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Charlotte, Nc, Us

Irving, Texas, Us

Responsible for the technical data, systems, strategies, processes, and people: identifying and correcting hundreds of member-impacting data errors; providing leadership with accurate, audited, and automated reports on crucial data; aligning, refining, and timelining leadership and departmental goals; establishing and implementing objective security and compliance benchmarks; and advocating for increased transparency, excellence, and ownership.

Roseville, Ca, Us

- Documented systems and processes and conducted numerous team trainings to share knowledge.- Established routines for prioritizing, executing, testing, releasing, and communicating work items.- Led new dashboard development, implemented related warehouse processes, and communicated on weekly calls for a fulfillment contract with Apple.- Investigated and audited hundreds of data anomaly issues and corrected or reported as needed.

Roseville, Ca, Us

- Took on responsibility for IT operations and helpdesk support.- Standardized and expanded application servers into a highly available Docker Swarm cluster.- Led upgrade and stress-testing of key warehouse production lines to serve twice as many computers with improved speed, standardization, reliability, and redundancy.

Roseville, Ca, Us

- Reduced bugs from 90% of workload to less than 10%.- Streamlined new partner onboardings from 5 days to 5 minutes.- Saved $100,000's in team, process, and tooling improvements;- Created new sales channels on Amazon and BackMarket.- Hired and trained a capable offshore development team in India.- Established regular, reliable, reviewed releases with high transparency and predictability.- Eliminated Single Points Of Failure in servers, systems, and access.- Safely cut 223,000 lines of old and obsolete code.- Led multiple upgrades from Ruby 1.8 to 3.1.- Converted MySQL database from one Latin-1 instance to a fault-tolerant Unicode-capable cluster.- Led the Quality Assurance warehouse team to identify and reduce product quality issues.

Bakersfield, California, Us

Responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining internal case and client management software, primarily in Ruby on Rails and CoffeeScript, with integrations to EchoSign (for contract signing), PayPal (for payment collection), and other systems. The software has managed information for thousands of clients and cases from initial contact to case completion and final payment. Bigger & Harman specializes in traffic infraction cases for five counties in central California.

Built new public-facing integration software for DMV vehicle registrations, with email list signups, email notifications, and online payments, hosted in the cloud. Technologies: PHP, Symfony, Bootstrap, Heroku. (Under contract with the great folks at Robert Half Technology.)

Spearheaded development, review, and deployment processes for a team of junior developers to improve work quality, reduce problems/fires, alleviate stress, expand throughput, and create a solid structure for adding developers. Also led the development of a project converting a Drupal video site to a modern, responsive Ruby on Rails stack. Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Coffee, Bootstrap, CircleCI.

Python and ES6 (modern JavaScript) development, specializing in Atom and VS Code plugins and AppVeyor continuous integration. We build software that allows municipal governments to publish updates to local laws more quickly and with fewer errors, providing the public with better access to the legislation that concerns them.

San Francisco, California, Us

All manner of Python coding, with plenty of new learning about Kafka, Elasticsearch, Sentry, Datadog, Amazon services ( ECS, EC2, Route 53), and Terraform, and a fair amount of applying older knowledge in Docker, CircleCI, shell scripting, and lots of best practices (linting, test coverage, continuous integration, project management, agile, etc.).

High-level direction of a freshling international team of software developers, with responsibility for translating business needs into technical goals and guiding the team in reaching those goals, as well as setting up collaboration software and internal development processes, with the core software written in Python (Django). The company's goals included collecting financial information from various international institutions, aggregating data about market movements, and providing insights that could then be checked by CEO Mike Trounce and disseminated to our clients.

Computer programming for touch-screen (kiosk/tablet) and Internet-based software. Emphasis on open-source technologies like AngularJS, Ruby on Rails, Drupal, PHP, and Linux. Established organized processes for managing tasks, projects, requirements, and responsibilities.

Sacramento, Ca, Us

Managed a team in developing, defining, and refining the P2 department's flagship product (built on Force.com). Worked with key personnel, in both business and technology roles and in multiple departments, to meet needs and address concerns. Established a centralized task management system for all department projects, development workflows (SDLCs), a robust quality assurance process that nearly eliminated bugs in the final product, and a predictable, reliable release process.

Bakersfield, Ca, Us

Worked on criminal defense, civil, family law, probate, and immigration cases. Interviewed clients; wrote briefs, motions, and statements for the court; researched and wrote memoranda; and filled and filed complaints, answers, and other forms.

Led the development team in a complete rewrite of the company's flagship product, with a special focus on the underlying custom graph database ORM layer. Personally designed and built many of the most complex software components. Participated in business and technology strategy meetings.

Folsom, Ca, Us

Overhauled the company's five publication websites; spearheaded the design of a new, flexible graph database to store thousands of articles and other data; handled most SQL and data transformations. Extensive work with PHP 5, Smarty, JavaScript (YUI, ExtJS), Linux, and SQL Server 2000. Besides programming, architecture, and database operations, also assisted with Linux server administration, interviewed applicants, filled in for the manager, and handled critical and difficult technical problems.

Doctor Of Law (Jd)

Pc 832 Arrest & Control, Firearms