Internal Developer Platform Leadership:• Orchestrate the development of REI's Internal Developer Platform (IDP), now integral to over 200 microservices. Ensure seamless adoption and operational efficiency.• Streamline development for teams by implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines across all applications.• Champion initiatives that have led to most applications achieving DORA elite status in deployment frequency, lead time for changes, time to restore service, and change failure rate.• Spearhead internal advocacy and training for the developer platform, promote platform benefits and capabilities to the entire Engineering organization, and inform leadership of platform accomplishments.• Led conversion of IDP application git repositories and CI/CD pipelines to GitLab, from Jenkins and BitBucket.• Co-presented REI's IDP strategy and experiences at DevSecOps Connect Seattle 2023.Architecture and Development Standards:• Uphold architecture and development standards for the organization.• Specialize in Microservice and Front-end Microservice architectures.• Consult on RESTful API design for development teams.• Lead REI's “Tech Forum”, an architecture, design, and process decision-making body, to set development standards and practices.• Maintain the overall architecture of REI.com.AI/ML:• Created REI’s internal AI/LLM RAG chatbot focused on software engineering, developer productivity, and technical knowledge discovery. Cloud/AWS:• Oversaw the migration of on-premise microservice and monolith applications to AWS.• Maintained Terraform repositories and pipelines for cloud resource provisioning.Monolith Decomposition:• Strategically segmented REI's legacy monolith features into decomposable functional areas.• Track progress, ensuring alignment with established architectural principles.

• Deeply involved with the evolution of REI’s microservices architecture, including REST-based APIs, circuit breakers, data isolation, eventing, and front-end microservices.• Developed application security requirements for microservices.• Provided regular updates to CIO and VP on architectural progress, including cloud migration effort and decomposition of monolith codebase.• Implemented a front proxy and rules engine, based on Spring Cloud Gateway, to distribute web requests to front-end microservices and existing legacy monolith.• Spearheaded the migration of REI's observability platform to New Relic. Ensured seamless integration with Reactive Java applications through framework modifications.• Contributed to REI’s lean software initiative; proposed alternative team structures to reduce handoffs and empower teams.

• Re-architected an under-development ontology project to reduce coupling and ease integration with additional systems; incurred minor initial project cost and delay for overall substantial long-term savings.• Designed proxy caching layer to protect real-time systems from a SaaS solution dependency with very slow response times and low uptime SLA.

• Established RESTful service URI standards to consolidate disorganized services.• Discovered hidden errors in checkout services that were costing $60,000 per month in lost revenue; led the effort to fix the bugs and establish new processes to detect future similar problems.• Converted application server from WebSphere to JBoss, saving $350K per year in licensing and significantly reducing hardware expenses.• Pioneered REI’s first service-level observability and alerting systems by implementing ElasticStack, Grafana/Graphite, and a custom distributed tracing framework. MTTD dropped from hours to minutes and uptime was significantly improved.• Technical lead on a project to recreate REI Outlet on a microservice architecture. Created REI's first front-end microservice to serve user experience.• Recreated developer tools package to streamline installation and reduce development environment errors.• Identified three major application security vulnerabilities and numerous minor deficiencies.• Contributed numerous enhancements and bug-fixes to the REI.com website.

• Led project to integrate retail product availability into Google Local Shopping, delivering a $2.3 million ROI.• Developed services to support product pages.

• Led design and code on LifeArmor for Android, an HTML5 application to assist military personnel with problems they might encounter as a result of deployments. Successfully integrated PhoneGap/HTML5 and custom Android native plugins, prompting organization to adopt PhoneGap/HTML5 on several other projects.• Conducted requirements and systems analysis for a rewrite of the Department of Defense Suicide Event Report (DoDSER), a web-based application to collect suicide data on military personnel. Performed maintenance on existing system.• Developed a medical research collaboration site using Drupal.• Created educational material and conducted training sessions to explain Scrum and Agile processes to project managers and product owners.• Contributed integral pieces to the government contract proposal during a re-bid.

• Led implementation of the Automated Behavioral Health Clinic (ABHC), a web-based tool to administer mental health screenings to military personnel and score results for mental health providers.• Developed the Army Suicide Event Report (ASER). High-profile, successful implementation led to ASER selection for DoD enterprise rollout as DoDSER.• Established processes and procedures, directed requirements analysis and application design, led coding and testing, created data model, specified hardware, configured servers, and provided support.

• Directed application design on a program to replace and consolidate Air Force budgeting systems.• Saved hundreds of programmer man-hours by reworking predecessor’s application design.• Assisted in coding and testing efforts.

• Led a project to transfer data between two real estate systems. • Created XSLT map to convert data formats and validated results against an XML Schema.• Prototyped Active Server Pages for selection of data to transfer and coordinated developers for construction of production site.

• Technical Lead on a Java J2EE program to manage online database subscriptions and process credit card orders.• Worked with the company's software architect to create a foundation framework. • Responsible for mentoring and coordinating the work of junior programmers.

• Coordinated and participated in development effort between internal and outsource programming teams on a Java application to track warranty claims for vehicles and aircraft service equipment.• Worked with outsource team on program technical design using Rational Rose and UML. • Directed the data conversion effort to obtain legacy claim information and developed code to process EDI transactions. • Performed minor DBA functions, including assisting in creation of the data model. • Interfaced directly with the customer throughout the development cycle.

• Created a web-based knowledge repository to support a large software implementation.• Developed an Access database to track contracts with business partners.

• Project Lead on a Java replacement of the company's legacy product pricing system. • Acted as liaison between on-site and outsource development teams.• Established company standard for MQ message headers.• Designed an API to connect Java applications to mainframe systems.

• Developed Active Server Page projects to access online real estate data. • Prototyped new application concepts for executive management.

• Developed new features and bug fixes on a Visual Basic application to search and retrieve legal case details.• Responsible for all regression QA on an application that searched and retrieved news articles.

• Enhanced Visual C++ and Visual Basic applications to process credit applications and track customer service calls.

• Developed Microsoft Access programs to process trade partner crediting, warehouse inventory, receiving, and sales literature.

• Ported chemistry laboratory programs from Apple Basic to Visual Basic and Microsoft Professional Basic.