Experience

Engaged Technologies

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

• Manager of IT Infrastructure and Services

  • Apr 2016 - Present

  As IT infrastructure and services manager, I am responsible for supporting all major areas of IT infrastructure for the group of Engaged Companies (for which eShipping and Engaged Technologies are a part). This includes managing the service desk, IT operations and DevOps.

• Systems Architect

  • Aug 2014 - Apr 2016

  As systems architect I took a major role in working through infrastructure design and support of the application infrastructure used by the TMS application developed by the company. I worked extensively to plan, implement and support moving the application infrastructure from a traditional data center to the Azure platform. I maintained a number of SQL Server databases including a those in an availability group, replicated databases and Azure SQL databases. I continued work in database schema design, development and support. Further duties included working in C#, WCF, web services, ESBs, Azure services, systems monitoring, code reviews, etc. using an Agile software development methodology and working closely with team members.

• Lead Software Engineer

  • Aug 2009 - Aug 2014

  While at eShipping I have been responsible for much of the systems architecture and database design/maintenance as well as designing/implementing a few customer facing applications. I have used variety of front-end/middle-ware/back-end technologies including Flex, VB, Java, Python, C#, Linux, Windows Server 2003/3008, Sql Server 2008 and Coldfusion.



Kansas State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2007 - May 2009

  I was a lab TA for a beginning programming course. During my four semester tenure, we covered C#, Python and Java. My teaching skills improved over the four semesters and I always received very positive feedback from my students.

• Research Assistant

  • May 2008 - Jul 2008

  This was a summer research position working for the Human Robot Teams group where I developed a system to detect and gather improvised explosive devices. I created/edited a video and report to supplement the code. Code was written in Java and was executed on the Pioneer 3-AT robot platform. A search for "Laser Guided Object Detection and Disposal" on Google should bring up the report and a youtube video.



Word of Life Church

• United States
• Religious Institutions
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Network Administrator

  • Jan 2003 - Aug 2007

  I transformed the fragile Windows 98 based network into a solid Windows XP domain based network. I administered all domain controllers, Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003, Sql Server 2000, IIS 5/6 as well as most software maintenance and purchasing across the organization. I also developed a web based scheduling application in PHP. I transformed the fragile Windows 98 based network into a solid Windows XP domain based network. I administered all domain controllers, Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003, Sql Server 2000, IIS 5/6 as well as most software maintenance and purchasing across the organization. I also developed a web based scheduling application in PHP.