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Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Senior SDE for Amazon Retail Digital Content and Promotions (Starfire org). Lead SDE for cross-functional Machine Learning team developing customer personalization models for digital product groups (e.g. ebook, audiobook, etc.). Responsible for designing and developing cross-team ML initiatives, working across five different "two-pizza" teams within Starfire. Responsible for delivering critical-path code, mentoring SDEs across the org, and developing and sharing cross-org best practices. Stakeholder and contributor to org-wide goals and initiatives, providing technical influence to VPs. Designed and developed multiple cloud first services leveraging Amazon internal and public AWS services (S3, EC2, DynamoDB, EMR, SageMaker, etc.).

Seattle, Wa

Lead developer for Amazon internal customer life-cycle marketing suite. Built from scratch to handle Amazon scale, designed and developed a big-data solution for promotional targeting and tracking. Processes millions of customer actions/day. Responsible for mentoring, and code/design reviews on 5 developer team. Currently enrolled in Amazon's Machine Learning University.

Greater Seattle Area

Full stack developer in Kindle Digital Content. Developed and launched ebook series experience (e.g. www.amzn.com/B00QHV2IHY) building content generation and pricing systems for ebook bundles.

Greater St. Louis Area

Examine and evaluate new software and hardware technologies. Rapidly develop prototypes, build reusable components, and work with project teams to ensure successful technology adoption. Developed IoT connected tractor (harvester/planter) technology to enable real-time analytics and insights to growers.

Greater St. Louis Area

Development Lead: Real-Time Field Testing Suite performance cutover project-Optimize web services through profiling, tuning and re-writing-Implemented Coherence NoSQL solution to eliminate database bottlenecks-Facilitate user adoption by improving user experience-Pedigree Engine Domain Lead

Kirksville, Mo

TSU and National Science Foundation's Mathematical Biology Initiative. Built metapopulation prediction models for federally threatened plant species, Missouri Bladderpod. Combined Markov population projection matrices and graph theory to model seed dispersal to forecast population changes over time and space.Matlab, RAMAS Metapop, Geographic Information System (GIS)