Experience

Linden Lab

• United States
• Computer Games
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Manager, Engineering

  • Dec 2022 - Present

• Principal Software Engineer

  • May 2021 - Dec 2022

  Member of Second Life's Platform Infrastructure Engineering (2021-2022) and Server (2022-Present) teams.

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Feb 2016 - May 2021

  Member of Sansar's Web Engineering team (2016-2020) and Second Life's Internal Tools team (2020-2021)



Amazon

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Development Engineer

  • Nov 2015 - Jan 2016



CareerBuilder

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Lead

  • Dec 2014 - Nov 2015

  Team lead and individual contributor in CareerBuilder's consumer web department. Improved core site experience, overhauling legacy careerbuilder.com pages, and led an initiative to migrate analytics to a real-time system built on top of Amazon Kinesis and DynamoDB. Previously team lead for CareerBuilder's Content Enablement product team: a small, multidisciplinary group creating tools to facilitate content management, collaboration and application development using open source platforms… Show more Team lead and individual contributor in CareerBuilder's consumer web department. Improved core site experience, overhauling legacy careerbuilder.com pages, and led an initiative to migrate analytics to a real-time system built on top of Amazon Kinesis and DynamoDB. Previously team lead for CareerBuilder's Content Enablement product team: a small, multidisciplinary group creating tools to facilitate content management, collaboration and application development using open source platforms and philosophy. Built Ruby libraries to integrate with core business services, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails applications and RESTful APIs. Responsible for bridging gaps across multiple departments, advocating for team members, guiding technical development of a new content management platform, maintaining enterprise services and more.

• Software Engineer II

  • Oct 2013 - Dec 2014

  Built applications to support consolidated content-management, identity and analytics. Ruby (Rails, Grape, et al.) and AngularJS.



Terryberry

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

• Software Developer, Team Lead

  • Jul 2012 - Oct 2013

  Member of a growing team of developers responsible for improving Terryberry's social employee recognition platform and related services. Member of a growing team of developers responsible for improving Terryberry's social employee recognition platform and related services.



Grand Rapids Public Library

• United States
• Libraries
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Network Support Technician

  • Apr 2011 - May 2012

  Developed and maintained internal web services and tools while providing support for all IT-related services within the main building and seven branch locations. Developed and maintained internal web services and tools while providing support for all IT-related services within the main building and seven branch locations.



Freelance Web Developer

• Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• Freelance Web Developer

  • Jul 2010 - Apr 2011

  Worked for individual clients including the development of NEWWORDS' online store and blog and ongoing contract work with Virtual Learning Labs maintaining virtual world servers. Worked for individual clients including the development of NEWWORDS' online store and blog and ongoing contract work with Virtual Learning Labs maintaining virtual world servers.