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Lafayette, La, Us

Plano, Tx, Us

Plano, Tx, Us

I’m currently a Software Engineering Manager for Pizza Hut US. My teams include the Web and Digital Transaction Growth teams.

Principal technologist, co-founder, and strategic leader of a realtor backed, bidding marketplace for long term and short term rentalsDevised and executed a technical strategy to launch an entirely new rental marketplace. Leveraged Figma prototypes to determine product market fit, AWS serverless tech for early affordability and eventual scalability, and Flutter for simultaneously targeting Android, iOS, and Web.• Pivoted the product launch strategy to target long term rentals as our initial market, allowing our teams to deliver our most simple solution first while focusing on our fastest growing market• Oversaw and contributed to a fully serverless backend system built in AWS using TypeScript, GraphQL, and the AWS CDK• Oversaw and contributed to a multi-target frontend project built in Flutter, designed to generate iOS, Android, and Web based frontend solutions simultaneously• Oversaw and contributed to the production of design and marketing materials, including frontend designs and prototypes, pitch decks, and investor-friendly architectural diagrams• Facilitated a Design Sprint, a process developed by Google Ventures for solving hard problems in one week with test-ready prototypes• Built up two teams, frontend and backend, sourced solely from personal network• Identified and facilitated partnerships with real-estate professionals to support discovery,development, and end-user testing• Assumed a technical advisor role with local startup community leaders (Opportunity Machine) togain insight on tax credit programs, funding opportunities, talent acquisition, and pitch readiness• Authored a private monthly blog to communicate progress to investors

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

Promoted while managing a team of senior leaders through periods of explosive growth and sudden contraction for the nation’s third-largest wholesale mortgage lender.Responsible for Homepoint’s central data streaming platform - a four-team, 130M messages/day Azure, Kafka and Kubernetes system integrated with Encompass. Successfully drove a bold shift in technology, leadership, and culture to navigate towards sustainability during an economic downturn. • Designed and rolled out a company-wide Professional Development program resulting in a 3.5x increase in self-directed technical training• Steered the platform away from a centralized, all-knowing API toward decentralized, self-service, streaming modules• Reduced required resources by 75% while speeding up product delivery timeline by ~10x• Reduced data latency SLA from 5-15 min to seconds• Replaced a culture of consensus with a culture of trust through one-person-ownership and federated decision-making, reducing meeting overhead by 20% while improving morale and reducing reported stress• Responsible for multiple teams supporting a mortgage servicing and customer engagement portal• First mortgage servicing provider in the US to support self-serve forbearance during COVID (<24hr after federal mandate)• Collaborated with the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) to turn an internal request into a publicly relevant product that was later sold to a third party• Iteratively and collaboratively designed an Agile delivery process that supported extreme agility leveraging feature-level Kanban, pods, and early developer involvement

Naperville, Illinois, Us

Spearheaded the engineering effort behind a custom CRM for auto dealers. This came after successfully steering a stand-alone inventory management product into the projected future inventory backbone for CARS.comSupervised the development of a new automotive customer relationship management (CRM) system. Responsible for all engineering within the Inventory Department. This included the development of a greenfield inventory management system (IMS), the maintenance of 10+ core internal services, and the cloud-first modernization of an existing legacy inventory pipeline. The inventory department was responsible for supporting +8 million daily inventory changes made by thousands of dealer websites nationwide.• Introduced cloud-first architecture reducing run times from 20 minutes to seconds per dealership• Mentored and oversaw the adoption of AWS Serverless technologies (Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB)• Rolled out branch-level CI/CD deployments, significantly reducing PR review time• Improved security by designing and coordinating a cross-product SSO rollout• Led the initial development of a Global UI Control Library• Investigated the use of Conflict-free Replicated DataTypes (CRDTs) for safely syncing real-time data between edge systems• Interfaced with Data Science to design a flexible integration model leveraging DynamoDB• Researched and enforced responsible handling of personally identifiable information (PII)• Introduced Scrum Agile resulting in better visibility, accountability, and lead time• Introduced ElasticSearch as an alternative to MongoDB full-text + manual search making single-input searching viable• Collaboratively designed and implemented an automated CapEx system for CARS and subsidiaries

Co-Founder, technical leader, and key visionary for a predictive maintenance system and visualization tool used for digital oil field surveillanceCo-Founded a digital oil field (DOF) start-up with the goal of creating enterprise-grade predictive maintenance tools for smaller companies. Responsible for all technical decisions and strategy.• Partnered with co-founders on legal matters, sales, costs, ownership, partnership, funding, employment, product development, marketing, and the future strategy for the company• Collaborated with mechanical and petroleum engineers to design a machine learning algorithm that would detect probability of failure for submersible pumps• Designed and developed a web-based engineering platform with interactive trending and analytics• Developed prototypes using Kubernetes, Google Cloud, Docker, Docker Swarm, React/Redux, Aurelia, C#, Python, and MSSQL• Developed a mobile-first, offline-capable Progressive Web App (PWA) using Service Workers

Lead an existing software team, standardize an existing code base, and implement new features for handling SCADA and logistics• Key part of all IT-related decision making• Introduce DevOps concepts using the Atlassian product suite (Jira, Bitbucket, Stride)• Design and Implement a standard deployment process working towards Continuous Deployment• Maintain and Improve an existing codebase spanning multiple languages and technologies: PHP, Angular 1.x, React/Redux, and C#• Maintain and Improve web architecture. Current architecture leverages: Docker, AWS (Fargate, EC2, RDS, Route 53, S3, VPC, Certificate Manager, IAM, SES), MySQL, NodeJs, Apache, Windows Services, Ubuntu, and Windows Server 2012

Metairie, La, Us

Special Projects ManagerResponsible for the development of EDG product offerings • Manage tasks for three developers using SQL, Aurelia, JavaScript, C#, WebApi, IIS, Python, and VBA• Design and develop a solution for automatically deploying digital oil field systems to smaller companies. This solution leverages the existing human-machine-interface front-end and allows the client to manage deployments without intervention. • Design and develop a solution for generating HTML based on screens designed in other applications• Design and develop a solution for presenting realtime and engineering data in a web interfaceTechnical ConsultantSee projects outlined below

San Ramon, Ca, Us

The goal of this project was to develop a system for automatically deploying a complete digital oil field solution to assets around the globe. At the end of my contract, we had successfully deployed to three business units with hundreds of wells.Senior Database Developer Played a major role in designing and developing a system to automatically deploy new assets using templates• Designed and developed 70+ procedures for generating “seeds” from templates in the source system• Designed and developed 70+ SQL processes and 70+ supporting tables for automating deployment from seeds into the target system• Assisted in developing 150+ testing scripts used for testing deployment success• Designed and developed a system for automatically creating a full workflow scheduling system based on a surface modelPetex Developer Responsible for automating interactions between the suite of Petex tools• Install, maintain and optimize the Petex Suite of Petroleum Engineering tools (IPM, IVM, IFM, GAP, and PROPSER)• Manage queries and connections used by IVM for data collection from PI AF and SQL data warehouses• Build custom workflows in IFM to optimize oil production, to automate model maintenance, to assess well predictability, and to estimate well output using statistical methods• Use GAP and PROSPER by Petroleum Experts to validate well and surface models• Use GAP and PROSPER to estimate well output and send results to IVM• Use IVM to provide realtime information for SCADA data, physics-based model data, and overall system health• Designed and developed a tool for deploying new wells into IVM• Designed and developed a tool for maintaining consistency between the IVM system and the System of Record

Houston, Texas, Us

Provided advanced support to a team of three colleagues• Install, maintain and optimize MS SQL databases• Maintain and optimize the IVM system• Provide analysis about latency, downtime, and/or data lapses• Use IVM to provide realtime information for SCADA and overall system health• Use IVM and SQL to develop tools used to automatically deploy screens, tags and scripts when a new well is added to the system• Developed a system for deploying changes to the Production environment

Lafayette, Louisiana, Us

Working closely C-level management and representatives from our top clients, I managed the design, development and deployment of entirely new content management system called Pinion.• Design the features and phases of our software to replace our existing platform and address new specifications• Schedule project stages and ensure that progress is being made according to schedule while communicating gaps to superiors• Implemented Scrum and Agile principles for development • Manage tasks for two front-end designers, three developers, and two testers• Introduced and implemented a company-wide system for tracking work items, incidents, and bugs between departments and the support team• Design and manage development of publically available web application (C#.NET, WCF)• Design and develop the MS SQL databases for the web application and the disconnected client application• Design and develop the Click-Once installation project for installing the Stand-Alone client and required packages (compatible with all versions of Windows starting with Win XP with no Service Packs)• Implement and maintain five servers including the following technologies: SQL Server 2008 R2, IIS7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Small Business Server 2011, Exchange, Active Directory and SVN• Setup Courier – automatic email services through AWS• Successfully Implement a test run to move to Azure• Gave a presentation at two conferences about the state and future of Pinion Courseware

Lafayette, Louisiana, Us

Senior-most developer working directly under business-level management on OQVerify, a custom Learning Management System for 15,000+ users with 60+ custom courses • Research, design and develop a custom SCORM engine to enable our system to host 20+ additional courses from outside vendors (PHP, SQL, JavaScript)• Update all menus, videos, and testing interactions to be iPad/touch compatible• Research, design and implemented a video streaming service for our courses for security and iPad compatibility (Windows Server, Wowza (RTMP), JWPlayer, Adobe Flash, and Adobe Premiere)• Design and develop advanced reporting features• Managed tasks for two developers• Configured and maintained three Windows servers (IIS, Microsoft SQL 2008 R2, Wowza Streaming Video Server, SCORM)

Lafayette, Louisiana, Us

Responsible for creating courses, integrating these courses with various systems, and developing a few websitesCourse Development (Lectora, Illustrator, Flash, Photoshop, JavaScript, SQL)• Using Lectora, develop 40+ courses. The advanced nature of these courses required frequent JavaScript intervention. • Interface with training departments for major client companies to install and troubleshoot coursesMOC Panel – a publically accessible site for handling Management of Change requests (PHP)• Design and develop a system to do the following: receive client change requests, receive changes/responses made by course developers, and displaying resolutions for each client requestEmprowise – a pay-per-view website for taking courses (PHP, Joomla)• Host Lectora courses with video and test content• Implement e-commerce plugin for Joomla using PayPal• Store results from Lectora courses to a MSSQL database• Manage user accounts for clients with groups of users• Manage billing reports for courses takenCP Tools – an interactive software project procured by OQSG to test knowledge of Cathodic Protection• Create a website for companies to sign up and maintain user accounts (C#.NET)• Add lockout, authentication, and scoring functionality to the project (C++)• Oversaw development of automatic installation toolsCompany websites• Create websites in Joomla for marketing OQSG, ISS (sister company), and ISG (parent company)Responsible for the entire network and all technical equipment for OQSG and its sister company ISS.• Implement and maintain a network with two servers, 30+ client computers and 10 phones• Implement and maintain Exchange, SharePoint and Active Directory • Implement and maintain a VPN using SonicWALL hardware connected to Active Directory for authentication• Implemented security protocols for company phones to include VPN access, secure Wi-Fi access and email

Design and develop websites and branding for clients using PHP, JavaScript, C-Panel, IIS, Joomla, WordPress, Plesk, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop