients in both Java and .NET environments with object-oriented software design and agile processes.

Plano, Tx, Us

Worked with a team of Improving Enterprises consultants on a multi-team project to help merge retail and commercial web products. In addition to coding duties on a Java Web Service, work included establishing and managing continuous integration as well as test and WebLogic deployment automation.

cLabs, Inc. is my own S-Corp I contracted through until going full-time with Improving Enterprises in January 2010.

Lewisville, Texas, Us

Worked with a team of developers on the integration of a business unit acquired from another company. Major contributions included developing two key pieces of the system, the first being a rewrite and enhancement of a survey authoring tool, written in C#/Windows Forms and hosted as an ActiveX control. This piece included object-oriented design and analysis, coding and a full suite of test automation.The second piece was a web-based survey engine for end-users to execute surveys built by the builder tool. A custom automated build solution using Rake and MSBuild recompiled code from a Windows Mobile project in order to re-use the same survey engine on the web. Along with the core engine, a stateless wrapper had to be fashioned to allow the single-user, stateful handheld engine to be used in a web environment. Work included a simple UI front-end, using jQuery and ASP.NET Web Services which emulated the feel of the handheld, for the benefit of both survey authors and end-users which could use either the handheld or the web to report the surveysRe-using the handheld code also benefited the project from a QA perspective, as the test rigs built for the web engine were also helpful in uncovering bugs in the mobile project. The test automation included a rig which analyzed and executed every path through a bank of test surveys, plus a custom load test rig to flush out problems under stress.Minor contributions included technical oversight at the onset of the project and issue management for the handheld team during a beta period, and a presentation on SOLID Object Design.

OOP design for desktop application originally written in J++ and recently ported to C#. Also responsible for SDK for interfacing with our custom hardware, written in Java and cross-compiled to .NET via IKVM.NET.In addition, I built from scratch automation infrastructure for unit testing, builds, code reviews, version control (CVSNT), mostly in Ruby. Starting in Fall 2007, transferred continuous integration from custom build automation to TeamCity 3.0. Also started in early 2008 transferring version control to Subversion.

Goose Creek, Sc, Us

Primary Project: DocuTIME Timecard Entry System. Soledeveloper for most of the project during my time there. DocuTIME is an add-on product to EmpACT for timecard entry and transmission into a custom PeopleSoft import process for cutting paychecks and invoicing. The DocuTIME system included an automated server(multi-threaded NT Service) called DocuTIME Gateway for theprocessing of incoming data. Applications were written in Delphi with SQL Server and Oracle back-ends. By the end of 2003, over 175,000 timecards and 50 million dollars in money paid had been processed through DocuTIME.A large percentage of the DocuTIME codebase was retrofitted with automated unit and acceptance tests during my time there.Other work details available on request.EmpACT Product Site: http://www.eempact.com

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

As one of the original developers of TIMS (electric utility application to record, transmit and store inspection data of transmission line assets), I was chiefly responsible for interactive 3D graphics programming andobject-oriented development in Delphi for Versions 1.0 through 2.4. The field app was designed for hand-held pen-based systems. Responsibilities included GUI design and implementation, relational database structure design and implementation, SQL programming, installers, build engineering and eventually lead developer on a team of 5.TIMS Product Site: http://www.3-gis.com/products/tims.html

Us

General Microsoft Access and Visual Basic development in support of a few departments. Work included an application to store scanned images of forms for an ordering catalog and a Branch Expense and Analysis application for a team of auditors which included data synchronization between remote databases via a custom add-in library for Access for 2-way replication of database objects (queries, forms, reports).

Plano, Texas, Us

Responsible for all in house development (Visual Basic), Microsoft Access database administration, network administration and software support.Designed and developed Access System to store reservations for purchased broadcasting time on 2 satellite transponders owned by company. System featured versatile GUI for reviewing reservations. Designed and developed Access application to replace a proprietary Order Entry system. Designed and developed the SDACC System (Satellite Dish Aiming Coordinate Calculation System) in Visual Basic. System calculated dish aiming coordinates based on zip code.