Experience

Parsable

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, Cloud Engineering and DevOps

  • Jul 2023 - Present

  Naples, Florida, United States Parsable aims to improve the lives and experiences of frontline industrial workers by connecting them to the people, information, systems and machines needed to do their best work. Companies like Heineken, Grupo Bimbo (largest bakery in the world), Suntory, LafargeHolcim and Corteva Agriscience rely on Parsable’s mobile-first platform, Connected Worker®, to empower their workers with modern digital tools that improve productivity, quality, safety and sustainability at scale.



WriteLog Contesting Software, LLC

• Software Engineering Partner

  • Jan 2003 - Present

  Round Rock, TX From 2003-2010 I worked as a part-time independent consultant for a company in Texas which develops and markets contest logging software for Amateur Radio operators, called WriteLog. I was contracted to develop and maintain contest 'modules' which add support for new contests. These modules are MFC-based DLLs which I create in Visual Studio C++ .NET. In 2010, the company reorganized as WriteLog Contesting Software, LLC and I became a majority owner and partner in the company and have… Show more From 2003-2010 I worked as a part-time independent consultant for a company in Texas which develops and markets contest logging software for Amateur Radio operators, called WriteLog. I was contracted to develop and maintain contest 'modules' which add support for new contests. These modules are MFC-based DLLs which I create in Visual Studio C++ .NET. In 2010, the company reorganized as WriteLog Contesting Software, LLC and I became a majority owner and partner in the company and have continued an active role with the company to this day. Show less



Tackle.io

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Staff DevOps Engineer

  • Oct 2022 - Jul 2023

  Naples, Florida, United States As a lead in the CloudOps organization at Tackle, I spend a lot of my time working on and leading strategic initiatives such as our migration of services to Kubernetes/EKS, our implementation of GitOps using Argo CD, and the refactoring of our vast library of Terraform modules and deployments. I serve in the on-call rotation for DevOps, monitoring not only our production infrastructure but also serving as a technical resource for our internal development teams during their sprints.



Element 84

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior DevOps Engineer

  • Jan 2020 - Sep 2022

  Naples, Florida, United States At Element 84 I was developing CI/CD pipelines for various projects and automating tasks such as security scanning with JFrog Xray and Sonar. My main project was working with a commercial cubesat operator on a massive geospatial project where we were processing 100s of terabytes of SAR imagery and cataloging it with STAC Server, making it available for customers to purchase and task satellites for new image collects. I was responsible for not only the build/deploy pipeline but also helping… Show more At Element 84 I was developing CI/CD pipelines for various projects and automating tasks such as security scanning with JFrog Xray and Sonar. My main project was working with a commercial cubesat operator on a massive geospatial project where we were processing 100s of terabytes of SAR imagery and cataloging it with STAC Server, making it available for customers to purchase and task satellites for new image collects. I was responsible for not only the build/deploy pipeline but also helping define the architecture of our micro-services, providing on-call support and triaging operational issues in the AWS stack. The primary services used were AWS EKS, S3, Lambda, Batch, ECS, DynamoDB, RDS, and WAF. Show less



Catalytic Data Science

• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of DevOps

  • Mar 2017 - Jan 2020

  Charleston, South Carolina Area We are a team of life scientists and software engineers who believe the brightest minds in science should have access to the best tools that are key to driving innovation. The Catalytic Platform is a new kind of R&D cloud built specifically for how life scientists work. By providing researchers with the best digital tools and networking them with colleagues, we're empowering R&D teams to generate novel insights, compress the time and money required to achieve key R&D milestones and produce… Show more We are a team of life scientists and software engineers who believe the brightest minds in science should have access to the best tools that are key to driving innovation. The Catalytic Platform is a new kind of R&D cloud built specifically for how life scientists work. By providing researchers with the best digital tools and networking them with colleagues, we're empowering R&D teams to generate novel insights, compress the time and money required to achieve key R&D milestones and produce knowledge that can be monetized to drive business forward. Leading a team in a small start-up required that I be especially hands-on in my role as Director of DevOps. I was involved in every aspect of our DevOps function from both a technical and non-technical perspective. Working on budgets, cost models and availability reporting was a small part of the role. The bulk of my time was spent on infrastructure automation with SaltStack and CloudFormation, as well as the ongoing “dockerization” of our micro-services as we deconstructed our monolithic python application. Show less



SpareFoot

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of DevOps

  • Apr 2014 - Mar 2017

  Austin, TX SpareFoot makes finding and booking self-storage easy. Our philosophy is simple: Move in and move on. SpareFoot partners with brands like SelfStorage.com and Penske Truck Rental to reach millions of storage customers every day. Our free marketplace of thousands of facilities lets customers search and compare the largest inventory of storage units in the U.S. while enjoying exclusive discounts. No other website provides more up-to-date information on storage pricing, availability, facility… Show more SpareFoot makes finding and booking self-storage easy. Our philosophy is simple: Move in and move on. SpareFoot partners with brands like SelfStorage.com and Penske Truck Rental to reach millions of storage customers every day. Our free marketplace of thousands of facilities lets customers search and compare the largest inventory of storage units in the U.S. while enjoying exclusive discounts. No other website provides more up-to-date information on storage pricing, availability, facility amenities and more. With an award-winning team of storage experts, SpareFoot brings consumers and facilities together to create a convenient and enjoyable storage experience online, offline and via mobile. As Director and lead DevOps Engineer, Steve is responsible for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment systems. He recently led the DevOps effort to migrate over 30 micro-services and customer-facing apps into Rancher, an open source Docker container orchestration service. He has an extensive background in software development, software integration, build and release activities, and unix system administration. He has succeeded in both large corporate telecommunications companies as well as smaller systems based integration environments. In addition, he has a strong interest in mobile application development, especially on the Android and iOS platforms. * Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Engineering * Docker container orchestration with Rancher and Tutum * AWS Proficient - EC2, S3, ELB, CloudFront, Route53, and more * Centralized logging and search with ELK stack * Alerting and monitoring for applications and infrastructure * Configuration Management, Build/Release Process Engineering * C, C++, Java EE, Python, Perl, Bash development/scripting * Mobile Application Development - Android, Asha/J2ME, iOS * AndEngine, Bluetooth, RFCOMM, and SPP on Android * High Availability, Fault-tolerant systems * Linux, AIX, Solaris UNIX System Administration Show less



SPARC, an Agile Systems Delivery Hub of Booz Allen Hamilton

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Configuration Manager

  • Mar 2011 - Apr 2014

  Charleston, SC Steve is Product Owner for Knappsack, a mobile application management platform developed by SPARC. As Product Owner, Steve spends a lot of time focused on the vision and roadmap of Knappsack, trying to ensure that the product fits the needs of the end users while still conforming to the business model around it. He serves as a facilitator for collaboration between developers, interacts with customers and external users to gather feedback, and creates the user stories for the product backlog.… Show more Steve is Product Owner for Knappsack, a mobile application management platform developed by SPARC. As Product Owner, Steve spends a lot of time focused on the vision and roadmap of Knappsack, trying to ensure that the product fits the needs of the end users while still conforming to the business model around it. He serves as a facilitator for collaboration between developers, interacts with customers and external users to gather feedback, and creates the user stories for the product backlog. Lacking a Scrum Master on the team, Steve also fills that role and leads the Sprint Review and Sprint Planning sessions every two weeks. The most rewarding aspect of being a product owner is being able to shape the product into something customers not only find useful, but something they can't live without. Wearing the additional "hat" of a Senior Configuration Manager, Steve is also responsible for the design and implementation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment environments. This includes automating all facets of building, integrating, testing, and deploying software. Steve's goal is to implement push-button deployment and rollback solutions to reduce the cycle time for deploying software changes while reducing risk. Technologies include Rational Team Concert, Jazz, Subversion, Java EE, Hudson, WebLogic, Maven, Ant, Python, and more. Show less



Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company)

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Aug 2008 - Mar 2011

  Libertyville, IL Steve worked as an Engineering Manager with Motorola Mobility (formerly Motorola Mobile Devices) in the Chicago area, working on leading-edge Android phones. Steve managed Configuration Management engineers, Software PMs, and Software Test Engineers in the Performance Smartphone Product Family. He led process improvement activities within the team and looked for ways to improve efficiency and reduce cycle time for delivering software releases. Steve had over 10 years of experience in Motorola's… Show more Steve worked as an Engineering Manager with Motorola Mobility (formerly Motorola Mobile Devices) in the Chicago area, working on leading-edge Android phones. Steve managed Configuration Management engineers, Software PMs, and Software Test Engineers in the Performance Smartphone Product Family. He led process improvement activities within the team and looked for ways to improve efficiency and reduce cycle time for delivering software releases. Steve had over 10 years of experience in Motorola's development environment working on Compaq Tru64 UNIX, Solaris, and Linux systems for telecommunications applications both in infrastructure and embedded devices. Products involved in include the Motorola Devour, Motorola DROID, Motorola Droid X, and other soon to be released Android phones. Prior to this, Steve worked in the CDMA Common organization within Mobile Devices where he managed configuration management and test engineers working on a variety of products for various CDMA carriers. He acted as an interface between development teams and the consumer product teams to help ensure teams could have their features integrated, tested, and delivered to the product teams in a timely manner. He also guided the development of sanity and regression test suites that the team used to help ensure the delivery of quality software loads. He also helped the team with process improvements such as value stream mapping (VSM) of component teams' integration processes.

• Engineering Section Manager

  • Nov 2000 - Aug 2008

  Schaumburg, IL Steve has worked extensively developing and maintaining Linux build systems supporting a global team of over 2000 developers. He also has expertise in managing culturally diverse teams located in the US and China.



IBM

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

• I/T Architect

  • May 1996 - Nov 2000

  Schaumburg, IL Managed IBM RS/6000 content hosting servers in a large server farm for several national accounts. Performed UNIX system administration tasks and deployed custom software for customer servers. Created an unattended installation process for building out dozens of servers automatically.