Elastic is the steward of Elasticsearch, the globally recognized open source Search Engine. My team and I build developer tools, APIs, and experiences for Search Applications that require semantic search capabilities with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at scale.

Turning transactions into relationships.

About Built: "Built is an enterprise technology company on a mission to simplify construction lending." https://getbuilt.com/----------

About Emma: “Email marketing’s smartest toolset. Connect your data, build your audience, and do your most successful marketing ever.” http://myemma.com/email-marketing-features----------Responsible for guiding the planning process for the engineering department and helping teams achieve goals that support business initiatives.• Defines Emma’s technical direction in collaboration with principal engineers and architects, including selection of technologies, plans for adoption and migration, and • Works closely with the Director of Infrastructure to ensure stability, scalability, and performance of the system• Manages the Campaigns engineering team, which is responsible for marketing automation capabilities and email deliveryI work closely with the VP of engineering on organizational development, hiring, and refining Emma’s software delivery process.• Grows engineering leads into engineering team managers, internally and through hiring• Implemented Emma’s “rocks & postcards” process for team and individual goal setting, paired with self-directed annual reviews of technical skills and contribution• Implemented recurring director, manager, and teammate one-on-one sessions

Engineering leads at Emma are focused on and responsible for a team's productivity and collective impact.• Led a cross-team project to engineer, implement, and deliver Emma’s email automation platform: http://myemma.com/email-marketing-automation• Developed Emma’s dynamic content and conditional logic for email campaigns• Helped define engineering lead as a role in three parts: technical product ownership, individual engineering contribution, and mentoring engineering teammates

• Delivered Emma’s first integrations with Shopify, SurveyMonkey, and Zapier as a teammate on the API and Integrations team• Co-developed Emma’s OAuth provider for partners and integrators• Developed log analysis tools to report API usage patterns and integration product adoption metrics

About Digital Reasoning: "Digital Reasoning offers cognitive computing services to intelligence agencies and financial institutions in the United States." http://www.digitalreasoning.com----------• Developed knowledge base APIs for Digital Reasoning’s core product, Synthesys• Designed and developed a text annotation toolset for linguists to iteratively train natural language processing models• Co-inventor, “System and Method for Machine Learning Management” US Patent 9,058,317

Evening programming instructor for five terms while working full-time at DaVita and Digital Reasoning, teaching the following courses:• IMD220 Programming Concepts• IMD330 Rich Media Applications• IMD470 Special Topics - Mobile Technologies

About DaVita: "DaVita Inc. is one of the largest kidney care companies in the United States." https://www.davita.com/----------• Led a team of US and India-based engineers to deliver DaVita’s physician rounding applications as part of Falcon Dialysis: http://falconehr.com/solutions/falcon-rounding• Integrated with the Falcon Dialysis EHR engineering team in Denver, CO, winning a joint “best team effort” award

• Trained the clinical applications engineering team on event-driven applications• Designed the front-end architecture for a modular physician rounding application to run on chairside thin clients in dialysis clinics• DaVita offered a full-time engineering lead position after six months of consulting

• Led a team of remote developers • Developed an experimental “living document application” for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to improve communication with soldiers in battle

• Developed interactive data visualizations and customizable reporting tools to present customer satisfaction data to Kohl’s and EyeMed Vision Care• Worked on call center phone systems to ensure calls are prioritized and routed optimally

Developed infrared data collection, analysis, and reporting software for use in continuous manufacturing processes. By recognizing relative temperature anomalies in electrical & mechanical equipment, the system detects hidden failure points, saving manufacturing companies from unexpected downtime and spoilage.