Experience

Faro Health Inc.
• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Software Engineer

  • Sep 2021 - Present


Accenture

• Ireland
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead product and platform engineer

  • Aug 2019 - Oct 2021

  Client - Smarter Balanced (Accenture acquired Fairway Technologies August 2019) • Interfaced with stakeholders to define requirements, manage priorities, and understand their data to craft solutions to better improve their test question authoring processes. Lead the team in day daily Agile activities including standups, sprint planning, and priority management. • Architected moving the source of truth data from Gitlab into a Postgres database ensuring historical changes were preserved. Leverage S3 versioning for the test question attachments and insert only database design to track all changes over time for a test question. • Designed and implemented an authoring UI for Smarter’s teacher resource system. Leveraged Angular and Spring Boot to design the search and authoring for these resources and integrated with Smarter’s PHP application which was used to present the resources to teachers. Show less



Fairway Technologies

• United States

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Aug 2016 - 2019

  Client - Smarter Balanced • Redesigned test delivery monolith application into microservice architecture leveraging Spring Boot, Docker, and Kubernetes for deployments. • Leveraged event database design and horizontal scaling to improve performance from 5000 concurrent users to 250,000 users. • Lead team creating test question search application interfacing with the client to capture requirements and manage contractual responsibilities. Lead Agile activities including standups, sprint planning, and daily execution. • Designed and implemented query framework to support test question ingest and dynamic search queries from users and external applications. Leveraged RabbitMQ for fast ingestion and processing events from Gitlab webhooks. Show less



Charge Communication Inc.

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

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Nov 2014 - Jul 2016

  • Developed many of the core features to the Android messenger application including interfacing with the Smack library to handle XMPP communication. • Leveraged Go, Amazon S3, and Stripe to create the billing system charging customers and processing usage for our cellular service offering. • Configured and stood up the build server for our Go, Angular, and Spring Boot applications. • Maintained the Spring Boot application which bridged our systems to Sprint's SOAP APIs. • Used Redis to create a Go process that would listen for new user notifications then send a welcome message over XMPP to our mobile chat clients. Show less



Semantic Research, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Oct 2012 - Nov 2014

  • Created a configurable view system leveraging Spring HATEOS, Hibernate, and Angular. • Developed an XML processor for a custom rules processor to handle classification markings. • Enhanced and increased stability to the Swing desktop application by introducing separation of concerns and adding unit tests. • Helped mentor the team members to design code allowing for better testing during development. • Worked in an agile environment with daily standups, bi-weekly retro and demo, and story point estimation Show less



BAE Systems

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

• Principal Software Engineer

  • May 2011 - Oct 2012

  • Leveraged Spring Integration to ingest large amounts of data and display results to the user. • Contributed to a single page Spring MVC application using jQuery and jQuery UI. • Developed a distributed export framework to allow data export in multiple formats. The architecture allows multiple types of data to be exported with implementation of a single interface. • Leveraged Spring Integration to ingest large amounts of data and display results to the user. • Contributed to a single page Spring MVC application using jQuery and jQuery UI. • Developed a distributed export framework to allow data export in multiple formats. The architecture allows multiple types of data to be exported with implementation of a single interface.



Reinsurance Group of America

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Systems Engineer

  • Oct 2010 - May 2011

  • Created a Grails application to manage claims and settlement. • Developed Grails plugin to search Active directory with a multitude of filters. • Designed and created RESTful Web services in Grails using JaxRS to query Claims data. • Integrated Microsoft Report SQL Server by leveraging JaxWS to make SOAP call to display reports. • Strong use of TDD and Agile methodologies • Created a Grails application to manage claims and settlement. • Developed Grails plugin to search Active directory with a multitude of filters. • Designed and created RESTful Web services in Grails using JaxRS to query Claims data. • Integrated Microsoft Report SQL Server by leveraging JaxWS to make SOAP call to display reports. • Strong use of TDD and Agile methodologies



Enterprise Rent-A-Car

• United States
• Real Estate

• Lead Software Engineer

  • Jan 2006 - Oct 2010

  • Tech Lead on the first SOA application in the department along with handling requests from multiple projects at any given time. • Designed a messaging framework which guaranteed message order for client messages to a third party client. Leveraged Spring, Hibernate, and JMS to implement the framework in such a way to allow additional messages types to be added easily with little configuration. • Optimized the code for inefficiencies and reduced processing time by roughly 50%. • Assisted in designing a vision to allow the team to move away from our dependence on legacy systems (AS/400). • Designed and implemented functionality within the rental applications. • Assisted in gathering business requirements and assessed technical feasibility on requirements. Show less



Raytheon

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

• Software Engineer II

  • Aug 2004 - Jan 2006

  Developed proof of concept applications on the internal research and development team located in the Omaha branch. Worked on a Web application which leveraged ESRI's GIS software to allow users to view geographically related data. Developed proof of concept applications on the internal research and development team located in the Omaha branch. Worked on a Web application which leveraged ESRI's GIS software to allow users to view geographically related data.



Union Pacific Railroad

• United States
• Rail Transportation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • May 2002 - Aug 2004

  Worked on the External Web Billing application - Java, HTML, CSS, XML, XLST, Struts, EJB, Weblogic 6.1 Worked on the External Web Billing application - Java, HTML, CSS, XML, XLST, Struts, EJB, Weblogic 6.1