Main architect and team lead for long-running effort to standardize and document cloud infrastructure and move to infrastructure-as-code as well as multiple other projects critical to business and/or platform-stability goals.Regularly involved in department planning, sizing, and team structure conversations. Managed a small team including 1-1s, mentoring, performance reviews, backlog grooming, and product design work.Manage proof of concept development in building a data platform built on top of emerging privacy web standards (SOLID) that provides participants with a way of sharing hyper-local and personal data while retaining full data control and portability.Act as product manager and designer as well as tech lead for contractors and universities working within the scope of this Building Data Collective project. Make sure that work is purposeful, clear, and directed toward a goal.

Stabilized and managed a team through a period of extreme transition. Stepped in and performed product manager and team lead duties. Led the team through the completion of several important roadmap projects.As an engineering manager, oversaw recruiting, hiring, and fostered promotions for over half of the team.Promoted to a director title within four months. Worked with leadership to chart out department values, goals, and roadmaps as well as addressing re-org and department-wide staffing.As a principal developer, regularly worked with people on other teams to improve their development workflows, identify issues in their areas of responsibility, and address product-wide technical debt. Assisted with identifying and addressing wide-ranging security vulnerabilities and accessibility issues. Advocated for and established patterns to shorten feedback loops with debugging, logging, and test driven development.Took over understanding and delivery for one of the most convoluted areas of abstraction within the data model. Identified and repaired a complex series of long-standing bugs that were resulting in improperly handled customer data. Worked to distribute siloed knowledge and transition this to a team responsibilityConceived of, documented, promoted to product, and wholly owned implementation introducing a new user matching feature. This provides a path for replacing a poorly understood, business-critical workflow with a far more flexible, straightforward, and understandable approach that serves better customers, end-users,and developers.

Provided architectural and team leadership for a variety of development projects undertaken by the Operation Spark consulting wing - the DevShop.Worked daily alongside junior developers on their first professional project. Interviewed, formed teams, and mentored team members to become solid contributors.Together with the CEO and COO, built out DevShop business development strategy. Operated as the sales engineer, regularly meeting with prospective clients, building out, estimating, and pitching project proposals.Updated and improved curriculum and coursework, occasionally teaching, delivering lectures, and checking in with students studying software development.Consulted graduates on how to go about finding their first software development job. Helped optimize and bring depth to their job hunt strategies so as to best ensure success.

Lead a multitude of successful medium and large software projects developing applications for a variety of clients. This included working in C#, Javascript, Node, WPF, Python, Docker, and many other technologies.Designed an implemented an interview process that allowed the company to grow from 20 to almost 250 senior developers. Personally conducted nearly 200 technical interviews. Started and administered a mentoring program. Started and administered a weekly developer show-and-tell to cross-pollinate knowledge.Managed and developed internal skunkworks projects the provided ops platform on which Surge did invoicing, staffing, and interviewing.Managed developer-related escalations and conducted 1-1s.Was involved in many management-level and direction-setting decisions.Worked with the parent company through a merger to identify and implement ways to improve operations.

Worked on a variety of complex web applications and backend projects with a heavy use of Javascript, AngularJs, c#, React, JQuery, F#, and more.Led multiple-person teams working with clients such as Verizon, Oliver Wyman, and AppleHms.Served as an informal developer evangelist within the company helping arrange and leading multiple programs that enabled the Surge Developer Community to grow.

Worked for the consulting branch of one of the most renowned companies in the .Net space. Worked onlarge multi-million dollar custom systems ranging from WPF to ASP.Net MVC to the CoDE Milos Framework. Worked on close-knit Agile team with clients, junior staff, and some of the best developers in the industry.

Designed and developed applications in ASP.NET and WinForms for a large multinational corporation. Refactored legacy code to be more compliant with principles of loose-coupling and separation of concerns. Built relationships with and managed an outsourced team using an Agile approach including iterations, and continuous integration. Instituted previously lacking source control, issue tracking, and test driven development policies. Software development duties spanned all stages of the software lifecycle: gathering of requirements, discussions with domain experts, system architecture, iteration planning, management of developers, implementation, testing, quality assurance, administration, and the gathering and assessment of feedback. Duties also included database administration, dealing with clients, and management of a single intern.

Scheduled meetings, booked talks, presented, built up connections with Microsoft and other regional usergroups

Consulted customers on requirements and system design. Built software on PHP/MySQL and .NET/SQL Server platforms.Web Application Developer (January 2006 ­ May 2007); Developed web applications through a daily use of PHP, ASP, Oracle and MySQL. Responsibilities included full-blown site anddatabase design, documentation, and some light graphic design.

Developed web applications through a daily use of PHP and ASP. This was typically integrated with an Oracle or MySQL database requiring both back-end and front-end programming in order to generate dynamic, flexible, and maintainable code. Regularly designed and implemented in-browser applications using DHTML and occasionally AJAX. Responsibilities included full-blown site and database design, the writing of documentation, and some light graphic design and image manipulation. Projects were typically done solo or in small teams and ranged the full software development lifecycle of design, implementation, quality assurance, and customer support.

Contributed to all phases of a project for the automation of land surveying through the use of LIDAR (Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging) and other publicly available data.