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Madison, WI, US

Chicago, IL, US

Madison, Wisconsin, US

Madison, Wisconsin, US

• Designed new architecture to replace legacy platform at a moderated pace. New design will allow internet scalability on AWS platform using API Gateway, Lambda, Elasticsearch, dynamodb, etc. Designed to keep data in.
• Implemented Jenkins based parallelized test automation to streamline the CI process.
• Restructured the engineering department into several teams including a Product, DevOps, Product Engineering and Solutions Engineering teams.
• Pushed the adoption of standard coding patterns including test driven development, MVC, linted code and more effective code reviews.
• Implemented standard workflows for feature design with chartering, storyboarding, estimating, progress tracking and prioritization.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Lead several teams comprising ~20 developers and test engineers to build admin configuration, onboarding and billing platforms for a highly available SaaS OmniChannel call center application (PureCloud). Primary.
• Acted as subject matter expert for technical questions, code reviews, and coach junior developers while actively participating in development of features, both front and back end.
• Served as technical lead for many additional company-wide projects focused on coordinating the development efforts of multiple teams from diverse projects and technological solutions.
• Researched and spiked different solutions for composing large web applications across many UI teams and disparate javascript frameworks (iframes, web components, etc).

• Recruited a team to build a comprehensive UI platform for the development of admin tools for the PureCloud SaaS product. Primary technologies include Angular 1.x and Ember as well as several back end technologies.
• Acted as subject matter expert for all technical questions, reviewed PRs, and coached junior developers while also actively participating in development of features.
• Collaborated and coordinated with other leads and Product Owners to develop system and software architecture and best practices for delivering elegant solutions with user experience, security, maintainability and.
• Designed and implemented a Virtual Reality app for touring remote locations via multiple connected 360 videos, which placed audio calls into a call center via WebRTC allowing support agents to view the tour in sync.

• Full Stack JavaScript/Node.js engineer, working with many back and front end technologies.
• Architected and built a highly scalable XMPP chat server in Node.js using Redis as a communications backplane and a MongoDB storage layer. This server used socket.io to deliver realtime chat, voip, and notification.

San Jose, California, US

• Full stack developer for agilezen.com with a focus on back end development, architecture, infrastructure and application efficiency.
• Sole operations / DevOps engineer for 20 machine infrastructure hosted in Amazon’s AWS on Ubuntu and Windows Server 2008.
• Part of a 4-person development team responsible for building a project management tool with realtime updates using socket.io with a RabbitMQ messaging bus and a custom client-side MVC HTML5 JavaScript Framework written.
• Maintained a legacy website written in.NET with a SQL Server database and ejabberd messaging.
• Designed and developed a continuous deployment system to enable code pushes with zero website downtime.

Madison, WI, US

• Network automation developer working primarily in java technologies as well as supporting legacy perl code.
• Technical Lead for a multi-million dollar project to completely rework business processes for the entire Telecom Division including over 20 developers, all business units, and a team working remotely in India.
• Won an “Inspiring Excellence” award for creating a one of a kind automation tool for a Voice Over IP vendor system, cutting processing time for that type of work from 4 hours to 15 minutes.
• Worked primarily on enterprise level projects targeting specific business needs to improve company efficiency and integrate various business systems and teams consisting typically of 5 to 15 developers.
• Sole designer and developer for several custom internal websites written in Java Server Faces.
• Primary integrations developer and systems administrator for Metasolv (an Oracle product) hosted on 14+ Solaris servers running WebSphere, and primary SysAdmin for several Jboss servers hosting many JSF webapps.

Madison, WI, US

• Responsible for network configuration of ISP circuits of many varieties (DSL, PON, SDI, voice switches, etc) in order to maintain the ISP network and provision customers.
• Developed numerous web based software tools, primarily in PHP, that dramatically increased the efficiency of the team.

Ba, Computer Science

Certificate, Multimedia