Spearheaded the Hadoop Replacement project, raising crucial concerns about direction, cost, and timeline, leading to a reassessment and adjustment of project parameters for feasibility.Led the successful Rate Tracking separation project, ensuring seamless execution and contributing to improved operational efficiency.Played a pivotal role in the design phase of the Unified Revenue Management project, providing key insights and system expertise.

Unified two previously distinct teams, optimizing collaboration and resource utilization.Established team practices, including rigorous testing and proactive resolution, establishing code quality standards. Lead team initiatives that resulted in reducing system error rate by 80%.Contributed to recruitment, conducting technical interviews for building a high-performing team.Championed agile methodologies, ensuring adaptability to changing project requirements.Recognized for leadership and technical excellence in achieving key project milestones.

Enhanced core rules engine used for data filtering and matching unifying the engine and rules format acoss multiple discrete procesing steps.Led onboarding of new data source working directly with vendor and businiess units, ensuring seamless integration and expanding data portfolio.Optimized codebase, reducing system errors while enhancing overall performance and delivery for new features and user requests. This includes expanding automated tests, automating build and deployments reducing human error and time to market, and helping establish team norms. Actively contributed to code reviews, addressed technical debt, and expand system documentation.Recognized for outstanding performance and dedication to successful project delivery.

Blit-Tech started off as general software consulting company, and has evolved to focus on providing Information Security consulting and mentoring for startups penetration testing and blockchain expertise. Past projects include:* Graphic Voices: 2016Build an Ember.js and Ruby based web application to allow users to post comics whichare available for public viewing.* MHS Gaming Analytics: 2017 - 2018Work with and advise the Mission HydroSci game developers at MU to create a realtime game data collection and analysis engine with Python, Kafka and MongoDB.

Lead developer on the Customer Access team.* Lead the Get Access Replacement (GAR) project to build an OAuth based user management and authentication solution to replace our legacy user management system.* Design and implement the document creation, storage and retrieval systems for Say Insurance using Java, SpringBoot, RabbitMQ and a sprinkle of REST.* Upgrade, support and maintain the Shelter Insurance Android and iOS applications. This includes advocating for a difierentiated and mobile-app-specific user experience. Some wins include adding the ability to attach pictures when filing a claim and Fingerprint/PIN based in-app authentication instead of passwords.* Coordinate directly with the security team to triage, mitigate and resolve (luckily minor) security incidents.* Initiate a developer community outreach program, encouraging members of the IS department to become more engaged with the local tech community. Also created internal developer lead workshops for skill sharing and knowledge transfer between branches of the IS department.

Maintain and expand the SuretyBonds.com website. Major accomplishments include:* Re-architect the site as a statically generated website enabling content writers to create complex pages without the need for programmer intervention. This has enabled the site to double in size in less than 1 year.* Add ElasticSearch based bond library to support fuzzy bond type searches.* Enable fine-grained event tracking and analytics using Piwik.

Lead courses aimed at teaching students the material covered by the SAT, ACT and GRE aptitude tests. Provide classes for ESL students help them understand the ma-terial and language concepts in the TOEFL test.

Aid with and perform research at the university's Malware Defense and Analysis Lab. This included building a Haskell application to disassemble PE files and generate a Control Flow Graph from the machine instructions as a first step towards finding methods to detect metamorphic viruses in executable files.

Develop and maintain various web-assets. Major projects includ MilitaryHomes.com and SuretyBonds.com, which were both developed using CakePHP.

Utilize Drupal and PHP to build a HIPPA compliant web-based EMR systems for psychology practitioners and patients.

Ruby on Rails and ActionScript developer