Provide consulting and review existing software systems to:* Develop and bring AWS resources under IaC management and versioning.* Identify and decrease engineering friction. Reduce cloud spend and aid local development by removing 3rd party and AWS dependencies.* Implement test parallelization to halve time for test completion, code merge, CI build, and feature release.* Create CI/CD CodePipelines with CDK to spin up AWS environments on demand.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, partner with Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to ensure strong collaboration across teams. Advocate & establish standards across the organization. Led 8 engineers, prioritizing scale of mission-critical systems.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, increased release frequency and confidence through use of microservices, iterative development, test automation, and infrastructure as code. Collaborated with Product and Customer Services to triage and prioritize incoming support issues. Codified workable standards & solutions as part of the Architecture Working Group. Technical consultant to offshore SCRUM teams to design, review, test and deliver production-ready features.Improved retry and scaling logic to increase alarm accuracy reducing support burden. Led in-place, zero-downtime replacement of file processing engine tripling processing speeds and adding Encase forensic file support ensuring close of pending sales contracts. Improved Elasticsearch speed and costs by deleting unused indices across 70+ clusters.Tech Stack: AWS: EC2, RDS, SQS, SNS, EBS, EFS, SSM, ACM, Lambda, Cloudformation, Cloudwatch, ASG, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM, S3, Secrets Manager, RDBS (SQLServer, Postgres), NoSql (DynamoDB, Elasticsearch), Ubuntu, Linux, Bash, Terraform, Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes, TeamCity, AngularJS/Angular, .Net C#, Java, JavaScript, Node, Python. Methodologies: Agile, Scrum.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, working closely with UX, and Product as lead on a newly formed team to develop features for Code Manager, r10k, and Puppet Server. Maintained UI, and Clojure backend services. Led integration of Puppet Enterprise (PE) with AWS, to jointly deliver AWS Opsworks for Puppet Enterprise on time for AWS ReInvent 2017.Conducted demos of PE for OpsWorks and Tasks in booth at ReInvent 2017.Integrated AWS CodeCommit with PE Code Manager for OpsWorks.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, worked closely with UX, Product and Engineering from planning through development & delivery. Designed, implemented and maintained REST API service endpoints in Clojure. Contributed to multiple UI features (RBAC, Puppet Classification, Tasks and Jobs). Maintained i18n open source Clojure and JS libraries.With i18n Product Manager, coordinated multiple teams and services delivering internationalization (i18n) & localization (i10n) for Puppet Enterprise to the Japanese market within a year. Speaker: PuppetConf 2015: “Introduction to Puppet Enterprise Console”.Tech Stack: Clojure, Ruby, BASH, Linux, JavaScript, Node, Ember, CSS, SASS, Git, Github, Jenkins, QUnit, Vagrant/VMWare/Virtualbox, Git. Methodologies: Lean, Agile, SCRUM.

Cultivated responsive sites in an agile environment. Contributed to projects ranging from proof of concepts to large applications for such entities as the Food Network. Working as front-end lead on CityEats.com I decreased mobile CSS by 20%, improved performance on the site with spriting, utilizing Rails manifests to reduce HTTP requests for CSS and JS files. Started internal weekly meetup for JavaScript to share cross-project learnings about MVC performance, and to cultivate our contributions to OS community.Tech Stack: JavaScript, Backbone, Angular, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Underscore; CSS3, HTML5 (HAML/SASS), Rails, Git, SCRUM, JIRA.

Hand code standards based markup from comp. Most recently optimized web survey for mobile and completed a Drupal-based microsite.Tech Stack: Drupal, Codeigniter, CSS3, HTML5.

Working on multiple projects with tight deadlines, hand coded standard’s compliant and accessible site from comp. Collaborated with designers and developers to assure end product achieved intended feel and functionality. Responsible for Leatherman redesign, met tight TV marketing deadline for W+K Old Spice campaign. Tech Stack: XHTML/CSS, JQuery, JavaScript, .NET, SVN, Fireworks, SCRUM.

Create accessible XHTML/CSS templates for each department for use in the eCollege environment. Migrate existing content to valid markup. Develop web based, media rich curriculum for accreditation. Create designs for print and web campaigns.Tech Stack: CSS, XHTML, jQuery.

Managed, designed and developed custom online courses for the College of Fine Arts at ASU. Oversaw web presence of domain serving over 6,000 users a semester. Acted as faculty liaison. Developed front-end user interaction, web design and graphic design. Coordinated projects and deliverables from 5 team members. Guest lectured 2 graduate art/theatre courses on online curriculum design. Received Dean’s Award (2002), Student Affairs Tribute to Staff Award (2003). Tech Stack: CSS, XHTML, PHP, jQuery, Photoshop, Illustrator.

Provided training and support for two sister libraries. Trained staff, assisted in transition from dumb-terminals to 40 PC networked environment. In-house design and maintenance of library website. Taught 3-day web-design seminars. Attended technical training with Gates Foundation, Seattle to bring internet to local libraries.