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Boston, Ma, Us

Plano, Texas, Us

Plano, Texas, Us

- Managed teams with the highest success ratio for bi-monthly release deliverables over the course of three years, missing only two in that time period.- Team consistently ranked highest on psychological safety at workplace, without sacrificing accountability and performance management- 2022 Annual Engagement survey responses included a perfect score for questions about myself as a manager and one of the highest overall engagement scores at the company (92%), exceeding comparable industry benchmarks.- Managed the migration from legacy to modernized analytics system with no downtime, including the deprecation and removal of 5+ codebases.- Accomplishments were all handled working remotely during a period of record company turnover, with minimal disruption to external commitments, deadlines, and morale.

Plano, Texas, Us

- Managed a team of two developers while maintaining productivity as a code contributor.- Added additional tooling and guardrails for legacy configuration management system. Allowed for complete backwards compatibility and opt-in improvements.- Implemented Jenkinsfiles for CI systems, moving away from configuration that was not source controlled, leading to greater stability and enabling simpler rollbacks. Adoption of Jenkinsfiles across all applicable codebases is now close to 80%.- Simplified frontend build process, enabling reduction in build time by almost 50%.

Plano, Texas, Us

- Built CLI tool in Python to help manage microservices in development, including the ability to run services as a process or Docker container interchangeably. Adopted by nearly 100% of developers.- Advocated for and implemented “guidance pattern” where backend servers instructed the client on what APIs were valid given the state of the system. Reduced errors caused by duplicate or divergent code between frontend and backend to nearly 100%.- As sole frontend developer on key functionality for technical pivot, built frontend JavaScript library to manage new API calls from new approvals workflow. Provided strong documentation for external teams and reduced fragmentation of frontend helper code.- Implemented type system in backend catalog to bring stronger compile-time safety, making strings with implicit semantic qualities more explicit.

Plano, Texas, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Leveraged a wide range of technologies to develop line-of-business applications for Fortune 500 companies such as Shell, Chevron, Maersk, and GE.- Implemented architecture for front-end, server, and deployment of application to optimize $100M business problem, reducing customer SME decision time from three hours to less than a minute- Collaborated with Lead Systems Architect to align application and platform deployments, establishing best practices for reusable Ansible deployments and reducing duplication by 50%- Reverse-engineered undocumented binary format to valid time series format, codifying mapping as a Scala pipeline with simple schema validation- Developed robust Bash and Ansible scripts to automate and reduce development environment setup time by 20%- Developed Python framework for interacting with Maana platform, allowing customers to work with data store in a more intuitive, object-oriented fashion

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Wrote shell script which monitored and corrected issues with AWS EC2 server health, including: high-memory processes, overall memory usage, high CPU processes, and web and database server uptime- Authored and published ‘nextable’ RubyGem, enabling #next_record and #previous_record instance methods on ActiveRecord models- Ported authorization functionality from client application to API, maintaining backwards compatibility- Implemented new ‘dashboard’ design pattern for API calls, decreasing response times by 50%- Utilized nginx to implement SSL (HTTPS) on our API

New York, New York, Us

Sole developer working on http://bizcircle.zooppa.com/- Contracted with Zooppa on the creation of a white label application for their client, AT&T- Utilized Bootstrap and custom CSS to develop responsive designs- Built interface between the AT&T white label application and the main Zooppa API- Configured flow for user sign up, confirmation email, sign in (authentication), and password reset- Created video uploader form and submission functionality

Alexandria, Va, Us

Provided consulting work on Velocity’s flagship product “Yellowstone”, a mobile content management system. Worked in Ruby on Rails to update over 200 lines of code.· Promoted nested model to top level item while keeping associations and dependencies intact.· Updated the Yellowstone user interface to include all new functionality, keeping style consistent with pre-existing content.· Updated Yellowstone API to enable new features for clients while remaining backwards-compatible.· Extracted Event model's scheduling form into (plain old Ruby) Schedule Object as a result of moving away from the poor Rails datetime functionality.· Incorporated Pickadate Gem to allow for greater user functionality for all datetime fields, with validations for incomplete datetimes while still allowing nil values to show as "TBD"· Schedule Object is scalable to add any future datetime fields by simply adding to an array of current datetime fields. Other Schedule Object attributes easily added/removed and updated.Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Haml, RABL, JSON, PostgreSQL, RSpec

Arlington, Va, Us

Provided technical business services to The Carlyle Group. Worked with five major systems, from backend accounting to the investor portal, to remedy high-visibility data issues. Technologies included MS Access, SQL/SOQL, Apex, JIRA, and SalesForce. Designated as a top Excella performer at the Consultant level.• Created the process for and led the data cleanup of five Carlyle funds with a net worth totaling over $24B• Managed the efforts of eight separate teams to facilitate end-to-end testing between five separate systems and their associated integrations• Used targeted SQL queries to reduce number of document batches requiring manual review by 98.7%• Used Apex scripts and SOQL queries to reduce production deployment downtime in SalesForce by approximately 60%

Silver Spring, Maryland, Us

Provided project management support as a consultant for NOAA (Department of Commerce), overseeing an engineering contractor tasked with the development, integration, test, and transition to operations of a $96M satellite ground system. Utilized technology to improve business processes. Promoted to Risk Management Coordinator.• Proactively developed an automatic Excel-to-PowerPoint converter using Visual Basic to create multiple, formatted slides for presentation to NOAA senior management, increasing productivity by 300%• Coded deliverable tracker using Visual Basic, which included automatic workflow generation and a chronological “to-do” list with refresh capabilities, reducing manual processing time by 60% • Engineered original web form using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery to generate template email text, increasing email accuracy to nearly 100% and reducing email production time by 66% • Worked with SharePoint architects on design requirements and data categorization for migration to a new SharePoint site; created multiple views and user-friendly dashboards, increasing SharePoint participation by 100% across the team

Employed Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Access, and administrative skills to provide reports and data analysis as a consultant for the Department of Transportation.• Used Microsoft SQL queries in the creation and quality assurance of 50 pages of data for the 2012 annual reports, to be utilized by the Department of Transportation in assessing the program performance of New Editions Consulting. • Analyzed data in 40 different categories for monthly reports to the Department of Transportation• Updated and maintained two separate databases for accuracy and error reduction, including the use of DELETE, INSERT INTO, and UPDATE queries