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Greater St. Louis

Leading a new Platform Acceleration innovation group. Our mission is to develop new components, services, tools, and processes to accelerate the rate at which other teams build multi-tenant micro-platforms centered on domain entities and multi-entity bounded contexts. We are building a foundation of extensible, model-driven components that can be composed into micro-platforms, which consist of REST-based microservices, message-based processors in a Kafka architecture that synchronize with legacy systems, and workflow-driven automated business processing. Also part of a cross-organizational team defining Evernorth's new SaaS platform strategy, with products from my team and from teams using our software forming the platform foundation. Express Scripts rebranded itself as Evernorth in mid-2020.

Greater St. Louis

In 2019, spent 9 months working on the next generation of Express Scripts' Pet Meds offering, defining the architecture, designing the models for the two public APIs, and shepherding its development in collaboration with development teams, business representatives, and a key client. That architecture led to ideas for how we can automate business processing in a hybrid architecture consisting of newer microservices interacting with existing backend systems. Those ideas, and other ideas on how we could accelerate development using extensible, model-driven components, led to the formation of the Entity Acceleration team in January 2020.c Also led an effort to improve product health across the Entity Platforms suite of services, as well as a 'tiger' team that helped implement suggested improvements. Continued to run the Core Healthcare group, releasing many more micro-services platforms and supporting those previously released.

Greater St. Louis Area

From 2016 through 2018, was a leader in defining and building out the initial wave of 'entity' platforms, a key part of a multi-year transformation to a modern software infrastructure.Starting in 2016 as Specialty Data Director, was responsible for data services, cleansing, and reporting & analytics. Heavily involved in the design of domain models for initial REST-based entity services. Team implemented 3 core services: Person, Patient, Prescriber.As Director Enterprise Entity Services, Core Healthcare, in 2017/2018, led scrum teams building 3 key services and 3 utility services, with over 20 releases to Prod. Team spearheaded good engineering practices and standards-based microservice development, using Scrum processes, GitHub, CI/CD, and test automation using Cucumber.A 'pivot' in late 2017 shifted us from REST services 'fronting' legacy stores to greenfield services that bidirectionally sync with legacy stores using Attunity & Kafka message broker. Our team embraced the pivot, developing frameworks for entity services, data transform processors (to map between entity and legacy models), and update processors to merge changes into target systems. Two pilot projects developed a transaction tracing system using Sleuth and Zipkin, and a performance test data management system for automatically capturing JMeter data for data analysis. A pilot of MongoDB resulted in its use in all of our 'V2' services, as well as by other teams. Initial use of Kotlin led to most teams converting over to using it.Our team was integral in defining the key entity models. Through thought leadership, our team also promoted the widespread use of 'common structs', to speed model and service development, and promote interoperability. We also automated logging of Jira stories from model definitions, with uniform descriptions and acceptance criteria. In late 2018, Cigna bought Express Scripts.

Greater St. Louis Area

Teradata acquired the Loom products from Revelytix in 2014. With Teradata, managed a geographically-distributed, virtual development team, as well as an India-based test team. Responsible for defining detailed technical requirements, and design of domain models and REST APIs for new features; planning, managing, and prioritizing the work of the development and test teams, using an agile process; and coordinating with product management, marketing, and field organizations. Team successfully completed 3 major releases and 3 maintenance releases in 17 months. New functionality added to Loom included: user personalization / collaboration capabilities, JSON support (data types, flattening hierarchies into table structures, and data cleansing functions), extensible measurements, and metadata authorization. Loom development was shifted under Teradata away from selling Loom as a stand-alone product, and more towards enabling integration with other Teradata products and service organizations, and deployment on the Teradata Hadoop Appliance.

Greater St. Louis Area

With the management team and technical leaders, coordinated the successful transition of Revelytix to a strategy focused on the 'big data' analytics space. Introduced a new product, Loom, for dataset management and data cleansing in Hadoop.Loom provided an intuitive, self-service Web UI for data scientists. It targeted the time-consuming data discovery and data processing / integration stage of working with data in Hadoop, preparing and cleansing large datasets, or large numbers of datasets, for subsequent analyses. Loom was backed by a metadata repository, powered by flexible domain models, and exposed through a REST API (using JSON data structures). Loom Weaver allowed data scientists to incrementally and interactively cleanse 'big data' through an intuitive user interface, using a suite of built-in functions for the supported data types, applied first to data samples and then to full datasets. Loom also tracked and displayed the lineage graph generated as data sets were combined and cleansed.

Greater St. Louis Area

Started a new engineering group in St. Louis, focusing on developing new data federation products. Revelytix provided ontology-based data integration products for large enterprises and the U.S. Department of Defense, leveraging semantic technology standards such as SPARQL, RDF, RDF Schema, and OWL, as well as integration standards such as R2RML and RIF. Released 3 major products: Spyder, for translating relational data to RDF and exposing it through SPARQL (using R2RML); Spinner, for federating graph-based RDF data and relational data via Spyder (using SPARQL Federation); and Rex, a rules engine that operated on semantic data.Personally did analyses of performance testing results, using statistical methods and graphs to compare the latency and throughput of various commercial RDF 'triple' stores, which were potential candidates for use in HR EIW. Issued two reports to the DoD:- HR EIW Triple Store Evaluation - Analysis Results; v5, 2010-09-30.- HR EIW Triple Store Evaluation - Performance Testing Methodology; v5, 2010-09-30

Greater St. Louis Area

Led the St. Louis development team in the new Governance division after the BEA acquisition. Architected and designed the MetaData Interoperability Framework; also implemented a significant portion of the framework, in Java. MDIF was the core component of an SCA-based metadata management architecture, and became the metadata engine for the clean-sheet redesign of the Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER). My team worked played a critical role in the OER redesign, and assumed responsibility for the OER Server (built around MDIF) and persistence tier, interfacing regularly with the rest of the distributed Governance team in Cleveland and San Jose.

Greater St. Louis Area

Started a new engineering group in St. Louis. Led team to develop the AquaLogic 'Sync' framework, an extensible framework responsible for interchanging metadata between the AquaLogic SOA products and the new AquaLogic Enterprise Repository (ALER). Sync converted between product-specific metadata formats and a canonical format - based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification - stored in the repository. In this way, metadata could be shared between the AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB), Data Services Platform (ALDSP), and other SOA products integrated through the Sync extension interface. The integrated SOA metadata could be visualized through a unified model, and used for design-time sharing of service information through Eclipse UI tooling. Released several versions of the framework with various AquaLogic products over the first 15 months. Led the team's efforts in architecting and designing the next version of the metadata interoperability framework (MDIF). That framework was subsequently implemented after Oracle acquired BEA.

Greater St. Louis Area

Started a new St. Louis development office for start-up 'Quadrian' with 4 other engineers. Promoted by company founders to head the development group after only 3 months, and grew the group over several years to nearly 40 outstanding people, including QA, 'tier 3' support, and end-user documentation. Worked closely with founders, customers, and sales personnel to translate market needs into innovative products such as the MetaMatrix Server and Designer. Over 7 years, led the development and release of 5 major releases (1.0 to 5.0), 8 minor releases, and 24 maintenance (service pack) releases, focusing on quality, performance, and maintainability. Managed the team through some challenging company transitions, at one point avoiding large layoffs using creative means. Led the re-architecture of the product base to lightweight, OEM-able products, and created an extensive developer web site ('Dev Central'), and much of the content on that web site.MetaMatrix was a New York-based start-up that pioneered the field of enterprise information integration (EII) and model-defined 'data services'. It was acquired by Red Hat in 2007, and incorporated in the JBoss product suite as 'Teiid'.

Greater St. Louis Area

Consultant at Union Pacific responsible for designing user interface for 3-tier system. Designed UI using MVC architecture, with data-driven model and controllers for interfacing with Tuxedo services using Jolt. Data-driven nature of design enabled rapid turn-around when adding new views and services to the system. Led team of 3 developers in implementing UI using Java Swing API.

Greater St. Louis Area

One of the initial group of 16 people in a new St. Louis-based development office, the first development office outside Bloomington, IL opened by State Farm. Assigned by the development managers to be the System Designer and team lead on the office's first project, DRP, a distributed resource planning program for forecasting and replenishing company supplies. Delivered the program on time in less than 9 months: a distributed, Java-based application, one of the first Java apps at the company.Was also the office's representative on the corporate Technology Architecture Group, responsible for reviewing architectures of new applications and recommending changes to meet corporate standards.

Greater St. Louis Area

Aerospace engineer responsible for development of software applications and shared libraries used for analysis of airframe loads on multiple aircraft projects and in R&D. 'LoadCalc' program was a data-driven loads calculation application that integrated into the prevailing six degree-of-freedom simulation program used by the aerodynamics group. Pioneered use of object technologies (C++) and common modules. Used optimization, linear regression, probability and statistics, neural networks, and a variety of advanced mathematical techniques.

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Focus on optimization, regression, and numerical analysis. Finished Master's degree in 2 years while working full-time.

Computer Science

Masters-level classes in CS. Focused on optimization, machine learning, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Worked on master's thesis.

Bs, Aeronautical Engineering

Online Courses: Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence, Certificates Of Accomplishment

Took first two online courses offered by Stanford, in fall 2011, taught by the people who went on to found Coursera (Andrew Ng).

Online Courses, Certificates Of Accomplishment

Took and completed a variety of online courses, to explore new areas (robotics, business) and refresh skills in other areas (web.

Online Courses, Certificates Of Accomplishment

Took and completed classes related to data analysis and data science, from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington.