Experience

GitLab

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

• Senior Backend Engineer - Secure

  • Jul 2021 - Present

  Remote

• Backend Engineer - Secure

  • Feb 2019 - Jul 2021

  Remote



Conferences and User Groups

• Speaker

  • Jul 2014 - Present

  Conferences: KCDC 2018, RubyConf 2016 (backup speaker) User Groups: KC Ruby User Group, Iowa Ruby Brigade, Lawrence Coders



Kicksite

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Engineer

  • Nov 2016 - Feb 2019

  Remote Responsible for running sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and backlog refinement. Mentored developers. Assisted with hiring.

• Full Stack Engineer

  • Jul 2015 - Nov 2016

  Worked on our Ruby on Rails Saas CRM for an ever growing number of clients.



Brush Art

• Australia
• Arts & Crafts

• Sofware Developer at Brush Art

  • Dec 2012 - Jul 2015

  Remote Responsible for 60+ Rails and Sinatra websites using Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB Work with Front End Developer and Account Executives to develop and maintain websites Integrate with 3rd party APIs Made improvements to reduce PaaS hosting bills Reduced run time of nightly job from 8 hours to 15 minutes Created weekly contest apps to increase visitor engagement Prototyped RubyMotion app



Booz Allen Hamilton

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

• Senior Consultant

  • Nov 2008 - Dec 2012

  Develop features for ASP.NET MVC C# app, February 2012 - August 2012 -Stepped in and committed useful features on Day 1 Conversion of ArcGIS VBA script to .NET Console App, October 2011 – August 2012 -Converted VBA script to .NET -Decreased processing time by 92% Development of Lessons Learned Website, October 2009 – September 2011 -Made numerous security enhancements -Increased site performance 10X -Migrated from MS Access to SQL Server… Show more Develop features for ASP.NET MVC C# app, February 2012 - August 2012 -Stepped in and committed useful features on Day 1 Conversion of ArcGIS VBA script to .NET Console App, October 2011 – August 2012 -Converted VBA script to .NET -Decreased processing time by 92% Development of Lessons Learned Website, October 2009 – September 2011 -Made numerous security enhancements -Increased site performance 10X -Migrated from MS Access to SQL Server 2008 -Acting server and database Admin -Implemented a Communities of Interest Portal in ASP.NET that became the core of the website -Implemented weekly member email newsletter that substantially increased traffic -Implemented solution to share content with other DOD organizations via web services Conversion From VB6 to VB.NET, November 2008 – September 2009 -Converted VB6 application to a VB.NET WinForms application -Delivered project on-time despite starting on contract 1 ½ months late Show less



Commerce

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Programmer Analyst II

  • Jun 2004 - Oct 2008

  Programmer Analyst II, June 2007 – October 2008 -Based on performance, brought onto Online Banking Scrum team as a C#/.NET developer -Based on impact, promoted and allowed to work from home twice a week -Responsible for addressing security vulnerabilities in Online Banking app -Implemented opt-in alerts for customers -Integrated Small Business Banking into Retail Online Banking Programmer Analyst I, October 2006 – June 2007 -Successfully… Show more Programmer Analyst II, June 2007 – October 2008 -Based on performance, brought onto Online Banking Scrum team as a C#/.NET developer -Based on impact, promoted and allowed to work from home twice a week -Responsible for addressing security vulnerabilities in Online Banking app -Implemented opt-in alerts for customers -Integrated Small Business Banking into Retail Online Banking Programmer Analyst I, October 2006 – June 2007 -Successfully integrated new government regulations into classic ASP and VB6 website used by 1000 financial service representatives Network Engineer II, June 2004 – October 2006 -Monitor Commerce IT network infrastructure Show less



Perot Systems

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Helpdesk Associate

  • Oct 2002 - Jun 2004

  Kansas City, Missouri Area