At RealTruck, I am a Software Engineering Manager and Team Lead in charge of four direct reports, overseeing the development of an Event-Based, Serverless E-Commerce platform. While there I:• Manage team members, holding 1-on-1s, and guiding career growth of my reports.• Implemented a Kanban process for the team's daily work, dramatically improving cycle time.• Design individual NodeJS services leveraging TypeScript, AWS, and deploying into AWS Lambda.

• Developed RESTful APIs in Java, leveraging the Dropwizard.io stack.• Introduced the team to BDD and Cucumber by developing a test-harness utilizing Cucumber-JVM.• Trained QA in BDD workflows, and developed a library of Step-Definitions to translate User Stories into BDD Specs.

• Developed RESTful APIs for Abe's financial data services in JavaScript and NodeJS.• Initiated, designed, and developed a Release Management solution for Abe.ai’s Managed Client Services.• Trained teammates in Unit-Testing with Behavior-Driven Development techniques using Mocha, Sinon, and Chai.

Consulted with the Orlando Fusion Middleware Managed Operations Division on DevOps practices and Agile Software Development Methodologies • Introduced the team to Kanban, and helped the team structure their internal development around the essential Kaban ceremonies. • Developed a transition plan for the existing custom automation framework to using Ansible and shifting to a stateful, Configuration Management paradigm. • Provided guidance and generated training materials in Git, Testing, and Software Development Best Practices to the development team.

At Universal, I was a Team Lead in charge of two direct reports, part of the team working on Universal Parks Microservice Platform. While there I:• Reduced sales support issues by 75% though a series of coordinated fixes to the ecommerce services.• Introduced TDD principles to existing codebase, reducing the time to close defects by 50%.• Guided and mentored junior engineers on the principles of testing, design patterns, and software engineering best-practices.

At Sonobi, my primary responsibility was improving the way the code was written, and developing the tools and technology to do so.• Introduced the organization to TDD techniques, and helped bring code-coverage up from 0% to 80% on multiple projects.• Developed a library for automating verifying Sonobi's publisher integrations, then extended that library to utilize Selenium and Puppeteer.• Deployed an Apache Cloudstack installation to provide self-service VM provisioning to engineering.• Created a CI pipeline utilizing BitBucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Docker, then extended the pipeline to perform CD using Ansible and Docker-Compose.• Designed a new REST API in Python and Flask to automate the process retrieving, reviewing, and creating publisher orders through the Google DFP API.

At M2, I lead the team charged with new product and API development. My job was to design APIs, update legacy services to work with the new, and guide a small Agile team to build it.• Led a team of three developers to design and develop a new system API using NodeJS to translate XML, SOAP, and legacy data to JSON served over a standardized REST service.• Designed a system to read binary data-formats into standard Java Beans, then export the data via XML and JSON using Jackson.• Automated end-to-end test procedures using a combination of JUnit and Mocha.• Automated the existing deployment process into a Continuous-Integration pipeline using Jenkins and Maven.• Introduced the company to Agile development processes, and established a Kanban workflow for project management.• Deployed a GitLab instance on-premises and migrated the team from CVS to Git.• Provided instruction and training on moving to Java 8, Streams, and Functional Programming.• Prototyped a front-end application using AngularJS, UI Router, and Bootstrap.

At Lockheed, I worked as a Software Engineer on several government projects. Most notably, working on the delivery infrastructure for GOES-R (https://www.goes-r.gov/) imagery and weather data.• Worked with NOAA meteorologists and data-scientists to develop Python algorithms to scale, remap, and translate geostationary satellite imagery.• Designed a Java Axis2 service to integrate Python algorithms with the Enterprise framework used to deliver weather data to meteorologists across the country.• Created a Python module translate weather data in binary formats (such as McIDAS and HRIT/EMWIN) to a generic, self-describing format (such as NetCDF or XML).• Designed an RPM build system to automate deployment and configuration-management of Python and Java libraries onto Red Hat Enterprise Linux.• Developed user interfaces with GWT.• Used MSBuild to upgrade a legacy build system, automating the build process and yielding a 75% reduction in build time.• Translated legacy software written in VB6 to C# using WPF and Entity Framework• Created a Linux LiveCD to host and launch a web-based training framework built on Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and WebGL

Worked part-time assisting a professor in his research projects, primarily as a Java Developer. • Implemented a SOAP Web Service client using the Apache Axis framework to connect US patent data with sibling patents from Europe and Japan.

Worked for over two years as an IT technician for Intech Center, providing on-site and remote support. Responsibilities included providing technical support to clients, server administration, and deploying new network installations.• Oversaw the buildout of VoIP systems for clients up to 50 users, including POTS termination and coordinating with gateway vendors.• Managed Small-Office/Home-Office installations of Windows Server 2003 and Exchange.• Ran cabling and deployed network hardware for small and mid-sized offices.• Deployed VMWare Server for Small-Office/Home-Office to manage client applications such as Microsoft Exchange or Intuit Quickbooks.