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Birmingham, AL, US

Birmingham, AL, US

Changed Peak Readiness approach from checklist-driven compliance toward data-driven reporting to stakeholders. Oncall noise reduction efforts paid off: pages per week reduced from above 50 to below 10. Increased chaos tests from 3 per day to 30 attacks per day. Shifted the team to operate as two focused subteams to reduce context switching. Ensured.

Birmingham, AL, US

Drafted onboarding plan for myself, conducted listening tour with over 60 people throughout the company in my first 90 days. Drafted roadmap for the team based on feedback from stakeholders. Expanded scope of team by taking on additional services aligned with team strategy: internal documentation platform and functional testing library.Shifted team to.

Seattle, WA, US

Managed two independent teams:- An engagement team, automating manual touchpoints on behalf of other teams. This team focused on implementing infrastructure as code for the set of services needed to provision network racks in new regions before EC2 is available, and automated service validations Network engineers manually check before building the.

Seattle, WA, US

Directly contributed to launching 7+ new regions, including AWS GovCloud (US-East).Implemented region build automation for dozens of services. Targeted automation improvement by working backward from region build schedule using critical path analysis. Led dedicated engagements with service teams to transform their services and push the limits on automation.

Consulted organizations on various topics:- data science: time series analysis, recommender systems- development and maintenance of web and mobile applications- IT management, business practices, organizational culture changeCoached junior engineers while supporting contracts.

Denver, CO, US

Founding member of SRE team. Helped define the team mission. Guided team toward engineering and agile best practices using informal scrum master approach.Introduced changes without being dogmatic. Focused on incremental and experimental changes. Coached team toward identifying full queues and bottlenecks in their process.Participated in on-call rotation..

Denver, CO, US

Led cross-department team to promote collaboration, diversity, distributed/remote team skills, and mentorship throughout the company.Reinforced process improvements by formalizing a definition of done, especially around deployment, documentation, monitoring, load testing, measurement, and data practices. Increased release reliability by investing in test.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, US

College of Pharmacy Speech Informatics LabSpeech and cognition research developing speech processing to screen for neurocognitive diseases, e.g. Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Lead developer, Python (Flask+SQLAlchemy) REST server and web application for psychological examination, data collection, speech transcription, and analysis. Integrated server with.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, US

Computer Science and Engineering, GroupLensExperimental research on propagation of information between language versions of Wikipedia. Developed software to collect articles from multiple Wikipedia language versions. Tracked information flow between languages with intent to seed a recommender for multilingual Wikipedia editors.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, US

Computer Science and EngineeringCSci 1001, Overview of Computer Science, Spring 2012Mentored students on history of computer science, software quality, security, and mathematics. Coached students toward pair programming to learn Python.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, US

MobileApp ChallengeInContext, a language learning application focused on vocabulary development and retention. Vocabulary list generation, adaptive testing, reading resource suggestion targeting learner. Led Python (web.py) REST server development, assisted iOS application development.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, US

Developed software to collect and derive social networks from email discussion groups. Analyzed propagation of language change through social networks, diffusion of lexical innovations in emergent social networks via social brokerage / weak ties.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, US

NASA Minnesota Space Grant, 2010-2011Team Lead, RockSat-C Suborbital Rocket Payload, 2011Research Assistant, High Altitude Ballooning Team, 2010-2011Teaching Assistant, AEM 1901, Weather Balloon Seminar, Fall 2010Developed software and hardware for atmospheric, physics, and biological experiments. Led integration of components into suborbital rocket.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Leadership And Change Management

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Linguistics