Technical lead and manager of the infrastructure and quality control teams for the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) platform. Responsible for the automation necessary to support a fleet of hundreds of “shared nothing” server clusters and the budget for doing so using Terraform and Docker.Reduced hosting spend by two-thirds by optimizing code and SQL queries, eliminating waste, fixing memory leaks, choosing AWS resources appropriately, and contract negotiationsLed the Engineering department after departures of senior leadership. Introduced working agreements among Product, Customer Success and Engineering to support predictable delivery of quality code. Introduced the practice of retrospectives. Revamped the software deployment process using industry standards like GitFlow, Jira and GitHub Actions. Eliminated the need for a dedicated release manager. These changes together reduced our change failure rate by an order of magnitude.Brought new rigor and preparedness to the interview process for engineering candidatesManaged relationships with vendors for infrastructure and hosting services Built and deployed a sandboxing mechanism for running customer extensions to the Canvas platform in a safe and secure manner

Responsible for all software development in an AgTech IoT system spanning Web and mobile (iOS) apps, data ingestion, end device control, and internal tools using the Google CloudHired, trained and led an international team with members in Seattle, San Jose, Sarajevo, Novi Sad, and Noida. Introduced Kanban, team story writing and estimation, retrospectives, GitFlow, database change management, automated testing, continuous integration and more. Architected and coded microservices using Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL and App EngineImproved the security posture of the company through mandating the use of individual logins, encryption wherever possible, source code sanitization, VPNs and VPCs, and secure storage and distribution of secretsCollaborated with hardware and firmware teams to build an appropriate hybrid development methodology to support business objectivesIntroduced GIS tools and libraries for device management and in-field navigation during product installation and service. Delivered an iOS app to support the service team.

Managed teams focused on Business Intelligence and data warehousing, healthcare interoperability, and Web developmentOversaw the launch of several products in the Navigating Cancer Care Management suite which seeks to reduce oncology care costs and improve outcomesGuided the engineering department through rapid growth from 10 engineers to over 25. Created an interview process that allowed us to evaluate relevant technical skills, and also leadership, teamwork, maturity, communication, open-mindedness, and attention to quality.Instantiated a Business Intelligence team to build a data warehouse supporting the reporting needs of oncology practices and the Navigating Cancer management teamMentored developers in various regards such as setting career goals, communication, handling interpersonal conflict, SDLC best practices, database admin, interviewing

Led development of the Avenace geospatial audience measurement platform built with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL/PostGIS and Amazon Web Services.Employed agile methodologies, pair programming, and test driven development to create a cohesive development team with members in Seattle and Eastern Europe.My team achieved 98% automated test coverage over the core intellectual property of the company.As the database manager, I leveraged partitioning, RAID sets, IO and memory optimizations, advanced indexing techniques and query tuning to extract maximum value out of our hardware budget.Improved query runtimes while massively increasing data volume on the same budget and technologies.Developed behavioral analysis tools using our data set to derive insights about traffic, store visit patterns, trade areas, movement of residents and workers in mixed use zones, and how these change through time.Mentored others in the use of SQL, PostGIS and QGIS, facilitating their analytical work.Kept internal customers happy while finding opportunities to improve security, performance and disaster recoverability.

Led the transition of a principal operational database from Oracle to PostgreSQL.Built a geographical search application in Rails, CoffeeScript and HAML for a major national advertiser.Enabled the business development team to correlate customer conversion data (i.e., phone calls) with A/B testing on mobile advertisements.Saved the company an estimated $60,000 monthly in labor costs by identifying and leading work to improve performance of a Rails application used by domestic and offshore teams.Advised my team and others regarding performance and general usage of relational databases.

Developed a data architecture to consolidate approximately 10 PostgreSQL databases into a unified star schema. This reduced storage requirements by 70%, increased data quality, improved read performance, and enabled reuse of ETL procedures.Forged a team dedicated to ETL work and mentored developers in data management tools and techniques.Provided guidance to executive staff for addressing critical problems while facilitating new product development.Introduced a database change management tool (Liquibase) in lieu of ad-hoc database administration.Introduced an ETL tool (Pentaho Data Integration) to replace a patchwork collection of scripts.Built a Java test framework for ETL procedures written in Pentaho, and ran tests in continuous integration.

Founded CultureMob in 2006 with four others. Participated in strategic decision making as a member of the Board of Directors. Led effort to expand from the Seattle market to the top 30 US markets. Delivered the additional markets five weeks early on a six month schedule.

Developed hosted software applications for research libraries.

Contributed to one of the earliest content management systems: https://kb.iu.edu/d/acjq