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I am the lead engineer and architect for Chewy's Connect with a Vet bespoke tele-triage application. CwaV is a custom multi-tenant application built on a microservices architecture, utilizing best-in-class open source technologies in the WebRTC and XMPP spaces.

Quetoo is a Free first-person shooter (FPS) video game that has been Greenlit on Valve's Steam platform. The game is in a public beta state, and has a healthy community following as well as a dedicated yet geographically distributed team. As the project founder and lead, my involvement spans architecture and implementation, artwork and game design, project infrastructure, and recruiting and team coordination.

Department head for Boston-based professional services firm. Grew engineering team from 20 to 35 FTEs, hiring for mobile, web and full stack skill sets at all levels, Associate to Principal. Managed staffing of teams across client facing projects. Formalized job descriptions for all engineering roles in the company. Executive relationship lead for a $5M/yr priority level account.

Business development, sales support, solution proposal, estimation, architecture and design, implementation, and deployment. Recent project work spanning clients in higher education (Harvard University), finance (Boston Capital), educational publishing (Vista Higher Learning) and cognitive health (SyncThink).

I was responsible for establishing Cantina’s technical vision and services roadmap, and developing our engineering capabilities to support our core offerings: Service Design, IoT and Connected Product development.

Seeking the intersection of deep and uplifting House and Drum & Bass music since 2002.

Lead architect for Hachette's mobile content delivery platform. A Django application, this platform provides content management, profile management, in-app purchases through the App Store, iOS push notifications, etc for all of HBG's native iOS applications.

Project management, solution proposal, architecture and design, implementation, testing, and quality assurance. Clients include The Washington Times, Puma, Smart Bargains / Rue La La, the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, and a subsidiary of The Limited Brands.

Pymp Media Player is a lightweight Gtk interface to the MPlayer console application. Pymp has an intentionally trim yet adequate feature set, and is geared towards users of the GNOME and Xfce desktop environments. I created Pymp in order to teach myself Python and PyGtk. The project has attracted several new maintainers since its initial release in 2004.

CRUX is a lightweight distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system.Joined as Maintainer in 2004, becoming Core Maintainer later that year. Maintained numerous ports of essential software packages, and developed the distributed package management application Pkgsync. Hosted annual development conference in 2005.

Designed and implemented the Dealermind vehicle dealership management suite. Dealermind was launched in 2003, and currently hosts two premier motorcycle dealerships: Windmill Cycles, Inc. and Integrity Cycles, Inc. The primary technologies behind the Dealermind application suite are J2EE and MySQL.