Oct 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

Apr 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Remote

Jun 2019 – Mar 2020 · 9 mos

• Working on the Ingest team which handles the collection of customers data at the edge of New Relic's network.
• Building and maintaining high-throughput java services and the infrastructure that the services run on.

Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 · 11 mos

• Built the New Relic Infrastructure product that monitors millions of entities in real time and collects data for customers all over the world whom send NewRelic over 60 million metrics/minute.
• Operated and built over 30 high throughput Golang services that allowed us to Ingest customer data, real time evaluation of data to alert customers of problems, indexing, aggregation, and gave customers API to use the Infrastructure product.
• Built Golang services that connect to various open source data technologies ranging from Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka and Postgres.
• Handled On-Call for entire Infrastructure Product and worked with Support and with customers to resolve and fix problems with the product.

Aug 2016 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• At New Relic I'm working on New Relics internal container platform built on top of DC/OS, CoreOS, Docker, Vault, AWS and Mesos.
• While doing so I have worked on the creation and testing of APIs to provide programatic access to the container platform, automatically provisioning of new hardware to scale the cluster, helped bring large scale observability for internal teams using the platform to run their production services, all while scaling the platform to handle New Relic's large data ingest pipelines.

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Portland, OR

• Designed and Built CLI tools to help other engineers provision servers.
• Worked within AWS Lambda to create tooling to help support server creation.
• Contributed to the Foundation repos that helps Nike run their cloud infrastructure.
• Helped build and rollout Infrastructure as Code to various teams inside Nike.

Nov 2015 – May 2016 · 6 mos · Remote (Portland, OR)

• Defined, developed and deployed custom infrastructure, making full use of AWS.
• Built full B.I. infrastructure, all the way from custom Javascript/Ember frontend to the collection of data on the backend, and the servers between.
• Placed the ground work for future business intelligence, machine learning, and the collection of data.
• Created tooling for deployment automation including chat-ops, immutable infrastructure, and developer based workflows.
• Worked hand in hand with all sides of the business to drive product, and build out new features.

Nov 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr · Portland, OR

• Worked inside of AWS to move large parts of the Opal infrastructure into AWS and away from Heroku.
• Developed tools to enhance developer life along with smoothing out the rollout of features. Wrote and architectured configuration management tools for continuous delivery and automated testing.
• Built end to end back-end features in a monolithic rails app along with creation of a one-click deployment system.
• Created, maintained, and setup automatic deployments to multiple environments for a monolithic rails app.
• Created a big data platform with ElasticSearch to parse and maintain text like data.

Dec 2013 – Nov 2014 · 11 mos · NW Portland

• At Con-Way my time is split between Systems Administration work in a Linux environment while also developing ETL code to bring Big Data into our Datawarehouse. The Development of ETL code involves growing the code through SDLC all the way from planning to lessons learned.
• Along with ETL development and Systems Administration, I'm constantly working on ways to continuously improve the processes Con-Way has in place. So far I have developed a reporting tool from inside MicroStrategy that gives our metadata new meaning. This tool allows us monitor and track system availability and gives system visibility across the lines of business.
• The current large CI project I'm working on is an overhaul to revamp old code and move it into our new data platform.

Feb 2013 – Nov 2013 · 9 mos

• At APLL I collaborated with a FY500 company as a Business Intelligence Analyst and while in this position I was able to use quite a few of the skills I learned in my both my Data Mining classes and Artificial Intelligence to help clients make critical business decisions.
• Along with that I was able to find and present new ways to create continuous improvement in large scale supply chains.

Jun 2012 – Mar 2013 · 9 mos · Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• At Craft Brew Alliance I was part of a small help desk team in which we supported the IT infrastructure of the business along with support for over 500 workstations deployed across the country.

May 2011 – Feb 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos

• At Columbia Steel, I spent time maintaining the companies Workstations both onsite and around the globe, along with site development and help desk support.
• Provide tech support to maintain and update the 100+ Computers
• Complete server administrator work along with network topography and phone support

Jul 2009 – May 2014 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• As a student at the University of Portland, I started out as a Computer science major where I
• took various classes that developed my programming skills. A few years after my start at UP I ended up switching into the business school where I was able to finish my BBA in Operations
• and Technology Management. During this time I studied various aspects of a business along
• with learning more technical skills such as database administration, operations mangement, and data mining.