- Managed the Software Development arm of the Software Engineering Tools and Process (SETP) team within the Engineering Shared Services (ESS) organization, supporting nine business units with automation and tools optimization.- Spearheaded the integration of Generative AI tools, including GitHub Copilot, achieving a 33% code generation rate across Zebra’s source code.- Introduced Portal Pal, a Generative AI chatbot enhancing tool accessibility and laying the foundation for AI-based service offerings.- Directed the complete redesign of the Tools Portal, achieving a modern interface with increased performance and reduced complexity.- Maintained Nucleus risk scores below 450, achieving scores of 0 for several cycles, through automated security scanning and patching with the SETP Security Bot.- Standardized Zebra’s source code repositories to 100% compliance in collaboration with Product Security.- Enabled a 5% increase in automation by creating a permissions sync between Gerrit and SonarQube.- Produced 21 AI training videos to promote the adoption of SETP-managed engineering tools across ESS.

Lead a cross business unit team to strategized processes and procedures that enhance Zebra's business agility, specifically related to software development.Working in a small and targeted team to transform the way software is built at Zebra.Implementing and guiding developers on the use of the following:GitHub - git usage, GitHub Actions, Self hosted GitHub runners, VCS migrations to GitHub, Source Code best practices and governance. Implementing and usage of GitHub Advanced Security.SonarQube - Implemented SonarQube across all business units to improve code quality and help eliminate technical debt. Createdstandardized process and procedures for implementing SonarQube as part of the Software Development Lifecycle. This process was implement to help developers address technical debt while not being overwhelmed with analyzing code that is already in development. CI/CD - Implementation of best practice frameworks and procedures, standardized tooling across business units. This helped engineering teams create continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines for Zebra's products and services and eliminating costly and inefficient silos.Artifactory - Implementing standardization of processes and procedures for a unified artifact management platform using Artifactory. Eliminated the usage of insecure or inefficient software artifact management. CyCode - Implementation and standardization of processes and procedures to leverage CyCode to ensure that source code is protected against security issue that may arise from "bad behaviors" from normal software development activities.Presented monthly status readouts to senior leadership and quarterly reports to executive leadership team.Migrated CI/CD pipelines from legacy tooling like Jenkins to modern CI/CD pipelines using GitHub actions for serverless builds, code quality and security scans, and deployments.

Owned and operating a boutique consulting firm specializing in mobile application development and mobile website development. In 2009 I recognized that our mobile phone will be the primary way in which people access the internet away from work. I wanted to help business get ready for the new way customers will interact with their sites. The company specializes in provided custom software solutions, websites and mobile apps based on customer requirements. Key ProjectsChiroWay Franchise: Developed and maintain the ChiroWay Cloud. This Lavavel based custom appplication enables all franchisees to manage their ChiroWay location and see and treat members. ByLine Bank: Created hosting environments using AWS services including EC2, Elastic Filesystems, RDS (databases), Load Balancers, Lambda functions and Route 53.\ ArtVan Furniture: Designed and developed Zend APIGility code to interface and display AS400 data with a new mobile applications to be used by sales associates. Radio Station: Developed a temperature monitoring solution to help a radio station monitor temperatures in remote broadcasting stations. This solution is running on a ESP2866 board and a DS18B20 one wire temperature module

Supported various software development activities located within Zebra Technologies including Gerrit, Subversion, Ubuntu and RedHat. 2020: Became part of the Software Engineering and Tools Team to create solutions used for all of Zebra (Pan-Zebra). Currently serving as the Subject Matter Expert for the Version Control Work stream to facilitate the selection of and implementation of the VCS tools that Zebra will use in the future.2019: Implemented a Highly Available Gerrit Primary node. This node consists of 6 servers and supports a global development team. There are currently replica nodes located in geographically diverse regions of the world to help serve users of that region2018: Implemented a plan to bring the current Gerrit environment up to date with the released Gerrit software. Implemented the model for spinning up on premiss Ubuntu systems for developers.2015-2017: Migrated company assets and software during the purchase of Enterprise Mobile Computing from Motorola Solutions to Zebra Technologies Inc.

Cofounded this idea.Coded most of the back end of the systemAdding a subscription model.Technologies used: Linux, MySQL, Laravel, AWS.

I was brought in to help Redfoundry with PHP and Laravel work on the Gearflow website. I have been helping complete projects such as:Photograph uploads for products.Bulk File uploadsAmazon Web Services configuration/implementation including ElasticBeanstalk, Cloud Search EC2 instances and S3 storage buckets.

Engineered and administered a corporate wide GIT solution to meet the needs of exchanging code and collaborating with external software partners.Migrated 15 Open source tools used for collaboration and software development from Motorola Mobility to Motorola Solutions. Tools include SourceForge, Lyceum, Status.net, Twiki,TinyUrl, Bugzilla and Scuttle.Administered Gentoo linux servers setup in a highly available environment to support about 8k employees.Test integration with other business systems to ensure that apis and system worked when internal separation happened. Edited tools and websites as required to ensure that proper URLs were used.Administered the various tools to ensure smooth daily operations.

Helped produce and release collaborative filtering technologies for clients including Hollywoodvideo.com and Comcast.net. Prototyped and developed new products using Sourcelight Discovery Guide, the colloberative filtering engine including Java applications for Tivo and DHTML Javascript applications for a web based program guide. Administered all companies production, staging and backend production systems. This includes Linux and windows based systems that run Apache, Sendmail, DNS, Postgresql, MySql, JBOSS, and internally developed applications running a combination of shell scripts, Python, Perl and C programs.Supported new customer integration of the Discovery Engine into the customer’s websites. This included design and implementation of the proposed solution as well as ongoing support through the process.Served as primary support for all issues pertaining to customer interfacing systems.

Designed and developed software applications for Where 2 Get It's slippymap (next generation mapping)technology. Technologies used include perl, mod_perl, linux, postgresql, and javascript.Functioned as the primary system administrator until a fulltime sysadmin was found.Designed web crawling/api crawling software to gather product information for the etailer product. These wer built using perl postgresql and shell scripts to match etailer products to products provided by clients.

Worked as part of a team developing Allant's first product based solutions for managing marketing campaigns.Developed User interface applications for Allant's Prevelance system using Java Struts and JSP with MySQL, SQLite, and Oracle databases.Developed back end processing of customer supplied Lead and Disposition files with perl connection to MySQL, SQLite and Oracle databases.Developed Excel based reporting tools for Allant's Prevelance system using Perl and Java with Formula One's eSpreadsheet Engine.

Support applications running in a mixed AIX, Solaris, Mainframe environment. These servers used Apache, iPlanet and Websphere to host supported applications.Enhanced applications written in Java, C and shell scriptsAuthored new applications written in Java and shell scripts. Supported purchased software solutions. This included working with the vendor to resolve issues and customization of the applications.Co-ordinated the effort to move cron scheduled applications to a central scheduling system using Maestro. Enhanced existing applications to use Tivoli event monitoring.Carried a pager on a rotational basis

Consulted customers regarding use of Telelogic Tau for development of embedded software applications. Assisted customers in debugging and integrating software generated by Telelogic Tau with software that was hand-coded in C and C++, including integration with LynxOS and other POSIX-compliant RTOS. Hand coding C and C++ applications to allow the generated code to run in the customers environment.Taught classes with twelve or more students on the use of Telelogic Tau in all phases of customer development lifecycle, including specification translation and software testing. Part of this instruction included indoctrinating C programmers to use SDL as a new methodology to write software.

Developed products that furthered Worldcom’s leadership in transportation of commercial internet and financial transaction data using ANSI C compliant code in a team environment.Implemented a client/server application in C using UNIX sockets for communication and an Oracle server for the data storage. The data was gathered from many clients and summarized by a central server. This data was then inserted into an Oracle database, and could then be queried and displayed to end users through the use of a Java enable web application. This system implemented a near real-time reporting system for network performance and monitoring.Estimated project scope, required effort, and established milestones.Authored Engineering Responses, Functional Specifications,

Developed ANSI C compliant code for GSM GPRS subsystems in an SEI CMM level five organization while working in a team environment.Implemented a state machine design in ANSI compliant C for controlling the communication link management of the additional hardware that was required to add GPRS to GSM base stations. Authored High-level, Low-level, and Test Design Documentation.Designed software using CASE software with SDL.Executed software tests using simulators and target systems to assure quality and 100 percent code coverage.Contributed to the Process Improvement Team.