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North Carolina, United States

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

* Responsible for the development of NLX's Natural Language Understanding engine and NLX's Dialog Studio platform.* Responsible for rapid development of sustainable integrations with 3rd party services, customer-owned APIs & data centers (SIP & PSTN), and reference architectures in AWS / Azure / GCP / Private Cloud.* Led development of integrations for multiple channels, including Amazon Connect, Twilio (SMS & Voice), Genesys, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and more.* Implemented integrations with Large Language Models across multiple providers (OpenAI, Cohere, HuggingFace, TensorFlow)

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Developed and implemented strategy to promote a collaborative and agile culture that emphasizes automation, continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.* Designed and Implemented a DevOps framework that aligns with business goals and objectives, and enables the organization to deliver high-quality software products quickly and efficiently.* Led the adoption of DevOps practices across the organization by fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.* Transitioned DevOps organization from heavy reliance on bash scripts to Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation)* Led strategy and initial development of platform technology stack, utilizing best-in-class tooling across AWS, Azure, and GCP* Facilitated collaboration in a large, distributed, diverse team* Identified and implemented tools and technologies that enable automation, such as Stoplight IO, GitHub Enterprise, RedGate SQL Deploy, ReadyAPI, and New Relic.* Developed and implemented processes and policies that ensure security, compliance, and risk management in the Software Development Lifecycle* Developed and mentored DevOps engineers and Solution Architects

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

* Work on the inception phase of projects, including collecting requirements, suggesting methodologies and technologies, and release planning* Active researcher, keeping up with the latest trends in software development and cloud architecture* Influence and strengthen agile development culture* Provide thought leadership for complex enterprise application rollouts and projects* Contribute to the development of IT's strategic roadmap* Apply deep subject matter expertise for technical applications* Define and improve standard work* Define development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation* Collaborate and influence across a complex matrix organization to recommend architectural solutions

Minneapolis, Mn

Development and maintenance of Trane Official Product Selection System (TOPSS), an ASP.NET MVC web application (C#) hosted in AWS.Development and maintenance of Trane's Performance Climate Changer selection software (C++) for use in TOPSS.

Green Bay, Wisconsin Area

* Maintain and Enhanced an C# - ASP.NET 4.6 WebForms with support for either SQL Server or Oracle data access* Developed integrations utilizing AWS Simple Queue Services (SQS), SalesForce via the SalesForce REST API and SOQL* Provided responsive UI solutions utilizing Telerik UI controls for WebForms, Kendo UI, Bootstrap, and LESS

Minneapolis, Mn

Development and maintenance of systems providing as-built CAD based content such as 3D Templates and selection-specific BIM objects for all Trane products. These objects are used by architects, engineers, and facility managers to model the equipment in a building.Primary technologies/software include:AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, Visual Studio (C#, C++), Oracle 9i

La Crosse, Wi

Development and maintenance of Trane's centrifugal chiller selection software for use in the Trane Official Product Selection System (TOPSS). Worked with multiple groups with a mix of local and remote team members.Key member on a major performance improvement project where the goal was to improve performance of TOPSS in a CITRIX environment while running CenTraVac performance calculations. Implemented functionality to prevent the FORTRAN engine from running performance on selections that were invalid based on business rules.Implemented performance monitoring and usage logging for CenTraVac selections to ensure performance and stability was not degrading between monthly release cycles.Primary technologies used were Visual Studio 2005 & 2010 (C++), FORTRAN, Oracle 9i, Sybase.

La Crosse, Wi

Development and maintenance of Trane's data maintenance applications.Principal developer on a project to rearchitect an existing AutoCAD C++ plugin for maintaining as-built drawings in C#.

Developed and maintained the graphical user interface for Trane's Official Product Selection System (TOPSS), a flexible and powerful software package that helps Trane distributors determine the Trane equipment that best meets their customer's HVAC needs.Primary projects included:Implementing a generic way for all TOPSS products to export complex performance data from TOPSS to TRACE 700 for energy analysis.Implementing performance calculations for three residential products.Bug fixes and minor enhancements for TOPSS GUI