- Evaluated and drove cost optimization across multiple clouds, resulting in 4 million being saved, reducing the run rate of engineering and COGS for the product itself.- Reorganized teams into product areas, leading to ownership, accountability, and innovation. Velocity continues to improve due to a reduction in cross-team dependencies. - Architected and communicated a strategy to bring an M&A company and platform into the main product, expanding features available to customers. - Bridged the gap between multiple departments, driving a data-driven approach to strategy and product design.- Brought in 5 key hires across engineering in architecture and product areas critical to the business's strategic goals. - Help to plan and negotiate multiple contracts to help drive down cost and simplify architecture in the cloud. Led numerous teams in the adoption of modern-day cloud services moving up the stack.

- Employee number one for the technical organization. Hired a team of eight full-time employees and a team of three contractors overseas. Put in place Engineering, Design, Product, and Security departments to enable ByteChek to become a Product led, user-centric product in as little as two months.- Built out an entirely new platform and product while maintaining a 92 NPS score on the current platform. We took all our learnings over the last year from customer feedback and built a highly scalable, highly secure, event-driven, serverless platform. - Provided clear product vision to encourage teams to offer feedback and work across design, product, and engineering to produce the best outcome possible for the customer. - Owner of numerous OKRs and driver of KPIs throughout the company. Accomplishing a new platform in only four months, providing a people-first culture in my departments, and providing data-driven decisions and vision for the product. - Helped to take ARR from 400k to 1 mil by talking with prospects and customers throughout the sales cycle and customer experience.- Created numerous product demo videos, webinars, and posts to help marketing, creating valuable content for their campaigns resulting in many market-qualified leads. - Able to lead a fully remote team, including overseas contractors encouraging velocity and courage in developing our features and creating code changes quickly and often.- Built departments with a security-first mindset from the start leading to company-wide involvement and vigilance. Resulting in robust SOC 2 and Pen Tests with only four low findings.- Continually increased our velocity, resulting in numerous deployments a day. Pleasing our customers, showing the business our agility, and implementing Kanban to fully serve our business and customers. - Able to accomplish all OKRs and mentor engineers to achieve numerous AWS certifications, all while staying forty percent below budget.

Acquired by WebMD- Managed and resolved Security/Privacy-related events affecting customers and developed Corrective and Preventative Action plans that addressed short-term and long-term issues. Effectively communicating it to customers and instilling trust.- Budget-conscious in managing a 12 million dollar budget, including cloud costs, a headcount of 80 full-time employees, and 30+ contractors worldwide. - Spearheaded hiring efforts, cleaning up and reducing processes to fill over 15 roles in 3 weeks' time.- Expertise in design and implementation of secure and sensible Software Development Life Cycle.Inspire Engineers to participate with an ownership mentality, decreasing lead time, increasing deployment frequency, optimizing mean time to restore, and decreasing change fail percentages.- Designed, Architected, and Implemented a global first frontend. Utilizing a test-driven design, resulting in fewer bugs, a better user experience, and velocity improvements for development teams.- Essential in identifying and preventing multiple large-scale cyberattacks, participated in SOC 2 Compliance process, acted as the security team under the CTO after the loss of the existing team. Rebuilt the implementation of controls and policy frameworks.- Reorganized department in 3 weeks into cross-functional teams, instilling a team-first, no-blame culture, promoting innovation and team performance.- Critical to the design and deployment of a modern-day network. Drastically changed the network topology reducing cost, and simplifying to a layer seven application edge router. 700,000 dollars in savings to be realized over 12 months- Champion of culture and promoting a healthy environment that fosters innovation reduces burnout and provides transparency to external departments.- Realigned engineering to be a customer-centric department, closely aligning with Customer Operations.

- Built a React Native container app from the ground up in 3 months, allowing for the consolidation of their frontend technologies down from three repositories to one and eliminating parity issues.- Designed and implemented new membership features utilizing a serverless design. Expanding our target Market.- Introduced over-the-air updates for mobile apps, allowing instant updates avoiding resubmittal to app stores.

Acquired by Brinks - Designed and implemented a reporting system built with SNS and SQS, resulting in real-time reporting. Populating reports in minutes vs. twelve hours.- Built Deposit Tracking solution from the ground up, allowing retailers to make deposits through the mail and providing provisional credit to customers.- Introduced Swarm Teams resulting in the removal of Pull Requests increasing velocity and shared knowledge.

Acquired by Global Payments- Part of the Architecture Team tasked with plans to modernize and go to the cloud- Laid the foundation for cloud strategy, setting the stage for their parent company to provide funding to modernize.- Setup automated static code analysis, identifying over 5,000 instances of insecure coding practices.- Introduced Rest, stateless, and authentication up-leveling the organization's understanding of modern distributed systems.

Acquired by Brinks- Transitioned to .Net, leader in consuming .Net Core on Team. - Extensive experience with Docker and .Net Core. - Stood up a RESTful Web Service from the ground up. - Work with Postgresql, and consuming the database across multiple sources.- Experience with Docker Compose and molding multiple containers to accomplish a goal.- Aggressive trouble shooting on Raspberry Pi implementation. - Created a strategy for secure transmission of status of components from a fleet of 700 Pi's. - Experience with Amazon Web Services, as well as the general principals behind it. - Experience with New Relic, Logic Monitor, and Victor Ops. - Able to setup pipelines in Team City and Octopus. - Called upon very early to help mentor Interns

Acquired by Apex- Experience with the creation of platform software and Microservices. Built on Hikari to access data across three different database platforms (SQL Server, Postgres, and Oracle). - Utilization of Ratpack framework to build secure and accessible restful endpoints. Understanding of blocking vs non-blocking threads build on Netty. Able to leverage the framework at a very early stage to build lightweight container less jars.- Utilization of Guice Injection for dependency injection, understanding of the utilization of Apache Configurations in conjuncture. - Utilization of Oracle 12c Pluggable databases. Structuring out tables and design as well as implementation.- Creation of Authorization Service to be iterated on to include policy usage and grant vs devy endpoint in the Authentication and Authorization flow- Low level design to support custom filters through a rest endpoint in Jackson. Personally found a bug in Jackson Databind, submitted a ticket and their development team included the fix in there next release.- Part of 1.0 release of libraries being consumed by fellow developers. - Utilization of cookies to store client side information and relieve stress on the servers for information. Also able to eliminate tables due to proper cookie usage. Able to keep the information secure in the cookie utilizing JWT tokens and understanding of signing tokens.- Kanban workflow. Always meeting acceptance criteria by allotted time. - Experience with git workflows, specifically feature branch workflows. - Experience with Gradle, and dependency management similar to MVN previously utilized. - Experience with MQRabbit, setup and utilization of message queues.- Constant usage of JUNIT for Integration tests, Unit tests, and system level testing.

- Coordinating and managing over 270 people's medical care. - Maintaining Medical certifications for 4 other medics- Teaching both medical personal and non medical personal- Creating and maintaining training plans and complex mission plans- Tasked with inventorying medical supplies numbering in the hundreds of thousands of dollars

- Full Stack Java Developer- Design and implement complex solutions revolving around Integration software.- Trouble shoot complex bugs and provide solutions- Oracle database maintenance- Maintain an up to date knowledge on HL7 standards and implement those standards across many client's solutions.- Review colleagues code in an effort to ensure the best product reaches the end user.- Quality Assurance, testing and fixing edge case scenarios in the program.- Maintain high level functioning java code. - Work with JSF, JPA, Oracle, Glassfish, Tomcat, Weblogic, Java, MySQL.- Cross trained across three solutions- Work with outside teams and clients to improve and implement new Integration.

- Tasked with Medical Supply maintaining Stock both in the United States and overseas. Accounting for over two million in product. - Team leader- Setup and maintain servers overseas for transporting patient data back to the United States- EMT certification- Work within hospitals with numerous Physician Assistants and Doctors.