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Chicago, Illinois, Us

Currently managing 3 residential rental properties

Glastonbury, Ct, Us

- Led initiative to move to Gitlab to consolidate tooling and cut costs around the software development lifecycle- Help to maintain a system that currently has ~1,600 clients running 3,000+ websites serving thousands of pages per minute- Performed code reviews for other developers

Glastonbury, Ct, Us

- Re-architected the multi-tenant Finalsite CMS running on a cluster of servers to an environment per tenant running as containers in a Kubernetes cluster- Performed code reviews for other developers- Helped to develop and execute a plan to move ~1,500 clients from the previous VMWare based cluster architecture in a colo to the Kubernetes based environment in Google Cloud with 5 regions configured around the world, while introducing minimal disruption to clientsImplemented new functionality for the new environment including:-- New deployment tools based on Helm-- New CI/CD pipeline to automate building and testing containers-- Infrastructure as code using Terraform

Glastonbury, Ct, Us

- Served as Technical lead for a cross-functional team of nine, re-architected the Finalsite CMS to a Ruby on Rails platform- Developed and executed a plan for migrating from SVN to Git-- Created documentation and trained team members on using the gitflow branching model- Advocated for the adoption of Agile methodologies in the development process- Developed a plan with the operations group for moving ~750 clients to a new datacenter with minimal downtime and served as a technical lead for required code changes- Led the project for upgrade from Coldfusion 8 to Coldfusion 10 runtime- Led project to consolidate from one codebase per client to one codebase per server to reduce compiled classes in memory- Served as Technical lead building a standardized system for mapping Student Information System data to the internal api- Implemented git hooks to lint the Ruby, Javascript, and SASS code being committed- Performed code reviews for other developers- Encouraged developers to use test driven development where it makes sense, using Jasmine and RSpec- Collaborated with Infrastructure Architect to ensure the hardware setup would support new application architecture- Conducted interviews for new developers and interns

Glastonbury, Ct, Us

- Designed a backup solution for our MongoDB servers and coordinated an upgrade from MongoDB 1.8 to 2.2- Worked with the product owner and designer to redesign the Finalsite LMS for ease of use and to utilize current technologies and design trends- Led initiative to implement New Relic monitoring; trained others how to access the data- Implemented the ability to email files to the system as a way of uploading from iPads and mobile devices- Conducted interviews for new developers and interns- Developed a plan for converting our current app to a multi-tenant Service Oriented Architecture- Member of a research group tasked with finding a replacement for Coldfusion; recommended Ruby on Rails- Prototyped the new Finalsite CMS admin interface with Backbone.js

Glastonbury, Ct, Us

- Helped migrate from Coldfusion 7 to 8- Designed and developed the Portals and Social modules for the Finalsite CMS- Optimized page and group queries to use recursive common table expressions when reading hierarchical data- Introduced jQuery and jQueryUI to the organization and led the adoption of them as standard libraries for new functionality- Using jQuery Mobile, developed the ability to create mobile specific sites within the Finalsite CMS- Created the Finalsite iPhone app, which is available to each of the clients as a white-labeled app- Led the adoption of MongoDB by the organization and developed a framework for accessing it- Built a Java based file upload utility that is used to build integrations with clients’ Student Information Systems that do not have an open api

Glastonbury, Ct, Us

Maintained and added functionality to existing modules relating to page output, page management, file management, email newsletters, user management and user group management

Athens, Ohio, Us

- Worked on a cross-discipline team to develop software for General Electric Aviation used to estimate the cost of building jet engines and the associated components based on basic parameters such as size and materials- Developed a utility for non-programmers to run tests of parameter defaults against the system to determine effect on the final cost-- Reduced load on the programmers (they no longer had to write tests by hand)-- Allowed the non-programmers to get their results faster

Athens, Ohio, Us

Provided support for 500+ computers and related hardware/software