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Enabling and coaching hundreds of engineers and testers across dozens of teams using a variety of tech stacks to successfully use Feature Flags with LaunchDarkly. Separating deployments from feature releases, reducing risk and increasing the velocity of development.Demonstrating the implementation of best practices, providing support and documenting.

Design and built a cloud native continuous delivery platform supporting a variety of tech stacks, CI tools, SCM tools and cloud platforms. CQRS/ES, Typescript, NestJS, Angular, oclif

Arlington, VA, US

Champion the adoption of Kotlin for the fast creation of microservices, including testing, and mocking frameworks.Rescue projects in danger of missing deadlinesTech: Kotlin, Java, Spring, MongoDB, Gradle, Maven, Concourse, React

Portland, OR, US

Championed Testing, CD/CI, Pair Programming and other XP best practices. Bootstrapped the Risk Analysis feature of the application.Championed the usage of Kotlin in a Java ecosystem.Tech: Java, Kotlin, Spring, Maven, Team CIty

Tigard, Oregon, US

Practicing agile methodologiesEstimating requirements and translating them into tasksImplement requirements using test-driven developmentMaintain Delivery Estimates and Shipping Method microservices for E-Commerce platformBuild and support backend APIs using Java and Node.js, deploying to AWS AMIsSupport the continuous delivery and deployment processTech.

Chicago, IL, US

Project: Nav and SPA Framework for full stack e-com app at a High End Fashion Retailer in Dallas, TXTech: Java, SpringBoot, Javascript, React, DockerTrain client devs on Microservices, CI/CD, Agile while developing the site's nav and replacing the CRM.Project: Application Platform for Microservices at an Int'l Credit Institution based in Wilmington.

Arlington, TX, US

Taught a course under supervision of Dr. Matthew Wright based on best practices.Created a course plan, reading & coding assignments, grade structure for the semester. Refactoring algorithm piece of CAP app to be extendable, more maintainable, easier to read.Assigned Clean Code by Robert Martin as the required reading.

Independent Consultant helping organizations bootstrap their internal technical infrastructure and employee workstations. Offering a wide variety of IT services including server and network installation, configuration and administration, workstation installation and administration, Website design and implementation, and more.Clients include: Hanson.

Research, analyze and implement new languages, frameworks, libraries and tools for integration with current workflows and toolsets.Create tutorials demonstrating the use of new libraries and toolsets for coworker training.Cleaned up and extended a synthetic data generator which creates a VLDS consisting of personal information records used to train a fuzzy.

Create and implement JUnit test cases for existing base system code.Discovered and fixed low level logic errors in the multiplatform edition of ARGO's base systemTranslated software modules from C++ to Java.Design and implement XML translator to convert old XML configuration files to a consolidated standardized format for use with web services directory.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science Engineering