Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business

Master of Business Administration
Management of Technology
Business Analytics

University of Alabama, Huntsville

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Software Consultant and Owner

Cloud Architect

• Azure
• AWS
• Google Cloud Platform
• DigitalOcean
• IBM Cloud
• Heroku

Software Architect

Syfer Cloud

• Languages: Go, Python
• Cloud: GCP, AWS, DigitalOcean, IBM Cloud
• Messaging: MQTT, REST, Istio
• Automation: Kubernetes, Terraform, CircleCI, Helm
• Mobile: React Native, Expo

Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

Data Foundation

• Manage execution of GE Transportation Digital Solutions' Data Fabric using Agile project management
• Architect and lead Data-as-a-Service initiative to streamline and consolidate enterprise data delivery to external customers and internal service subscribers
• Lead a collaborative and dynamic planning process by prioritizing the work that needs to be done while taking capacity and capability of the execution team
• Coach and mentor junior and senior engineers to help retain talent and provide key direction for career growth
• Conduct a weekly project status meeting for senior executives to show overall progress and risks
• Technologies: Amazon Web Services (EMR, Elasticsearch, Athena, Kinesis, API Gateway, Lambda, Elastic Load Balancer: Classic, S3, Cloud Front, EC2 Container Service, Route 53, Amazon Certificate Manager, Docker, Talend Data Fabric), Apache JMeter, Datadog, Pagerduty, Terraform

Port Info Portal

• Managed a cross-functional team utilizing inspiration and empowerment to foster teamwork and a collaborative culture
• Promoted a global workflow that allows for on-going responsiveness and reduction of project durations
• Coordinated efforts on-shore and off-shore to conduct knowledge transfer and transition development to operations
• Ensured all products are built to an appropriate level of quality for the beta and production stages
• Delivered Port Information Portal pilot within time and under budget leading to a five-year deal worth $12 million
• Presented live demo of the system to the customer highlighting scalability and durability of the data ingestion pipeline and website
• Technologies: Amazon Web Services (Lambda, EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Cognito, RDS, CodePipeline), Java, Spring Boot, Python, Node.js, AngularJS, Gradle, Brew, NPM, SFTP, MQ, Solace VMR, Adaptris Interlok, Datadog, PagerDuty, Terraform

Innovation Team

• Led evaluation of a search engine to deliver data to internal apps in a scalable and distributed fashion
• Conducted proof-of-concepts on low-code app development and business process management platforms
• Improve development practices by promoting Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment processes to provide rapid feedback to development teams
• Technologies: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Appian, Docker Compose

Software Lead

• Led execution of a data delivery pipeline including analysis, design, implementation, and transfer-to-operations
• Streamlined development process through impediment removal leading to on-time delivery of sprint goals and deliverables
• Technologies: Cloud Foundry (Predix), Akana API Gateway, Spring Boot, Java, Node.js, Gradle, NPM, JUnit, TestNG, Mockito, Elasticsearch, Kibana, New Relic, Jenkins, Chef, Vagrant, GitHub

Sr. Software Engineer

• Led design and implementation of a transportation management solution that helps shippers automate rail operations
• Undertook improvement in delivery commitments and capacity planning for Sprints by utilizing Scrum practices including: release and sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and customer demos
• Managed, planned, and implemented a proof-of-concept analyzing locomotive IoT data and presented insights via a cloud-based web application
• Serve on the hiring committee of GE Transportation Digital Solutions responsible for interviewing over 70 engineers
• Technologies: Play! Framework, Java, Spring, RESTful Services, Javascript, AngularJS, AngularUI, Highcharts, LESS, OpenJPA, PostgreSQL, Quartz Scheduler, JUnit, Mockito, Jasmine, RequireJS, Maven, Rally, GitHub, IntelliJ IDEA

Software Engineer

• Administered requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and support of mobile and web applications that provide data-driven insights to achieve strategic business outcomes for over 50 rail industry clients
• Coordinated efforts with internal and external personnel to support initiative and development of a new Windows mobile app
• Technologies: .Net Framework, ASP.NET MVC 4, C#, LINQ, MS SQL Server, Entity Framework, Telerik and Kendo UI, jQuery, AJAX, Bootstrap, jqGrid, Team Foundation Server, NUnit, Moq, SpecFlow

R&D Engineer II

• Developed and enhanced a PLC software solution to integrate distributed I/O and HMI in a single engineering portal
• Facilitated Agile adoption for a large-scale Software-as-a-Service product resulting in faster release of customer deliverables
• Developed stand-alone applications to automate work processes in a collective savings of over $250,000
• Technologies: C#, C++/CLI, OpenXML, Windows Forms, NUnit, IBM Rational ClearCase, Visual Studio