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Tucson, Arizona, United States

Designing and implementing reliable backbone systems for the future of mining software

Bringing SRE and DevOps best practices to the mining software industry

Tucson, Arizona Area

Apply CI/CD industry best practices to existing software projects and creating GitOps practices with Azure cloud

I help teams become cloud-capable and migrate their apps onto an on-premises cloud platform built on OpenShift and Kubernetes by using a custom Jenkins CI-CD Pipeline.

Tucson, Az

DevOps for the Kuali Financials System team within UITS. Build AWS cloud deployment automation, as well as development of new functionality in the open-source Java code base.

Tucson, Az

CTO and lead engineer for the Earu project. Specialized in machine learning in the natural language processing and speech recognition space, utilizing GPU-optimized libraries such as Kaldi and TensorFlow.

Lead developer on the following projects:IBM i2 iBase External Analysis Integration- Integrated an off-the-shelf biometrics analysis tool to an iBase data store utilizing web services in C# for a national-level defense government entity.Remote Monitoring Enhancements – Java (J2EE, Java 5/6/7 compatible) SOA monitoring and metrics gathering system.- Communication encrypted using FIPS 140-2 certified cryptographic module for CJIS compliance.- Web communication done through a RESTful Java implementation in JAX-RS- State stored in database utilizing JPA.Database Checker Enhancements – Java (J2SE, Java 6/7 compatible) application to automate first-pass QA testing.- Tests business logic rules that are unenforceable via database restrictions.- Created new engine as a drop-in replacement for legacy code with additional functionality. Original application ran as a Swing GUI application; new implementation could be called as a library, run via command line, and run as a Swing GUI application.- JDBC interface to Microsoft SQL, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, and HSQL database implementations.Assisted with the following project:IBM i2 iBase schema creation and import specification creation- Assisted with the creation and initial testing of an iBase schema for a state/province level intelligence government entity.- Assisted with the creation, debugging, and testing of the initial load and refresh import specifications

3rd party retail representative on behalf of HP Retail USA. Build store relationships, ensure in-store compliance, and sell HP solutions to customers.