Architected and built the first third party integration. This integration with Streamlabs allows creators to have contribution alerts shown directly on their streams. Leading to high creator-supporter engagement and new creator leads.Updated existing and created new reporting to support internal operations team including adding new data fields during checkout flow to support Soundscan uploads. Allowing creators to easily have their sales counted for billboard and other music charting; previously a laborious task but required for music sales. Developed a new process for tracking and handing off manual store creation work between development and creator managers. This process allowed for better tracking of work and created accountability through transparency. Helped shape new on boarding process ideas adopted included: introduction presentation by each group in the company, history of the company and scheduled meetings with your team. Feedback on the new on-boarding process was universally positive from over 5 hires during this time.

Built and architected: link shortener as a drop in replacement for third party service and an opt out via link system a first in the SMS industryDesign and lead team implementing a Hadoop based data processing systemsImplemented a process to grow our team in a scalable manner while minimizing team effort and ensuring the best matching, highest possible quality candidatesDesigned and oversaw the centralization of configuration infrastructure to ZooKeeper resulting in a patent (Issued Nov 13, 2018 U.S. Patent 10,129,084)Designed several financial processes and integrations including: 3DS, account updater and transaction routing giving our finance team flexibility in processing payments resulting in lower transaction fees. Worked with our vendors in both technical and business roles to ensure mutually beneficial arrangements as well as smooth operation for potential and current relationships.Prepared for and participated in departmental third party audit including preparing documentation before and during the audit; as well as being part of the audit team that met with the auditors in person throughout the entire on-site audit.Regular travel to meet with in-sourced development teams in Kiev, Ukraine.Plan and evolve existing systemsConstant improvement of QoS, code quality and development processesTrain and mentor other developersLearn, evaluate and adopt new technologies

Built SOA REST/AMQP service for SMS/MMS sending/receiving using SMPP and MM7. This system replaced all existing SMS infrastructure across all our brands and platforms. This system was responsible for over 50% of all revenue.Moved existing legacy application to new ActiveMQ architecture vastly increasing reliability and transparency.Implemented Cassandra and Elasticsearch as a backing storage for transient Hazelcast data.Wrote Jenkins plug-in for querying elastic search and notifying on the results.Integrated new and legacy applications into new Logstash logging infrastructure.Quickly learned exiting applications to support and improvement them during high load season.Integrated and extended Kyro serialization for Hazelcast to allow for better forward and backwardscompatibility.Introduced: RabbitMQ, Powermock, Yourkit, AMQP, ElasticSearch and Kannel

Integrated existing email system with Exact Target for transactional emailsIntegrated and updated purchased code to work with existing MyLife.com site and systemsIntroduced: Powermock, HBase, Hazelcast, SOA, EDA, Maven archetypes and 'Platforms'Re-factored existing user data processing system to be event driven and extensibleCreated Jenkins based job serverCreated light annotation based POJO to HBase mapper libraryCreated SOA and job Maven archetypes for use by developersUsed HBase and Hazelcast to increase user data availability; including the use HBase coprocessorsResolved performance issues in existing systemsStarted and ran MyLife.com engineering blog with Lunch and Learn presentationsResponsible for MyLife.com's first open source project HBase Object Mapper

Implemented event driven feed ingestion system using Spring Integration, RabbitMQ, AMQP, MyBatis, Oracle and Sybase. Integrated new feed ingestion system with legacy systems as well as new systems being developed in parallel.Maintained and improved existing legacy systems.Used external sort and merge to speed up existing system over 5x.Bridged Java with R in memory using JRI for image processing. Evaluated and prototyped solutions using Hadoop MR, HBase, Redis, Oracle Text and Elastic Search.

Re-architected and created working functionally in the application using Java, Spring,Hibernate, HQL, JMS and JSP. Ensured that the application is both database and platform agnostic.Researched and recommended technologies for use in application, production anddevelopment.Worked with other project teams to allow integration with existing products (written invarious languages on differing platforms)Developed and designed user facing and architectural features.Worked with QAWrote units tests and documentation

Meet with management to discuss new features and create specificationsCreated working functionally in the application using Java, Spring, Hibernate, SQL, HQLand VelocityCreated and worked with additional applications using Swing, Plone, Python and PHPManaged project developmentOversaw development and

Took specs and ideas from owners to develop OS Commerce SiteDeveloped JavaScript interfacesCreated Image Processing FunctionsIntegrated: Google Checkout and UPS shippingSearch Integration

Back-end Developer Various2006Created inventory tracking and search system based on OS CommerceCreated automatic PDF brochures from searches using inventory informationCreated mechanism for bulk uploads of inventory with information and picturesAdded special search abilities

Facilitated math labsAssisted 20-25 students participating in the math labsResponsible for assigning grades that contribute to grade placed on students' transcriptsTutored in open tutoring room

Tutored students in grades 4-11 both individually and in small group sessionsTutored students in all levels of math up to Calculus 1 and most other subjects in Jr.HighAs a computer administrator I setup, maintained, and repaired all computersBuilt several computers for student accessResponsible for all computer related purchases

Provided service in the small ticket hardware department Helped customers with automotive, home improvement and gift buying selections Responsible for opening/closing procedures, handling money, and dealing with stock

Answered questions from faculty in the faculty labs or over the phone Helped faculty learn to use information technology one-on-one by meeting in their officesor faculty labsFacilitated workshops on general computer use, electronic grade books, and the creationof websites and power point presentations.Created multimedia projects such as promotional videos, scanning guides and a websitedetailing how to place videos on the webOther duties included were opening/closing computer labs