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Westminster, Co, Us

Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Co, Us

Interpreted, revised, and rebuilt data pipeline left by a legacy team without documentation.Rebuilt and upgraded a MapR Hadoop cluster.Planning and implementation of path of improvements for big data processing.Informed the design of company data use techniques.Coaching and instructing of other engineers.

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Produced a self-healing system for maintaining 60+ Hive tables based on changing log content• Implemented an ingest process for converting raw logs into Hive tables making it accessible for data analytics purposes• Built and administered a medium-sized Hadoop cluster (40+ nodes)• Wrote and presented educational materials in order to improve the capabilities of my team and share knowledge across the company• Led process for the company wide standardization of logging content• Designed and initiated implementation of systems for producing extracts and reporting• Identified knowledge gaps within the company and provided training and support for all Hadoop systems and processes

Louisville, Co, Us

• Standardized company build and release process for TeamCity and built servers as necessary• Provided thorough analysis of company release processes, including interviewing developers and release engineers• Oversaw the conversion of all company source code from Subversion to Git• Wrote Gradle scripts for building Java artifacts in a consistent manner• Wrote and presented training materials for Git, TeamCity, and Gradle

Westminster, Co, Us

Managed and rebuilt web ad server to improve performance and reliability.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Finding and correcting software issues with data feeds.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Architected and lead a team of developers on initial version of Quark Digital Publishing SystemUpgraded Quark Xpress code base to Visual C++ 9, swapping in Boost C++ libraries in place of STLPortImproved maintainability of the Xpress code base by participating in a UI code separation projectAnalyzed and documented company software properties for value and alignment with engineering goalsSupported the incoming VP of Engineering with an accounting of software holdingsImproved company understanding of clean coding practices by providing analysis on software development techniquesImproved the responsiveness of the installer development team by restructuring their information pipelineCreated a user knowledge wiki for customer collaboration on using Quark products

Tiffany and I recorded and produced all of the episodes for this award winning podcast. We continue to work on it in our spare time.

Morristown, New Jersey, Us

Added fax capabilities to the Modular Messaging platform.

Westminster, Colorado, Us

Implemented user interface elements for an Amino set top box using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.