Experience

Earnest

• United States
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Engineering Manager

  • Jun 2021 - Present

• Lead Software Engineer

  • Jul 2019 - Jun 2021

• Platform Engineer

  • Dec 2017 - Jul 2019

  ...engineering the platform...



thenewentity.com

• Chief Code Monkey

  • Aug 2008 - Present

  http://dev.thenewentity.com/ This is basically a playground for developing games, apps, and whatever I feel like developing. Software Slang: PHP, HTML5, Canvas, Sprites, SVG, JavaScript, DOM, CSS Fun Projects Here: http://dev.thenewentity.com/



TrimJoist Corporation

• Code Monkey

  • Jan 1994 - Present

  Developed TrimJoist Project Design System (TPDS) - a structural analysis package which determines if the TrimJoist product will be building-code-compliant in various support and loading applications. Maintained TPDS in a consulting capacity, providing patches and updates to maintain building-code compliance and provide new features as needed. Shibboleths : C++, Borland C++ Builder, VCL, GNU tools, XML, XSL, HTML



Keen

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jun 2016 - Dec 2017

  Stabilized old Cassandra ring, produced AWS CloudFormation templates and associated scripts to build new ring, supporting migration of Keen.io from SoftLayer to AWS. Developed a Cassandra hygiene application; automated overrides of Cassandra's "severity" metric, cleanup after adding/replacing nodes, etc. Developed Cassandra backup and restore solution based around AWS S3 and Cloudformation. Handled on-call responsibilities with Pagerduty.



Clear Capital

• United States
• Financial Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Applications Architect

  • Sep 2013 - May 2016

  Telecommute to Truckee, CA Developing applications including the Appraisal Data Validation System http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140407-904969.html Led initiative to open-source some innovations in the Cassandra and DSE space: https://github.com/clearcapital Menagery of Metasoftware: Java, Maven, DropWizard, Cassandra, DataStax Enterprise, Solr, Angular, git, JSON, XSL, XML, Python, PHP



ResPower, Inc.

• President

  • Nov 2000 - Dec 2014

  Co-founded a 3d render farm, which is a service where people upload 3D wireframe models, and our computers perform algorithms to produce photo-realistic images from those models. ResPower provided cloud computing services before cloud computing was called grid computing — in fact, before there was a name for it. At the time we were researching the company, the term "render farm" brought up google search results about factories for rendering horses into glue. Responsibilities: Every… Show more Co-founded a 3d render farm, which is a service where people upload 3D wireframe models, and our computers perform algorithms to produce photo-realistic images from those models. ResPower provided cloud computing services before cloud computing was called grid computing — in fact, before there was a name for it. At the time we were researching the company, the term "render farm" brought up google search results about factories for rendering horses into glue. Responsibilities: Every aspect of the business, including but not limited to: Janitor, Tech Support, Construction, Software Developer, Accountant Clichés: C++, VCL, MingW, Cygwin, Linux, WFTPd, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python, PERL, LightWave, Maya, 3dsmax, 3dStudio, Blender3d, Bryce 3d Show less



ALLDATA

• United States
• Automotive
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Code Monkey

  • Dec 2011 - Sep 2013

  Wrote probably 90% of the client side of Alldata's first mobile product, Alldata Mobile. Technology Buzzword Bingo: iOS, XCode, Objective-C, XML, XSL, HTML5, Web Services, REST, make, sed, PHP, JavaScript



AutoZone

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Code Monkey

  • Jan 2009 - Dec 2011

  Developed and maintained Point of Sale, Customer Relations Management, and Inventory Management software using a variety of languages in a fast-paced environment. Programming Argot: C, C++, Qt 3/4, PERL, Bash, sed, XML, XSL, HTML, JavaScript



TOSC, International

• Code Monkey

  • Jul 1999 - Jan 2000

  Developed ActiveX components to provide a programming interface between Windows clients and mainframe servers. Pitter Patter: ActiveX, C++, Borland C++ Builder, VCL, COM, MS Visual C++



Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 1997 - Jul 1999

  As part of Compaq's Enterprise Computing Group, developed and maintained Microsoft Cluster Server technologies for the ProLiant line of servers. Worked on the full stack of software, from device firmware through GUIs. Inventor: http://patents.justia.com/inventor/early-david-ehlinger Jargon Bullets: C, C++, SCSI, Firmware, Windows, ProLiant, device drivers, MFC