Leading the engineering efforts for TwinSpires B2B offering.

* Lead two cross-functional software development teams with a laser-focus on giving our customers - our players - a way to engage with a sport that they love.* Spearhead the web wagering experiences, account registration, and player usability features while delivering $1.5 billion in handle for 2019 that outperformed the industry by 6.8% and $1.98 billion handle in 2020, an increase of 35.8% when the industry contracted by 1.0%. * Increased productivity by 10% as we responded to the unique challenges of the Covid pandemic to stay focused on serving our customers. This enabled Twinspires to capture sports fans attention during a period of time in 2020 when horse racing was the only live sport available for enjoyment leading to over a billion dollars in transactions through the web platforms in 2020.* Empower teams to develop new solutions to problems that allow for delivery of simpler functionality for customers and increased supportability of solutions for the engineers allowing them keep a healthy work-life balance.* Lead the Software Development COE to drive a vision for evolving software delivery processes across the organization giving teams and team members the understanding to pursue continuous delivery for our applications so that we can deliver new value to our players sooner and respond quickly to their feedback.* Ensure software engineers, QA engineers, and scrum masters have the resources and time to pursue growth to enable future innovation to solve business problems giving team members a sense of career growth.* Coached team to balance technical implementations with delivery timeline for 2020 Kentucky Derby that resulted in double digit improvement to registration first-time-deposit KPIs.* Collaborated with Product Managers to prioritize changes to the primary client application delivery process that enabled shorter testing feedback cycles resulting in approximately 40% reduction in staging environment approval time.

* Mentored team members to keep focused on delivering business value resulting in a continually high performing team able to consistently deliver on business objectives at a sustainable pace.* Led one of the primary teams to develop a new wagering interface built upon a modern Angular JavaScript framework to become the industry leading web experience for the desktop and mobile device.* Collaborated daily with product owner and scrum master to ensure business requirements were understood by my team and to ensure the effect of technical decisions were understood by the product team so that expectations would be continually met in the delivery of business solutions.* Originated and developed the company's first use of AWS serverless products to deliver reliable, highly available racing results data giving customers easier access to two decades of this data.

* Assumed responsibility of a failed contracted migration project that required a near total rewrite to enable replacement of legacy mainframe systems with an open source LAMP stack giving customers quicker and more reliable access to dozens of pedigree data reports.* Developed new automated scripting to run continual data report generation providing dozens of report types for the new ecommerce system with high reliability compared to legacy systems.* Developed a new data maintenance back office system to enable our thoroughbred data research department to maintain and continually add to one of the world's largest computerized databases of pedigree and racing information for the thoroughbred horse industry.* Created a new thoroughbred sales data import system that increased the speed and accuracy of the ETL process resulting in an increase in the number of thoroughbred sales results added per year.* Developed, within my team, a new AngularJS ecommerce website to sell data products for handicappers (people who wager on horses) with increased ease and added value with new subscriptions products.

* Expanded and maintained all foreign ETL data processes and industry leading pedigree data products.* Provided collaborative development of custom data products for B2B customers leading to long term customer relationships.* Produced annual CD data products for the thoroughbred industry on time and with a high quality of data.

* Developed and deployed custom packing robot controls interface giving operators a clear and concise UI.* Rapid response to automated line outages due to computer systems with quick restoration of service where outage time was measured in tens of thousands of dollars per minute.* Setup and configuration of computer operated visual quality control systems improving defeat capture rate.

As a student co-op I added functionality to existing plant VMS mainframe system and participated in the plant wide migration to a new systems control software by developing many control functions.