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Founded Sierra Shared Spaces to build upon the mission that Kernville Cowork has been growing for the past 5 years. Sierra Shared Spaces provides place, space, and opportunities for connection for our community and organizations throughout the region. Sierra Shared Spaces is the hub for transformation in rural communities, existing at the intersection of rural economic development, community development, workforce development, and community identity.

Kernville, California, Us

Founded Kernville Cowork in the spring of 2018 as a vehicle for change in the Kern River Valley. With the end goal in mind of building a sustainable community of entrepreneurship and growth, built the very first coworking space in East Kern County.

Bakersfield, California, Us

Expanding the CO.STARTERS entrepreneurship accelerator from two locations (Kernville and Tehachapi) to multiple communities throughout Kern County

Provide project management services for the Better Bakersfield; Boundless Kern Prosperity Initiative, with a focus on the pillars of entrepreneurship and business to business services.

San Francisco, California, Us

Operated as a team lead across multiple projects and areas of responsibility. Worked extensively in stabilizing and improving critical financial workflows, utilizing Stripe and Plaid APIs among others. Improved and stabilized our background processing platform utilizing Sidekiq Enterprise, streamlining background processing across the platform. Led continuous improvement of our continuous delivery process and incident response. Built out a cross-team asynchronous event system. Primary responsibilities include interviewing, selecting, and mentoring new developers of various experience and skill levels.

New York, Us

Build real-time and asynchronous video processing features utilizing a variety of APIs and frameworks. Implement scalable background processing pipeline utilizing AWS serverless compute technology.

Kernville, California, Us

FireVision is changing the way that we fight fire. By providing the right data, at the right time, in the right context, we are keeping our firefighters safe while giving them the tools they need to keep our communities safe.

San Francisco, California, Us

Leads various efforts to take Desk.com and Trailhead to the next level of architecture, performance, stability, and scalability. Has worn many hats (often several per day), including devops engineer, rubyist (with or without Rails), release manager, platform engineer, docker specialist, and workflow automation. Specializes in increasing the effectiveness of teams by improving communication and stability without burdening team members with additional process, often through the use of automation.Built and strengthened automation for continuous delivery of multiple apps and services to our production infrastructure hosted in AWS using industry best practices.Tackled scaling issues at Desk.com by podding the entire infrastructure, including dozens of application tiers and microservices and dozens of datastores. Automated the provisioning of new pods in AWS using Terraform, Atlas, Packer, Consul, Docker, and Puppet.

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Main Street , Us

Worked as part of an established team to help build the company's flagship product Locable.com into a next generation publishing platform for local publications.

Designed and developed GoVoluntr, an innovative new web service for nonprofits and volunteers to connect in new and interesting ways.Develop site functionality in Rails 3, using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices. Responsible for all stages of product development and deployment, including backend database and server setup. Worked closely with designer to ensure website functionality worked well with layout and style decisions.

Independent Ruby on Rails consultant. Use industry best practices to produce clean code and innovative functionality. Clean unobtrusive workflow allows excellent integration into existing teams, or efficient solo work. Major projects include GoVoluntr.com, Locable.com, and a facebook application for AOK.

Built facebook app to complement the company's existing website functionality. Facebook application built in Ruby on Rails utilizing MongoDB.

Developed and launched in April 2009, Photify.net is a custom tailored online photo management solution for high volume photo operations. All pieces designed and developed, including database backend, data migrations, frontend HTML and AJAX processing, and unit tests.

Focusing primarily on maintaining and enhancing the peoplesoft implementation for the UC Davis Medical center. Some other tasks include analyzing internal processes for the purpose of process improvement, as well as data gathering and report writing.

Oakland, California, Us

Worked as a Senior SOX Analyst & Data team lead within the Procurement & Supply division of Kaiser Permanente. Tasked with ensuring that some of the organization's most challenging regions are compliant with Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) requirements. Also tasked with aggregating spend data from various data sources across the organization to produce meaningful reports for the purpose of driving SOX compliance. Data related work includes requirement gathering, report design, database setup, data aggregation, report implementation, automation through the use of macros and queries, and the ability to divide by zero. Analyst work includes process review, compliance testing facilitation, process design, and compliance analysis.

Worked as a Business Analyst with Ameriquest Mortgage Company with a strong background in Information Technology. Proven experience in all levels of service, including customer level support and communication, as well as high profile projects with multiple objectives and timelines. Position involved gathering input from a userbase of approximately 400 users, identifying system and process issues, communicating issues to the proper support teams, writing detailed business requirements for system enhancements, and acting as a liaison between developers and end users.

Associate Of Science, Information Technology/Multimedia

Certified Scrum Master