Feb 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Eugene, Oregon, United States · Hybrid

• While at the University of Oregon, I worked for the systems branch of the Oregon Hazards lab on a variety of tasks and research related to wildfire detection and monitoring. The last project I worked on was to set up monitoring and alerting on all our devices related to wildfire and networking.

Jun 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Remote

• Platform Health team member working on tools and infrastructure to fight abuse at scale.

Feb 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · remote

• Worked on a small team developing a collaborative script writing application used for television shows.

Mar 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Remote

• After a number of small features within Issues and Pull Requests, I joined a team that developed the first version of Projects. I worked on on all aspects of the tool, my main contributions were to add webhooks, automation, search, and audit log capabilities in a way that was seamlessly integrated into the monolith

Aug 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Portland, Oregon Area

• Contributed to ArcGIS for Developers website.
• Created and contributed to internal and open source tools for GIS developers.
• Delivered a release of the ESRI Geotrigger SDK for Android that runs spatial queries and notifications locally on the phone instead of on the server to allow for an ‘offline’ mode.

Oct 2012 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Portland, Oregon Area

• Contributed to Ruby on Rails development of existing products.
• Led user interface design and development of new CDN origin server product.
• Researched emergent front end technologies and suggested company adoption of Angular.js.
• Worked on a small team to develop a CDN origin server for video assets.
• Modeled the video asset pipeline using a filter chain to give administrators control over the packaging and manipulation of video content.
• Implemented a robust Ruby service to delete video segments and metadata for content that is no longer in use or referenced elsewhere in the system.
• Developed messaging system to communicate with an internally developed Apache module responsible for ingest and delivery of video content.
• Gathered and stored metrics from the Apache module to gain better insight into what end users were requesting.

Jun 2007 – Jul 2012 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Newport, OR

• Converted the internal map engine for our Map Maker from a VB6 application to a database driven C#.NET application.
• Migrated the National Atlas Map Maker interface from a complicated mixture of .ASP, Coldfusion 5, HTML and Javascript to a Ruby on Rails application. The Ruby on Rails application is using PostGIS to do the spatial queries and the internal map engine to create the map images.
• Created a zoomable user interface in Flash for viewing maps of geologically significant areas. Specifically, showing how the USGS topographic maps have changed over time for the area as well as some aerial and shaded relief maps. The interface loads from xml so I also created a content management system in Ruby on Rails for the geographers so that they could be responsible for editing the locations.
• Created a new set of OGC compliant Web Map Services for the National Atlas using MapServer and Python mapscript.
• Implemented a content management system in Ruby on Rails that allows team members to edit the geographic content of the National Atlas, update the layout for the National Atlas Map Maker and edit or add new Web Map Services.
• When first hired, I worked on an EPA project to create advanced forms for a Microsoft Access bioinformatics database. When they wanted to migrate to the web, I convinced them to use Ruby on Rails and developed the initial application with the goal of making it easy for them to take over.
• Helped 6 employees learn Ruby on Rails and was able to hand over some of my projects to them.
• Performed some system administration duties on 16 servers with different operating systems and assisted team members when they had difficulties with a task.

Jul 2006 – Jun 2007 · 11 mos · Eugene, Oregon Area

• Primary work was in the research and development of eye controlled software. While working in the lab, I rewrote an eye drawing program to improve its responsiveness and to convert it to a .dll format so that it could be distributed with the LC Technologies EyeGaze eye tracker.
• Additional research into how to do participatory design with children that have severe motor impairments. The software we were creating in the process was an eye controlled music program. Languages, IDEs and environments used were C/C++, VisualStudio .NET, Max/MSP, Windows, and Mac.

Mar 2005 – Jun 2006 · 1 yr 3 mos · Boise, Idaho Area

• Supported development of test documentation, including strategies, plans, summaries, test cases and test scripts. Executed test cases and scripts. Performed ad hoc and exploratory testing. Entered and tracked defects in defect tracking database. Languages and environments used were Tcl/Tk, Postscript, and PJL, Windows, and Unix.