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Bainbridge Island, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Dev team lead on deliver robot infrastructure. Developing and maintaining development tools and deployment infrastructure.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Dev team lead developing services related to BMC (Baseboard Management Controler) monitoring and commanding across the Amazon fleet of millions of servers in data centers across the world. Delivered multiple improvements, including* led the design and implementation of BMC integration with AWS Outpost and involving both on-device embedded development and in-cloud services.* stood up an oncall rotation, scripting and runbooks to support the launch and monitoring of integrated power shelves in the data center.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Dev team lead developing platform for publishing editorial content to Amazon retail page. Supported multiple product launches and special content on that platform including* Amazon Charts (http://www.amazon.com/charts).* This year in Books editorial rundown of 2018's top books* This Week in Books regular weekly editorial content* Amazon Insider regular magazine on benefits available to prime usersAnd other ad-hoc promotional opportunities, etc.Also led the Amazon Publishing developer advocacy group, running multiple hackathons and mentoring drives, and other developer improvement initiatives.Dev team lead for new kindle feature in China which allows non-native English speakers to find books that match their level of reading expertise. Used automated ML processes to automatically classify and suggest millions of books. Drove project from inception to launch. (launched 12/2015 http://www.amazon.cn/gp/product/B014JWQ78S/)

Seattle, Wa, Us

Team lead and developer for financial software QA team standing up QA infrastructure and process. Developed a platform for validating financial configuration as part of configuration and deployment (launched 9/2014)Developer for next generation financial software allowing recording and reporting on detailed financial transactions at amazon scale.

Senior consultant developer on next generation infrastructure for standardized communication across the major US train companies.Design and development of test infrastructure using C++ and Ruby to develop Behavior Driven Development-style tests which both documented and validated the system behavior. Design and development of deployment infrastructure allowing rapid, consistent deployment of software and configuration across the test and production environment.

Software consultant developing a hardware interface simulator for testing on the MIS instrument at NRL.

Herndon, Virginia, Us

As Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) Prototype Lab Developer and System Administrator, developed prototype software implementing new CCSDS standards and protocols. Applied NASA security remediations to development servers.Performed CCSDS liaison duties monitoring SGSS interests at the Spring 2010 CCSDS meeting.As JeTSI System administrator proposed and implemented a development server with VPN, source control, wiki, LDAP authentication, etc. Spearheaded the JeTSI website redesign.

Software developer responsible for maintaining an re-engineering the VirtualSat realtime satellite simulator and ITOS spacecraft command software. Technical lead on a team of 4 developers modifying ITOS to handle multiple spacecraft simultaneously. Involved in managing, scheduling, interviewing, etc. as well as the development and modification of numerous subsystems. Also involved on the development effort for ITOS on the LandSat Data Continuity Mission.Lead on LRO spacecraft interface simulators. Involved design and development of simulators to match ICDs, porting the virtualsat simulator core from a win32 API to posix, and the development of a spacewire PCI board driver for linux.Lead of a two person team on SET spacecraft interface simulators. Involved design and development of simulator, porting the virtualsat simulator core from a non-realtime environment to the RTX hard real-time environment, and the development of a realitime RS422 driver for RTX.Developer on THEMIS C&DH flight software development. Involved maintaining existing flight software on the RTEMS platform. Lead developer on the THEMIS real-time satellite dynamics simulator.Founder of the Hammers Design Group, a monthly meeting for developers to share and learn about new technologies, design patterns, and development techniques.

Part time network administrator at Fujitsu Labs of America, College Park. Responsible for installing and maintaining Windows, BSD, Linux, and Solaris platforms. Responsible for configuring and maintaining an IPV6 network configuration.

San Diego, California, Us

Responsible for bug fixing and feature addition on a windows-based C++/Java scheduling system.

Greenbelt, Maryland, Us

Designed and developed C++ code on a Beowulf cluster that classified satellite imagery using statistical discriminants over multiple UNIX platformsDesign and developed code for efficiently finding neighbor leaf nodes in a new data structure for representing earth data called a sphere quad tree.