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Portland, Or, Us

Pleasanton, California, Us

Leading Degreed's LXP Engineering teams as we work to democratize learning through our enterprise SaaS offering. Thrilled to lead a passionate distributed team of 30+ engineers and managers working to build thoughtfully-engineered, customer-centric products. I also lead a small, surgical team of Staff Engineers focused on helping other teams "build the right thing quickly" by seeding new greenfield projects and augmenting existing teams in pursuit of rapid progress on high-priority initiatives.

Pleasanton, California, Us

Led and grew multiple agile product engineering teams supporting Degreed's LXP product.Some highlights include: Instrumental in building and rolling out an org-wide career ladder; Streamlined our developer onboarding experience leading to 50% quicker onboarding; Co-led a quarter-long effort to increase unit test coverage by nearly 10%.

Pleasanton, California, Us

Worked as an individual contributor on the Mobile team and technical lead responsible for building and maintaining Degreed's mobile API to empower lifelong learners on the go.Some highlights include: Designed and implemented a new OAuth refresh token flow to support biometric authentication in our mobile apps; Built an API rate-limiting mechanism to protect our endpoints from bad actors; Made notable performance improvements (3-5x faster on average) to our mobile search APIs.

Built new software systems and web platforms and performed surgical upgrades to existing legacy systems.One particular project I worked on was the design, development, and implementation of a Court Appearance Reminders System (CARS) that allows members of the public to receive text/email reminders for upcoming hearings and other court-related matters. (C#, ASP.NET Core, PostgreSQL, Azure)

Lemoore, Ca, Us

Taught CIS and Computer Science courses in web development, application programming, and database design. Built and taught a boot camp-style full-stack web development curriculum.

Designed, implemented, and maintained custom software applications that automated and streamlined business processes as we worked to bring farming into the 21st century.One interesting project I worked on was designing and implementing a batch process that would push/pull employee payroll and timekeeping data between our custom timeclock application and ADP. I worked with stakeholders to understand and document the business rules and workflows, then leveraged third-party APIs to build the bridge between our custom application and an out-of-the-box solution.

Led the software development team, providing mentoring, coaching, and general guidance as we built and maintained software to support the County's operations.Some accomplishments there: Implemented version control (git/GitHub) and other software development best practices; Served as a project manager overseeing successful County-wide adoption (1500+ employees) of a new timekeeping system; Built a public-facing inmate lookup web application that interfaced with third-party systems and APIs.

Performed development, deployment, and system administration tasks as a member of a small but mighty team supporting the local Court system and its employees.Some fun projects I worked on: Re-architecting the organization's web platform, leading to a 20% traffic increase; Re-imaging project to unify and standardize operating system and application deployment; A software development effort to create a custom employee knowledge and documentation database.

I managed the IT department and all tech services staff as I built out a managed IT services offering. I also spent a significant portion of my time building and maintaining software including our asset/customer management system and our service request system.Some key highlights: Increased profits and revenue enough to create two new full-time positions; Built custom quote generation software that eliminated manual sales processes; Designed and coded a mobile-friendly service request platform for our field technicians.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Liberal Arts