Backend Programmer

• Sep 2022 - Present

Gameplay programmer, focus on backend development and infrastructure. Gameplay programmer, focus on backend development and infrastructure.

Engineering Manager

• Apr 2022 - Sep 2022

Engineering Manager for Global Hosting and Network Services (GHNS) and CNETOps.Coach and develop engineering culture and individual engineers within my teams working on Cloud Services as well as Infrastructure and Networking operations.Help strategize long term goals for the team which fit into larger organizational goals for GlobalIT.Work to bring aboard, retain and train engineers to help them achieve their own personal career goals by helping them steer them towards institutional objectives and making sure they have received the support and assistance necessary to grow. Show less

Senior Architect / Engineer for Mobile - Cargill Global IT

• Oct 2019 - Aug 2022

Design and develop mobile platform tools as part of a larger, developer focused, enablement platform within Cargill. Utilize and construct CI / CD tools for cross cloud infrastructure deployments and security analysis.Facilitate design thinking sessions for engineers and businesses to help focus on application design / usage patterns that solve the core business problem.Coach and onboard application development teams on best practices within the pipelines. Provide resources and guidance for application lifecycle (design, develop, deploy, secure, final launch).Coordinate global best practices within Cargill through standardization of various cloud native tools (e.g. Terraform, Github, Vela.) Show less

Member of the Editorial Board

• Feb 2017 - Oct 2019

Web Management and Marketing: The Peer-Reviewed Journal is guided by an expert Editorial Board who guide the journal's content and peer-review every article submitted for publication to ensure they are practical, authoritative and relevant: Web Management and Marketing: The Peer-Reviewed Journal is guided by an expert Editorial Board who guide the journal's content and peer-review every article submitted for publication to ensure they are practical, authoritative and relevant:

Head of Software Development

• Aug 2014 - Oct 2019

Manage team of developers and designers for the museum. Using agile methodology to organize individual project workflow. Evaluate system integration and develop new software for internal and external users. Website and API development for Mia as well as major systems integration design.Create software to facilitate interactive visitor experiences including web and mobile application development.Facilitate institutional decisions based on UX / UI experience using Design Thinking principles. Help to evaluate effectiveness using Analytics as well as other in house tools. Show less

Lead Developer

• Nov 2008 - Aug 2014

Lead developer for the Interactive Media Group. Working on support and development for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts website as well as the MIA's Lead Developer for the ArtsConnected project.I also work on creating and supporting new ways of interacting with the museums collection, images and metadata. Including a recently produced iPhone application.Also working on restructuring our data, and providing an built from scratch API which is designed not only to support our current internal systems but also free information up for other developers to utilize. Show less

Associate Editor

• 2004 - Apr 2011

Reading prospective papers and articles submissions and working with other editors to decide which to include for subsequent issues. Then shepherding the authors through a refinement / editorial process. Helping to craft their submissions and make fit for publication. Reading prospective papers and articles submissions and working with other editors to decide which to include for subsequent issues. Then shepherding the authors through a refinement / editorial process. Helping to craft their submissions and make fit for publication.

Systems Engineer

• Apr 2004 - Nov 2008

Direct involvement in all phases of new and past Information Technology projects supporting multiple university business units spanning the breadth of Facilities Management, Police Department, Capital Planning and Project Management, Environ- mental Health and Safety, Bookstores, Student and Residential Life and Printing Services. Consistently handled day to day maintenance and development of all servers and applications, supporting their use by 1300 Facilities employees, and over 6300 students. - Software development supporting back-end operations written in a wide variety of languages from Java, C/C++, PHP, Ruby, Perl and even shell scripts. - Often utilized to create / update / re-write web application and / or online train- ing applications. Responsible for converting many existing applications to con- form more strictly in to web standards. - Day to day operation and installation of new hardware and operating systems and SAN storage technology. - Server and network security auditing and maintenance. - Consulted by management team concerning most technical issues, and best practices. Often used as a reference to identify potential issues or design con- siderations during project analysis and design. Show less

Member

• 2004 - 2006

Systems and Technical Support

• Oct 2000 - Apr 2004

Managed application and hardware support for thousands of GDAIS employees nationwide. Support included phone, email and remote solutions for in-house engineering applications as well as standard GD desktop programs. Support applications across four separate domains, and later supported their consolidation. Daily account maintenance in Microsoft as well as Solaris, Irix and HP-UX environments including development of applications designed to monitor resources, printers, and software licensing. - Assisted engineering team with applications development including providing and installing necessary software libraries, version control systems, hardware and allocation of resources. Show less

Technical Support

• Jun 1998 - Oct 2000

Personally responsible for technical support for 600+ Pakon customers worldwide. Telephone and email support and diagnosis for several of Pakon's proprietary film to digital scanner systems. Also helped support internal servers and desktops. Mostly Windows NT OS and Windows 2000 desktops. Personally responsible for technical support for 600+ Pakon customers worldwide. Telephone and email support and diagnosis for several of Pakon's proprietary film to digital scanner systems. Also helped support internal servers and desktops. Mostly Windows NT OS and Windows 2000 desktops.

Technical Support and Quality Team Lead

• Nov 1997 - Jun 1998

Telephone and e-mail quality team lead responsible for monitoring, grading and instructing support technicians to better support the requirements of the business as well as improve personal skill of employees. Required to maintain extensive technical knowledge of client architecture and configuration as well as how to correctly troubleshoot and diagnose issues coming into the call center. Provided internal quality of service monitoring of technical support. Required intimate knowledge of ISDN, ADSL services as well as all general Windows and Novell systems of the day. Primary customer was Ameritech, supporting over 100,000 internet subscribers, and countless desktop systems. Show less