Mar 2021 – Nov 2021 · 8 mos · Remote

• Eagle.io is an environmental monitoring SaaS startup. Eagle makes it easy to get actionable data and insights out of your IoT device fleet, and to get the maximum value out of your IoT investment. Water companies, engineering firms, etc use us to acquire, process, analyse and alert on the data from their fleets of sensors.
• I’m the member of the executive team responsible for scaling the system and engineering team as we grow, while wrangling some interesting distributed systems, timeseries data, and IoT problems, and ensuring that we’re working on the right things to accelerate our growth.

Mar 2020 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Responsibilities included: ensuring success of our product/engineering teams, recruitment and supporting practice leadership for the staff, collaborating with product and sales leaders on strategy and winning business. During this time I had both managers and managers of managers reporting to me in addition to a few individual contributors. Responsible for all members of the cross-functional teams including software engineers, engineering managers, product managers, and product designers.

Nov 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Director for ANZ, I was responsible for leading application development. Responsibilities included: ensuring success of our product teams, recruitment and supporting practice leadership for the staff, collaborating with sales leaders on strategy and winning business. During this time I had both managers and managers of managers reporting to me in addition to a few individual contributors. Responsible for all of the practitioners including software engineers, product managers, and product designers. During this time we engaged Australia's leading financial services, government, and technology organisations as well as supporting international business and local startups in addition to developing Pivotal's own product offerings.

Mar 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Was responsible for multiple product teams concurrently. Owned and maintained relationships with project sponsors and executives. Helped the teams that I manage deliver successfully by acting as an advisor, advocate, and technical coach/mentor. Built high performing software development organizations across software engineering, product management and design.

Apr 2015 – Mar 2016 · 11 mos

• Supported the growth of the Chicago Labs office as one of two managers promoted when the business need for management roles was first established. Had up to 12 direct reports. Helped educate fellow consultants on core practices and set the tone for the office culture.
• Led the development of Lattice, a container orchestrator based on Cloud Foundry's Diego as a hands-on EM/Tech lead.

Jan 2014 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Founded the Chicago Pivotal office with 3 teammates. Consulted on and delivered software for many clients from startups to fortune 500 companies. Worked in balanced, cross-functional teams of product designers, product managers, other software developers and additional supporting SMEs. Teams were a blended mix of Pivotal Labs consultants and clients operating in a modern agile software delivery methodology that incorporates Lean Product Management, User Centered Design, and Extreme Programming.

Nov 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Consulted on and delivered software for many clients from startups to fortune 500 companies. Worked in balanced, cross-functional teams of product designers, product managers, other software developers and additional supporting SMEs. Teams were a blended mix of Pivotal Labs consultants and clients operating in a modern agile software delivery methodology that incorporates Lean Product Management, User Centered Design, and Extreme Programming.

Dec 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 mo · Santa Barbara, California

Apr 2011 – Aug 2011 · 4 mos

Aug 2010 – Dec 2010 · 4 mos · St. Louis, MO

• Conducted lab sessions and held office hours during which I taught good design and coding practices relevant to developing dynamic web applications.
• Technologies taught include the LAMP stack, javascript/jQuery, and Amazon EC2.
• Worked with the professor in constantly updating the course to utilize latest software
• Graded labs and projects

May 2010 – Aug 2010 · 3 mos · St. Louis, MO

• Developed and updated curriculum and reference material for CSE 330 Rapid Prototyping and Creative Programming course focused on web development for dynamic sites. Technologies utilized include the LAMP stack, javascript/jQuery and Amazon EC2.
• Migrated the course to utilize Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform using Fedora Linux upon determining feasibility. This resulted in the ability to accommodate the greatly increased course enrollment.
• Authored large portions of the course reference wiki which functions as the text book for the course.
• Authored and revised lab assignments, tutorials, assignment keys and examples.

Aug 2009 – Dec 2009 · 4 mos · St. Louis, MO

• Conducted lab and studio sessions during which we taught students the fundamentals of object oriented programming, data structures, and design strategies as well as good programming and documentation practices.
• Evaluated and graded labs, quizzes and projects

Jul 2006 – Nov 2012 · 6 yrs 4 mos

• Mainly focused on web development in many different technologies: CodeIgniter, Wordpress (PHP), and Ruby on Rails. Worked on many different freelance projects including setting up critical search functionality for an online deals site on AWS CloudSearch, worked on a facebook app based marketplace in RoR, wrote stock performance visualization software in Java Swing.