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I'm taking some time to mull over retirement and enjoy finally having space to do some things for myself. It's a mix of enjoying life and working on a few big projects I've wanted to do for a while. Hopefully cool announcements down the line.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Waterlily’s Artificial Intelligence application revolutionizes financial planning discussions by providing real insight into a client’s individual needs and resources. As the Principal Architect I planned out all aspects of the SaaS application, and as the sole engineer for most of my time at Waterlily I personally implemented those plans. Integrated our Artificial Intelligence model with a 3rd-party form provider and migrated from Databricks and to self-hosting in AWS, reducing the processing time for AI calls from a 30 second average to only 200 milliseconds.Redesigned and re-wrote the back end reducing response times from 1-3 seconds to under 20 milliseconds while also integrating client-side caching with change preview for even more of a boost. Created SOPs for all aspects of engineering, security, and HIPAA compliance.Technologies: Node, TypeScript, React, Python, Databricks, Typeform, AWS

Boston, Ma, Us

Wayfair’s new Physical Retail division provided the opportunity to build a very large-scale greenfield application with significant foreknowledge of the functionality that will be needed years down the road and the problems encountered with similar applications at other companies and in other teams.Developed a platform for an Android application to host modules developed by many teams each with distinct release cycles with all significant functionality provided by the platform so feature teams could concentrate on their specific business needs.Promoted developer efficiency by establishing conventions that enabled custom build and compiler plugins to minimize boilerplate code, improve the developer experience, and allow automated testing of mix-and-match versions of various modules or even missing modules.Created a dynamic build system enabling feature teams to develop and test their module along with various versions of other modules, generally based on anticipated release dates of each.Technologies: Android Native, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Koin, OrbitMVI, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Walmart Global Tech, Reston, VA (Walmart Global Tech @ LinkedIn)I joined Walmart to learn React Native and apply my expertise and quality standards from web development to their React Native teams.Led a team to develop a React Native BYOD application as a model for all other store systems mobile applications to adopt.Worked with a third-party supplier convert their application to a React Native pluggable architecture while developing the first plugin for Walmart specific functionality. Floated among eight teams and mentoring new developers, advising on all projects, teaching best practices, and guiding their career development through regularly scheduled mentoring sessions, ad-hoc questions, and cross-team code reviews. Technologies: React Native, Node.js, Ionic Angular, Java, Spring Boot, Azure SQL Server, Kafka

Mclean, Va, Us

Full stack software engineer and tech lead across two teams, one enhancing analytic data ingestion from all Capital One web properties, internal and public, and the other standardizing customer related event tracking for back-end calls across the company. Both products fed into company-standard Kafka installations to enable a variety of machine-learning based applications. As tech lead I managed the discussions about available technical solutions, oversaw development to high quality standards, and mentored the other developers. Technologies used include Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Snowplow, Snowflake, AWS EC2, ECS, RDS, and Lambda, Java, Spring, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, SASS, Jest, Jasmine, and Puppeteer.

New York, Ny, Us

Full stack software engineer, technology leader, and mentor working on capital-market related projects in Angular, React, Node, Java, and .NET.

New York, Ny, Us

Full stack software engineer, technology leader, and mentor working on capital-market related projects in Angular, React, Node, Java, and .NET.

New York, Ny, Us

Full stack software engineer working on capital-market related projects in Angular, React, Node, and Java.

B-Line Medical combines web and native technologies to provide a superior medical education solution incorporating video recording, correlated data acquisition, and evaluations to provide a comprehensive debriefing, analysis, and grading environment. As Principal Software Engineer I oversee the technical direction of the company, set the engineering standards, mentor all other engineers, and provide significant contributions to product architecture and development.

As an industry leader with 300 clients in 12 countries, B-Line Medical products provide video recording, correlated data acquisition, and analysis supporting medical education and patient safety improvements worldwide. As the Vice President of Engineering I set the direction of the company’s products, establishing goals, laying plans, and following through on delivering first-class solutions. I oversee three teams including software development, quality assurance, and internal technical support.Highlighted accomplishments include....managed the implementation of many new features and releases, balancing the competing needs of various clients and internal goals...oversaw expansion of the products into new directions including high-definition recording, cloud-based hosting and streaming, as well as new cloud-based tools specific to expanding client needs...continued personal involvement in software development implementing many of the more complex requirements and resolving the most complicated support cases...presented development related news and announcements to the company in an exciting and stimulating monthly format that always received praise from peers and other team members...developed a comprehensive four-prong continual education and retention program that engaged my teams as well as others in the company...established a successful intern program resulting in extra development resources and an important pipeline of new engineers and hiring leads...personally developed the new company website to learn new technologies and keep in touch with today's changing design standards. See http://blinemedical.com/

B-Line Medical shook-up medical education industry when it was founded in 2005. With optimized workflows, customer-driven products, and exceptional analysis and reporting, we greatly improved efficiency and added extensive value to our medical education customers. As the Senior Software Engineer I spearheaded development of the products, set the technical standards of the team, and oversaw hiring and training of additional developers. Highlighted accomplishments include....architected and developed a data synchronization mechanism to centralize data changes from any device across a network and provide automatic conflict resolution with zero administrative intervention...implemented a pluggable n-tier architecture to provide separation of core and optional modules...designed and developed an object-oriented code-based reporting infrastructure consisting of a complex calculation engine and extensive reporting framework to deliver a variety of reports while utilizing reusable components and classes, greatly reducing duplication and maintenance needs and improving the turnaround for new reports...established strict coding guidelines to maintain high standards as the team grew...provided superior third-tier support to customers, investigating the most complex issues and providing comprehensive analyses separately for internal support and for the customers themselves.

Fairfax, Va, Us

As a mid-sized IT consulting firm, InfoReliance provides development, consulting, and other services to the federal government. During my time at the company I led a small team to complete implementation of a homeland-security related product for the United States Department of Agriculture including complex food-safety analysis tools, large scale data management and data mining.Highlighted accomplishments include....overtook leadership of the contract that was 18-months in with only an estimated 20% of work completed and delivered a complete solution on-time just 6-months later...re-architected key parts of the application to enforce important security requirements in a consistent manner that was transparent to the rest of the application...individually designed and developed a complex but easy-to-use cross-table search tool when a separate team failed to deliver any portion of the required component after one year of development...implemented state-based workflow engine that drove the core application behavior...integrated a Bayesian analysis engine from partner contractors at Carnegie Mellon University...managed and oversaw assignments for other developers given each team member’s strengths and weaknesses.

B-Line Express is a small consulting firm delivering software development services to many large area clients in a variety of technologies. As a Senior Software Engineer I took on several complex contracts with extremely positive outcomes resulting in extensive repeat business. Notable projects include:Clinical Skills System. Developed a dynamic Flash component to create questionnaires with seven question types through a custom WYSIWYG interface including drag-and-drop and a content library.Associate Compensation Analysis Program. Developed a salary schedule modeling, comparison, and reporting application used by hundreds of National Education Association employees nationwide. NASA Technology Inventory Database. Collaborated on a ColdFusion and Oracle application to catalog and report on all technology development tasks. Led efforts to improve maintainability, adhere to Section 508 requirements, and greatly improve usability and performance.Flash MX 2004 Documentation. Contracted with Macromedia to rewrite the styles and skinning documentation as part of the Flash MX 2004 update. Improved explanations, added examples, and created interactive Flash movies to demonstrate most complex scenarios.Ranking and Estimates. Wrote a Microsoft Office automation application to generate a publication-ready book consisting of 130 pages with dynamically generated text, figures, and tables, reducing publication time from three months to thirty minutes. The application is still in use today and produced publications every year since development in April 2000.B-Line Charting Components. Flash MX 2004 commercial charting components consisting of fifteen components to provide run-time charting capabilities including advanced features comparable to enterprise-level commercial charting packages.

Chindex is an American health care company in China, providing medical capital equipment and medical consumables from worldwide suppliers. As an Export Coordinator I managed many medical equipment contracts, validating payment terms, coordinating with suppliers, arranging shipment with freight forwarders, and preparing documentation for payments. ..developed MS Office applications to improve productivity and consistency. ..analyzed Rolling Sales Forecasts, stock on hand, product in transit, and pending orders to create Rolling Order Forecasts...placed projections and purchase orders with domestic and international suppliers for medical products. ..traveled to offices in Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai on multiple occasions to audit and train my overseas counterparts.