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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.