Director level management and hiring for a Multi Functional Organization of over 200 associates. Motivating and growing top engineering contributors in a challenging and fast paced technology landscape. Mentoring engineers and managers from both within and outside my organization to shepard Red Hat's unique culture. Regular 1:1s with my associates, peers, and stakeholders. This is the job, everything else is cake.

Managed multiple teams of international associates contributing to dozens of Open Source software projects including, but not limited to Docker, Kubernetes, Cri-o, Podman, and Buildah. Part of a team of Engineers and Managers who successfully welcomed the acquisition of CoreOS and helped to develop a new product strategy centered around immutable infrastructure to solve the needs of OpenShift, a software managed Kubernetes Distribution.

Taught a 12-week immersive course in mobile development for a national leader in technology education programs, with responsibility for mentoring seven full-time students on software development, Agile practices, software development life cycles, and various instructional technologiesCreated and debugged student projects on topics ranging from UI elements, networking, persistence, BaaS, and algorithmsImplemented an Agile/Scrum working environment for all class assignments, including daily stand-ups, retrospectives, requirements reviews

Delivered a wide range of mobile development projects for a creator of a personal fitness and well-being app, including extensive work relating to the app's GUI and social networking features, as well as a wide range of continuous integration projectsMentored three junior developers on best Agile practices, alternative developer tools such as AppCode and Swift, iOS architecture, and software development lifecyclesBuilt and maintained a Jenkins continuous deployment build system for automated unit tests and OTA deployment for beta buildsImplemented JIRA to promote an Agile SDLC for biweekly sprint planning meetings

Led a team of five graduate students in the delivery of features for an artificial intelligence designed to extract and present 3D representations of large data sets as part of a $60MM grant to the University by the National Security Administration, with responsibility for leading Scrum meetings and assigning tasks to all team membersImplemented a partial order decompositional planner using C#, a modern version of a plan space hierarchical task networkUsed Git and Github to lead cutting-edge best practices for Scrum development and distributed version control, automating the process for running tests prior to merges and driving improved project stabilityCreated UI elements in Unity 3D for a highly customized prototype interface for use on a 24-foot by 12-foot video wall, incorporating interface gestures and methodologies typically used in the mobile spaceEnsured compliance with strict NSA deadlines by identifying core requirements, eliminating unnecessary application features, and managing expectations of both the client and internal stakeholders

Managed all aspects of the monthly releases of two iPhone/iPad apps for a leading developer of mobile health software applications, including editing of metadata in iTunes Connect for submission and review in the Apple iOS App StoreDeveloped and implemented a standardized code review process for mobile development using Atlassian Crucible, and led the installation and integration with the existing JIRA system at the company's Durham facility on a trial basis before expanding the process to include all development activities nationwideCreated a variety of Jenkins plugins addressing internal needs that were subsequently released to the open source community, including a plugin that added the ability to generate archive builds to the Xcode pluginWrote cross-functional Objective-C software used in both of Epocrates' primary applications, including code targeted to iPhone, iPad, or both platforms

Created and implemented a Jenkins continuous integration build system for use with Xcode, Perforce, Jabber, and JIRA to create regular builds for quality assuranceUsed the iPhone version of the company's Essentials application as the base for the creation of the iPad version of the clientDeveloped, implemented, and led all aspects of the company's first summer internship program, including recruitment, training, and management of four interns, two of which went on to become full-time employees

Served on a team delivering a variety of projects for the U.S. Department of Energy, including planning and implementation of a dashboard visualization system for simulations running on super computers located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Taught classes of up to 320 students in subjects, including discrete mathematics, and managed up to three teaching assistants at the undergraduate and graduate level

Created a 2 week session of lessons and activities to teach multimedia programming to middle school students using Flash. Students created their own games and mathematical simulations to inspire math education.

Lectured on the use of HTML editing software including Dreamweaver, FrontPage and ImageReady for the enhancement of teaching curriculum for North Carolina school teachers.In 2003, I was responsible for the Advanced HTML class for teacher who had attended previous years and needed more advanced feedback and mentoring.

Created navigation interfaces for video projects using Director, Flash and Dreamweaver.

Electronic proofing, film output and imposition for jobs going to 4 and 6 color presses.

Checked incoming print jobs for the proper font, image and setting before sending a job on to the System Operator.