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Portland, Oregon, US

Work with a small fully remote team to provide and maintain all the necessary infrastructure to run our company’s Eligibility Verification Service. My team and I focus on documented, tested IaaS techniques, so that there are very few surprises when deploying/upgrading/modifying a service at the production level.* Guided the migration from AWS EC2 to.

Portland, Oregon, US

Worked with a remote team of developers to deliver features in our Eligibility Verification Service using the J2EE Platform. * Integrated with data providers(REST/SOAP/other) to make student/military/etc data available to API clients.

San Francisco, California, US

Worked with a team to deliver functionality to internal and external clients using Agile methods and TDD.

• Co-founded credential clearing house startup catering to organizations and people that need to create, issue, manage, display and validate credentials.
• Directly influence and drive company’s technical direction. Use knowledge and experience as inventive backend developer to define and create innovative software processes.
• Use J2EE, Spring and MySQL skills to provide web service “clearing house” for all types of credential transactions, supporting credential issuers, holders and verifiers.
• Produce innovative services by developing key backend systems. Oversee server management, database systems and application servers necessary to support successful REST based web services.
• Constantly review new tools, languages and technologies to identify best practices and solutions. Easily learn new technologies when needed.
• Manage server, network configurations and software tools.

• As primary developer, defined product features and development timelines. Partnered with CEO and CTO to deliver social networking site that facilitated cross-agency and civilian communication.
• Define, oversee site performance and drive product release cycle. Meticulously plan, monitor execution, manage testing and push deployment, resulting in on-time delivery for pilot program with Veterans Affairs IT.
• Design company-wide test strategy from unit tests to full-stack testing. Ensured testing team implemented and maintained full ownership for projects, which resulted in very little unplanned down time and no pilot data.
• Manage website maintenance and database performance by scaling, tuning and optimizing cache for maximum performance across multiple web applications.
• Evaluate and select appropriate tools and technology. Coordinate, pre-plan and communicate with stakeholders and development team. Maintained short development cycles and adhered to agile processes. Delivered on.
• Use various caching solutions, including local caching, memcached, load balancing and MySQL tweaking to provide adequate performance for approximately 10,000 VA IT users.

• Promoted to lead development team to create web services API for mobile social and photo messaging applications.
• Directed and managed project; exposed core functionality to end users via REST and SOAP Web Services API.
• Mentored and motivated cross-functional development team. Contributed to business and product successes.
• Collaborated with senior leaders across multiple applications to determine product features and developmenttimelines. Translated rigorous testing and planning into successful, rapidly deployed product release cycle.
• Developed and oversaw automated browser testing for rich web applications.

• Served as lead developer on mobile phone photo sharing site (cellblock.com) and innovative small-screen web and data browser (glotovision.com). Communicated directly with CTO to plan and execute multiple projects.
• Involved in every aspect of application development including design, coding, testing and server and system performance; incorporated broad array of tools to maximize efficiency.
• Used J2EE, Linux and MySQL to develop and deploy browser type application for mobile devices (glotovision.com).

Calverton, Maryland, US

• Promoted to lead team to create new module for specimen tracking system used by institutions including FDA, NCI and NIH. Shaped development and product direction.
• Primary client interface charged with gathering requirements for new system modules.
• Led, managed and mentored programming team throughout development and testing phases.

Calverton, Maryland, US

• Acted as driving force behind adoption of automated testing and standard build tools.
• Implemented shared and collaborative accessibility to reproducible builds for all developers.
• Refactored core data entry system to decrease processing time of large batches by more than 50%.