Build and manage a team of engineers working to improve tools used by SSA staff* responsible for hiring and building the team* interface with the customer to define requirements* directly manage five engineers

Principal engineers have engineering practice and business-unit leadership responsibilities.* contribute to growth opportunities* coach and mentor staff engineers, grow new leaders* founder of homework governance council* coordinate and implement monthly all-hands meetings: source presenters, plan and run meetings* contribute to various initiatives such as platform strategy, hiring processes, internal website, one-on-one templates, internal tools and apps* design and implement system to reduce average homework grading times from 4+ days to 1 day* author and review engineering practice capabilities and methods

* Design and build test automation pipelines to allow for automated end-to-end testing of the entire FAFSA application* Lead a team of engineers across a variety of projects

Consulting with Veteran Experience Services, helping them with Eligibility and Enrollment. * provide technical expertise to non-technical stakeholders* create strategic technical plans for product roadmaps* build proof-of-concept API to provide benefit recommendations using a rules-as-code approach

I joined the team to provide the engineering team with leadership and coaching to the staff engineers and wider team. * Analyze and assess project health and suggest improvement areas* Coach team leads on process improvements and leadership* Manage and coach five staff-level engineers* Responsible for timesheet and PTO approvals* Deliver end-of-year reviews and pay and promotion for 25 engineers

The VA gave us an ambiguous set of objectives and enabled us to build several cross-functional teams to work towards those objectives. I was responsible for engineering hiring (internal as well as external), team composition, and aligning team work streams with the VA's objectives.* Responsible for delivery excellence and practice management of five teams, 23 engineers* Directly manage and coach four staff-level engineers* Grow staff engineers into managing engineers* Responsible for timesheet and PTO approvals* Interface with other vendor's leads, as well as VA staff and USDS product owners* Work across practice boundaries with leaders from Product and UX and Research* Deliver end-of-year reviews and pay and promotion for 15 engineers

After our proposal to build the VA Flagship Mobile app was approved, I worked quickly to assemble a team, interface with a sub-contracting team, and get work started. My goal was to hire and coach a mobile-focused engineer to eventually lead the program.* Responsible for delivery excellence and practice management of two teams, 6 engineers* Directly manage and coach two staff-level engineers* Grow staff engineers into managing engineers* Manage technical relationship with mobile app development partner (sub-contractor)* Design system architecture for mobile API* Review early pull requests, ensure code quality* Interface with VA staff to influence work on push notifications implementation* Build upstream service integration into Ruby on Rails monolith* Write and deliver year-end performance evaluations* iOS App Store rating 4.8 stars* Build succession plan and successfully transition engineering lead responsibilities

I moved over the the VA business unit as there were plans for significant growth.* Create technical recommendation plan for the VA to build a flagship mobile app* Coordinate mobile app prototyping with engineers from various programs* Pitch technical plans for mobile app development directly to the VA CTO* Manage a small team of engineers through small projects* Explore new work ideas* Work closely with product managers to define and plan roadmaps for proposals and work

I was promoted to the Engineering Lead position, responsible for four teams of engineers working on three parts of the QPP product. While coaching four Staff Engineers directly, I was responsible for the entire team that was 18 engineers at it's largest. * Responsible for delivery excellence and practice management of four teams, 18 engineers* Directly manage and coach four staff-level engineers* Grow senior engineers into staff engineers* Lead the team through quarterly planning sessions* Lead the team through a difficult recompete* Write and deliver year-end performance evaluations* Certified SAFe 4 Agilist

I joined Ad Hoc and and the newly formed QPP team, helping with building an authn/z service using Node.js and Express. I worked across several projects within the program to define SLDC process and standardize code and testing. As the program grew, new teams were formed, and I became the lead for the team building the eligibility microservice. This project required several ETL processes to populate a PostgreSQL database, fronted by a Node.js Express api that served the data in real-time. I led a full rewrite of the app to modern JavaScript and full test coverage, as well as several iterations of normalizing the database schema.* Build apis using Node.js, Express, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB* Build and maintain api and ETL using Node.js, Express, JavaScript, PostgreSQL* Review pull requests, ensure code quality* Build and release Splunk logging module* Write and deliver year-end performance evaluations

* Manage a team of engineers working on the web application experience of Groupon TOGO.* Build features into the Groupon iOS mobile application

I was responsible for a small team of engineers building native mobile applications for consumers as well as delivery drivers. The consumer app provided the experience of browsing menus, ordering items, and checkout. The driver app included order assignment, GPS-based navigation, and order problem reporting. My contributions included the iOS delivery tracker, Apple Watch delivery tracker, and a refined version of the driver navigation experience.* iOS and Android mobile app development* App store release management* CI pipelines and automation for mobile app releases* Team lead responsibilities, including performance evaluations and coaching career growth

Responsible for building features and maintaining the orderup.com web application, including menu search and group ordering.* web application built using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, CoffeeScript

A small startup in the Baltimore tech scene buildng customer-focused SaaS products. I was the first engineering hire and was responsible for many aspects of the business, including software development, marketing, customer support and leading the engineering team as it grew.Mailstrom: web application built using Ruby on Rails, Resque, PostgreSQL, Redis, JavaScript, Backbone.jsShortmail: web application built using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Backbone.js; custom IMAP/POP3 email protocol server built using RubyReplyz: web application using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Java, Twitter api

I owned my own consulting company and worked with several customers building web applications, APIs, and browser-powered JavaScript applications. Expertise in web technologies including Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Ext JS, web application development, PostgreSQL, custom APIs.

Work on several contracts building web applications with Java and J2EE (BEA WebLogic). Customers included United Parcel Service, Symphony Health, and BillMeLater (PayPal).

Work as a consultant on several contracts building web applications with Java and J2EE.

Build and maintain a shrink-wrap healthcare decision support system tool. Contributed to the back end ETL processes (C, Bourne shell) as well as the front-end Windows application (C++, Java)

Build and maintain UNIX-based command-and-control systems for the U.S. Navy. C, Ada, Motif, Oracle