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Principal Engineer
UserLAnd Technologies• August 2018 - August 2019
* Responsible for overall architecture and development practices for UserLAnd Cloud, a federated job distribution and execution platform, designed to unlock computing power for everyday users, while preserving their privacy. * Brought UserLAnd cloud from greenfield to production, including all infrastructure, tooling and developer automation. * Provide technical leadership to a team of six developers with diverse experience sets and backgrounds. * Managed and used agile methods to ensure developers were quickly and consistently shipping production ready code. * Responded rapidly to user feedback and proactively managed service quality.
Senior Software Engineer
Goldstar Events• March 2015 - August 2018
* Responsible for major development projects for online ticketing platform * Maintain and extend HATEOS API with mobile and web clients * Developed a performant "news feed" service, decreasing uncached load time on home page from 7min to 30ms - two solid years of uninterrupted uptime * Implemented Elasticsearch site-wide, which decreased bounces and increased click throughs from search * Implemented NATS Streaming message bus to support our move toward SOA, decreasing API complexity and increasing development velocity * Developed local and CI Docker environments, and applied that knowledge toward containerized deploys
Senior Software Engineer
Acumen Holdings• June 2013 - March 2015
* Responsible for major development projects for online e-commerce platform. * Mentor junior developers * Developed on-site behavioral analysis tool which brought in ~$50,000/day by better targeting emails. * Developed an extremely flexible rapid product entry system, which enabled a single staff member to manage data-entry from over 200 vendors. * Developed a Postgres / MongoDB backed analytics platform for email acquisitions which enabled better targeting of CPC ads.
Application Architect
Collective Bias• December 2012 - June 2013
* Responsible for system architecture of social media publishing platform. * Train staff on development best practice * Led transition to Test / Behavior Driven Development and Ruby on Rails platform. * Modernized development methodology. I came, I saw, I turned a group of PHP hackers into Ruby Developers. * Charted course for turning a collection of Wordpress plugins into a sustainable piece of business software.
E-Commerce Manager
A.G. Russell Knives• February 2002 - December 2012
* Develop PCI compliant e-commerce sites for national brand * Lead four person e-commerce development and marketing team * Develop and support marketing software such as mass email software * Develop and support workflow automation systems * Manage projects with external developers * Support marketing and e-commerce with in-house and off-the-shelf technologies * Modernized e-commerce platform from flat HTML and CGI Perl. * Developed workflow automation tools that let a few people accomplish the work of a much larger department.
Education
University of Central Arkansas
Fine Arts, BFA• August 1997 - August 2001
* BFA - concentration in Sculpture * Honors College * Magna Cum Laude