Member of the Ad Tech (backend) group with a key focus on modernization of the existing stack. Clicktripz is an excellent example of a company that functions very well with a primarily remote team.• Significant work with Kubernetes including performance tuning and autoscaling. Both new and existing applications have been spun up in this environment.• Created a series of docker images to help standardize application implementation and reduce time needed for the build process. • Implemented a highly configurable, PSR-16 compliant, cache service that supports multiple backends. With liberal collection of metrics, it helped identify the resource usage of caching which led to a reduction in operational costs.• API development.

EduGuide helps students reach goals and facilitates mentoring between teachers and students. I worked directly with the founder to build and grow the online learning platform that is currently in use by several school systems across the US.• Responsible for the entire technology platform - product definition, development, infrastructure, including rollout and customization at school systems. Mentored a small team of developers.• Collaborated with Ford Motors to create a modified version of the platform to manage their philanthropy group.• Architected and developed a commenting system with detection/alerts for warning words (suicide/sexual assault), gibberish, and repeating answers (copy/paste).

I initially worked with ShermansTravel as a freelance developer building a flight and hotel comparison tool using ASP and MSSQL. When that was completed I joined full time as Director of Technology.• Designed redundant infrastructure, streamlined development cycle, oversaw email operations. Entire codebase ported to a LAMP stack.• Expanded technology team from 2 to 12, both in-office and remote.• Technology due diligence for partnerships, vendors, and acquisitions.• Architected and developed a travel deal syndication system.

Sunnyside Biomedical was a small startup offering an online application, EXTRA (Exercise Testing and Reporting Aide) which was initially a windows desktop application written in Visual Basic. EXTRA grew into a powerful web application used by the VA, private healthcare organizations, and universities.• Worked with top cardiologists to build and monetize EXTRA, a web application used for exercise stress testing, report generation, and data interpretation.• Redesigned legacy application to create a secure, HIPAA compliant, HL7-enabled web application with notifications and encrypted pdf reports.

Iomojo developed custom Linux distributions for use in microservers and network appliances. I cofounded Iomojo with another individual inside of a technology incubator.• Camera server – remote control of camera without plugins or java, included photo and video sharing, chat, and multiple user levels.• MP3 Jukebox – Allowed control of stereo and radio stations from web browser; scraped various websites to add meta data to your music library.• Linux-based camera system for city of Palo Alto to monitor creek levels.

Online Shopping / E-Commerce division.• Developed internal tools with Perl and Linux to increase the QA team's productivity.• Web-spider programs written in Java to extract merchant product information.• Marketing database with Solaris / Oracle, worked with marketing to design the database.