Experienced leader inside and out of the software development industry.
Focused on aligning teams to client outcomes, maintaining organizational
consistency, increasing efficiency, and promoting innovation.
Concentrated effort towards minimizing organizational and operational
surprises through clear, consistent and personalized communication. Promotes a
high level of team productivity and cohesion even while stationed remotely.
Positive client outcomes from a technology agnostic approach. Focusing on the
need of the project, client, and business over the specifics of the
technology.
Patient and focused on long-term client benefits during high pressure
situations and time constraints, ensuring the success of otherwise adverse
project outcomes.
Resource of excellence, organization, and accountability in the technology
industry as a remote developer. Mentor and strategist of positive company
impact for remote developers and supporting programs.
Experience
Lab Services Engineer (Ruby) @ Linux Academy [August 2017 - Present]
Responsible for rearchitecting and redesigning a custom expectation testing
library used to verify student assessment submissions of cloud platform
environments (AWS, Azure, OpenStack, ect.). Increased processing performance
by over 300% while providing more meaningful error handling, return values,
and scalability avenues for future integrations.
Was able to identify productivity enhancements to our pipelines and workflows
which enabled the team to complete an average of 150% more assigned tasks in
the same period of time allowed (48 hours). This allowed the content
development team to keep up with student demand of new courses while allowing
Lab Services to develop new tools and processes to increase efficiency and
fortify performance of our software offerings.
Made recommendations on utilizing development tools such as Rollbar, Rubocop,
and Pry to ensure the integrity of our product suite. Through recommendations
and support was able to standardize these tools through the company and
accurately identify several production bugs that were not previously known.
Lead over 50 successful projects with an average budget utilization percentage
of 93.02%. Pinpointing efficiencies in the projects allowed customers to
utilize surplus resources for extended feature sets, ultimately getting them
more in line with their overall business goals. Worked with high profile
portfolio engagements such as Pepsi Co / Frito Lay, Hasbro, Marriot, Purina,
Medtronic, Blizzard Entertainment, Surly Brewing Company, The
Marketing Arm, BBDO, Grey New York, and many more.
Defined the offering of Ruby on Rails at the company. Through leadership and
guidance was able to provide the sales team with the necessary tools to
effectively address Ruby on Rails based leads and obtain client portfolios
that otherwise would have proved beyond The Nerdery’s reach.
Created a framework allowing custom WordPress projects to be completed in
comparable time frames to that of the third party compilation versions. This
framework bridged the gap between the CMS and Custom PHP Application
development teams.
Entrusted with mentoring team members in the use of build tools and bleeding
edge technologies as well as various best practice approaches to HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, WordPress, PHP, Ruby/Rails and technical documentation.
Lead Web Developer @ Faster Solutions, Inc.
[January 2012 - December 2012]
Previously Web Designer/Developer
Reduced project timelines by an average of 21% by streamlining the build
process for the company. This involved filtering most of our clientele into a
WordPress based system and altering company processes to ensure workflows were
being executed with minimal overhead.
Shifted the build process from .NET to WordPress due to the more consistent
point of entry. This increased the active client capacity the company could
support at any given time.
Built trust with clients through transparency and successful solutions. This
trust lead to 4 additional projects allowing for company expansion.
Senior Web Developer @ 50 Below
[December 2009 - November 2011]
Previously Web Developer, Site Maintenance Lead & Site Maintenance Specialist
Facilitated consistent offerings for our clients by developing 53 articles of
formal procedural documentation used by the company for training and
development. Formalizing the documentation in this manner allowed for easier
job ramp-in and reduced hands-on mentorship requirements.
Created custom modules to meet customer's requests considered out of scope
from the normal factory line procedures of the company. Created departmental
tool sets to increase developer efficiency within the department.
Ensured customer satisfaction and continued contracts by increasing the site
maintenance team’s efficiency 36.8% and corresponding task turnaround time by
13.4% through employee mentorship and guidance.
Additional Career History
Team Manager @ AT&T Mobility ~ [September 2004 - October 2009]
Area Director @ Cheetah Computer & Consulting ~ [January 2001 - September
2004]