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Holland, Mi, Us

Holland, Mi, Us

Holland, Mi

◾Spearheaded the architecture and development of 20+ local, global, and nationally recognized customer projects from design to deployment.◾Chairman of the SpinDance Cloud Guild, steering the technical direction for cloud technologies, languages, frameworks, patterns, and techniques within the organization.◾Designed cloud architecture, identifying key risks, driving key architectural decisions, often presenting to Amazon or Microsoft Solution Architects for endorsement of architectural strategy.◾Lead development efforts as a guide, consultant, and solution architect to customer stakeholders, and as a key problem solver and mentor on the development team.◾Mentored team members across the company, establishing key patterns, standards, and cultivating a culture of quality, transparency, high standards and open-mindsets across the team.◾Lead design workshops with customers and product owners to identify and define key decisions, user journeys, system capabilities, and requirements.

Holland, Mi

◾ Lead technical discovery and design workshops with customers stakeholders and product owners to identify risks, key decision points, user journeys, system capabilities, and requirements.◾ Lead proposal development, project roadmapping, effort estimation, project phasing strategy, and presentation of custom solutions for new projects with customers and internal stakeholders.◾ Lead project launch activities with the customer and development team, educating and ramping up the team and executing as a lead engineer on the team. ◾ Chairman of the SpinDance Cloud Guild, steering the technical direction for cloud technologies, languages, frameworks, patterns, and techniques within the organization.◾ Lead development efforts as a guide, consultant, and solution architect to customer stakeholders, and as a key problem solver and mentor on the development team.

Holland, Mi

◾ Managed 6-8 direct reports, conducting goal setting, performance reviews, and establishing learning and development plans.◾ Designed cloud architecture for a variety of custom software solutions, incorporating advanced cloud and distributed applications design patterns and best practices.◾ Chairman of the SpinDance Cloud Guild, steering the technical direction for cloud technologies, languages, frameworks, patterns, and techniques within the organization.◾ Provided leadership for the growth and development of engineers both within SpinDance and customer development teams, mentoring senior and junior engineers on technical and soft skills, resulting in a more cohesive and efficient team.

Littleton, Co

Technical Lead and Full-Stack Software Engineer for the AMPERE Analytics project.◾ Designed and developed scalable cloud services for discovering and analyzing real-world information disseminated across the entire National Intelligence Community.◾ Developed stream processing analytics engine consuming ~3K events per second.◾ Developed bulk data ingest using AWS Elastic MapReduce.◾ Designed and developed both external and internal facing APIs.◾ Mentored new hires and junior engineers on established patterns and system capabilities.◾ Communicated daily status, issues, challenges, and progress to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.◾ Presented software designs, performance analysis, trade studies, and live feature demos.◾ Estimated software cost and effort for future feature planning.◾ Conducted technical screenings and on-site interviews.◾ Identified and defined new features and capabilities with customers and product owners.Key Technologies: ElasticSearch, Redis, Docker, AngularJS, Spring Boot, Elastic MapReduce, Apache Accumulo, Amazon Web Services (S3, SQS, EC2, CloudFormation)

Aurora, Colorado

Design and development of the Ground System for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, encompassing Flight Operations, Command and Control, and Telemetry processing. The system supported not only the test and development of the observatory, but is currently running mission operations at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland.◾ Designed and developed a wide variety of mission capabilities: ◽ Spacecraft Commanding and Telemetry Processing Engine ◽ Web Workspace back-end server components and web displays ◽ High Performance Data Processing and Telemetry Analysis System ◽ Web Services framework for enabling legacy systems in a Service Oriented Architecture. ◽ Extended Ground Systems SDK libraries utilized by instrument engineering teams all over the world.◾ Identified new technologies and frameworks for product advancement◾ Mentored new hires and junior engineers on system capabilities and established design patterns◾ Developed requirements with both NASA engineers and Raytheon Systems Engineers ◾ Regularly presented Software Architecture and Design, UI Mockups, and data models ◾ Invented three tier Unit/Functional/Stability test automation engine using Hudson/Jenkins ◾ Served as technical mentor and consultant for multiple satellite operations programs◾ Estimated software cost and effort for future feature planning ◾ Conducted technical interviews for staffing activities and corporate new-hires ◾ Developed technical solutions various proposal teams

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science