Software development and engineering management consultant. Working with AI startups to help them better leverage LLMs and generative tooling in their products.

Designed and implemented software to help construction firms manage their meetings, workflows, and budgets.Designed and built complex LLM-based agent chains to return structured answers to a user's plain-English questions.Designed and built additional agent chains relying on OpenAI's GPT models to summarize long-form documents and meeting transcripts, extract structured data from text documents, and related tasks.Implemented a vector-searchable knowledge database to serve answers to customer queries.Managed the Engineering team and created software that delivered AI-powered summarization and text digestion tools. Developed and helped maintain product and engineering roadmaps to acquire initial customers.Worked closely with beta users to understand and digest feedback to drive initial product development.

Transitioned from a people management role back to an individual contributor role in preparation for an architectural position. Successfully offloaded management and tech lead responsibilities to other team members with no interruption of service to our clients. Worked to establish cross-team communications to facilitate full migration of OODA Optic's technology to Cedar's infrastructure.

Successfully negotiated the promotion of an employee under my management from Senior Engineer to Staff Engineer, and helped the team navigate the complexities of integrating with a new company after Cedar's acquisition of OODA. Gained skills in remote management and company mergers and acquisitions.

Transitioned from an individual contributor to a people manager, managing the Optic team. The team ranged from 4 to 6 engineers over the course of my tenure. I gained skills in remote management and team building, and helped the team navigate the Cedar acquisition.

Worked on the Claims+ product team, focused on improving the Payer/Provider experience around complex healthcare claims. Primarily used Go, Python, and Typescript. Also gained extensive experience with Kubernetes, container management and deployment, CI/CD workflows, GitLab Pipelines, and distributed messaging systems with SQS/SNS and Kafka.

Analyzed data and created predictive models to help small business owners understand their business credit and cash flow. Created several deep networks for forecasting checking account balances. Studied Bayesian inference models to understand the impact of different features of the Nav platform on conversion rates.

Worked with the engineering team to establish overall technical vision for the Nav platform and drive clarity and alignment around engineering practices. Strove to create a scalable, flexible platform capable of empowering Nav to accomplish its mission.

Engineer at Nav, worked in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. Created several services in a microservices ecosystem. Developed key technologies that helped Nav understand credit reports in aggregate at scale. Held several leadership positions in engineering over this time as Nav grew.

kitchen.ly is an online network connecting people who love to cook with people who love food. I handle all of the back-end development and programming (Ruby on Rails), as well as server management, deployment, scaling, and support.

CEO and Head Consultant of WhiteFireSEO, a Utah SEO company.

My duties included researching and writing software, electronics and web service reviews; social media management and training; SEO research, implementation and training; in-house reviewer (4-5) and freelancer (10-20) management; data analysis; and tool development, testing and implementation.