Jason Downing Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

Beaverton, OR, US

• Subject matter expert for the Nike Resilience and Chaos Engineering programs
• Architecting and developing scalable micro-services using AWS Cloud technologies to ensure high availability and resilience
• Designing and developing serverless applications, optimizing for performance and cost-effectiveness
• Leading a team of engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and technical expertise to drive project deliverables
• Operationalizing and supporting program products and services for seamless system performance and minimal downtimes
• Pioneering Chaos Engineering initiatives across the company, proactively identifying system vulnerabilities and bolstering system reliability

Beaverton, OR, US

• Planning and leading Chaos Engineering exercises to expose weaknesses in Nike production systems, uncovering gaps in observability, and reliability to reduce impact on consumers
• Building Continuous Resilience through automation and deployment pipelines
• Guiding product teams to build systems designed to handle failures at scale
• Partnering with infrastructure and application engineering teams to deliver solutions that meet high availability requirements, including gap identification, assessment, and remediation
• Ensuring solutions are designed and developed for large-scale, highly distributed systems

Beaverton, OR, US

• Building tools to extend and enhance Nike’s adoption of Chaos Engineering practices
• Ensuring solutions are designed and developed using a scalable, highly resilient cloud native architecture
• Delivering CD/CI infrastructure and pipelines using Jenkins, Terraform, and AWS CloudFormation while ensuring deployments are automated, tested, and monitored
• Developing and maintaining reusable components and libraries in JavaScript, Python, and Java
• Architecting real time monitoring solutions that provide visibility into site health and key performance indicators
• Improving service resiliency across Nike Global Technology through chaos experimentation

Beaverton, OR, US

• Embedded with the Core SRE Team via Mainz Brady & Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
• Responsible for continuously driving best practices and consumer experience improvements for Keep the Lights On (KLO) Services in a global 24x7 environment
• Proactively identifying and troubleshooting incidents across the entire stack
• Building and maintaining micro services in Java/Node.js and web apps using Javascript/React
• Developing and driving real time monitoring solutions to provide visibility into site health and key performance indicators through distributed tracing, Splunk, New Relic, SignalFx, and the AWS cloud
• Improving service resiliency across Nike using chaos experiments

• Full-stack web development on Recentia's EMR platform and the AWS cloud
• Developed Angular single-page and Polymer progressive web apps
• Built RESTful APIs to support Recentia's growing application suite
• Identified technologies to improve platform architecture and performance
• Experience with JavaScript, Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, Angular, Node.js, and AWS cloud development

• Building web apps, REST APIs, CLIs, and games using Java, Javascript, Python, PHP, Typescript, and SQL in a test-driven development environment with multiple teams and clients
• Hands-on experience working with technologies like Angular, React, Ember, Spark, Spring, Android Studio, Firebase, Postgres, and phpMyAdmin
• Strong DevOps focus and experience building and deploying infrastructure on both Google and AWS clouds with Ansible, Jenkins, CloudFormation, and Docker

Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Managed marketing and business development for company's largest technical sales team
• Established strategic direction by moving team from a commodity or bid type of sales model to a more profitable and effective consultative approach. Implemented a marketing and sales strategy focused on brand.
• Designed and executed partner marketing campaigns; continuously tracked and refined campaigns based on performance data
• Created methods and tools to accurately price product offerings and services

Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Revamped internal marketing workflow and created efficient B2B sales processes
• Built strong partnerships with key suppliers and customers by quickly and seamlessly deploying new products to market; became a preferred channel partner for medium to large product roll-outs

Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Managed corporate municipal bids
• Focused on building a bidding program to increase win percentage & improve system through-put
• Proposed and developed a web-based business application to capture information and analyze trends in the municipal market
• Led largest municipal marketing campaign in company history which generated over 2,000 new customer leads in support of the sales team

Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Served on the corporate operations team as a Project Lead
• Co-directed ROAD (route optimization and distribution) project commissioned by the company President to increase asset utilization and reduce costs
• Implemented an web based railroad tracking system to eliminate $150,000 in annual railroad fees and penalties
• Designed storage system, layout, and handling operations for the company's first high density warehouse

• Cofounded a mCommerce startup with a vision to inform and personalize the retail shopping experience
• Analyzed trends and identified a growing interest in self-checkout. Enabled grocers to provide a higher level of service to customers by supplying self-checkout and convenient couponing. Offered retailers invaluable.
• Developed a business model incorporating targeted advertising at the point of purchase using cost per impression and cost per click advertising highly attractive to CPG and CE manufacturers
• Translated channel strategy and business objectives into functional technical requirements