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Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Writing software and directing backend, frontend, platform, architecture, and integrations at FlipperForce.com.Hiring and managing software engineering contractors.FlipperForce is a SaaS for house flippers and rehabbers to find deals, analyze deals, estimate rehab costs, and manage their real estate projects.FlipperForce is once again an independent product.

• Working across Upright's Engineering, Technology, and Product departments, with focus in the Software Excellence group. Report to the CTO. No direct reports. Working on FlipperForce (Upright Tools) as.
• Implement Product-Engineering operating model and software development lifecycle
• Transition FlipperForce from using local accounts to Upright SSO (PKCE, OAuth, AWS Cognito), allowing Users to navigate seamlessly across all Upright services
• Refactor FlipperForce codebase so data is "owned" by a Workspace entity instead of the Owner User
• Implement Intercom chat support across all Upright tech stacks

• Part Lead Engineer, part Engineering Manager. I hired 3 Engineers during this period to build more FlipperForce features. I accepted Engineering Management duties on top of Lead Software Engineer. Reported to Upright.
• Hire and onboard 3 Engineers (Staff and Senior levels), conducting over 40 interviews
• Management of direct reports: 1:1's, performance evaluations, compensation, professional development
• Engineer 100% price increase for new and existing customers, increasing MRR 52% over 12 months
• Optimize PHPUnit test suite with 2500 tests and 13,000 assertions to run in 2 minutes
• Automate deployment using GitHub Actions across multi-tiered infrastructure (dev, staging, prod)

Upright (previously Fund That Flip) is an end-to-end real estate investment platform offering passive real-estate investments and loans for residential real-estate flippers.I joined Upright as part of an acqui-hire of FlipperForce.com, a web-based platform for analyzing rehab deals and managing rehab projects. See my previous experience.

• FlipperForce is a SaaS application (PHP, Laravel, VueJS) with tools to help house flippers estimate, plan, manage, and maximize profits of their residential rehab projects. The founder bootstrapped the application with.
• Identify and fix countless security issues in code and servers
• Upgrade Laravel from 5.8 to 8; Upgrade PHP from 7.2 to 8.1
• Migrate 60GB of user-uploaded files from local server to Amazon S3 with no downtime
• Implement white label support so large customers can re-brand FlipperForce to fully appear as their custom brand/service
• Integrate Subscriptions to power the role-based access control features (RBAC)

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• The COVID-19 pandemic was an abrupt change for everyone, but also led to a career accomplishment.The pandemic halted almost all in-person research at Stowers for several weeks. But Stowers scientists designed a.
• Support specimen anonymization at all steps for triple-blind adherence
• Generate unique test tube barcodes on sticker sheets
• A kiosk software for returning saliva and blood specimen by scanning test tube barcodes and answering a few questions
• Intake and viability verification of returned specimens
• Storage management to track where each specimen is stored

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• After previously gaining the team's trust as a Tech Lead Consultant, my role shifted to leading small Product-focused teams building their business-critical software called LIMS (Laboratory Information Management.
• Advance role-based access control (RBAC) using a mix of LDAP and local role management
• Sample Management: sample tracking from origination to consumption, annotating Ontology metadata from Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry, aliquot and mother/daughter lineage, faceted search
• Storage management, tracking Sample locations across specific freezers, racks, boxes, and well plates
• Annotating and publishing raw scientific data (up to 1TB large) to a public Open Data Repository (ODR)
• Proteomics analysis requests and analysis results

Kansas City, MO

• Stowers sought my help to improve their 5-person Engineering team's productivity and modernize their 1 million-line legacy codebase (no framework PHP and JavaScript). The "team" could only assign 1 Engineer per.
• Establish a new development platform alongside their legacy system. REST API backend (PHP, Symfony 2) and JavaScript frontend (ExtJS).
• Ongoing rolling replacement of old functionality with new functionality.
• Migrate from SVN to git and train Engineers
• Introduce and mentor Engineers in testing mindset, unit testing, functional testing, API testing using PHPUnit
• Introduce pre-merge code reviews and establish a positive PR culture

Lawrence, Kansas, United States

• Every year, almost 1,700 University of Kansas international students are required to pass the Applied English Center's English literacy coursework and classes every semester.AEC's office manager with 30-years.
• Student intake and registration for 1700+ students per year
• Integrate enterprise PeopleSoft / Oracle databases for student demographics and class schedule
• Input and track student test scores across AEC classes
• Support creating student seating charts
• Support metrics and heuristics for anti-cheating

Lawrence, Kansas

• Department expanded to 8 Engineers and 2 Student Engineers. I was the highest-ranking individual contributor and Tech Lead.My role continued focus on internal operations and leading complex custom web.
• Develop and maintain https://www.ku.edu homepage with millions of worldwide views per month.
• Introduced unit testing on projects in practice and mentoring
• Project: Establish on-prem static asset CDN serving 10 million requests per month.
• Project: University of Kansas Athletics - Custom web app for 600+ student athletes a year to submit confidential PII and digitally sign NCAA compliance forms.
• Project: Student Senate: Custom web app used by 28,000+ students to vote and elect Student Senate representatives. Keep voting anonymous for double-blind but prevent double voting.

Lawrence, Kansas, United States

• Department expanded to 6 Engineers and 1 Student Engineer. Engineers would collaborate and share ideas but maintained working alone.My focus on quality and evolving practices pushed the team forward, establishing a.
• Lead adoption of automated deployment using Phing
• Lead transition from CVS to SVN
• Lead adoption of code review culture (admittedly it was those poor code-on-screen conference room reviews but it got us talking)
• Project: Hall Center - Custom web app for calendar of events
• Project: Hall Center for the Humanities - Events calendar with integration to homepage slideshow of events

Lawrence, Kansas, United States

• Department expanded to 4 Engineers and 1 Student Engineer. Each Engineer worked solo on their own projects, operating like a consultancy to University departments.Each Engineer was responsible for requirements.
• Lead adoption of shared documentation, coding standards, reusable components
• Lead adoption of first group chat for instant communication (IRC then AOL IM)
• Project: School of Music - Custom web app powering digital signage
• Establish support rotation for knowledge sharing

Lawrence, Kansas, United States

• Hired as first student employee for a new central web development department within University of Kansas - Information Technology. Only other department members were a Director and a Senior Developer.Department.
• Create content in pre-made website templates using custom HTML, CSS, and server-side includes (SSI)
• Meet with department admin assistants and directors discussing needs for their website content
• Project: KJHK - Custom website and design for student radio station
• Project: KU Calendar maintenance built using PHP

Topeka, Kansas, United States

• Maintain CJOnline.com web pages and client sites using Dreamweaver 3 on Mac OS 9
• Use Photoshop to manipulate and optimize images for web
• Work independently during evening hours with minimal supervision