Experience

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  Observe, Inc.

  • United States
  • IT Services and IT Consulting
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Product Specialist Manager

    • Sep 2023 - Present

  • Software Engineer

    • Apr 2022 - Dec 2023

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  Slalom

  • Portland, Oregon Area

  • Solutions Architect

    • Dec 2019 - Apr 2022
    • Portland, Oregon Area

    Design and implement Kubernetes based solutions for deploying highly available consumer applications utilizing a microservices architecture. Decompose monolithic architecture into containerized services that can be deployed independently with CI/CD pipelines.Design and implement pipelines for continuous delivery of infrastructure and applications across multiple environments in a highly regulated business context. Utilize infrastructure as code to standardize deployment of infrastructure in reusable modules that ensure repeatability and maintain state to prevent environment drift.Train and mentor client personnel on devops development practices and working in an Agile / SAFe environment. Help newly hired cloud engineers and existing development teams to learn and utilize technologies such as Azure Devops Pipelines, Docker, Terraform and Go.Design and implement cli tool for automation of pipeline tasks using Go. Move in-line scripting and other tasks to versioned cli tools with automated testing to promote continuous improvement and simplification for developers.

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  TEKsystems

  • Portland, Oregon Area

  • Software Engineer

    • Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
    • Portland, Oregon Area

    Design and deliver cloud based globally scaled applications utilizing continuous delivery / continuous integration pipelines to speed delivery of business critical functionality and increase quality and reliability of global applications.Convert regionally developed applications for managing inventory planning from non-supported technologies to cloud based NodeJS / GraphQL / React applications that conform with Nike Demand and Supply Management (DSM) supported architecture and establish patterns and best practices for future development within DSM utilizing CI / CD pipelines.Provide training to Nike employees and contractors to achieve Nike goals of creating a microservice architecture based on opensource technologies, automating repetitive tasks to accelerate the pace of development and increasing the quality and consistency of Nike applications. Separate training sessions focused on how to build Rest based and GraphQL based API applications using NodeJS, how to deploy applications using CI / CD pipelines utilizing Jenkins and Terraform on AWS and how to create automated end to end testing with Cypress.Train and mentor new team members by providing guidance on proper coding techniques and conformance with application requirements through regular code review sessions and pair programming.Present to relevant stakeholders team progress on application development and patterns and best practices for future development within DSM.

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  Vlamis Software Solutions Inc

  • Senior Consultant

    • Dec 2014 - Jul 2018

    Analyzed and assessed analytics environment design, performance, and roadmap for Fortune 500 companies. Provided Best Practice recommendations, prioritized roadmap implementation, and trained staff on geospatial capabilities and metadata modeling within analytics applications, visualization, and data warehousing design and implementation. Partnered with Oracle and other software organizations on client implementations. Presented Case Studies and technical updates at national and regional technical conferences.---Saved 400 labor hours by designing and creating dynamic safety analytics application for North American Fortune 500 transportation company to model and visualize KPIs with geospatial perspective.----Saved governmental scientific institution development staff tens of hours per month and made merging and migration of changes easier, standardized, repeatable, and automatic by implementing continuous integration for analytics environment and training development staff. ---Saved hundreds of man hours per month across multiple divisions for major manufacturing company while providing complete picture of sales and order lifecycle by integrating two data sources and making reporting instantaneous and dynamic.---Gave theater and executive management at entertainment company ability to visualize and compare theater performance on interactive maps across North America at the metro, region, and city levels to visualize best and worst performers on dollar and ratio based KPIs.

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  University of Nebraska at Omaha

  • Greater Omaha Area

  • Adjunct Professor

    • Jan 2014 - May 2018
    • Greater Omaha Area

    Organizations, Applications & Technology; Database Administration; Data Warehousing & Data Mining

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  HDR

  • Greater Omaha Area

  • Senior Systems Analyst

    • May 2010 - Dec 2014
    • Greater Omaha Area

    Analyzed and reported on data to C-Level executives. Developed software enhancements. ---Removed dependency on IT resources for daily operational reporting and analysis by training users on BI tools. ---Directed requirements gathering, design, and implementation of data warehouse and BI applications while eliminating redundant data sources and reporting to provide dynamic reporting.---Established roadmap and standards including instance change management, BI competency, and future direction.---Saved Payroll 40 hours per month clerk time by creating automation to accrue vacation and payroll when month and year-end reporting was out of sync with two-week payroll period for statutory reporting requirements. ---Saved approximately 20 hours per month for Human Resources after integrating system with address validation service to reduce returned mail errors. ---Reduced calls to HR/Payroll after fixing system to display accrued sick and vacation time for each employee.---Convinced IT Department to buy additional monitors for 50 employees by conducting Case Study on benefits and productivity related to multiple monitors.

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  Kiewit

  • United States
  • Construction
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Content Management Supervisor, 2009 - 2010 | Senior Software Developer, 2007 - 2009

    • Jan 2007 - May 2010

    Oversaw onboarding and application support functions. Implemented and modified software and trained developers.---Reduced time to restate accounting results from reorganizations by 100 hours for accounting staff by developing methodology for entering consolidations into general ledger. ---Saved hundreds of labor hours and reduced missing pre-qualifications for Managerial and Financial Reporting Departments by implementing database to store, track, and report on work to employees and managers. ---Enabled dynamic reporting and saved hundreds of labor hours per year for reporting on aggregation of $2 billion in construction equipment to prequalify with agencies by building database.

  • Accountant

    • Aug 2004 - Jan 2007

    Trained accounting staff on reporting and analysis. ---Streamlined legal and reporting processes by developing data entry and reporting solutions.

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  UPS

  • Revenue Recovery Supervisor

    • May 2003 - Aug 2004

    ---Created, implemented, and maintained database to track employee information in several states. ---Increased weekly revenue recovered 33% and reduced reporting time by developing new database capabilities.