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Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Developing assessment and training software for practicing surgeons.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Worked with team to bring cloud architecture and internal development platform to maturity with a focus on enhancing event-based systems. Current architecture has maintained 99%+ uptime, with 0 data loss incidents for >50M hi-res pictures, >500M of rows of data, and a petabyte of total data storage. APIs handle >2M queries/day with >99.95% success rateWorked in partnership with our head of security to complete ISO 27001 certification process. Our product earned certification in July 2023 based on the engineering, security, and monitoring best practices I had established throughout my tenure with SkySpecsLed migration of all Kafka-based event services, without incident, to Redpanda managed Kafka provider; managed vendor selection and relationshipDeployed and maintained AWS EKS managed Kubernetes service to host a Kafka-Connect clusterDeveloped suite of event-based tools and helpers to enable local-development with Redpanda/KafkaProduced extensive documentation of major systems and developer workflowsLed weekly developer-focused touchpoint meetings where engineering team were encouraged to ask questions, share ideas, coordinate tasks and build cohesion across working groups in the engineering teamParticipated in the interviewing, on-boarding, training, and mentoring of new developers

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Increased my focus on organization’s architectural needs and devops / deployment systems; researching and designing longer term solutions for continued scaling, and support for applications teams with an eye towards a cohesive internal development platform.Set the groundwork for adoption of Grafana for service, database, and application observability, resulting in the migration and expansion of usage from a self-hosted instance to Grafana Cloud managed services; currently aggregates > 1TB of metrics, logs, and traces monthlyIntroduced, prototyped, and implemented HCP Consul to route and configure service containers as part of a Service MeshIntroduced, prototyped and implemented HCP Vault cluster and PostgreSQL dynamic credentials engine for developer workflowsWorked as a member of specially-formed team to research, design, and roll out Kafka-based events and flows to our services, and create enhanced analytics data system backed by those eventsIntroduced Cloudflare to our service architecture for DNS, firewall, and threat-detectionMentored and supervised three employees in newly formed Platforms team. During that time the team designed and implemented an improved authentication and authorization layer and toolset used by all services in our ecosystem.Initiated and led weekly developer-focused touchpoint meetings.Participated in the interviewing, on-boarding, training, and mentoring of new developers.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Continued doing application development and data management for the inspection data portal, and began moving into cloud architecture to support the growing feature sets, security needs, and scaling requirements of growing suite of servicesIdentified and selected the vendor for 3rd-party architectural review and managed engagement. Led the implementation of resulting recommendations, including migration of existing cloud infrastructure to be managed with Terraform, improvements to our VPC networking, implementation of AWS multi/cross-account capabilities.Participated in the interviewing, on-boarding, training, and mentoring of new developers.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

As the first on-staff web developer, I developed the first generation of our customer data portal for reviewing inspection data. The web application, back-end infrastructure, and data storage patterns were used to demonstrate SkySpecs’s cutting-edge drone inspection capabilities in [Hamburg, Germany](https://nawindpower.com/skyspecs-to-demonstrate-drone-inspection-of-wind-turbines), and was subsequently used in support of the delivery of nearly 30,000 inspections to customers over the next two years.During this time, I provided direct customer support for the application, and worked with the sales and blade analytics teams to prioritize and implement improvements to the software, meeting evolving customer needs.

Chicago, Il

Wrote cutting-edge cross-browser HTML5, CSS3, and JS for Isobar's various clients; including Motorola, Sotheby's and more.

Chicago, Il

No1 Cooperative was a collaboration between Essential Forms, Inc., DBLDUTCH, Inc., and various multi-media partners in the Chicago area. We built full marketing solutions for small businesses and non-profits in the Chicago-land area.

Chicago, Il

Essential Forms, inc. was a webdesign and Open-Source consultancy for small businesses and nonprofits in the Chicagoland area. We specialized in web development, digital tool-building, and IT infrastructure.

Downtown Chicago

Developing cutting-edge, Mobile First/responsive interfaces that degrade gracefully in IE8 with Backbone, Handlebars, and Less.

Chicago, Illinois

Developed responsive layouts and front-end MVC infrastructure on the Qualified Career Management project. In addition to my usual HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript stack, I worked heavily with Ember.js, Node, Stylus (and Sass/SCSS), and Git. We also utilized Twitter Bootstrap to built out the initial infrastructure.

Assisted LSNA to build a tech plan and provide tech support and advice on their ongoing computer needs. They currently have an employee in house handling their support tasks, but I am called in whenever they are stumped. They have been a GREAT client, and I am always happy to help them whenever I am able to.

I setup and ran all computer facilities for the law firm, including the installation and management of Linux servers and desktops, and the installation and management of Lotus Notes / Domino servers and desktops. While I no longer work for them directly, they are still a client in my current adventure.