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Austin, TX, US

South San Francisco, California, US

New York, NY, US

thoughtbot is a product design and development consultancy. We partner with companies of various sizes, in every stage of their process–to help identify and solve their product needs. As Engineering Director, I support a team of mobile and web developers, lead internal strategic initiatives, and support sales and business development operations, while also.

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

Newton, MA, US

As a freelance engineer, I worked with Qeepsake's team building their mobile app, from the React Native front-end to to the Ruby on Rails back-end, with a GraphQL API in between. Qeepsake followed me as a client to thoughtbot, where I have had the opportunity to work on several other engagements with them across their mobile app and back-end.

Dallas, Texas, US

Led development efforts of initial product while working at Spacetime agency, and then as first engineering hire. Architected and built core system that handled 250,000 reservations in the first two years. Startup operated smoothly with lean technical team.

Spacetime is a boutique design and development agency. As Lead Engineer, I worked directly with clients to sell, scope, build, and ultimately launch new web and mobile applications. Our process was highly collaborative. All of our projects were greenfield, and the technologies used were mostly Ruby on Rails and React.

Dallas, TX, US

Led development of web applications for clients including Frito Lay and National Breast Cancer Foundation

Addison, TX, US

Led major refactor of Oracle ATG Commerce system for $3B company. Increased conversions by 30% and added modern merchandising features such as up-sell, cross-sell, and recommendations.Created interactive trade show mapping system and web experience to showcase some of the largest event centers in the country.

Addison, TX, US

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, US

Led major projects in first two years out of college as part of leadership accelerator program. Pitched project idea to American Airlines CEO and CIO, received approval and led development of the AwardMap tool, which received favorable press coverage and is still in use today, now called Miles Finder Map.

Tutored several courses at Texas A&M, including Data Structures and Algorithms, Programming I (C), Computer Architecture, Programming I (Python), Calculus I and II, and Spanish II and III.

College Station, TX, US

Peer teacher for Data Structures and Algorithms at Texas A&M. Assisted students in class and held office hours where I provided additional help. Also led widely attended test review sessions with other peer teachers.Served as Department of Computer Science Ambassador, speaking to incoming students, and volunteering for other Department events.

Austin, Texas, US

Built library to send and receive hardware messages over TCP/IP and UDP protocols using C language. Developed LabVIEW and GUI interfaces on top of this library to enable drag-and-drop utilization.

College Station, TX, US

Worked in the Texas A&M Photonic Research lab.