Responsibilities - Leading a team of Solution Architects creating application and enterprise solutions across Lifeway.- Leading an effort to implement a Customer 360 suite of tools at Lifeway. These tools include a CRM, CDP, and streaming integration points utilizing Kafka and AWS SQS.- Serving on leadership teams to provide technical insights into company direction.

Responsibilities- Create solutions for LifeWay applications including: Ministry Grid, Smallgroup, Generosity and many shared capabilities.- Help create guidelines around Cloud Security- Help maintain an internal Technology Radar which guides technology adoption at LifeWay- Create POCs on emerging technologies to determining their validity and readiness for use at LifeWay- Mentoring developersCurrent Technologies:- Serverless using AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda (NodeJS), Kinesis, DynamoDB- Lagom/PlayFramework (Java, Scala, Akka)- Reactive streams with Akka and Kafka- Kubernetes (k8s)

Responsibilities- Creating solution architecture for Consumer Platforms applications.- Working with other Architects and SMEs to determine the technical direction of Lifeway's enterprise architecture.- Helping design and implement an enterprise event bus using Kafka.- Participating in the Continuous Delivery architecture working group.- Participating in the Security architecture working group.- Participating in the Persistence architecture working group.- Training developers about reactive design patterns.Technologies:- Akka - Scala- Java- Play- Kafka- AWS- Docker- MongoDB- DynamoDB

Tech Lead and SCRUM master for a team developing reactive applications dealing with ePUBS.Technologies used: - Play Framework (Java, Scala, and Akka)- AngularJS (Grunt, Bower, NPM, Jasmine, Karma)- DDD and CQRS with Event Sourcing- Microservices- AWSHelping migrate to a Reactive 'frame of mind'.

Founder and Lead Engineer / Architect on Mission Control Real Estate software. This software provides lead gen analytics for real estate companies. By combining data from CRM and transactional systems we help provide next steps to realtors to improve their conversion rates.Technologies used:Amazon Web Services (AWS)Node.jsAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Amazon SQSLambdaAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Small World, founded in Nashville, TN in 1985, is a non-profit public benefit Christian charity dedicated to preserving and enhancing the lives of children around the world.I designed and developed a back office web application used to document the entire adoption process for children, families, social workers and staff.Features include:- Family Management- Child Management- Document Management- Staff Management- ReportingTechnologies used: Spring, JPA(Hibernate), JavaServer Faces, RichFaces, JQuery, Apache Tomcat and MySQL

Served as the architect and lead developer for the Cooperative Human Tissue Network (Western Division at Vanderbilt). Led a team developing and maintaining a suite of applications used to process human biospecimen procurements. The following technologies were used: JavaServer Faces, RichFaces, PrimeFaces, JQuery, Maven2, Spring and Hibernate.-Developed a Donor Biorepository application used by staff to consent patients, collect tissue and fluid specimens, record metadata about specimens, match specimens to investigators, document pathologist quality control data and track investigator shipments.- Created a Donor Portal application to allow a web based interface for investigators to retrieve files pertaining to their shipments. This Portal also allows investigators to request changes to their current projects and requests. - Tissue Quest and Investigator Plus are shared applications used by all CHTN Divisions. Our team provides enhancements and maintenance for these applications.- All applications provide web service interfaces to interact with each other internally and, when needed, interact with external 3rd party applications.- Served as the IT Chair for the CHTN.

Created Spring Based Web Applications for the University Registrar's Office and the Development and Alumni Relations. Was involved in the design, implementation and support of these applications.Reimplemented core functionality in a Service Oriented Architecture. These services are now being consumed internally by different departments and externally by several 3rd party vendors.Used collaborative development tools such as Confluence and Bamboo for documentation and continuous integration.

Designed and implemented web based front ends using Java ServerFaces(JSF), Java Servlets, JSP, Java Script and C# .NETDesigned and implemented a Service Oriented Architecture(SOA) based on Soap Web Services in the JBoss J2EE container.Designed and implemented an application framework, in JSF, for Customer Relationship Management(CRM) solutions.

Developed client/server applications for financial institutions, including mortgage lending software, teller programs, call center applications, back office applications, CRM strategy software and telephony integration software.Developed Client GUIs using VB6 and VC++, including COM and ATL components.Created application services using C++ on the UNIX platform.Developed VB6 controls to encapsulate repetitive GUI tasks into a reusable component.