Experience

Mocingbird

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  Managing an offshore development team as to build a early SaaS product to help clinicians maintain their licensure across all 50 states, each with varying conditions and constraints Successfully achieved the SOC 2 compliance milestone for the company in Nov’22 by implementing new company-wide policies and processes, in addition to building new features to continually improve the security posture. Continuing to introduce various monitoring tools (Snyk, Sentry, Scout, Better Uptime, etc.) to the platform to assist with identifying and managing performance findings, errors, and vulnerabilities. Individually managing the team of developers and testers to identify strengths and areas for improvement, ensuring their needs are met and that they are achieving both personal and company goals per their role on the team. Coordinating feature design as it relates to scope, complexity, and effort to ensure engineering understands the request and is able to execute on features per the necessary timeline. Coordinating the feature roadmap alongside bugfix and technical debt prioritization to ensure external-facing features are balanced with efforts to maintain overall quality Responsible for all engineering tools and licenses, ensuring the team has access to resources and systems necessary for their tasking. Peer reviewing all pull requests to the baseline prior to any changes going to the production release environment, ensuring proper testing has been executed for any features and changes Identifying aspects of the baseline to improve for scalability, whether it’s optimizing existing implementation, reconfiguring system resources, or reviewing alternative tools and products.



Northrop Grumman

• Airlines and Aviation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineering Manager

  • Sep 2019 - Oct 2021

  Software Engineering Manager (9/2019 to 10/2021)Managing 12 engineers of all levels of experience between: 1-on-1 meetings, mid-year and annual performance reviews, promotion and compensation planning, training, time charging, conflicts, and other issues related to human resourcesParticipating in staffing efforts: discussing staffing needs, managing attrition/retention, reviewing/interviewing potential candidates, college outreach effortsSupporting the Manned Aircraft Center of Excellence Software Engineering directorate: award nominations, NCTA/IRAD funding requests and proposals, and long-term strategic planning effortsNG Aeronautics lead for proposal capture effort: provided initial software architecture, estimated hours, scheduling, and resources for ~100 million dollar effortFeature Team Lead (2/2021 to 10/2021)- Managing a team of ~7 software and systems engineers to develop,integrate, and close system features in an accelerated development environment to maintain both schedule and quality- Coordinating with program leadership to prioritize tasking and a roadmap, to ensure proper resources are available to meet commitments-Providing regular status to program leadership and defining the vision for feature teams and their place in the organization when successful-Hosting daily scrums to discuss status and any impediments, and ensuring each team member continues to be productive and has a queue of clear and understood taskingThread Lead (2/2021 to 10/2021)- Coordinating the design and closure of electronic warfare system feature between mission software, HMI/UX, mission planning, support software, and integration teams-Hosting weekly thread meetings to review designs, discuss and capture issues, and to review the thread roadmap as it relates to the program and available resources-Participating in program planning efforts to prioritize features with respect to available capacity and competing priorities and resources

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 2016 - Aug 2019

  Deputy Chief Engineer (3/2019 to 12/2020)- Working across the organization to ensure holistic systems and software architecture- Advocating SAFE practices and working to improve our processes and standards- Coordinating efforts across the organization and with our customers to ensure we understand and meet our commitments- Participate in feature reviews with customers to understand their needs and requests, and to discuss paths we can take to reach their goals and missionSoftware Developer & Systems Engineer (8/2016 to 2/2019)- Participate in the full life-cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, and release- Work with various stakeholders and SME’s to decompose capabilities to subsystem features and requirements, and to generate a holistic system design using both DOORS and Rhapsody- Represent the project and team in meetings with customers during capability/thread reviews- Coordinate and host meetings with the Chief Architect’s Office (CAO) to discuss system capabilities and design- Develop OMS isolator services for sensor subsystems to include decoding/encoding native communications and mapping native messages to the OMS schema while adding management capabilities per requirements using C++ OO design principles- Participate in code reviews to ensure implementation is correct, maintainable, and well-understood- Evaluate growth options and improve upon the existing architecture, considering maintainability and readability- Act as the product team’s Scrum Master, ensuring the team lives agile values and principles and follows the agreed upon processes and practices- Participate in sprint planning to define scope, and to verify design and requirements- Host daily scrum standup meetings and weekly backlog-grooming to review planned work and to discuss current and upcoming SPRs and other known issues



Lockheed Martin

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Electronics Engineer

  • Jun 2014 - Aug 2016

  - Acted as Design Lead for the Tactical High Voltage Detonator (HVD) Test Console, monitoring the effects of aging on detonators to ensure confidence in missile support - Implemented software updates and bug-fixes for the High Energy Computed Tomography (HECT) system used to take CT images of missile and rocket motors and body-sections for flaw detection and acceptance testing - Implemented software and hardware changes to legacy test consoles for maintainability and reliability, incorporating new functionality and combatting obsolescence - Routine travel to various facilities for regular and emergency maintenance - Assisted in design inspections as an Electrical Designated Quality Representative (EDQR) trainee to certify hardware and test consoles used for various purposes across the company - Communicated design requirements, contractual obligations between Lockheed Martin and the United States' Navy



Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lab Technician

  • Aug 2010 - May 2014

  - Developed various test stands, software, and prototype boards for design and maintenance efforts – working with pressure transducers, database programming, magnetic bearings, and programmable logic controllers (PLCs)- Upgraded hardware and software systems across the facility to mitigate obsolescence and reduce costly downtime, as well as introduce new functionality- Developed a database for tracking parts integral to successful operation and maintenance

• Intern

  • Jun 2009 - Aug 2010