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Renton

Leading the teams who have provided Positive Train Control (PTC) to 97% of railroads operating in North America as the teams transform the ITCM software into Next Generation Messaging (NGM) using Red Hat's AMQP compliant AMQ 7 -- in particular the interconnect router -- to simplify the architecture and reduce latency as well as deploy to a Red Hat Open.

Seattle

I am part of the payments team; we are building a new payments service order architecture in Java using Spring Boot to provide RESTful API endpoints for the rest of Nordstrom Tech. We are building an extensible service layer to communicate with Vantiv's RAFT 610 service for tokenization, authorization, capture (i.e. clearing), and returns. I created a set.

Bellevue, WA

• Working across the entire eCommerce Risk Management team (Fraud Detection, Prevention, & Remediation) in multiple projects to:
• Lay architectural groundwork for scalability and identify problem areas before they become critical.
• Collaborate with data science team to translate high level requirements into product strategies and workable specifications.
• Review code, solidify roadmaps and evaluate scheduled goals.
• Identify technical debt in legacy code and determine value of maintaining vs replacing.
• Provide training/mentoring to junior engineers including documentation and diagrams.Most recently, embedded in the modeling team to begin to develop self-service model experimentation & training. Additionally.

Seattle

• Founded the "TCS Innovation Lab"; (TCS' version of Lockheed's Skunk Works.) Coordinated with all the business units to help them develop their product strategies and then implemented demonstrable proofs of concept.
• Built many AWS VM instances from bare-metal “OS only” to demonstration-ready state using multiple OSes (RHEL, CentOS v6/v7, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows Server 2012) and then installed and configured Apache (v2.2/v2.4) or.
• Wrote all the HTML5/CSS/Javascript and PHP for the "web based thin client 9-1-1 Call Handling" technology demonstration system. Developed 2 different 9-1-1 Call Taker thin client workstation prototypes and a.
• Integrated streaming WebRTC video using first tokbox.com and then Powermedia XMS to demonstrate video 911 calls. Integrated SMS messaging to demonstrate text-to-911.
• Developed 95% of the Node.js code for the Emergency Location Kernel project to showcase the ability to securely receive and catalog location updates via RESTful interface from Android mobile devices.
• Created all of the mobile web pages with which TCS Innovation Labs collected both mobile device reported location as well as "ground truth" location data (designated by having the mobile user drag a marker to where.

Greater Seattle Area

• VP Engineering (Dev Ops), TCS Safety & Security (Sep 2012 – Jan 2015)Director of Engineering, Dev Ops, SSG (May 2008 – Sep 2012)Sr. Manager & Manager, Software Development, (Aug 2002 – May 2008)Principal Engineer &.
• Forged Systems Engineering + Dev + QA + Operations Engineering into a highly cooperative concept-to-production engineering team (DevOps).
• Introduced Agile/Scrum development methodologies & managed transition from waterfall to Scrum.
• Engineered ~3000% improvement to Xypoint Location Platform performance. Replaced system that spawned a new thread for every location request to a full state machine implementing Multi-Threaded Producer-Consumer Queue.
• Increased productivity of 4 TCS service mgmt. teams by 40% and improved customer satisfaction by 60% by creating external ticket access portal, and then extending the portal to support multiple divisions.
• Deployed consolidated Service Management (BMC ITSM product suite; ITIL) to the enterprise.

Puget Sound

> Assembly, FORTRAN, Pascal, Ada95, C, C++> Missile Guidance, UAV Avionics, Satellite Commo, commercial airliner cabin mgt, Command & Control Workstation Displays> YF-22, Condor UAV, SRAM II, P3 Update IV, 777 Cabin Management, OSA cmd&ctrl