Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr · Bloomington, MN

• Continued to build out our Ruby on Rails development team; achieving a 95% success rating on delivering projects on time, on budget and within agreed upon features for our clients. Tackled organizational issues such as HIPAA compliance and setting technical standards across the company to ease developer onboarding and create consistent products. Developed, planned and executed large scale architectures to support user and complexity scaling for Fortune-500 customers.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · Bloomington, MN

• As a development team lead, I was now responsible for resourcing and project management within our Ruby on Rails team. The Nerdery is a client-facing contract-based company that builds software at the request of others; so balancing available resources and best-fit developers is a paramount activity. In addition to ensuring proper resourcing and staffing; I also continued to be responsible for growing and enhancing our Ruby on Rails offering as well as enhancing my .NET skill-set through many successful projects.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr · Bloomington, MN

• With the groundwork laid from my previous position, this position allowed me to continue growing our Ruby on Rails offering by acting not only as a first-mover in the company; but as a guide and mentor to the team that was developing surrounding Ruby on Rails. I was still responsible for high quality code being delivered in software projects across many languages (including .NET, GoLang and Python); but my purpose was driven more towards helping my mentees achieve high quality code and ensuring continued technical excellence.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr · Bloomington, MN

• In this position I was responsible for managing several team-based software projects, with a variety of languages (including .NET, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra and PHP), in addition to building The Nerdery's offering of Ruby on Rails as a technology offering. It was in this position that I began building a team of individuals who would ultimately allow The Nerdery to properly offer Ruby on Rails as a core competency.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Bloomington, MN

• Acted as a production software engineer on several high profile applications leveraging C#, ASP.NET MVC and WCF. While in this position I was responsible for the successful creation, deployment and maintenance of several highly complex and trafficked web applications.

Aug 2009 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Worked as an industrial controls engineer and IT administrator; developing control systems for municipal water treatment plants in a high stakes environment. In addition to industrial engineering, I also acted as a software and systems engineer building a remote web based monitoring platform and accompanying hardware to allow our engineers and plant operators to securely access their plants from anywhere in the world.

Jan 2008 – Jul 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Worked with ASP.NET to create highly scalable solutions for advertising software and helped drive adoption of MVC based practices a well as early introduction of test driven methodologies. During this time I thrived in a team based environment and honed my skills in performant web based engineering.

Jan 2000 – Feb 2008 · 8 yrs 1 mo

• I've taken numerous short-term contracts performing a variety of services from web design, software engineering to networking infrastructure build-outs for an ISP.

Jan 1998 – Feb 2008 · 10 yrs 1 mo

• Worked as the lead developer and systems administrator; building and maintaining both our desktop and web-based legal research software. During my time at this position I was responsible for our internal network and software systems and built a web-based version of our desktop application that has continued in operation for multiple decades.