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Portland, OR, US

Hermosa Beach, California, US

Hermosa Beach, California, US

• 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.
• API development.

Lansing, Michigan, US

• 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.
• 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).

New York, NY, US

• 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.
• 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.