Experience

Red Dog Media, Inc.

• United States
• Internet Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2014 - Present



Solera | Identifix

• United States
• Automotive
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2013 - Jul 2014



Service Repair Solutions

• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Development

  • Jan 2011 - Dec 2012

  Hands-on technical manager, with responsibilities over development teams in the USA, Vietnam, and Russia. Demonstrated ability to deep-dive into technical matters to define direction and resolve team impediments. Key Achievements: • Managed efforts to migrate our flagship MPi EDGE product off of a distributed database backend to a centralized SaaS level-4 backend. This included coordinating development efforts between teams, taking an active role in tactical design, and jumping in to assist with tough code problems. • In charge of teams developing key components of our web-based platform strategy to further our SOA efforts and unify our various products. This included providing guidance on improving site up-time and performance, driving technical design and coding direction, and ensuring that work was being done in an appropriate order so features would ship. • Responsible for the development of our next generation single-page application from assembling the team and defining our minimum viable product to releasing our first Alpha version to a test customer. Show less



MPi EDGE

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer / Team Lead

  • Aug 2006 - Jan 2011

  Leader and integral member of the development team focused on producing high-quality code to solve technical challenges. Proven ability to prioritize development efforts to ensure that valuable functionality is able to ship. Key Achievements:• Redesigned our Dealer Management System (DMS) integration product to decouple integration points from core processing allowing for easier extensibility and improved maintainability. This redesign also allowed the team to more easily scale by allowing developers to work in relative isolation, avoiding code changes that could potentially harm another developer’s work.• Refactored a custom installation tool to use a data-driven model, reducing code changes necessary for each release and improving overall reliability.• Created a continuous build system to replace a cumbersome batch build process, reducing the time necessary to generate a release from around eight hours to mere minutes.• Improved team capability by teaching team members how to understand and resolve problems rather than simply providing answers. Show less

• Quality Assurance Principle Engineer

  • Jul 2004 - Aug 2006

  Member of a QA team focused on providing broad testing coverage for our flagship product.Key Achievements:• Created a custom automation framework in C# for scripting GUI load and stress testing efforts.• Created multiple code-based data validation tests to parse through gigabytes of compressed XML data and database rows to verify consistency and validity.• Leveraged past experience to drive automated testing efforts, and evaluate third-party testing tools.• Responsible for installation and maintenance of lab hardware including small routers, switches, wireless access points, laptops and servers.• Worked closely with our Development and Technical Operations departments to identify and resolve customer concerns as well as come up with innovative solutions to our customer’s needs. Show less



KeyLabs

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Test Engineer

  • Oct 1999 - Jul 2004

  Test engineer in a fast paced, outsource testing company that required the ability to switch between different types of testing disciplines based on customer/project demands. Key Achievements: • Created reliable automation scripts using various scripting languages. • Performed large scale automated client/server and web testing. • Managed groups of testers to accomplish project goals. Test engineer in a fast paced, outsource testing company that required the ability to switch between different types of testing disciplines based on customer/project demands. Key Achievements: • Created reliable automation scripts using various scripting languages. • Performed large scale automated client/server and web testing. • Managed groups of testers to accomplish project goals.



Novell

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

• Intern

  • Sep 1996 - Aug 1997

  Maintained and installed test hardware in Novell’s main testing lab, the SuperLab. Assisted SuperLab engineers with test setup. Received CNA certification for Novell NetWare 4.11 Maintained and installed test hardware in Novell’s main testing lab, the SuperLab. Assisted SuperLab engineers with test setup. Received CNA certification for Novell NetWare 4.11