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Austin, TX, US

Cedar Park, TX, US

Software development consultancy -- short-term contracted agile software product development.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Hands-on proof-of-concept development. Led research and development for a publicly-traded video platform.Go, JavaScript, C, Git, Docker, Nginx, NATS.io, Gorse, Web Video, CDN
• Created and proposed research map; established research agenda.
• Authored several research studies and proofs-of-concept leading to production 1-second live stream latency.
• Architected and implemented a proof-of-concept to distribute and scale live chat across multiple servers.
• Created proof-of-concept to demonstrate the feasibility of a log-file-based video recommendation engine.
• Implemented Nginx module to convert request’s query parameter to an HTTP range header.

Austin, Texas, US

• Lead technologist with hands-on development and technical leadership at a medical education company.Go, PHP, PHPUnit, TDD, Git, Docker, Jenkins, Sonar, AMQP/RabbitMQ
• Authored Engineering Vision (people, process, and technology) adopted by Engineering management.
• Led reconceptualization, design, and proof-of-concept in Go of bespoke learning delivery system.
• Proposed, led, and delivered Platform in PHP – a standardized approach to micro service development.
• Initiated and led internal Software Development Governance Board to establish global standards.
• Created and launched a formal technical mentoring program; mentored 8 engineers at varying levels.

Austin, Texas, US

• Strategic agile product development process leadership at a medical education company.Scrum, Kanban, Lean Software Development
• Hired, managed, and led an Agile Coach to facilitate tactical process implementation.
• Led strategic transformation from Scrum to Kanban (on the way to Lean Software Development).
• Initiated and led internal Agile Process Governance Board to guide global product development processes.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Technologist; led research – and participated in strategy development – for security, privacy, and trust.
• Member of security strategy team and the team’s interface to the research office.
• Defined related portions of the Office of the CTO research map and established research agenda.
• Defined studies and projects for research and strategy; executed – and led others to execute – research.
• Worked with global team (US, Canada, China, Egypt, Ireland, Israel).
• Coauthored 5 patent applications.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Hands on development for the Research Office, P&O Office of the CTO.Go, Git, GitHub, IPFS, IOTA Tangle
• Contributed to internal (subsequently open sourced) Project Alvarium data confidence fabric project.
• Led small team to reimagine intern-created proof-of-concept as a flexible and extensible SDK.
• Architected and implemented an extensible framework focused on capturing provenance annotations across data mutations and assessing those annotations to reach one or more conclusions.
• Project since open sourced at https://github.com/project-alvarium

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Hands on development as maintainer of the Linux Foundation's EdgeX Foundry open source project on the Dell IoT (Internet of things) Platform Development Team (a collaboration between Dell EMC and VMware).Go.
• Chaired EdgeX Foundry System Management Working Group from 11/2019 to 06/2020.
• Recognized by EdgeX Foundry Community with 2020 EdgeX Innovation Award.
• Built a Helm Chart and Kustomize-based Kubernetes manifests for EdgeX.
• Created a northside application service to integrate EdgeX with Amazon IoT, Azure IoT, and Dell Boomi.
• Contributed to the Linux Foundation's open source EdgeX project:>> Architected, implemented, and presented API 2.0 framework.>> Implemented extensible service bootstrapping library with simple dependency injection.

Las Vegas, NV, US

• Hands-on development focused on server-side cross-game concerns in the social division of a mobile gaming company.PHP, MySQL, Couchbase, PHPUnit, ActiveMQ, TDD, Git, Vagrant, Jenkins, Sonar
• Created a game-agnostic login service to manage player data and route clients to a country-specific data center.
• Led design and architecture of new canonical game server implementation.
• Built cross-game ActiveMQ-based server-side library to transmit analytics events to third-party systems.
• Decomposed a monolithic game server library to individual test-driven-developed composer-based packages.
• Implemented an internal Satis-based composer repository to host private composer-based packages.

Tokyo, JP

• Contract to enhance the custom CMS serving the company’s product marketing sites (4-12MM views/month).PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, Angular, MySQL, AJAX, Git, Docker, AWS S3
• Added shim to support multiple sites with different top-level domains from a single Laravel 4.2 installation.
• Created utility to identify/correct data inconsistencies across a complex schema missing referential integrity.
• Implemented geolocation-based redirection to ensure visitors received proper regionalized content.
• Added support to secure user-uploaded sensitive content on AWS S3 prior to publication.
• Replaced Google site search with Swiftype region-specific site search and auto-complete.

Austin, Texas, US

• Hands-on engineering leadership for HIPAA-compliant messaging and document management SaaS products.Python, JavaScript, Angular, Percona/MySQL, Git, Jenkins, Sonar, Docker, Swarm, Agile, Management
• Led Stak and DocbookMD product teams to stabilize and enhance existing SaaS products.
• Resurrected DocbookMD development – reverse-engineered JavaScript builds from production artifacts; containerized DocbookMD; implemented branch-level Docker Swarm-based development, build, and test environments; and.
• Increased Stak production deployments from once every 6-to-8 weeks to 3-to-5 times per week.
• Steered development group through a 50% reduction-in-force after the sale of the company’s Sfax product.
• Implemented Lean Software Development leveraging Kanban (LeanKit) and code review (GitHub).

• Contract to deliver new features for a golf course scheduling SaaS product by an October drop-dead release date. LAMP, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, PHPUnit, TDD, AJAX, Git, Vagrant
• Added new functionality to manage fleets of golf carts, power trolleys, and rental clubs shared across multiple courses.
• Created support to dynamically calculate and display golf cart and power trolley availability on tee time schedules.
• Enabled the ability to assign specific golf cart(s) when reserving a tee time.
• Implemented support for tour operators.
• Internationalized text and dates.

Austin, TX, US

• Hands-on engineering leadership for online survey and panel management market research SaaS products. LAMP, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, PHPUnit, Codeception, AJAX, Slim, Phing, Agile, Management
• Led software engineering team to improve SaaS-based products with 15MM to 25MM views/month.
• Created a continuous integration (Jenkins), inspection (Sonar), and zero-downtime delivery build pipeline.
• Implemented Kanban (LeanKit), code review (RhodeCode, GitHub Enterprise), and source code control (Hg, Git).
• Refactored single-tenant product to a service-based, horizontally scalable, multi-tenant implementation.
• Spiked the next generation of the survey product using TDD and domain-driven design.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, US

• Contract to enhance web portal access to planting, spraying, and harvesting data from remote field computers. LAMP, PHP, MVC, Agile, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, Slim, REST API, PHPStorm, SVN
• Ported C#-based partner access resource API functionality to PHP using Slim framework.
• Created AJAX-based UI to interactively query the partner access resource API.
• Developed proof-of-concept to leverage Dropbox's API for external data storage.

• MarketVine was a Dell-funded technology startup in the digital curation space. During this period, I segued from a management role to return to software development focused on disruptive advertising enablement.
• Contributed to the improvement of a Java-based content server implementation.
• Prototyped interactive Javascript-based drag-and-drop curation tool using RSS feeds as content sources.I was a Dell employee during this time.

• MarketVine was a Dell-funded technology startup in the digital curation space. During this period, I became the Executive Assistant to the CEO (which inside Dell meant I was the MarketVine CEO/Dell VP's proxy and was.
• Facilitated implementation of the Lean Startup methodology.
• Undertook new product ideation, research, and development including lean canvas creation and problem/solution interviews.
• Managed/owned "Hotspots" product and resources.Reported directly to Manish Mehta, CEO @ MarketVine & VP of Marketing @ Dell. I was a Dell employee during this time.

• MarketVine was a Dell-funded technology startup in the digital curation space. During this period, I executed a mandate to step away from software development and transition the product development team to agile.Agile.
• Spearheaded product development (including product management, design, software development, integration, and quality assurance groups) transition to cross-functional feature-based teams practicing strict Scrum/Kanban.
• Scrum Master to multiple teams over multiple sprints.
• Defined job description for, hired, and led multiple Scrum Masters.Reported directly to Manish Mehta, CEO @ MarketVine & VP of Marketing @ Dell. I was a Dell employee during this time.

• MarketVine was a Dell-funded technology startup in the digital curation space. Recruited into.Net/C# shop to be responsible for "Storefront" product's open source-based revenue tracking and analytics. LAMP, PHP, MySQL.
• Implemented cookie-based pixel tracking/conversion system for affiliate-based product.
• Created Open Web Analytics module to enable API-based site creation.
• Added dashboard to existing C#.NET MVC 3 application to summarize Open Web Analytics data.
• Fixed bugs in existing C# / MVC 3 / ASP.NET 4 applications.I was a Dell contractor during this time.

Austin, TX, US

• Contract to enhance sites/systems at financial services industry lead generation company.LAMP, PHP, MySQL, PHPUnit, TDD, MVC, Agile, WordPress Plugin Development, XML, XPath, HTML/CSS, NetBeans, SVN
• Produced affiliate and revenue modules for company's site-generating content management system.
• Introduced development group to Agile and Scrum – Scrum Master to 2 teams over multiple sprints.
• Identified and documented – in collaboration with Sales – the UI/UX requirements for Card Page Bidding Tool.
• Implemented new savings and investments categories on the company's CompareAndSave.com website.
• Optimized SQL query to reduce website build time from over 30 minutes to less than 2 minutes.

Cedar Park, TX, US

• Custom plush toy manufacturer. Responsible for entire e-Commerce site. LAMP, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, AJAX, MVC, Facebook API, Twitter API, HTML/CSS, NetBeans, SVN, AWS S3
• Hand-coded LAMP-based e-commerce site enabling the online purchase of customer-designed plush toys.
• Created JavaScript applets to support the interactive design of individual toys by customers.
• Built a custom shopping cart to display completed toy designs and support add-on embroidery sales.
• Interfaced to PayPal and TransFirst merchant service gateways to enable online credit card payments.
• Designed and implemented a pixel tracking-based affiliate marketing system.

Jersey City, NJ, US

• Contract to develop systems to deliver wireless messaging services to Fortune 50 field service organizations.Multithreaded cross-platform C, MySQL, TCP/Sockets, OpenSSL, XML, TDD, 24/7/365 Mission-Critical.
• Created award-winning SmartCopy feature – mobile device populated forms delivered by emailed PDF or fax.
• Produced server software and proprietary handshaking protocol to support 3,500+ mobile GPRS/1xRTT devices.
• Delivered hybrid PAP push/HTTP pull architecture and server software to support 5,000+ BlackBerry devices.
• Expanded wireless carrier coverage by writing interfaces to network aggregators mBlox and Mobile365.
• Developed proofs-of-concept for MapPoint mobile routing, UPS package tracking, and voice-to-text.

• Wireless messaging services to Fortune 50 field service organizations. Contracted directly.Multithreaded cross-platform C, MySQL, TCP/Sockets, OpenSSL, XML, TDD, 24/7/365 Mission-Critical, API/Protocol Implementation.
• Authored Linux-based server software to transfer 10MM+ messages per month (for $7MM+ revenue per year) between backend systems and mobile users via TCP/IP, email, modem, DTMF, fax, and prerecorded voice.
• Implemented all connectivity to wireless carriers via SMPP, WCTP, SNPP, TNPP, TAP, MPAK, SCR, SMTP, etc.
• Designed failure-tolerant software used by customers to access service by IP, frame relay, and modem; ported this software to 32- and 64-bit operating systems such as Linux, OpenBSD, HP/UX, Solaris, True64, etc.
• Interfaced to existing customer systems at AT&T, Brinks, Diebold, Oce Printing, Philips Medical, NCR, and Tektronix.
• Customized multi-line interactive voice response (IVR) systems to support job acceptance/closure, parts orders, live agent transfer, etc.

Bs, Computer Science

Distributed Systems Design Fundamentals

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React

Certificate, Client-Side Web Programming

Science And Technology Commercialization

Certificate, Guerilla .Net