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Remote

• Work with staff, contractors, volunteers, and researchers to build an open data classification tool to crowd-source classification of emergency call data. Developed a cloud-based ETL pipeline that integrates with the.
• Design and develop entity resolution and eligibility determination systems, in collaboration with government stakeholders, to identify individuals with criminal records that are eligible for clearance.
• Collaborate with leadership and engineers across the organization to help develop organizational best practices.

• Lead a team of engineers and professional services consultants to manage and deploy logging solutions on AWS for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
• Work directly with government stakeholders to identify problems and develop solutions.
• Reduced infrastructure cost over 70% by employing modern architectures and best practices for Splunk on AWS.
• Developed and deployed automated processes to reduce toil and support tickets allowing the team to focus on solving new problems.
• Mentored other engineers in order to improve their skills and increase team velocity over time.
• Interviewed potential candidates for positions on the engineering team.

Contributor to the open source Drupal CMS. Contributed patches to core and contributed modules and maintain several modules with numerous contributions to the Drupal Commerce community.

Remote

• Design and drive development and maintenance for distributed file system and database systems and provisioning services to support cloud hosting customers.
• Architected software and infrastructure for new distributed data services to improve customer experience and reduce related support tickets.
• Mentor other engineers in order to improve their skills and increase team velocity over time.
• Developed and facilitated scrum process and organized regular cross-team scrum collaboration.
• Interviewed potential candidates for positions on the engineering team.

Spearheaded the development of various web based projects including proprietary e-commerce solutions, Drupal websites, e-commerce websites using Ubercart and Drupal Commerce, and integration with services such as Google Maps, Exchange Web Services and various social networks.

• Lead developer of web applications. Responsible for leading a team of developers for the AllPlayers.com web application and store using an agile scrum process.
• Managed and supervised a team of eight developers.
• Provided strategic insight that drove product decisions.
• Contributed to various open source projects and identified clear delineations between custom solutions and community viable code.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

• Engineer for the WorkXpress PaaS and its underlying cloud infrastructure.
• Developed custom integrations between customer applications and various services such as FedEx, HarrisData, and Microsoft Exchange.
• Architected on-demand cloud infrastructure for the platform that reduced cost for the both the company and its clients.

Bachelors, It - Applications Developement

Made Dean's List for multiple semesters.

Certificate, Computer Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Computer Club, VICA, National Vocational Technical Honor SocietyAttended vocational school while in High School.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Computer club; intramural floor hockey, flag football, and ultimate frisbee