Oct 2018 – May 2025 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

• Throughout my tenure at AWS, I've led software development initiatives focused on innovating curriculum creation and delivery systems. Currently leading development of enterprise content generation systems leveraging AWS Bedrock and custom RAG solutions. My key achievements include:
• Architecting and implementing generative AI solutions that transform curriculum development processes, leveraging AWS Bedrock, custom RAG implementations, and vector databases
• Engineering Infrastructure as Code deployment systems using AWS CDK and CloudFormation, reducing curriculum deployment times by 75% and enabling continuous delivery
• Leading architectural reviews for AWS curriculum content, validating cloud architecture best practices across training materials
• Creating and leading monthly technical solutions showcase program, fostering engineering excellence and cross-team collaboration
• Mentoring software engineers resulting in two direct report promotions within one year while establishing comprehensive documentation standards
• These roles have allowed me to combine deep technical architecture expertise with engineering leadership, driving innovation in both traditional cloud infrastructure and cutting-edge AI applications.

Mar 2018 – Oct 2018 · 7 mos · Portland, Oregon Area

• Led Lululemon's cloud strategy advancement as Enterprise Cloud Architect. Key achievements include:
• Spearheaded cloud adoption framework implementation, establishing standardized deployment practices across the organization
• Implemented Infrastructure as Code practices using AWS CloudFormation, significantly reducing mobile application deployment times
• Developed custom cloud deployment automation tooling using Python and AWS SDKs, providing Infrastructure as Code solutions across digital engineering teams
• Established architectural patterns and guidance for CI/CD, logging, monitoring, identity management, and high-availability design
• Partnered with digital business & technology leaders to drive cloud-native transformation initiatives

Feb 2016 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Portland, Oregon Area

• Built and led Lululemon's first cloud engineering team, transforming the company's digital infrastructure and establishing foundation for cloud-native operations. Key achievements include:
• Built and led company's first in-house cloud engineering team, successfully transitioning from outsourced operations
• Led critical 5-month e-commerce platform refactoring project, enabling 34 successful releases during peak holiday season (previously a restricted period)
• Negotiated and implemented CDN vendor changes, resulting in 30% cost reduction while maintaining performance standards
• Established Lululemon's inaugural cloud architecture standards and roadmap within AWS
• Orchestrated modernization of legacy systems, significantly improving release velocity and system reliability

Nov 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Portland, Oregon Area · On-site

• Design and develop feature extensions to the current infrastructure.
• Designing and implementing cohesive micro-services as parts of a decoupled, distributed system.
• Interface with social APIs such as Facebook and Twitter
• Leveraging many aspects of AWS to reduce time to market, cost, and complexity of engineered solutions.

Mar 2014 – Nov 2014 · 8 mos · Beaverton, OR

• Building RESTful web services via Java frameworks.
• Leveraging various Amazon Web Services for our entire infrastructure.
• Continue to extend, enhance and stabilize automated Continuous Integration and Deployment systems.

Sep 2013 – Mar 2014 · 6 mos · Portland, Oregon Area

• Architecture support and guidance across teams at Janrain and investigate new technologies.
• Lend guidance in Refactoring, Continuous Integration and Deployment efforts.
• Lead a 'reboot' of the front-end Javascript team. As team manager, collaborated with engineers to choose core JS libraries and tools to build upon for future Janrain works. Designed and implemented an automated Continuous Integration system for the team.

Apr 2013 – Sep 2013 · 5 mos · Portland, Oregon Area

• Ruby development split between ruby utility/library scripts to enable system integrations and the Ruby On Rails product dashboard.
• Contributed to extending the automated Continuous Integration efforts.

Sep 2010 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Portland, Oregon Area

• Lead the development team in shifting the entire code base from a single, difficult to maintain, monolithic system to a strategy of discrete, cohesive RESTful web services. Implemented primarily via Object Oriented PHP5, Ruby and Javascript.
• Implemented automated Continuous Integration & Inspection strategy (Jenkins) for our unit ,component, and code quality tests.
• Mentoring the team on various technical topics and patterns for development via pair programming and technical presentations.

Jan 2008 – Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Portland, Oregon Area

• Was intermittently in employ of my own freelance software development company.
• Tasks included:
• Building and/or extending web sites for local businesses.
• Mentoring enterprise teams on web development, testing and automated Continuous Integration.
• Clients included:
• Mozilla: Worked on porting addons.mozilla.org from a PHP framework to the Django framework. (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/)
• Oregon Catholic Press: Web developer for custom, web based content management system. (http://www.ocp.org/)
• Western Family Foods: Hired as trainer for staff. Tasked to teach Web development best practices. (http://www.westernfamily.com/welcome/)
• Nike: 6 month contract in 2006 (subcontracted through Adecco) to help with the development and deployment of various B2B intranet sites. These were Struts based sites running on various J2EE containers including BEA Web Logic and ATG. Persistence was implemented with the Hibernate framework. My duties include re-factoring of existing code, bug fixes, plus architecture and development of new features.
• Portland Community College: Was contracted to assemble curriculum for and teach a 10 week Intro to PHP and Mysql development course. (http://www.pcc.edu/)

Feb 2007 – Feb 2008 · 1 yr

• Java developer for the Regence Health Insurance member's site: www.myregence.com. The bulk of the work was utilizing Struts to build API’s to expose legacy system functionality.
• Developed an adaptation layer between the newly acquired Google Search Appliances and the existing Struts web application.

Jun 2000 – Nov 2005 · 5 yrs 5 mos

• General purpose programmer tasked with improving automation within the IT department. Also tasked with IT support for the business systems