IC and tech lead for the Mobile Release Engineering organization responsible for ideation, implementation, and long term ownership for multiple business critical systems. Experience building internal teams for staffing.Expertise includes gathering and analyzing key operational metrics for release health; deeply understanding the nuts and bolts of Android packaging, used to guide the entire company through massive Android upgrades; and maintaining automated systems for build and distribution. Owned systems were used by thousands of engineers daily.Key deliverables include: • Creating an innovative, distributed, high capacity system for identifying fragmented growth funnels through first party mobile app acquisition channels.• Building and maintaining a revolutionary, industry leading system for running low-level, compile time A/B tests for Android APK's on real, production users.• Collaborating with Google directly on the future of Android app distribution and beta programs, including working with the Play team personally and leveraging Early Access API's from Google, while providing direct feedback.• Maintaining critical build and release infra, including intense, full time oncall rotations and a quick ramp up after the original owning team dissolved.• Ushering the company through multiple company-wide infrastructure upgrades to Android tooling and apps that affected every single produced Android app. Includes both writing code to upgrade the infra, as well as herding developers and app owners through the upgrade. • Key upgrades include: 64-bit apps, Signing Version Upgrades, and Google Play API Upgrades.• Owning, as the subject matter expert, the implementations for automated Android APK Signing and Google Play API integration.

Improve the code quality and testability of frontend and backend engineering, while shipping scalable products with a high focus on engineering quality.• Provided a path to integrate frontend testing into the engineering workflow using Jest.• Refactor existing React components, while adding testing.• Revolutionize the process behind prequalified lead discovery.

Responsible for seeing projects through from initial conception and planning all the way to deployment. On boards and mentors new developers to the backend department. Furthers the current technology stack for the backend team and provides standard programming aide.• Improved backend engineering reuse and efficiency by transitioning the department from an old PHP stack to a modern Python stack using Flask, with in-house extensions and libraries.• Architected and built new projects from the ground up by providing full plans, schedules, and estimates for the projects involved, and then managing the final team.• Grew the backend department by interviewing and mentoring new engineers, managing a team of four engineers, and bringing automation to the department.• Maintained all projects deployed by creating supporting SaltStack states, setting up monitoring, and performing any and all DevOps work needed.• Transformed the developer culture and processes in place at the company, multiple times.• Organize the time allocation of multiple other engineers.Clients include: Google, NASA, Sterling Risk Insurance Company, and others.

Joined a growing team that builds products for various other clients including: restaurant reservation apps, wedding registry e-commerce sites, and emergency alert notification/management systems, among others.Executes engineering plans into final, actual products. Learns new frameworks and technologies as needed for the project. Provides beginner DevOps assistance.• Built full web applications by taking plans from a Senior Engineer and implementing them into an internal PHP framework and a modern JavaScript framework (Backbone and Knockout).• Created a robust search system for a music tagging platform by leveraging ElasticSearch.• Implemented a full e-commerce system, using Stripe integration.

Work with the founder and CEO, Joel Ponce, directly to build Jaguar Arts into a fully function e-commerce site for South Alabama sports memorabilia. Joel and I were both students at South Alabama at the time.• Adopt an e-commerce site built in WordPress using the eShop plugin.• Update core eShop and WordPress code to better accommodate business demands.• Finish and deploy a new landing page.• Build a product previewer using HTML 5 and .• Provide advice and small support after graduation and into the future.Boss: Joel Ponce

Communicate with clients about requirements, build new projects in CodeIgniter, and adopt old projects written in ASP Classic. Full telecommute position as an independent contractor.• Take over an interactive, marker-driven Google Maps project for highlighting out of the way locations to travel through. Cleaned up code, added new upload features, updated the site layout, and deployed it. Backend in PHP + CodeIgniter and frontend in JS + jQuery.• Adopt ten year old legacy e-commerce system written in VBScript for ASP Classic and make updates to the current shopping cart.• Build a new e-commerce site from scratch for a local architect using CodeIgniter and GoCart. Initial setup, customization to GoCart, and the creation of a new payment method and search form were all done.Boss: Michal "Webby" Douglas"

An initial student job, through the school, with a major focus on Telemedicine and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems. The Center for Strategic Health Innovations (CSHI) works with Medicaid to help provide medical records and trend analysis to reduce the cost of their most expensive patients.Maintain an existing EMR system written in Drupal. Build new features, solve bugs, upgrade the system and general, and maintain the final deployed product in a small capacity.Build a new EMR system focused on tracking the quality of care for asthma patients, as Asthma Registry of sorts. Major focus was on the initial phase 1 build, which had the purpose of collecting and presenting as much data as possible to different stratas of individuals, e.g., patients and doctors. Also built in Drupal.Build an error reporting site in ASP .NET MVC 3 as a beginner project, to show me the ropes.Supervisor: James Muisyo.

Worked with Google and DudaMobile to help Mobile businesses build mobile websites. Installed JavaScript redirects and other mobile redirection tools on various web hosts. Most difficult task was generally getting to the area where code needed to be added, particularly with boilerplate websites, such as WordPress.Event name: GoMo: Mobilising Mobile AL. This was a short-term contracting gig for a Google sponsored event.

Scanned charts, destroyed charts/x-rays, filed medical files and chart in a Medical Records file room.