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Portland, Oregon, United States

Beaverton, Oregon

Beaverton, Or

Hillsboro, Or

Scottsdale, Az

Phoenix, Az

Scottsdale, Az

Lead developer on the Apriva Gateway product - a suite offering secure mobile IP communications for the U.S. Government.• Helping to drive product development and maintain time lines through proper planning and delegation.• Leveraging cross-platform expertise to further reduce overall development time and cost.• Lead the development effort for the NIAP certification project, playing a critical role in both architecture and implementation, helping to reduce the overall time to market.• Worked with management to help steer the direction of future development projects in an effort to increase and enhance product offerings while reducing development cost.• Worked closely with other team members in an effort to provide guidance and transfer of knowledge.• Demonstrated the ability to take on tasks outside of my comfort zone and get them completed in a timely fashion.

Gilbert, Az

Phoenix, Az

Core Product Suite Development | Multiple-Release Implementations | Graphical Tool Development Rose through positions of increasing technical and leadership scope, with instrumental role in the redesign of a J2EE-based SaaS product. Capitalized on software engineering and technology leadership strengths to meet rapid delivery schedules while maintaining product integrity.Recognized consistently by peers and managers as both a strong resource and top contributor.Actively worked to foster the agile development process, managing our teams backlog and creating short concise stories that are clearly understood with defined requirements.Worked diligently with product management to set expectations and provide working, tested and documented functionality as requested by customers/stakeholders.Leveraged proficiencies in multiple technologies to consistently drive project time-lines.

Phoenix, Az

Operate and maintain the corporate network as well as remote locations; both domestic and international. Monitor and manage 150+ network devices utilizing various tools such as Nagios, Solar Winds, CiscoWorks and others. Provide key planning and research for all future upgrades.

Team Leadership | Project Management | Network Reliability Contributed to the achievement of overall business goals by continually improving network performance and reliability through redesign and upgrades and thus ensuring that contractual service level agreements were maintained. Worked to ensure PCI compliance through security hardening and penetration testing.Managed multiple business locations, both domestic and international, with a combined total of over 150 network devices.Provided key planning and research for all future upgrade strategies.Acknowledged by peers and managers for outstanding performance and professionalism.Successfully lead the project to relocate the company headquarters to a new building with minimal downtime, including an entire network redesign and implementation.

Team Leadership | Project Management | Network Reliability Provided team leadership and primary responsibility for the CENTCOM TACSWA infrastructure, ensuring systemscontinuity and security was maintained to the standards of the U.S. Military. Met regularly with key military personnelto discuss projects, gather requirements and concerns, and trade feedback in general.Managed the day to day operations for 10 employees across 3 locations.Implemented policies to prevent security violations regarding Secret material, including the transfer of data between Secret and Non-Secret networks as well as disabling the use of personal flash drives.Planned and initiated projects to increase redundancy and implement policy to retain systems integrity in the event that any one site was lost.

Associate'S Degree, Applied Electronics

Associates Degree, Applied Electronics