As a domain expert in high performance driving events, drove the discovery and evaluation process and built relationships with customers in the target market through personal networking, social media outreach, user interviews, and in-person product pitches at eventsDesigned proofs-of-concept, demoed to early adopters, and iterated on fully realized, no-code product prototypes to validate that solutions will meet key business objectives before developing productsConducted market and competitive landscape analysis to identify stakeholders and high-value customers, and inform business, go-to-market, and product strategiesCreated and executed on the development, launch, and iteration plan guided by technical evaluations, product demos, beta tests, and user feedbackCollaborated with partners to execute on the development, launch, and iteration plans through functional assessments, live beta tests with real users, product pitches and demos, and collection of user feedbackLeveraged strong technical background to craft compelling, beautiful, and intuitive web and mobile experiences while learning new cutting edge languages, frameworks, and techniquesPartnered with a sister organization to transition their entire team of over 70 people to Slack and design and build a Slack app to centralize communication and drive business value by increasing social engagement of members online

Guided the exploration of product ideas, prototyped and documented projects, helped others integrate and build on Qntfy products, grew the technical abilities of my peers, and built and maintained the company's foundational tech as an early hire, technical lead, and mentorAs the product owner and full-stack developer of OurDataHelps, owned the technical campaign, led client-facing technical discovery, value proposition, client acquisition, and growth for every customer of OurDataHelpsPartnered and collaborated with cross-functional teams to uncover customer goals and drive complex deals to close through technical and executive product demos, presentations, and proofs-of-concept, and custom deployments designed to maximize business impact and value for the customerBuilt, maintained, and thoroughly documented OurDataHelps deployment processes and DevOps tools to simplify maintenance, automate the creation of customer deliverables, and streamline new development for product ownersCollaborated with stakeholders from over five companies on DARPA's Quantitative Crisis Response (QCR) program to build a highly available and scalable system of micro-services for data collection, analysis, and processingDrove the integration of multiple technical systems for each milestone of the system to DARPA, ensuring key business objectives and requirements were met by conducting frequent stakeholder and client-facing product evaluations and demosOwned the development and documentation of the most critical backend APIs and leveraged deep technical and architectural knowledge to provide DevOps support for all missional-critical operational issues distributed across servicesLeveraged domain expertise and cross-functional liaison experience to collaborate with the DoD transition partner and productize the QCR system through architectural insights, technical guidance, roadmap forecasts, and custom solutions for on-premises-to-cloud-based infrastructure migration

Represented thousands of software engineers to DoD leadership as the sole developer representative to the Secure Development Lifecycle Board, leading to the creation of open source governance policies and static security analysis servicesAuthored and iterated on business models, value propositions, and product prototypes though customer interviews and product partner discussions during the DoD's I-Corps “Lean Launchpad” 2015 acceleratorLed modernization effort of a metrics and monitoring product used to measure mission impact that collected, processed, retained, and reported on the health and state of over ten Hadoop clusters with hundreds to thousands of nodesResearched, designed, implemented, and tested full stack technologies suitable for modernization effort. Reduced feature development time and eliminated previously established develop-on-production-server behavior by creating an NPM/Gulp.js build system backed by sparsely populated local databases mimicking the production environment.Performed Hadoop cluster performance analysis. Engineered benchmarks and cluster load simulation capabilities using Python, Rumen, and Gridmix.Responsible for product DevOps. Maintained multiple databases and web servers, performed data recovery, and completed routine system administration. Ensured data flow from Hadoop clusters into databases operated successfully with zero data loss.

Executed a strategic growth plan and increased deployment by 16% YOY of a mission-critical computer network exploitation application used for foreign intelligence collectionEngaged, advised, and pitched the importance of the mission and its challenges to product owners, stakeholders, and executives at workshops and training courses.Spoke at internal technology conferences and interfaced with customers on-premises to gather feedback, share knowledge, and discuss best practicesReceived a Performance and Innovation award for "incredible ingenuity & exceptional contributions to the counterterrorism mission through the design, implementation, & integration of multiple high priority customer interests into product releases." Conceptualized, designed, and led a software rewrite to simplify code, increase extendibility, and reduce maintenance costs for a two-person team.Reduced application compilation times by 90% with a custom Scons-based compilation system. Enhanced security measures of compiled binary using advanced compilation techniques.Reduced manual, interactive product testing by 80% with a robust, automated unit and release-candidate testing solution built in Python. Introduced Agile development methodologies, established a minimum viable product requirements process, reduced third party software dependencies, and automated release processes which resulted in better, faster development and decreased time-to-market product releases.Mentored and led product interns and rotational developers.

Moderated Helpdesk software to track, complete, and record problem resolution and job completion for IT support requestsAdministered Kaspersky Anti-virus enterprise server to install and maintain up to date, healthy client systems throughout the department of Physics and AstronomyAuthored technical IT documentation for all functionality of the Kaspersky Anti-Virus server and client software including full system recovery incase of failure or disaster

Led development of Heads Up Display UI and Forwad Looking Infrared camera device drivers on embedded Atmel-based hardware for modern military vehicle periscopes.

Conceptualized, designed, and implemented a TCP/IP-based interprocess communication manager responsible for controlling all stateful communication within the Common Embedded Training System. Developed state machine responsible for syncing all components with the refresh rate of the graphical user interface.Oasis Advanced Engineering is a Michigan based Department of Defense contractor responsible for the Common Embedded Training System, an Abrams Tank and Bradley Fighting Vehicle certification and training software designed for use in the field. Soldiers use the actual vehicle to fight in a simulated environment and are scored by instructors outside of the vehicle. Oasis also performs research and development on next generation warfare capabilities.