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Bainbridge Island, WA, US

Costa Mesa, California, US

Westwood, MA, US

• Manager and engineering lead of a team of 7 engineers responsible for Account Management, Access and Identity, Communications and Platform Engineering
• Partnered with Product Managers and Engineering Directors to develop and manage the team roadmap, provide high-level estimates, and solution architecture.
• Introduced Event-Driven Architecture and the MassTransit library to decouple legacy code and decommission an internal library used to interact with Azure Service Bus.
• Led the project to rebuild the existing authentication process at PI with Auth0 Universal, introducing Multifactor Authentication and Single Sign On, and addressing existing security vulnerabilities.

Murray, Utah, US

• Lead developer on the Digital Patient Experience product using.NET Core 5, AngularJS, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ and MassTransit.
• Primary coordinator for the DPX team recruitment process, including resume screening, phone and technical screening, leading on-site interviews, and gathering candidate feedback
• Championed DevOps concepts and improvements to the existing CI process including environment health checks, telemetry, log aggregation, and environment metrics
• Provided technical direction, mentorship, and oversight to 5 developers and 2 testers on the team

Denver, Colorado, US

• Client-facing solution lead on multiple projects providing custom web solutions using Kentico CMS,.NET Framework, Azure Application Services, Azure SQL, Azure Service Bus and Azure Cosmos DB.
• Led story-grooming and work breakdown sessions between development team and clients
• Provided high-level direction and solution architecture to developers on team. Paired daily with development team on strategic implementation details and provided context on client needs.

Bellevue, Washington, US

• Lead developer of a team of 5 developers responsible for supporting internal case management and CRM tools used by the sales department and call center
• Lead developer on a multi-year project to modernize eFinancial’s internal CRM product leveraging.NET Core 2.1, AWS SQS and SNS, ASP.NET MVC, C# and SQL Server
• Developed an application to evaluate and route insurance leads in real-time to the call center written in ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, C# and SQL Server that reduced time to contact by 50%

Tukwila, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Developed an application to track mobile device analytics at over 300 transactions per second using.NET 4.5, NServiceBus, MSMQ, and SQL Server.
• Implemented a third party fraud solution in the Starbucks purchase path requiring development, testing and integration of 12 different web applications or services utilizing ASP.NET MVC, Web API, WCF, and.NET 3.5 - 4.5.
• Analyzed and developed a backend system responsible for the processing and delivery of Starbucks loyalty cards per year using.NET 4.5, NServiceBus, MSMQ, and SQL Server

Seattle, Washington, US

• Developed a website designed to automate the settlement and payment of copyright infringement cases for Getty Images assets written in ASP.NET MVC 3 and C# that utilized NHibernate and WCF.
• Modernized and redesigned the search and search results pages of GettyImages.com to improve usability and implemented an autosuggest feature for improving the quality of search results using ASP.NET MVC, jQuery.
• Implemented OpenCaptcha, strengthened password business rules and implemented failed login attempt rules for GettyImages.com Sign-In pages to protect against automated attacks.
• Rewrote and modernized the price calculator on GettyImages.com for better user experience and simplified purchasing utilizing progressive enhancement techniques written in ASP.NET MVC, C#, jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3.