-Architect SDLC scalable solutions to meet varying customer demands-Created and Delivered high number of applications for various customers in Medical, Gaming, Health, Ins, and Building Automation Industry using various technologies and strong communication technology understandings.-Meet with customers to gather project needs and assign appropriate resources to handle the needs-Oversee project deliverables, timelines, and tasks as well as code review for our internal standards using Gitflow PRs.-Setup internal processes, structure, and team to allow scaling up or down to meet demand of current customer base.-Innovations are part of the culture, communication is key. We work with a lot of communication technologies, control technologies, and have done a lot with BT and BLE for controlling embedded devices.-Created various user applications to make common every day user processes more streamlined or content more accessible.-Technology is simply taking something that is scarce or difficult and making it abundant or easy. I take pride in our ability to do this and do it intuitively for a great user experience.-Guide the clients into modern day practices, OS specific requirements and guidelines and help the UX / UI team stay on track so they don't take us too far down the wrong road.-Mentor interns, employees and shape engineers into paths that are congruent with their future hopes and aspirations.

-Managed a team of talented engineers through multiple high visible product release cycles-Oversaw UX/UI team for delivering integrated platform specific high caliber designs-Integrated and managed QA team for agile based development and risk assessment as well as report cycles and automated testing infrastructure-Organized various world-wide dispersed teams to prepare, deliver, and succeed at releasing multiple products to market.-Worked as part of the Architecture Review Board to ensure scalable infrastructure, good implementations, and secure best practices-Worked with Security team for security assessments, pen testing, obfuscation, caching resolutions, and other various encryption requirements around product releases with risk exposures to internal data-Hired and worked with Dev Ops crew to integrate our Dev, QA, Stg, and Prod environments as well as setup for our relational and non-relational DBs, our A&A, PUSH servers, subnetting, and certificate SSL setup and integration-Organized Innovation Labs to keep engineers in bleeding edge technology 10% of the time and moving towards actionable patents for the company-Created and maintained a reasonable budget that would allow our team growth, retain our goal of innovation, but still allowing us to be profitable, customer focused, disruptive in the industry, and always targeting tangible revenue goals that would excite the stakeholders-Hired and appointed managers for various areas to ensure scalable diverse groups were properly overseen in their respective timezones and areas of expertise.-Standardized SDLC practices, GitFlow, Agile and Scrum flow as well as checklist enabled rapid development for fast project kick-off and estimations

-Created a new Team in new location from the ground up to over 25 employees-Created Eco System of mobile, web, and UX distributed libraries, tools, and build process for collaboration among Tyco-Manage distributed teams across multiple timezones and countries-Architect Software Solutions and Release Train Build Infrastructure for Automated Processes-Implement modern practices and standardized SDLC-Implemented Scrum Methodologies and took the role as Technical Lead on high number of simultaneous projects-Setup Infrastructure, VMs, Software Solutions, and Ordered License to supply our team with all the necessary components to be efficient and deliver scalable, optimized solutions in services, web, and mobile applications-Architected Data Modeling and Schemas for multiple Solutions as well as our Eco System Release Train and Open Source Community Dev Support-Acted as Product Manager and Project Manager on multiple projects to maintain timelines, and drive decisions based on user feedback and interactions with customers-Traveled to customer sites regularly to gather requirements and stay aligned for "Fail Fast" and pivot to improve for meeting the customer's MVP needs to generate revenue-Managed over 40 projects with very large teams and distributed BU interactions for many actively evolving components to engage with hardware, Cloud, Reporting, MQTT, offline PUSH, M2M replacements, mBaaS setup for interim solutions, and various proof of concepts, many in parallel-Introduced Scrum, Agile, Gitflow, and many more SDLC processes-Helped drive business decisions based on analytics, BI, big rules, and revenue opportunities-Structured a self-driven team that is motivated to deliver, filled with excitement, ownership, and a sense of pride.-Personally tackled and championed multiple side projects for the CTO directly and various bleeding edge technology POCs for FirefIghters, Guard Tours, Lidar, 3D Augmented Reality, NFC Gym, Wearables, and much more.

(Contract)-Setup CI process hardware and scripting-Implemented Analytics and Crash Reporting for improved UX experience and data harvesting-Created coding standards, policies, Obfuscation requirements, and enforcers to ensure consistent coding processes in Swift, Objective-C and Java-Created architecture and application for iOS and Android that interacts with Fire Alarm panels to expedite fire system testing for technicians that saved Tyco in excess of 33 million per year.-Created BLE Beacon & NFC Mobile Application for presence recognition and improving existing systems-Managed teams to ensure deliverables, QA, test coverage, and priorities are kept inline with current deliverables-Automated the build and release process as well as setup mobile Git, Stash, Artifactory, Jira, Pod, Gradle, headless LAMP VM for document server, and Jenkins plugins as well as scripted the esoteric portions-Was assigned as Active Scrum Master and orchestrated daily standups, Sprint Planning, and Retrospectives as well as kept documentation, SRD, and Jira up to date-Created iWatch and Android watch app augmentations for our existing applications-Patented inventor for various provisional patents for ideas that I invented and contributed-Worked on Security Management Application for control of CCTV, Lighting, Access Control, Fire Alarms, Sensors, and more-Architected and built new large-scale machine to machine infrastructure focused on SDK for client side interaction and cloud base communication to replace existing leased third-party M2M systems using MQTT protocol and secondary route of UDP Hole Punching -Hand picked my team, and crafted standards, processes, and trained on best scalable practices for long term support-Implemented hardware scanning and tracking utilizing QR Code recognition from our application-Created many custom controls for iOS swift IBDesignables and Android Xml

(Contract, Part-Time)-Android & iOS Architecture implementation for Sony Mobile Care solutions-R&D potential Use Cases for Mobile to Hardware interaction.-R&D SDKs and scenarios to accomplish seemingly impossible tasks, while always proving to find a way-Utilize NFC technology for hardware analysis on Android-Utilize Bluetooth LE for hardware analysis on iOS-Standardizing of Sony NFC interaction and provide potential Use Cases-Built apps with no mocks or specs, strictly ideas, feedback, demos, and improvements-Utilize Parse based services and AWS for xml data storage and retrieval-Create WPF application for expediting the Android scaling of xml dimension files for Various device and resolution handling-Improved process of Android & iOS development by implementing dependency management, CI process, abstracted code bases, standardized naming conventions, processes, and security requirements while following modern best practices-Regularly hit very tight deadlines for demos by working extra hours and applying past experience and knowledge of ancillary technologies to expedite development-Listed as Patented Inventor of One Touch Assist SDK technology

(Contract)-Implemented Architecture, organization, & standards-Integrated crash reporting, performance monitoring, & analytics-integrated Gradle and Maven into our android apps-Provided solutions for remote support, log capturing, and improved insight-Setup & integrated CI process with Gradle & automated APK & IPA signing and distribution-Implemented Unit testing for better coverage-Created & Nested a new Socket IO & UDP benchmark analytics project for discreet collection of information and comparisons between TCP/IP & UDP to improve our cloud infrastructure -Built Client side SDK consisting of a UDP engine & API to handle all com, protocols, retries, heartbeats, & message processing using generics, factories, Authorization, Authentication & interfaces to allow easy integration with our infrastructure-Manipulated bytes, buffers, & packets for proper protocol, headers, & error checking-Optimized application performance through use of threading, loaders, asyncQueues and ContentProviders to share data among applications in both IOS and Android solutions.-Kept Buzztime updated on changes in IOS & Android releases that could impact our apps-Built Scalable, backwards-compatible apps & provided implementation training-Implemented Custom UI Library Projects to allow Custom SVGs, Views & Fonts-Separated monolithic apps into Library projects to help share code-Implemented SQLite infrastructure for data management & synchronization-Fixed production issues on existing Android & IOS apps-Integrated existing hosted game into Google Glasses-Built game lobby with dynamic game loading based on device, location & events-Created mobile trivia & card games for our NextGen release iOS & Android-Built Mobile Soap infrastructure to interact with .Net WCF Soap-Fixed & added support to existing open-sourced WSDL parser to help created complex objects, enums, & KSoap commands based on wsdl-Created internal coding standards, documentation & templates

DMACC Urban Campus Des Moines, IA Programming Instructor• Create syllabus, course criteria & assignments for IT courses• Devised lessons that help to capture the minds of all students & encourage participation• Present lessons on a weekly basis in classrooms ranging from about 15 to 30 students• Teach several different coding languages & database courses from intro to advanced• Mentor students, offer encouragement & assistance• Grade, critique, provide feedback & help improve upon the student’s work• Conduct regular research in the IT area to stay updated on latest technologies & help incorporate that into courses• Meet constant deadlines for coursework preparation & grading• Encourage & help the struggling students, while rewarding the overachievers to help keep the equilibrium in the classroom.• Offer improvements to standards, provide updates & feedback for future IT courses

(Contract)(Android Work)- Use Maven, Roboguice, and Pod for dependency and injection handling in iOS & Android- Implement XML themes, resources, fragments, page viewers, and activities in Android- Implement Shareable Views, Nib files and Storyboards in Xcode- Create Custom Adapters, Actionbars, Rows, Cells and many custom controls- Worked with Google Play Services, Google Analytics, Support and Billing Libraries- Worked with a team to create Info-Eye for the new Xperia Camera add-on to allow searching the web based on images- Created cloud-based Note App as well as Android and iOS version of Indoor Navigation to go with Desktop App.- Troubleshoot complex problems including sleep current too high, monkey test blow ups, and memory leaks using VisualVM, Logcat, ADB, and heap dumps as well as power monitoring software- Worked with Otto Bus, Gson, HttpRequest, and more from GitHub(.Net Work)-Create Metro (Windows Store) & WPF Applications for Windows 8- Create word games based on Nuance SDK for voice interaction demos- Create application to determine location within a building based on WiFi data and other sensors- Work with Video & Voice API's to create conference software such as Lexalytics and Dragon- Design, Create and adjust all UI's for a variety of platforms such as tablet, mobile, web and desktop using best practices- Work with Sensors, GPS, Wi-Fi, and harware interaction for PC's cameras, cell phones, Kinect and tablets- Create Social Networking interaction for Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ solutions- SCRUM oriented development practices- Work with C++ to create .Net wrappers- Nuance & Dragon SDK interaction for linguistic analyzing that allowed my team and I to create various Use-Case prototypes revolving around voice and video- Create solutions for profiling, contextual computing, and nearby device file sharing based on WiFi signature pattern matching and standard deviation of signal strengths relative to available APs.

(Contract 1yr extended)-Implemented MVVM architecture and mentored coworkers on best practices, troubleshooting, and implementation-Implemented Various GIS internal applications in iOS and Android for Tablet portability of inspecting Farms, Crops, and Risk of Ins plans.-Kept documentation up to date and verified that all requirements were met before product testing-Identified risks and offered solutions to circumvent delaying of the deliverables-Offered insight, advice and improvement suggestions for performance gain and re-usability in coding -Worked with designers, business, testers, other teams, and user groups to insure a satisfactory product was delivered-Created web based applications that are scalable to work and deploy for mobile tablet utilization-Implemented strong architecture using abstraction, inheritance, factories, resource dictionaries, and interfaces-Worked extensively with mapping, agriculture, insurance, and specialty needs for map functionality-Plotted out data layers for finding local adjusters, agents, supervisors, service centers, claims and much more-Worked with Apple Maps on iOS, Google Maps on Android, Bing and ESRI API’s on Silverlight to provide rich, deep, intuitive, and animated mapping applications.-Worked with pivots, splits, polygons and more for land and acreage mapping-Created and deploy secure RESTFUL WCF services on IIS-Worked with Eclipse, Xcode, Visual Studios, Toad, and Oracle-Created XAML bindings, converters, and custom behaviors to minimize the code in the code behind files-Implemented effective dating, allowing entire mapping application to be ran as a snapshot from any point in time-Created customized clustering and editable graphics for actual farm land representation and reporting -Created 7 different Mapping applications in Silverlight & ASP.net

(Contract 6 Mo)-Developed iOS and Android mobile applications for graphing and reporting system-Deployed motion tablets and tough books with our suite into a variety of power companies for vegetation management-Wrote graphic intensive mapping applications for GIS and Graphing of work orders and vegetation management for iOS and Android with Web UIs to track progress of field workers.-Created WCF Services, configure and run with IIS 7.5-Incorporated GPS, GIS, and Lidar into layered map views in WPF and Silverlight application using Telerik and Mapsuite-Created time keeping application for workers to enter job information and correlate work performed to jobs while tracking time on Android and iOS-Created and improved WPF and Silverlight applications using MVVM Event driven programming-Set up and maintained flexible database tables-Utilized TFS for bugs, builds, and deadlines associated with Sprints, Tasks and deliverables

(Contract 6 Mo)-Created Web Applications using VB.Net, ASP.Net, VBScript and ASP Classic -Created WPF applications for data migration-Managed Databases and monitor performance as well as improved our backup process and queries-Integrated third party tools for AJAX and developed dynamic applications-Utilized GAC for all reusable dll’s-Involved in Full Life Cycle of development, typically with Mortgage related Applications, surveys and reports for the State-Created and organized new databases for each new application-Utilized Telerik and Greybox for improved User Interface.-Created Reports using SSRS 2005 and 2008-Troubleshot issues with existing applications, databases, as well as a few IDE problems that I had to work around.-Regularly debugged projects to find resolutions to customer discovered issues on a variety of existing applications

(Full-Time)-Started as technician, earned programmer position, became lead developer, and before leaving I was promoted to operations manager-Programed and maintained building automation systems. -Programed and created solutions to Control Security, Fire, Card Access, Parking, Badges, Networking, Lighting, Databases, CCTV, Intercom, and HVAC-Worked with a wide variety of software and APIs-Engineered and project managed large technology based solutions and building automation systems-Worked extensively with MSSQL and Access Database for setting up tables, queries, reports, views and forms-Created C# and VB.Net WPF and Winforms using Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 Professional for individual customer needs-Work directly with the customer to find and gather their needs and requirements for the applications I would create-Implemented training courses for my team and customers for their new products, hardware, and software solutions-Trained and supervised as many as 25 team members at any given time-Set up Domains, Networks, Switches, Routers, Servers, and Client PCs for our systems.

Installation of Fiber Optics, termination, splicing, cleaning, testing.Installation of switches, routers, servers, and other communication devices.Installation & Certification of Networks & phones from small strip malls to high rise buildings.Troubleshoot Networks issues.Cross-connect & patch in networks.