Apr 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Scala, Lots of NodeJs, Even more ReactJs, and some ReactNative for fun.

Nov 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Scala, Lots of NodeJs, Even more ReactJs, and some ReactNative for fun.

Mar 2014 – Jan 2015 · 10 mos · Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Architected the APIs and web layer while contributing to the architecture of the entire backend platform using PostgresSQL, Redis, SQS, etc
• Developed a responsive web UI to manage email, files, photos, pages, etc using AngularJs, NodeJs and backend REST services
• Developed a number of utilities and applications for the company using NodeJs
• Maintained a REST interface in Scala using Finagle and Akka
• Acted as a member of the plaform team using Java and Scala to build scalable backend services to sync thousands of email and social network accounts
• Developed the build/deployment systems using:
• o Bamboo to automatically compile code with Maven and run unit tests
• o Packer to build AMI (virtual machine images) for AWS
• o Wrote custom scripts for Netflix’s Asgard and forked the Groovy code to enable to us to automated deployments of the AMIs
• o Maintained hundreds of servers in AWS using autoscaling groups and load balancers

Mar 2011 – Mar 2020 · 9 yrs

• Spinning Instructor for a 5:45 am Spin Class.

Nov 2010 – Present · 15 yrs 4 mos · Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• LLC for consulting, speaking, and publications

Aug 2009 – Feb 2014 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• Lead architecture for a team of ~25 developers to build .Net Web Applications
• o Brought in consistency and standards were they were lacking including getting developers to think in layers, unit testing, and continuous integration
• o Oversaw configuration management, code reviews, build tools, development practices, and vision
• Managed architectural requirements for releases through a custom process (DRT/DRA) which involved maintaining open source and commercial licenses as well as documentation
• Implemented and developed a large amount of base line code in the following areas:
• o AngularJs multi-package front end consuming JSON Schema with a NodeJs backend
• o Cross-cutting concerns: Logging, Security, Configuration, and Monitoring
• o Multi-Tenant back-end services infrastructure
• o New UI paradigms to make applications pure HTML/Js and REST
• o WebAPI infrastructure which included a breath of capabilities including: automatically handle content type negotiation, versioning through the accepts header, automatic HTTP response code creation from exceptions, etc
• o Custom DSL (languages) for REST based UI query string calls for: filtering, selecting, grouping, ordering, expanding, etc (much like ODATA)

Mar 2007 – Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Managed and mentored a team of 6 to build internal applications and frameworks for production systems including financial applications integrating with Great Plains and MSCRM, Help Desk systems, and ordering and licensing systems
• Developed a robust framework called Business Communication Framework (BCF) which provided various subsystems for building new applications including: SmartClient, DAL, Wcf pub/sub ESB, entity model, etc.
• Responsible for architecture of all projects developed for internal use as well as some production systems. This architecture was primary built using SQL Server 2005 & 2008 built upon the BCF framework with both Asp.Net Ajax and SmartClient WinForms clients
• Responsible for base libraries used throughout the company as extensions to .Net to provide things such as design pattern support, database utilities, UI controls, logging, centralized exception handling, component model additions, etc

Mar 2005 – Mar 2007 · 2 yrs

• Managed a team of 6 to develop a more robust infrastructure for the company
• Oversaw development of multiple .Net 2.0 projects to meet company needs ranging from web and windows applications as well as SOA services and database systems

Mar 2002 – Mar 2005 · 3 yrs

• • Developed numerous Asp.Net and WinForms applications to assist business needs such as licensing, ordering, partner management, customer portals, etc employing SQL Server 2000 & 2005, Asp.Net, Web Services, and Xml

Mar 2000 – Mar 2002 · 2 yrs

• Developed a classic ASP application to support a natural language search project (e-FAQ)
• Developed administrative UIs in with custom html and javascript in both web and imbedded systems
• Constructed an Xml driven product configuration program with an html/javascript interface to allow customer to configure installs of products

Jun 1999 – Mar 2000 · 9 mos

• Designed and implement a Windows BackOffice Server network including SQL Server 7
• Designed a company database, Visual Basic front-end, and website using ASP and ADO