Director of Rapid App Development
2020 - 2021Anthem AI- Established cross-functional data-driven process incorporating expertise from multiple disciplines in an additive way, using data as the common language.
- Operationalized collaboration between ML experts, data scientists, and content experts to optimize the performance of ML models, improve NLP conversational quality, and increase productivity among team members.
- Engaged, partnered with and established processes to collaborate with other business units within the organization.
- Put in place practices to tie engineering efforts back to business goals and objectives, increase the amount of value-adding work being done, and reduce waste across my teams.
- Provided management and technical oversight of machine-learning, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, data science, product development, QA, full-stack development, and post-production support.
- Architected and designed systems within the HealthOS ecosystem.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon SQS, IBM Watson, Python, React, Elasticsearch, Business Strategy, ArchitectureAdvisor to CEO
2019 - 2021Rhithm- Provided guidance on acquiring investors, cross-functional data-driven decision making, product focus, team building, risk mitigation, and quality control.
- Reduced the size of the development team by half, increased development productivity, and reduced quality issues caused by poor collaboration between departments and lack of a disciplined process - within the span of one month.
- Provided strategic and tactical advice based on the businesses changing circumstances.
Technologies: Business Strategy, Startup Consulting, ArchitectureTechnical Evangelist
2018 - 2021Okta- Developed example apps to demonstrate the use of particular technologies while building secure applications.
- Wrote blog articles explaining how to use particular technologies to accomplish common tasks.
- Worked with apps in C#, MongoDB, Vue.js. Integrated with third-party services like Okta, Twilio, Outlook Calendar, etc. Also worked on NLP solutions.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure Cosmos DB, MySQL, Outlook, Google Calendar API, Microservices, Okta, Twilio, Azure, AWS, DocumentDB, C#, ArchitectureFull-stack Developer | DevOps
2019 - 2019Blacc Spot Media- Built custom text messaging application that helped customers identify which windshield wiper they needed to purchase.
Technologies: Twilio, Microsoft SQL Server, DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Azure, Windows Azure SDK, C#, ArchitectureFull-stack Developer
2018 - 2019Inception Websites- Built a custom email marketing system for a client to offer to its customers. The system was similar to Mailchimp in functionality but tailored for dentists.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, AWS, Microsoft SQL Server, SendGrid, Less, CSS, TypeScript, Vue, C#, ArchitectureLead Developer and Project Manager
2018 - 2019Upliftr Messaging- Started as lead UX developer and advanced to team lead and project manager.
- Coached other team members on process improvement, task completion, and technical challenges.
- Create a custom UI component out of a <div> that worked like email addresses do in the "To" field of an email.
Technologies: Bootstrap, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Business Strategy, Startup Consulting, ArchitectureLead Developer
2018 - 2018Sensentia- Developed software that extracted data from hundreds of thousands of PDF documents about insurance plans, then organized the extracted data to provide reports to business owners.
Technologies: PDF Scraping, C#, ArchitectureLead UX Developer
2018 - 2018Synergized SARL- Served as the lead UX developer responsible for creating a first-class Vue.js web application.
Technologies: Node.js, Sass, GraphQL, Docker, JavaScript, VueDeveloper Consultant
2017 - 2018Intellicorp Records (Enterprise Client)- Drove the process improvement efforts associated with the development team’s agile transformation.
- Implemented serverless near real-time virus scanning for file uploads in AWS (S3, SMS, SQS, and Lambda).
- Developed implementations for the CyberSource silent order post-payment gateway, DocuSign electronic document signing (via a web portal and email), the creation of leads in Salesforce, and Kentico headless CMS.
- Designed and built software and database schema to automate client registrations.
Technologies: Single-page Applications (SPA), HTML5, Kentico, Salesforce, CyberSource, DocuSign, Bootstrap, Vue, .NET, C#, Node.js, Amazon Web Services (AWS), ArchitectureIssue Response Team Lead
2016 - 2017AXS (Enterprise Client)- Built a new team that supported high priority production issues with scope over the company’s full product line.
- Assimilated new team members, defined roles, team building, coaching, and mentorship.
- Acted as the last line of support for the company’s production bugs, in a nearly 1 billion dollar a year business.
- Established workflows for reporting and receiving tickets, execution of work, applying resolutions, quality assurance, and technical documentation.
- Provided technical expertise and insights to direct troubleshooting efforts and solution development.
- Applied Angular expertise to troubleshoot and solve complex UX problems in a hand-full of Angular websites.
Technologies: Single-page Applications (SPA), Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, JavaScript, C#, ArchitectureScrum Master
2015 - 2016University Hospitals (Enterprise Client)- Implemented a Scrum development process with one-week iterations.
- Provided UI expertise with Angular and React to troubleshoot existing UI problems and build new user-friendly forms—revamping the user experience.
- Reduced the size of DAL by 50%.
- Consolidated multiple BL class libraries into a single reusable library.
- Introduced automated E2E testing to facilitate regression testing each push to QA.
- Provided UX development with Angular and React as well as HTML5 and CSS.
- Increased productivity by 60.9% in six weeks and by over 100% in eight weeks.
Technologies: React, Angular, HTML5, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft SQL Server, Model View Controller (MVC), C#, TFS, ArchitectureSenior Process Control Engineer
2014 - 2015Timken Steel- Built a new L2/L3 communication service and client wrapper that handled all the communication to and from PLCs, using two-way RPCs over TCP/IP sockets with sub-millisecond read times.
- Interacted with machine operators to troubleshoot problems and develop new features.
Technologies: Visual SourceSafe, Kepware Server (PLC Integration), Microsoft SQL Server, C#, ArchitectureDeveloper Consultant
2013 - 2013Parts Source (Enterprise Client)- Executed a test-driven approach that provided 100% code coverage with unit tests.
- Built new features into a WCF web application.
- Expanded the SOA with JSON web services.
- Implemented interactive user experiences with JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS.
Technologies: Model View Controller (MVC), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Test-driven Development (TDD), Azure Active Directory, JSON, Windows Communication Framework (WCF), jQuery, JavaScript, Flyway, Subversion (SVN), Unity, NUnit, PL/SQL, IBM Db2, C#Developer Consultant
2012 - 2013Vitamix (Enterprise Client)- Resolved source control conflicts going back several years in TFS and implemented a feature and bug branching strategy.
- Worked with internal customers to enhance and maintain the Sitecore and Znode CMS that drove a public-facing website.
Technologies: Azure Active Directory, JSON, REST, SOAP, TNet Strings, jQuery, CSS, JavaScript, ZNode, Sitecore, MySQL, PHP, TFS, Microsoft SQL Server, C#, ArchitectureDeveloper Consultant
2011 - 2012Safeguard Properties (Enterprise Client)- Designed and developed an enterprise-wide service bus built in .NET.
- Implemented a NoSQL layer between persistent data storage and the DAL and supported more than a dozen different programming languages running on three different operating systems.
- Worked with internal customers to maintain a C# web forms application—a work order system distributing work to thousands of contracted companies across the US and surrounding regions.
Technologies: Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Titanium, Aurigma, JavaScript, jQuery, Subversion (SVN), Git, TFS, Visual Basic, TNet Strings, SOAP, JSON, Couchbase, Memcached, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, C#, ArchitecturePresident
2008 - 2012Software Assassin- Managed projects and customer relationships.
- Developed the full-stack for client demos; this was done every two weeks. Generally using XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, C#, T-SQL, and SQL Server.
- Networked and consulted with clients; also searched for potential clients.
- Managed the facility and finances.
Technologies: Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), JavaScript, TFS, Azure, NoSQL, SQL, C#, Business Strategy, Startup Consulting, ArchitectureSoftware Engineer
2000 - 2008Coactive Systems, Inc.- Developed the full-stack with XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, C#, T-SQL, and SQL Server.
- Created relational database designs.
- Managed the project and led a team of three.
- Worked on DOM scripting (before jQuery).
- Worked on a project in vanilla JavaScript that was similar to a Microsoft product called Formula Writer. It was a textbox that you could type mathematical formulas into. It was basically an easy way to input math equations without having to learn MathML.
- Created a JavaScript utility that synchronized the browser DOM with another browser's DOM that was linked to it. The synchronization was two-way, so if one of the users was typing text into a form, the other user would see that text in their browser as it was typed in.
Technologies: TFS, Scripting, DOM, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Microsoft SQL Server, .NET, C#, Architecture