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Created Cheerful Ghost from concept to implementation."Cheerful Ghost is an indie website that was started January 2012. We are a close group of friends that love talking all manner of geek such as films, TV and video games. Cheerful Ghost also published the space shooter rogue-lite Starship Rubicon."

* Leadership: Led the Engineering efforts of the Trailhead Assessment team. We managed the platform and services that powered hands on challenge & multiple choice question assessments. We worked at the center of the Trailhead monolith & services* Concept to Code: Shipped Badge Ratings from concept to launch. This project survived a large creep of product scope that caused a creative rearchitecture and ended up shipping with only a minor delay* Secure by Default: Worked closely with the security team to provide documentation and code fixes to ensure our new features were secure at launch* Team First: Created team runbooks to document and manage all team operations to enable seamless Engineering oncall and operation

- Lead an effort to upgrade from Rails 5, 5.1 to Rails 6 with zero downtime. Refactored usage of Octopus project gem Sharding to native Rails 6 Sharding.- Worked on Inventory Management for an all new Supply Pack project where we shipped physical packs to teachers for enhancing Mystery Science lessons. Worked alongside project leaders to hit a tight deadline. Took existing code that was hard to reuse and buggy and refactored it maximize ease of use and project success.- Worked on a security effort that identified several security concerns and remedied them. This security focus included secure code remediation with the Brakeman project gem as well as collaboration with security experts.

Manager of the Daily Grind Team May 2018 - Current* Created a new bug triage process to bring clarity to the Site Reliability team on their roles & responsibilities.* Enhanced our data sync process though multiple Ruby based Heroku apps to pass PCI compliance audits.* Rebuilt our Splunk Universal Forwarder / Rsyslogd log system in Azure using an Ubuntu based Linux implementation.* Led the load testing efforts to test, optimize and tune our production systems for our ESPY awards advertising campaign.Manager of the Foundation Team March 2017 - May 2018* Led a high profile internal project managing the Foundation team of 4 developers on the East and West Coast alongside 6 contractors working for different countries and organizations while keeping on target.* Successfully navigated the Foundation team through Bonobos being aquired by Walmart.* Worked with business stakeholders to craft improvements to our Rails based Spree / Solidus E-commerce application. Many enhancments were made to our tax & inventory accounting.* Fostered high morale & team comradery during a challenging NetSuite ERP migration project.

* Partnered with Bonobos Ninjas to improve our backend customer service admin tools.* Provided ongoing enhancements and maintenance to an internal application that sent messages to our warehouse. This Ruby based Amazon SQS message service provided two way communication with our warehouse for customer orders, short shipments, returns, purchase orders & nightly inventory sync.* Happily supported and extended a Ruby based Sinatra application that that created a JSON API wrapper over the Windows based Simparel ERP application.

* Moved the team from ad-hoc development to a sprint based two week development cycle.* Worked with the team to create appreciated best practices to increase our release quality, test coverage and reduce maintenance costs.* Set clear goals for team members and met with them regularly to deliver consistent and useful feedback.* Shipped several high profile features to help grow our sales funnel and attract new merchants.* Led the team and wrote code to share real time MySQL production data to Salesforce using Lightning Connect and OData.

* Created the LivingSocial merchant connect feature that allowed existing merchants to run a follow-on deal aimed at past customers. This wildly popular feature was used by tens of thousands of merchants to attract repeat customers to their place of business.* Built a popular internal JSON API in Rails to centralize all email communications for LivingSocial merchants used by many different applications and teams.* Maintained Rails application social tool for LivingSocial merchants to manage their online brand. Added statistics, tracking and reporting functionality.* Added a new API service layer to LivingSocial Merchant Center to enable useful cross-talk between other LivingSocial applications.

* Designed and built the back-end to an extremely robust and usable B2B and B2C social product.* Implemented and maintained our production stack on Amazon using EC2, S3 & RDS on Ubuntu.* Created simple and pragmatic standards for unit, functional and front end code coverage.* Built our API service to power our mobile client. Focused on speed, simplicity and ease of use.

* Built a usable calendar in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript.* Created an embedded calendar JavaScript widget to provide businesses the ability to share events with customers.* Implemented the CalDAV & iCalendar standard to allow calendar subscriptions and sync with iCal, iPhone, Thunderbird & Lightning.* Took part in the CalConnect CalDAV & iCalendar standards body spanning multiple organizations.

* Extended functionality of registration software to enable ccTLD transfers for .CC, .TV, .BZ & .MOBI domains.* Created a generic XML deserialization routine to work with database connectivity layer.* Pioneered MVC framework technology for building maintainable code.* Built a departmental code documentation standard.

* Created multiple projects to customer happiness using multiple technologies such as Java, Rails, PHP, PERL and Python.* Implemented a very robust shopping cart application in a very new Rails stack using SOAP.* Built a prototype C and PERL based BioDiesel fuel pump using Phidget hardware and the Debian platform.

Scripted the “nightly build” testing of the latest printer OS. Authored and maintained thorough documentation using HTML and CSS. Created PERL and Python scripts to automate tasks. Used various scripts and techniques to find memory leaks in the network region of Xerox printers. Authored and maintained database solutions using the ER model of database design.

* Pioneered a software system to interface with databases and monitor Cisco network devices.* Integrated PERL and Python Scripts with Unix shell scripts in the Solaris environment.* Drafted a departmental coding standard.