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Newport Beach, California, United States

Newport Beach, California, United States

New York, New York, United States

• In my time at Rockets of Awesome, I contributed to the development and maintenance of a Rails/Solidus based ecommerce platform for an expanding kids clothing brand.
• Collaborated with designers, product managers, and other engineers in an agile-oriented team to ship new features, optimizations, and bug fixes on a continual basis
• Built out the infrastructure required to launch an entirely new line of baby clothing
• Improved the site’s performance and SEO by migrating its front end to a new NextJS app
• Managed several microservice integrations including Netsuite (ERP), Segment (analytics), Iterable (marketing), and Yotpo (customer reviews) using a distributed, event-driven approach
• Contributed over 20 new components to an internal style guide

Lawrence, Kansas Area

• As a member of small software consultancy, I've helped develop and maintain over a dozen web applications for clients ranging from European record labels to inter-planetary space exploration companies
• Contributed to the backend design of three, greenfield Rails applications
• Transitioned applications to run within Kubernetes clusters using Terraform
• Led major version upgrades of four legacy projects
• Pioneered a new remote development paradigm that was adopted by the entire company

Pocatello, Idaho Area

Worked on the environmental team at a fertilizer plant producing over 1,000,000 tons ofphosphate fertilizers and feed products annuallyMonitored groundwater and surface water discharge of nitrogen and phosphorous as partof remediation efforts on an active Superfund siteMaintained plant compliance with RCRA regulations for large generators (<2,200lb/month).

Lawrence, KS

Collected water samples and analyzed them for several geochemical parameters (alkalinity, anion and cation concentrations, pH, dissolved oxygen, etc)Worked with faculty members to interpret and refine data for use in scientific papers Assisted in field experiments involving several geophysical techniques includingmagnetic resonance imagining and electrical.

Poncha Springs, Colorado

Managed the mountain staff of a Boy Scout high adventure camp serving over 900 clients during the summer monthsTrained my staff of 9 mountain guides to lead youth on backpacking treks, rock climbing excursions, and mountain bike tripsMaintained inventories and logs of gear for both the mountain and climbing programsServed as the camp’s chief medical.

Poncha Springs, Colorado

Led clients on hiking expeditions up several of Colorado's tallest mountainsCoordinated rock climbing trips and served as lead belayer for clientsServed as a member of the camp medical team, administering first aid for a number of injuriesCultivated my clients' love and appreciation for the outdoors