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* Provide organizational leadership for top talent within the pricing and offers domain of customer facing eCommerce platform.* Improved revenues by an average of 2% per feature by implementing AB Testing methodology.* Implemented a series of agile development practices that streamlined delivery and brought timeline accountability.* Production support and safeguarding of high volume, mission critical systems powering the Best Buy experience.* Technical mentorship of systems throughout the eCommerce platform.

Architected and Developed Microservice APIs using FaaS (functions as a service) methodology for deployment to AWS Lambda.Instituted software engineering conventions and guidelines for a large team of developers in order to increase velocity while lifting and shifting major systems from one data center to another.Keywords: Node, MySQL, DB2, Swagger/OpenAPI, AWS, Cloud9, Lambda, API Gateway,

Participated in bringing accountability to the Ethereum ecosystem,* Participating in development of conceptual blockchain accounting software.* Establishing an enterprise data layer for querying against the Ethereum Blockchain.* Collaborating with, and provided mentorship to, those within the team and wider company.Keywords: Node, JavaScript, Cassandra, Mongo, Redis, Message Queues, React, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Parity, Geth, Blockchain.

* Co-architected the reconstruction of sub-systems of the DRC education platform in to an open source solution, while providing education for existing and incoming developers for the new stack.* Time to delivery was cut significantly for feature work, and we delivered well tested, maintainable microservices in to a cloud based environment, which reduced over all costs for the company and assisted them in removing the need for a local data center.Keywords: JavaScript, CoffeeScript, SailsJS, Angular, SPA, REST, Microservices, OAuth, Grunt, Gulp, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, AWS, S3.

Directed and implemented a range of projects with three different companies at different points in their software lifecycle. From the initial conceptualization, through long term maintenance, all while focusing on JavaScript for both server and client applications. A sample of the applications I was primarily responsible for:* Parcel and Asset Management: A re-imagining of the technology that is currently used for parcel management in the real estate industry via placement on maps and using pre-existing parcel data.* Virtual Deal Room: A way for real estate deals to manage their deals on a larger scale than any previous mode has allowed.* Geographic Data Management System: Changing the way that people think about their data, placing it on a map rather than pure directory hierarchies.Keywords: Node, JavaScript, Mongo, PostgreSQL, Redis, Angular, Java, Ruby, Heroku, AWS, OAuth, RethinkDB.

Evolved a monotithic .net based legacy application in to a federation of microservice that are node-based, with angular used as a framework to build modular single page applications on the client side. All the while building a framework to make building modules easier and quicker, all while following modern development practices.Assisted in realigning technical practices in the development group to be more in line with business practices and accepted standards for eCommerce, which resulted in top line revenue increases.Keywords: JavaScript, ES5, ES6, Node, io.js, Koa, Express, Sails, socket.io, SPA, Angular, LESS, REST API, Microservices, OAuth, SSO, Grunt, Gulp, Redis, Postgres, AWS, S3, SWF.

Partnered in an emerging company that is reimagining the real estate technology industry. Projects included a parcel data management system, and a virtual deal room for real estate asset and loan management. Multiple technology stacks with applications written in multiple languages, and deployed to cloud based platforms.Keywords: Mongo, Express, Node, REST, Redis, Heroku, S3, CoffeeScript, Jade, LESS. Angular, Bootstrap, Font Awesome. Ruby.

Assisted in designing, developing and assuring quality for a single-stack Ruby on Rails application designed for the health and wellness industry in a well funded start-up atmosphere.Provided technical expertise in the realms of Ruby and JavaScript in order to bring in appropriate technologies that would create better user experiences and make the codebase more reasonable, along with mentoring team members in the usage of new frameworks.Keywords: Ruby on Rails, Delayed Job, RabbitMQ, BackboneJS, jQuery, Rabl, CoffeeScript, MySQL, Rspec, Cucumber, Solr, Memcached, Git.

Designed, developed, deployed and maintained solutions for email and text message marketing channels using modern web application development techniques.Researched email marketing, email relay and text messaging vendors for suitability as providers for particular services to the marketing channel applications.Built and deployed marketing landing pages used for list growth and company development.Keywords: Ruby on Rails, Rack, JavaScript, MySQL, MongoDB, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Haml, DelayedJob, REST, Rabl, Capistrano, Rspec, Jenkins, Cron, Bash, Git, SVN.

Followed Extreme Programming practices in a small team of Ruby developers that were devoted to protecting all incoming product data against potential inaccuracies and other situations that would potentially make it inadvisable to use the data in a large-scale eCommerce system. Provided technical recommendations and architectural direction on a green field project that was pushing application logic towards an encapsulated platform in the cloud. Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Padrino, Ripple, Riak, Mongoid, MongoDB, AMQP, Daemons, Chef, RabbitMQ, IntelliJ, Git.

Provided technical and project leadership (and mentorship) for a large team of application developers. Assisted in the research for the development of architectural standards and evaluation of upcoming technologies. Focused on user interface and usability requirements, including implementing and delegating task work as needed for a major retooling of a highly secured and auditable enterprise document management system that services the mergers and acquisitions spaceDedicated a significant amount of time to assisting more junior developers understand and get experience with the technologies that were used within the project.Keywords: ExtJS, SproutCore, JavaScript AMD, OO JavaScript/AJAX, CSS, HTML, JEE, Java, Tomcat, Servlets, Spring, Hibernate, Alfresco. REST, JMS. Adobe LiveCycle. IntelliJ, TextMate. Git, Mercurial.

Participated in an agile conversion effort of an aging system to a newer, JEE based one. Focused on reimplementing UI facets in JSF/Seam and migration of data to align with the changing business needs. Keywords: J2EE including EJB3, JSF, jBoss and Seam. Also, minor work with JQuery, Photoshop, Eclipse, TDD using JUnit and Oracle integration.

Cutting edge agile web application development environment within a large, multi-tiered development team. Significant user interface design and implementation work, focusing on the use of asynchronous JavaScript and integration with middle tier J2EE technologies. High emphasis on future proofing and extensible use of design patterns. Updating department-wide virtual images for team wide usage. System administration tasks to configure and keep a complex testing environment up and running. Keywords: HTML, ARIA, CSS, OO JavaScript (jQuery, YUI, OpenAjax), XSLT, Photoshop, Eclipse, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Coherence, JAXB, JMS, Ant, JUnit, Mockito, QUnit, BerkleyDB, Oracle.

Primary role in user interface architecture design, implementation and integration in to existing middle tier technologies for a production grade health care retail and supply web application. Including proactive identification and issue resolution. Secondary role providing departmental system administration. This includes implementing virtualization for all active departmental applications such as Jira (issue tracking), Confluence (wiki) and other miscellaneous applications that are critical in the development cycle. Application deployment to BEA Weblogic experience. Administration primarily performed on Unix/Linux based servers. Tertiary role providing internal support for team members and technical recommendations as they relate to upcoming projects.Keywords: J2EE, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JMS, BEA Weblogic, HTML, CSS, JavaScript/AJAX (jQuery, Dojo, Prototype), Photoshop, Eclipse, DB2, MSSQL.

Implemented a strategy of virtualization, automation and consolidation, which significantly reduced data center budgetary requirements and time to delivery for the department external education content by half. Rapidly promoted to lead of the Operations Team, which troubleshoots and maintains a partially co-located server farm of approximately 250 servers including a range of operating system from Mainframe Unix to Windows Server. Implemented significant security standard increases within the lab environment. Monitored for high availability. Serve as the escalation point for three direct reports, who are Lab Assistants. Designed, implemented and supported internal J2EE web application for the lab infrastructure which was based on a Struts and EJB system, connecting to a DB2 back end. Allowed those all the departments to collaborate on lab system usage. Primary tool is now used widely throughout IBMs lab infrastructure. Implemented server technologies such as LDAP, VNC, Citrix, Terminal Services, VMWare Virtual Infrastructure (Including SAN) and associated tools (P2V, Clients), LAMP and J2EE Application Servers (Including WebSphere Application Server, Geronimo), Web Conferencing, Instant Messaging Servers, Web Conference Recording, Backup Management, Automated Patching and Network Monitoring. Keywords: WebSphere, JEE, EJB, JSP, Servlets, Struts1, DB2, Cloudscape, JDBC, RAD.