Established Engineering vertical at Definitive Healthcare. Built and managed a geo-diverse team of 60+ spread over the following functions: Software Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Data Engineering, DevOps, QA, and Agile Scrum coaching.- Partnered with Product Management, Customer Experience, Data Operations and IT leadership to ensure realistic estimates are given, and solutions are built according to requirements and delivered on time- Sets the high-level technical direction for the engineering organization- Built a scalable engineering culture employing modern principles of decoupled systems (domain driven design) and automation (CI/CD, regression testing, and monitoring)- Built data warehouse and associated data marts, including all pipelines automation, housing 25B+ rows of healthcare claims data using Azure cloud components and Databricks- Architected and developed a new claims reporting platform leveraging Elasticsearch- Performed technical diligence for M&A targets; oversaw complex integrations with new acquisitions, including software architecture and development- Brought Agile software development methodology to the company, establishing release planning, formal requirements-gathering, a sprint schedule with ceremonies, release cadence, and velocity metrics to evaluate and improve engineering team performance

Hands-on engineering manager / architect in fast-paced engineering environment. Languages and frameworks: Visual C#, ASP.NET Core, MS SQL Server, ETL, WebAPI 2.2, Swagger, Redis, TFS, Git, Azure- One of the lead escalation engineers on staff; solves complex business problems by deep-diving into code, devising and shipping solutions- Manages two Agile scrum teams in squad-guild model. -- Teams develop new features, solve business issues, and repay technical debt -- Collaborates with C-level executives, product management, quality assurance, and external customers on product enhancements and issues. -- People management, data analysis, resource planning, project management, and business-critical decision-making -- Maintains code standards by mentoring and coaching engineers-- Key member in migrating applications from data center to cloud (Azure)-- Designed and implemented platform-wide cache layer using Azure Redis Service-- Owner and architect on company-wide API development for both public and private offerings-- Performs peer programming exercises with team members to teach best practices, ensure logic is sound and code is maintainable

Technical lead on several company-wide projects.. Languages and frameworks used: Visual C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, ASP.NET Web Forms, MVC 4 & 5, WebAPI 2.2, Swagger, AngularJS, Telerik Kendo UI controls, MS SQL Server.- Mentored other members on team with regard to overall software architecture and coding best practices.- Instituted code reviews and code styling sessions to the team, which lead to a significant increase in development velocity.- Designed and developed REST API, middle tier and relational data schema for a major company offering.- Designed and co-developed a resilient nightly process to extract, transform and load (ETL) large amounts of external data (1 GB per day) from an overseas data source, including thorough data completeness and integrity checking.- Architected migration of company’s procurement software platform from a colocation facility to AWS, including DevOps strategy and design.- Coded company-wide application-level logging libraries that are currently used in all .NET environments (50+ solutions, 1000+ projects)- Designed and developed user security models for the public facing application.

Formally transitioned from network engineering to software development in the early months of my employment at Microsoft. I designed and wrote software used for network troubleshooting and information gathering, as well as tooling to perform small-scale, non-standard network device deployments.Other projects included the mining of large amounts of network telemetry data to calculate network billing and capacity planning. Wrote several tools to query, analyze, and extract data from Microsoft's Big Data environment (Cosmos, now called DataLake). Used C#, .NET, and SCOPE (the language used to interface with Cosmos, now called USQL) primarily.SME on F5 Global and Local Traffic Managers.

Short assignment; performed F5 LTM implementations for federal customers.

Designed and deployed enterprise-class data center network (F5 Local Traffic Managers, Juniper Netscreen Firewalls, Cisco Nexus and Catalyst switches).Served as highest escalation engineer for the enterprise.Wrote a comprehensive disaster recovery tool which transferred hundreds of gigabytes per night to a backup facility (shell scripts).Wrote syslog search tool in ASP.NET and C#. My first exposure to these languages was here.

Responsible for all data center tasks in 110-server production environment: servers, network, environmental issues, data backups, power needs, vendor management, budgeting, and communication with senior management and development staff on data center impacts on the business.

Provided desktop support to all medical staff throughout the hospital. Participated in 24/7 on-call rotation.

Was in Europe for 3 years. Wrote some code (C++) here.

While in high school, I ran a BBS. I bought its source code (WWIV), which was written in C, and away I went with learning how software works. Fixed bugs, created new bugs, and added features.