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Portland, Oregon Area

Grants Pass, Oregon

EnSight, located in Grants Pass Oregon, provides software, engineering, and financial analysis consulting services to domestic and international customers for energy systems (district heating and cooling, distributed generation, building systems energy efficiency, and renewable resources).Specific experience includes:• Developed HEATMAP and RELCOST programs (Washington State University). HEATMAP is a district heating and cooling system (central plant, distribution piping network, and consumer building) design and analysis program that has been widely used both domestically (e.g., schools/colleges, municipalities, armed services). RELCOST is a financial modeling tool used for complex energy projects.• Provide HEATMAP/RELCOST consulting and training services both domestically and internationally (middle east, Africa, Europe).• Energy project technical/financial analysis (business case justification) consulting/evaluation on multiple projects (domestic and international); including projects in middle east and most recently in east Africa (AUC's Geothermal Risk Mitigation Facility)• Participated on a geothermal capacity building team in Indonesia; duties include developing a web site and database for use local and international investors.• Participated on a team that evaluated the feasibility of a Geothermal Center of Excellence serving multiple counties in east Africa that included web-based Learning management systems and data sharing/management capabilities.• Prepared business case justification and energy project economic analysis for a sustainable community located in the West Bank, Israel.• Developed a Monitoring and Evaluation Database system for use by the Government of Barbados to track energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.• Developed solar PV lease business model and economic modeling tools (spreadsheet-based) for use by the Jamaica Hotel & Tourist Association.

Portland, Oregon Area

Silver Spring Networks (SSN) provides wireless networks worldwide used by utility companies (electric, water, and gas) and city governments to power Smart Grid, Smart City and IoT businesses. With an installed base of 25 million+ endpoints, SSN is an established, proven market leader in delivering services that are reliable, secure and scalable.Primary responsibility for leading DevOps Engineering teams supporting Data Platforms that provide "Big Data" application data access and analytics services for both internal and external use by SSN customers (and authorized third parties). Includes responsibility for both public cloud and private on-premise data center deployments, CI/CD (automation, pipelines), advanced analytics, complex data transformations and formats, high data transfer rates and distributed data/tool architecture needed for scale and performance.Led a team that architected and built a Proof-Of-Concept (PoC) Cloud Native (Container-based) Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Data Platform for use with Big Data/Analytics, IoT and other enterprise applications. The PaaS can be deployed on both on public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google, others) and private data centers (bare-metal, VMs, etc). Completed multiple hands-on technical PoCs to better understand new technology and associated SSN use cases.

Hillsboro, Oregon

As a leader on the Core Platform team, responsible for leading the development and operations of cloud services that support wearable products developed by Intel's New Devices Group. Wearable devices include watches, bracelets, and eye glasses targeting consumer fitness, fashion, and health-related markets.Included directing the Cloud solution architecture, SW design/development and testing that is part of NDG's Wearable Platform used by multiple product teams and internal/external developers located in multiple worldwide locations. Created and directed the Cloud DevOps team that provides 7x24x365 multi-geo support for all NDG products including build/deploy/CI, logging/monitoring, change management, patch management, security/privacy, and problem diagnosis/triage.Used Agile scrum-based development techniques that involve teams located in multiple worldwide locations, full time staff members, and both on/off shore contractors. Deep experience with building and supporting multiple large and complex systems built upon Amazon Web Services (AWS). Familiar with building and maintaining Big Data systems designed for scale, reliability and security/privacy.

Hillsboro, Oregon

Managing a team of contract and company SW Engineers to provide cloud computing solutions in support of personalized user services built upon a wide range of devices. Solutions involve "big data" management and analytics, data security, machine learning and language processing, custom application development, design for scalability and performance, and interaction with multiple client environments. Includes hands-on solution concept engineering design, product/service selection, development, and proof-of-concept testing

Portland, Oregon Area

Adaptu, a fully owned subsidiary of StanCorp Financial Group (Portland, Oregon), helps people 'adapt to' the everyday financial challenges in their personal financial lives through the use of personal finance management tools, coaching and other services that help them make sense of and be in control of their financial choices.Specific experience includes:• Participation in business strategy and development efforts leading to Board of Director decision to fund Adaptu startup.• Responsible for recruitment, hiring and managing a high-performance team of software engineers, analysts, testers and project managers to design, build and operate Adaptu IT solutions.• Delivered fully cloud-based technology solution consisting of multiple service providers using high performance, integrated and secure solution architecture and design. Industry leading IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS providers utilized.• Directed solution architecture; product/service selection, contract negotiation, and license agreement reviews; solution design and development by a mixed internal and external/contract teams; responsible for technical support of solution.• Integrated solution includes mobile (iOS and Android) and web site applications serves a large consumer user base; utilizes web 2.0 technologies in a security sensitive financial services business domain. SEM/SEO and web analytics provide business planning and marketing support.

Portland, Oregon Area

Standard Insurance Company (Portland, Oregon) is a financial services company that provides life and disability insurance, retirement plan management, investment advisor, and personal finance management (see Adaptu) services to more than 8M customers.Specific experience includes:• Technical oversight of technology, technical staff, technology services and contracts for a fully cloud-based technology solution that provides the ability to sell and service insurance products (new business line).• Managed team of software architects; participated in enterprise architecture review team that reviewed and approved all major project solutions and technology decisions.• Development lead on new enterprise claim intake solution involving high volume claim setup and customer inquiry, imaging, document management, automated correspondence, and work routing/management capabilities for multiple insurance products serving multiple states; highly customized product offerings.• Development lead on selection, design, and deployment of enterprise document management system.• Managed team of software engineers/developers and systems analysts to support multiple business critical enterprise applications.