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• Developed and maintained the VMstore Manufacturing Test Suite (MTS). Ensured that the systems contained functional and supported hardware before installing the VMStore OS onto the system.• Supported the manufacturing team with engineering fixes, allowing them to ship systems to customers on time.• Enhanced the MTS framework to support new hardware in parallel with VMStore. This enabled us to quickly adapt to customer needs, while also maintaining testing standards.• Fixed bugs on the VMstore platform, allowing platform developers to focus on feature development instead of bug fixes. • Mentored a Junior Developer about the MTS framework, including assigning him MTS feature development, ensuring that he was productive with little management oversight.

• Participated in an on-call rotation to maintain and monitor critical 24/7 applications, critical batch processes, and our ticket queue in ServiceNow.• Developed Java batch extracts with the Oracle Utilities Application Framework (OUAF). Tied execution of these batch extracts to our batch scheduler.• Developed a python extension to our thread pool controller to also control servers through Web Logic Scripting Tool (WLST) scripts. This made restarting the system easier, and allowed us to easily tie full application reboots into our scheduler.• Coordinated and implemented multiple Service Integrator deployments, enabling quick validation of configuration in testing environments.

Englewood Colorado

• Developed a python test automation framework for Charter Communications to provide testers a quick way to validate behavior of access points after firmware updates. • Developed a python daemon that would receive tests over Redis and spawn a test sub-process. This daemon was the glue that tied the front end to test execution. • Mentored junior developers in design philosophy and coding standards as well as architecture features based on manager and user feedback.• Created a REST API controller for Octoscope hardware, so that test case developers to could use the controller to rapidly develop tests.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Converted X86 assembly RAID 6 computation code to ARM intrinsics.• Wrote a cross platform performance module to run on X86 and ARM processors.• Learned and maintained a python based hardware validation framework, kept the framework running on five to ten systems remotely.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Work with the rest of the Platform team on the Lefthand distributed operating system (LHOS) loaded onto the Store Virtual (SV) storage product.• Worked on Board Bring-up using U-boots scripting capability and MDIO (clause 45) to load firmware on a 10G LOM card.• Created and maintained a python daemon dedicated to RAID initialization and peer controller monitoring. • Worked on the PAT (Platform Automated Test) initialization script. Wrote an auto configuration wrapper around imaging tools to utilize the PAT.• Worked with the SV support team on customer issues.• Addressed tech support problems by developing and testing SV patch sets.• Worked with a virtualized C++ hardware abstraction layer and developed the virtualization for the SD card partition mapping.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Build and Tools Team InternHewlett PackardSummer 2013 (40 hours per week)• Created a Virtual Machine to act as a development environment for 3PAR source code. • Analyzed 3PAR Make file for speed optimizations as well as ways to reduce chatter.• Converted Perl modules to a python equivalent. • Wrote documentation about findings for my projects and gave presentations to the rest of the build team

University of Alaska FairbanksSpring semester 2013 (20 hours per week)• Maintained Samba Server for student login credentials• Helped students/employees solve computer/work related problems• Supervised other lab employees and maintained lab operation

Bs/Ms, Computer Science, Cum Laude

•UAF Teaching Assistant, University of Alaska Fairbanks 2014 School Year •UAF Computer Science Student of the Year 2012-2013

Master'S Degree, Computer Science, 3.76

• Master's Project: Development of a parallel programming language using Flex++ and Bison++. The language (Karrot) had built in data-types.