ElectSolve was a bootstrapped startup that provides smart utility metering solutions acquired by IPKeys in 2018. After five years in management and engineering roles I was named CTO in 2008 and continued in that role until 2019, serving as a remote CTO for the last five years. I led a team of up to 12 engineers in delivering ~25 applications, and supporting over 100 apps and 30+ databases. I also ran an overseas team in India.My work included onboarding and training hires, setting their comp plans, implementing employee development programs for skills uplift, and mentoring. I focused on fostering a blameless culture and establishing programs and processes to set teams up for success. Projects included introducing new interview and onboarding processes inspired by Joel Spolsky's "Make Better Software", implementing CI/CD and its related tooling, increasing deployment automation, and introducing monitoring. Software projects spanned products and applications for data analysis, electric meter usage forecasting, data pipelines, and much more, leveraging machine learning and a mostly Microsoft stack: C#, SQL Server, R, MVC.NET, Azure, REST, SOAP, RabbitMQ, Tibco.

In this role I managed and grew the development team from four to eight members in a hybrid player/coach role. Project highlights included implementing CruiseControl.Net for CI and a UI redesign for all web apps that led to our product attracting Aclara to use ElectSolve in all of their customer locations.Other projects included a facilities management web app implemented at a Georgia university, the MultiSpeak data collection/exchange product (C#, ASP.NET, MongoDB), and electricity data validation and estimation tools.

I initially joined ElectSolve as employee #3.

Praeses is a consulting firm providing business process, mobile application development, and Agile consultation. Project highlights:• Health Plus of Louisiana - Contributed to data integration and migration to a new enterprise system that included data cleansing, validation, and loading. Developed new applications to improve insurance reporting. • Kilpatrick Life Insurance - Wrote an application for insurance sales teams in VB6. • Liftline - Built a web application used by municipal workers to schedule pick-ups and drop-offs for handicapped passengers on city transit. Stack included ASP, CSS, JavaScript, IIS, and Oracle on Windows.

Ischemia & Re-perfusion of the Rat Mesentery to testing drugs.What is Ischemia & Re-perfusion? Stopping blood flow to an area for a period of time and then restoring the blood flow.We were looking for drugs to stop veins from leaking interstitial fluid caused by the red blood cells sticking to the walls of the veins after blood flow was restricted for a period of time. I would clamp off the vein for a few minutes, then release the clamp.We used microscopes with cameras to film the red blood cells sticking or not sticking to the wall of the vein. I had lots of VHS tapes with pulsing arteries and veins and it was so cool to slow the footage down and see the red blood cells moving through the vein.Our goal was to apply drugs and collect data sets and look for trends in the drugs which prevented leaking from the cell wall. Science is cool.