Experience

ModelOp

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Mar 2020 - Present

• VP of Software Engineering

  • Mar 2019 - Mar 2020

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Teradata

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Practice Lead (Director) Software Development

  • Mar 2018 - Mar 2019

  In this role, I am responsible for running the entire software development practice for Teradata's consulting organization in the Americas. I continue to provide architectural and hands on experience for the development of solutions based on machine learning and deep learning technologies, at scale, in the enterprise environment. Additionally, I provide the mentoring, management, and guidance for running the consulting practice in a manner that delivers both the success of our clients, and the continued growth of our talented individuals.

• Principal Data Architect

  • Oct 2014 - Mar 2018

  Responsible for the design and implementation of an Analytics Ops framework for providing Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and traditional statistics at scale. This framework is based on microservices and Angular, and utilizes Keras, Tensorflow, DL4J, SciKitLearn, and other frameworks to conduct model training.Also helping clients to utilize deep learning (Keras/Tensorflow, deeplearning4j) to gain insight from their data. An example of this is using YOLO and SSD models for multibox image detection on GPU enabled servers as well as fraud detection in the financial sector, and anomaly detection in the manufacturing space.Additionally worked with Hadoop, Hive, Impala, S3, Titan, Elastic Search, Redshift, Spring, Spring Batch and core Java to create ingestion of manufacturing data into a data lake solution. Also worked with MySQL, D3, AngularJS (v1 and v2), and Bootstrap for creating a restful architecture to monitor the ingestion process.As a Principal, I am also responsible for providing mentoring and leadership of other engineers in the organization, and serve as the practice lead for Java for the company.



Qualtrics

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Team Lead

  • Dec 2013 - Oct 2014

  Team lead of the Responses Engine Team responsible for the design and development process to handle all survey responses for the company. This is a 'from the ground up' implementation of a second generation architecture to provide improved survey analytics of a large number of responses for a SaaS solution. We reduced the statistics analytics load time from over 20 minutes, to under 4. This position utilizes Spring, Tomcat, REST, Postgres (Jooq and Hibernate), Java, and JavaScript. Team lead of the Responses Engine Team responsible for the design and development process to handle all survey responses for the company. This is a 'from the ground up' implementation of a second generation architecture to provide improved survey analytics of a large number of responses for a SaaS solution. We reduced the statistics analytics load time from over 20 minutes, to under 4. This position utilizes Spring, Tomcat, REST, Postgres (Jooq and Hibernate), Java, and JavaScript.



W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital, LLC

• United States
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Java Software Architect

  • Nov 2008 - Dec 2013

  Responsible for the design and direction of the transformation of a legacy product into modern implementation. Under my technical leadership we accomplished this transformation and allowed the company to grow financially in a significant manner. The position required participation in the full lifecycle of the process. This included requirements gathering/story creation, UI design, SQL DB Design, software architecture, JSF/Bean development, and the creation of financial algorithms. This solution was a large web based application utilized internally in the company to manage the entire mortgage process from initial customer information to the actual funding of the loan. This role utilized JSF2, Primefaces, Java, Richfaces, Seam, JSP, Hibernate, and Flex/BlazeDS in the Tomcat and JBoss environments.



Convasant

• Co-Founder/CTO

  • Aug 2012 - Jun 2013

  In this role, I provided sole engineering resources towards the design and development of community analysis software for a startup venture. This software is based on the public Twitter API and data streams and utilized the Twitter Storm technology for real time stream based analysis of twitter ‘big data’. The data is processed in real time and stored utilizing Cassandra. A front end was created using a combination of RESTful services, D3 graphing, JQuery, and JSF/Primefaces. A fully functional prototype solution was completed as part of this effort.



Alpha Bay

• Architect

  • Nov 2006 - Oct 2008

  From the ground up design and implementation of POS Software for large companies utilizing the ARTS defined standard database. We successfully delivered a first version of the software to a major grocery chain. This position utilized Hibernate/Spring, Java, Tomcat, Adobe Flex/AIR, MS SQL Server, and Drools on windows and linux. From the ground up design and implementation of POS Software for large companies utilizing the ARTS defined standard database. We successfully delivered a first version of the software to a major grocery chain. This position utilized Hibernate/Spring, Java, Tomcat, Adobe Flex/AIR, MS SQL Server, and Drools on windows and linux.



McCann Medical Matrix

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2006 - May 2006

  Lead engineer designing and implementing Electronic Medical Record software. Developed the application in Java and JavaScript utilizing MS SQLServer. Responsible for complete life cycle of project. Lead engineer designing and implementing Electronic Medical Record software. Developed the application in Java and JavaScript utilizing MS SQLServer. Responsible for complete life cycle of project.



Tomichi Creek Software

• Independent Software Contractor

  • Nov 2004 - Jan 2006

  I started a small software company doing independent software development for small companies. In this role, I developed software for managing an IP Telephony (VOIP) solution utilizing Java and PHP in a web based environment. The solution has since been deployed and is being utilized to provide billing, statistical, and debugging information to my customer’s clients. This job involved utilizing Java, PHP, MySQL, Linux, Windows®, and a VocalData IP Telephony switch. It further involved working with a client over long distance, utilizing written communications skills to develop a project plan and estimates of work. All software was completed in less time than the initial estimates, to the customer’s satisfaction.



Linvia

• Founding Engineer

  • Jul 2004 - Dec 2004

  In this position, as a founding member of the company, I created a prototype of a software utility. The work was mostly in Java, with some C++, that provided for the migration of Microsoft® Office documents, and Microsoft® Windows applications to the Linux/Star Office environment. A business plan and engineering plan were also developed for creating a new company. All of this work was done under tight deadlines, and the work was completed on time. We presented these prototypes and plans to a series of investors under an independent VC company, and were approved for initial funding. This position involved skills in programming (Java, C++), in both the Windows® and Linux environment, document and file analysis, creation of engineering plans and design documents, and working with a diverse team of individuals under intense planning and timelines.



Novell

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Distinguished Engineer

  • Apr 2002 - Jul 2004

  A distinguished engineer, a board elected position, served as a technical mentor for other employees in the company. The position required you to review the architecture of all products throughout the company. Additionally, direct involvement in software development continued. In this position, I also worked on helping to define the ‘Liberty Alliance’ project for developing trust relationships across the web utilizing SAML. Further, I developed an LDAP directory event system utilizing the JMS J2EE standard utilizing JBoss and Silverstream App Server components. This project involved coding in C++ and Java, utilizing JNI to bridge between the directory server and the J2EE space.



Novell

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Strategic Architect

  • Jan 1998 - Oct 2001

  This Position reported directly to the Chief Technology Officer of Novell. Responsibilities included the design and development of prototype software for new products. Further, the position involved reviewing technology, both inside and outside of the company, for relevance to Novell’s future, and making product recommendations. In this position, several projects were worked on including a Directory Based Portal System, and a Directory Based Router Management System. The Router Management System was displayed at Novell keynote speeches (demo given by myself), as well as being unveiled at Comdex. This all occurred under intense time pressures. The presentation of the technology at Comdex resulted in a partnership announcement with Cisco Systems, that had a direct and sizeable impact on the stock price of the company. These project required working with LDAP, Java, Javascript, C/C++, SNMP, TCP/IP, WAP/WML, HTML.



Novonyx, Inc.

• Chief Architect

  • 1997 - 1998

  This position, which reported directly to the CEO, resulted as the outgrowth of my previous position and work at Novell. My responsibilities included everything from hands on, day to day programming, to steering the technological direction of the company. The company was formed, and shipped its first products, in less than a year. It was then purchased by Novell to acquire its products. Shortly after, we won the test for having the fastest single processor implementation of Netscape’s web server project. This position involved working with C/C++, Java, Javascript, ODBC/SQL, and Assembler on a variety of platforms. It required low level debugging of the TCP/IP protocol, and network driver transactions.



Novell

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Multiple Positions

  • Jul 1993 - Jan 1997

  I served in several different roles, during this period of time, as my diverse talents were recognized. During this time, I received consistent promotions and positive reviews during the entire duration of my employment. Some of the projects included a distributed licensing system for Novell, as well as a member of the corporate architecture team, helping to mentor other engineers and define standards both in the industry and internally. I further engaged in far reaching strategic programming for the company, which resulted in a partnership with Netscape. Work was performed on a large variety of platforms and languages.



Gradient Technologies

• Senior Member Technical Staff

  • Oct 1991 - Jul 1993

  This position was for a small company early in the growth process. All projects were conducted under tight timelines with funding and completion paramount to success. In this position, I was promoted to ‘Senior Member Technical Staff’ after one year based on increasing responsibilities and performance. Projects included working on the design and development of OSF distributed computing and management standards, and a homegrown distributed licensing system for a large variety of platforms. The project involved work in C/C++ and Assembler on UNIX, VMS, DOS, and Windows.