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San Francisco, CA, US

• Maintained and improved several tools that enable Twitter agents to respond to and action on requests from Law Enforcement organizations across the world. Most of these were written in Scala using the Twitter Finagle.
• Lead a team of engineers to design a replacement for an aging ruby-based tool and implement in Node.js+React.
• Regularly mentored colleagues on Scala syntax and best practices.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Maintained and flagship product in Scala, Java, Akka, Scala.js, and scalajs-React
• Dev Lead for product team focusing on a new Scala and Akka-http -based app for disseminating and decimating change-tracked configuration data over degraded networks.

• Designed and implemented a microservice-based back-end platform for e-Sport fantasy gaming using Scala, Docker, Akka-HTTP, and Mongo.
• Oversaw the startup of a new product team and managed the setup of the team in Slack, Github, Trello, and other services.
• Managed assets within AWS for hosting application instances, docker images, and cloud storage.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Translated business requirements into functional requirements for new projects and enhancements.
• Evaluated and implemented solutions for technology-related problems faced by the company.
• Developed real-time web services using Websockets, PHP, Symfony, Doctrine ORM, and ZeroMQ.
• Developed dynamic front-end components using jQuery UI widget factory.

Dunwoody, GA, US

• Developed single-page application websites using Javascript, Backbone.js and jQuery.
• Designed and developed RESTful webservices using the Play Framework and Scala
• Designed and developed asynchronous processes using Scala, Play and Akka.
• Designed and developed applications in Scala that consume Salesforce, and/or Etherios (iDigi) web services.

Windsor, Berkshire, GB

• Designed and implemented an automated BazaarVoice product feed generator using Oracle, SQL, JDBC, Java, Maven, SAX, and Apache Velocity.
• Architected and implemented several front-end components for IHG.com's 2013 website redesign using HTML, CSS, JSP, Java and several open-source technologies including jQuery.Took part in green-field development.

Arlington, VA, US

• Designed and implemented an Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) application for the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Used XSLT and SQL in Kapow Katalyst to interface with the Percussion CM System (Rhythmyx) SOAP webservices.
• Managed a team of developers to meet deadlines in an Agile development cycle.
• Provided technical documentation for the project design to establish best-practices and development standards between developers on the project.

• Customized and implemented Percussion CM System for clients including Xilinx and Promethean World.
• Engineered content design and developed Velocity templates to render content on the client websites.
• Built utility programs in Java to load content items in bulk using the Percussion CM System (Rhythmyx) SOAP Webservices interface.
• Built and supported PHP and SQL based websites.
• Built custom Mac OS X applications using the Cocoa libraries and Objective-C.
• Created and interpreted large Excel and Crystal Reports documents used to build reports for client Customer Operations departments.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Designed and implemented solutions in Java, JSP, and JSF to problems with the AutoTrader and AutoTraderClassics JBOSS-based websites such that actual behavior matched business requirements and user expectations.
• Designed and implemented custom resource bundle handling package to allow for localization of content for zones more granular than country.
• Built and maintained test cases using jUnit and EasyMock.
• Performed similar duties for the AutoTraderLatino PHP-based website and webservices.
• Designed SQL queries to retrieve appropriate data for displaying new content and reporting site usage. Developed MashZone dashboards to monitor WFM, Call Center, and Content Management up-to-date statistics.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Extended Rhythmyx Content Management System with new XSL and Velocity templates, content types, control types and Java extensions.
• Built custom interface components using jQuery UI for Rhythmyx’ web client.
• Built and extended Rhythmyx’ Java libraries for use with Java Server Faces.
• Built a Java application for automation of tasks and bulk-loading of content.

Atlanta, US

• Built and maintained various Perl-based tools.
• Built PHP and Oracle based intranet sites including one for managing and displaying professional awards received by CNN employees and departments.
• Extended CNN’s homegrown Content Management System (CMS) with new XSL templates and XML content profiles.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Bs, Computer Engineering

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