Oct 2010 – Present · 15 yrs 7 mos · Staunton, Virginia · Hybrid

• ● Grew the company from 1 to 12 full and part-time employees and contractors, delivering a consistent annual average revenue growth rate of over 50% per year, with a median of 47%.
• ● Provided technical and business consulting services for an open-source Visual Programming / Process Automation Platform using BPMN and Python.
• ● Oversaw a team of 5 to develop CR Connect, streamlining the submission process to the University of Virginia's Institutional Review Board for Health Sciences Research.
• ● Served as lead software engineer in collaboration with the Chief of Staff to develop a series of emergency applications for the VP of Research at UVA.
• ● Brought critical medical research back online during the summer of the pandemic by developing and implementing a complex approval process application.
• ● Developed a web-based research application for MindTrails promoting healthier patterns of thinking using interpretation bias training.
• ● Provided consulting services on Cassandra for multiple large-scale production systems.
• ● Provided the US Patent Office with rich, previously inaccessible search details by developing a large-scale ingestion process based on TIKA and creating custom Solr components.

Sep 2008 – Aug 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Manage a web development team working in Ruby on Rails which is developing new applications and interfaces for end users of Rosetta Stone's language learning software.

Jan 2008 – Sep 2008 · 8 mos

• Managed our relationship with an offshore company based in India. Grew the relationship from 2 developers to over 15. Helped create the statement of work, developed and implemented a communication plan and established goals and objectives for 3 departments.

Oct 2006 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Created UML diagrams to help understand and later simplify complex areas of legacy code including international taxing strategies, promotional logic, and customer relationship management.
• Researched the existing systems and produced architectural diagrams for company executives. These diagrams helped justify major changes to our e-commerce systems which were necessary to support the release of a new version of our product.
• Developed and extended a suite of e-commerce applications written in Ruby on Rails. Worked with back end web services integrated with Oracle and front end applications used in international call centers.

Apr 2003 – Oct 2006 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Develop applications in Java / J2EE with a heavy focus on the utilization of Open Source Software. Currently using Hibernate, Derby and Lucene to develop feature rich, highly portable content repositories.

Mar 2001 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Created entity-relationship diagrams, implemented and maintained a complex 40 table Oracle database.
• Designed and implemented several java servlet applications, starting with the creation of a complete set of UML diagrams to the execution of the design using Java Servlets, Java Server Pages, and custom tag libraries.
• Developed a project plan that included detailed explanations of the tasks involved, a time-line, GANTT chart, and a series of detailed diagrams showing the system architecture in varying degrees of detail.