Lead the Research and Development team to create and deliver customer-facing products with limited resources, while upgrading team skills through recruiting as well as training and mentoring of resources.- Created, championed, and implemented development processes and agile for software 3 development teams that increased visibility and resolution time on new features and bug fixes- Architected, designed, and implemented solutions to register more then 200k college students in an annual time frame of 6 weeks using a microservice architecture that features high availability and zero downtime upgrades- Architected and oversaw creation of registration and provisioning software by 3rd-party contracting company for our Fiber to the Home product in Central Illinois- Architected, designed, and implemented a RADIUS solution with failover across 13 colos that can handle 4 million requests per minute each- Designed and executed Ansible automation to quickly replicate our production environment of 40 servers in under an hour reducing labor needs to setup multiple complex testing scenarios- Assisted in efforts to redesign and document corporate networks with tighter security policies in response to persistent and changing cyber-attack threat vectors

Responsible for analysis of new product concepts and building potential execution plans for the in-house Research and Development staff- Worked closely with Senior Executives on company initiatives as related software needs- Researched potential software solutions using open-source, commercial, and in-house built software resulting in a new methodology for registering users on the network- Built potential project schedules and budgets for consideration by Executives

Scrum master and developer for VOIP based solutions.- Certified Scrum Master leading a team of 8 people through regular sprints- Developed solutions using test driven development

Team Lead for software testing and automation of security products. - Designed testing processes and tracking- Designed and implemented testing automation- Executed release builds- Implemented secure license key management for Centri Firewall

Lead the testing of our network security products as well as maintaining and upgrading all facets of the network and servers.- Wrote and executed test plans based off of design documents- Executed all daily system builds and releases- Implemented testing automation- Upgraded a legacy 1BASE2 network to 10BASE-T

Responsible for configuring and monitoring dedicated Internet connectivity for an array of college campuses.- Developed scripts for configuring and maintaining backbone and edge routers- Enhanced monitoring solutions for use in Network Operations- Worked with Senior network engineers on testing firewall security solutions