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Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Overall responsibility for engineering at Fathom, including oversight of people, processes, and execution for three teams; interdepartmental collaboration; and security compliance.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Technical leader with responsibility for the engineering team, including security compliance, people management, customer and sales support escalations, and continued contributions to the Fathom SaaS application.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Delivered foundational contributions to the Fathom SaaS application in Ruby on Rails and Typescript, using supporting languages and technologies such as Go, Kubernetes, Sidekiq, Redis, MySQL, and GCS.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Served as individual contributor and engineering manager. Contributed full-stack development to the core UserVoice product using Ruby/Rails, Go, MySQL, and Typescript/Angular. Led development of product integrations with Slack and Salesforce. As a member of a skunkworks team, designed, developed, and delivered a research project — using Ruby/Rails, MySQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch — that led to the creation of Fathom.

Zurich, Zh, Ch

Served as lead point-of-contact for university relations and as overseer of the internship program for the U.S. Corporate Research Center (USCRC).

Zurich, Zh, Ch

Conceived, designed, executed, and evaluated research projects that targeted the improvement of existing software products or the creation of new software products (across all product groups in ABB). Led the architecting, design, and full stack C#/Python development of software prototypes for delivery to product R&D teams both as an individual contributor and as a team leader. Partnered with engineers from diverse disciplines to deliver domain-specific software solutions in areas such as building control systems and materials & manufacturing. Applied data science and machine learning methods to software-related data.

Zurich, Zh, Ch

Developed and delivered software process and productivity improvement tools for software developers. Implemented features of an open source Visual Studio Extension that uses Lucene.Net to provide developers with accurate and scalable source code search in the IDE, including support for multiple programming languages, term/phrase suggestions, and structured queries. Architected, designed, developed, and delivered a desktop application that uses Solr and TFS service hooks to provide developers and customer support personnel with accurate and scalable work item search, including support for the detection of duplicate bugs or related work items. Secured government funding to support software repository mining research aligned with business priorities.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Taught software engineering principles and practices to over 160 Master’s students in two semesters, emphasizing exposure to modern software engineering principles, practices, and tools including: agile processes such as Scrum and XP, issue and project tracking with GitHub, SOLID principles, architectural and design patterns, unit testing with JUnit, continuous integration with Jenkins, configuration management with Vagrant and Ansible, and automated refactoring with an IDE.

Tuscaloosa, Al, Us

Promoted and awarded tenure.

Tuscaloosa, Al, Us

Taught software engineering principles and practices, programming language design and implementation, and introductory programming to hundreds of students at all levels. Secured nearly $2M in government funding to pursue fundamental research in software engineering, as well as computer science education. Published refereed research publications in leading software engineering journals and conferences. Participated in international conferences as a speaker, panelist, and organizer. Supervised nearly 50 undergraduate and graduate students in research.

Clemson, Sc, Us

Linux and Solaris systems administration. Instructor of record for an introductory programming course for engineering students.

New Albany, In, Us

Ph.D., Computer Science

B.A., Mathematics

Education record