Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years experience: development, testing, automation, databases, maintenance, mentoring, troubleshooting, debugging, and more.

Delivering Quality and Customer Value

Focused on creating understandable, maintainable, and testable code. Adept at making complex ideas or requirements easy to understand and achievable. Valued by teams for setting standards and providing advice and counsel. Committed to delivering on promises with a strong sense of personal accountability.

Community Member and Leader

Constant individual and group learner. Founding member of the Phoenix Software Engineering Reading Group.

Skills, Languages, Technologies, etc.

Currently Using

Kotlin • Spring Boot • AWS • Kanban

Experience With

• Java • Node.js • TDD • Automation • REST • Craftsmanship • JUnit • Telecommute • Agile • JSON • HTTP API • Git • Jenkins • Troubleshooting • Continuous Integration • MySQL • AWS S3 RDS Lambda • Refactoring • HAL • GitFlow • Guava • Mac OS X • Linux • Google Glass • Dropwizard • Jersey • Jackson • Jetty • Concurrency • XML • IntelliJ IDEA • Ant • Subversion • Drupal • Ivy • XStream • Windows • D3.js • Express.js • Passport.js • Amazon Echo Alexa • Raspberry Pi

Conferences and Presentations

• Your First Amazon Alexa Skill (2016). An introduction to Alexa Skills and live coding session at Desert Code Camp 2016.1.
• Sharing My Enthusiasm for Weather (2015). Presented to coworkers at meltmedia’s biweekly show and tell.
• Visualizing Wind Data with Google Glass (2014). A presentation that featured a live demo [now a screen recording] of a proof-of-concept Glassware application for ASU.
• Java Concurrency – Past, Present, Future (2013). Presented to a group of mostly non-Java developers.

Personal Projects

• Amazon Echo Age Calculator Alexa Skill (2015). An Alexa Skill for calculating age between a given date and now. Node, AWS Lambda, Amazon Echo.
• Dropwizard Tutorial (2014). Painless RESTful JSON HTTP web services. Java, Dropwizard, Jetty, Jersey, Jackson.
• Sleeping Barber (2013). My take on the Sleeping Barber program using then-modern Java concurrency constructs. Java.
• MotoWatcher (2012). Motorola cable modem signal statistics page scraper and notifier. Java, HTTP, XOM, TagSoup, XML, HTML, Growl/Prowl.