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Austin, Tx, Us

Building a game-changing AI based product that scales software security teams and elevates the level of security awareness early in the software development process.

Austin, Texas, Us

Introduced structure to a startup engineering team based on Kanban. Used deep dive discussions to gain shared understanding of critical areas of the codebase. Authored a library of runbooks to improve the team’s ability to manage production. Created Grafana dashboards (Victoria Metrics and Loki) to monitor and visualize application performance and logging. Improved rigor and quality in deployment practices. Managed a geographically distributed engineering team are building applications and services with Ruby on Rails, Go, React, iOS, Android, and Windows.

Austin, Texas, Us

Organizer for each of the annual DevOpsDays Austin conferences - one of the longest running DevOpsDays conferences. In my role as an organizer, I have managed relationships with sponsors and maintained the conference web site.

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

Doubling the size of the Airbrake engineering organization across frontend, backend, and DevOps disciplines. Providing strategic technical direction for the future of the Airbrake product. Working individually with engineers to improve their skills and career possibilities while engineering solutions with platforms such as Go, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, Kubernetes, AWS, and more.

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

Building and growing an organization of engineers across frontend, backend, and DevOps disciplines during a time of explosive growth within the company. Defining and managing project work for three teams while also working individually to improve the skills and career possibilities for each team member. Pairing, when possible, with team members to engineer solutions using platforms such as Go, Ruby, Kubernetes, AWS, and more.

Austin, Texas, Us

Brought structure to the engineering value stream by introducing Lean principles and establishing expectations of delivery and flow of value. The team previously operated in a flat structure where the business stakeholders expected individual contributors to define and manage their project work.Provided technical leadership in DevOps and engineering by introducing container native concepts and Kubernetes based engineering.Built individual relationships of trust with team members during an acquisition by LogicMonitor by establishing goals with team members and providing opportunities for learning.

Austin, Texas, Us

Described by another Technical Program Manager as “one of the most on-top-of-it TPMs in the org”. One partner team said they “really really appreciated the discipline and rigor you have introduced.” A security team leader noted “you’ve done an amazing job putting structure into the roadmap and balancing all the priorities.” A director commented, “I’ve really admired your efficiency, timely communication and how effectively you’ve run meetings.” A development manager said, “Life without Scott is really scary.” An architect for the product said, “We wouldn't have been able to do so much, without going crazy, without you.”In this role as Technical Program Manager (TPM), assisted and led the execution and delivery of 15 projects ranging for short (less than 3 months) and long (greater than 9 months) projects and programs. These projects spanned an organization of 50-70 engineers.Collaborated and coordinated with more than 10 partner teams within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) organization, including security, compliance, product management, risk, release management, as well as other product development teams. Facilitated meetings which coordinated the efforts of an organization of 200 people.Leveraged previous engineering experience to automate program management tasks and reporting efforts using Jira and Confluence.Introduced the Happiness Poll as a routine check-in mechanism for engineering teams to influence continuous improvement.

Austin, Texas, Us

Golang development for the Oracle managed kubernetes platform. Elasticsearch, filebeat, kibana, grafana, prometheus, ansible.

Launched initial senior care listing service into production. Managed the operations of product development with iterative and minimal viable development.Deployed .NET web and API applications using Azure cloud platform. Used Amazon Web Services API Gateway and Lambda (Node.js) for to automate the generation and emailing of monthly reports, as well as generating and handling the electronic signatures of customer contracts.Other technologies used include Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Twilio, Zapier, Google Maps, and SmartyStreets.

Austin, Texas, Us

Golang and JavaScript development for the Oracle Container Cloud Service (Docker solution for Oracle Public Cloud). Created tutorials to demonstrate using WebLogic, Oracle Database, nginx, HAProxy, confd, ELK (elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), Prometheus, private registries, and rolling and blue/green deployments with Container Cloud Service (see https://github.com/oracle/docker-images/tree/master/ContainerCloud). Automated development environment setup using Packer and Vagrant.

Applying Lean and Agile principles to automate and optimize the business and development. Introducing continuous delivery and configuration management to enable new software features to be shipped at a faster rate.

First software engineer hired with an emphasis on shaping the development process and culture. Using principles of Lean such as batch-size reduction, reducing inventory, and limiting work-in-process to shift old traditions and beliefs about how to develop software. Crossed organizational boundaries to collapse barriers between engineering, product management, account management, and customer support.Resident Chief Happiness Scientist insisting on a culture of happiness and creating the tools and process to sustain happiness for development and non-development teams. Taught company to measure happiness to help inspect and adapt processes week over week. Recognized as a culture champion.Managed and architected cloud infrastructure using Amazon Web Services. Created Docker and container-based infrastructure for development tooling and production deployment.Toys: Docker, Ansible, AWS, Hubot (ChatOps), Sysdig, Ruby, Trello, Happiness Poll, Vim, tmux

Lehi, Ut, Us

Implemented Scrum throughout the enterprise and measured progress toward velocity efficiency improvement. Educated and trained new employees on the Ancestry Scrum process. Mentored ScrumMasters in establishing patterns of continuous improvement. Coordinated quarterly release planning for program managers and engineering leaders. Evangelized the principles of continuous delivery and tutored teams in creating a continuous delivery pipeline for their software releases. Pioneered the use of Chef for automated configuration management and redesigned the enterprise deployment architecture to give power to teams to manage the release of their own code.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Introduced Scrum and drove its global adoption across the project through evangelism and mentoring. Led project stakeholders in transforming requirements into user stories.Technical team lead for world-wide sales team built on WebSphere Application Server, Portal, Process Server, and DB2. Improved software development process by introducing automated builds, code reviews, and unit tests. Guided project leaders in choosing appropriate development tools.

Designed and implemented software solutions which integrated DirectPointe's disparate systems using Web services. Created tools which enabled DirectPointe engineers to improve productivity. Supported business and marketing needs through maintenance and enhancement of DirectPointe's Web sites. Collaborated with senior management in the development of reporting technology.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Developed code base of core search and browse functionality and user interface. Designed and conducted experiments on navigation and search refinement, contributing to the enhancement of the search and browse experience through improved performance and UI. Developed Mason components to expand the functionality of the Amazon content management system used by merchant partners to build their storefronts and merchandise their products on the Amazon.com website.

As Senior Web Developer created and deploy Web interfaces and applications using HTML, JavaScript, PHP, XML, Java, JSP, Perl, MySQL and other technologies. Also maintained and administered a network of staging servers. Web sites, interfaces, and applications built or contributed to include FranklinCovey, Internet World, NetTest, Thanksgiving Point, Cayenta, Axis41, and others.

Bachelor’S Degree, Software Development (Computer Science)

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