Experience

Gust

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Operating Officer

  • Jul 2019 - Present

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Apr 2015 - Jul 2019

• Vice President of Technology

  • Apr 2013 - Apr 2015



Boeing

• United States
• Aviation & Aerospace
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Software Development

  • Mar 2011 - Apr 2013

  Managed 2 development teams:1 development team focused on backend services, text and data processing, high performance, scale and data storage. Relevant languages: Ruby, C/C++, Perl1 development team focused on software designed to stress and report on other software. Relevant technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, redis, resque, JMeterBoth teams follow Agile practices (XP, continuous integration, TDD, automation).

• Performance Team Lead

  • Jul 2009 - Mar 2011

  Software development for the defense/analysis industry. Product is a large, complex system for ingesting, disseminating and organizing information (aren't they all?). Ruby on Rails front end with a myriad of technologies in the back end (C, Perl, Ruby, SQL databases, Berkeley DB, in-house storage).Team is responsible for the scalability and performance of the system.Leadership role: Responsible for team of 5-8 in an agile environment, project management, coordinate team needs with product and company requirements, responsible for removing any impediments blocking the team from progressing in their work, report system and team information to product owner and managers.Technical role: Evaluate the performance of our system under load, investigate potential bottlenecks and inform other teams, work with clients to understand growth and scalability requirements, develop tools to replicate system and user load from client information, assist other development teams in planning and executing new features with performance and scalability in mind, develop and maintain tools to better stress and understand the system. Show less



Cleaner's Supply

• United States
• Retail Office Equipment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Team Lead

  • Jul 2007 - May 2009

  Leadership role: project management, employee management, forecasting and team planning, financial and vendor management. Technical role: Programming in .NET, C#, Progress, Java. Hardware/software installation and maintenance. Diagnosis of technical issues and solutions. Leadership role: project management, employee management, forecasting and team planning, financial and vendor management. Technical role: Programming in .NET, C#, Progress, Java. Hardware/software installation and maintenance. Diagnosis of technical issues and solutions.