Résumé

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Key Skills

  • PHP – 7 years experience including PHP5, Wordpress
  • Python / Django – 4 years experience working in Python and Django
  • Linux – 5 years experience working with CentOS/Fedora on a daily basis
  • MySQL / PostgreSQL – Experience building database driven applications
  • JavaScript & jQuery – 7 years experience working with jQuery and AJAX
  • (X)HTML & CSS – 7 years experience creating valid & semantic sites
  • Agile Work–flow – 2 years experience with Agile Scrum metholodgy
  • Tools – Vim, XML, Subversion, Git, Jenkins, PHPUnit, NaturalDocs, Phtoshop/Illustrator
  • Social & Outgoing – Friendly, outgoing and fun loving

Employment

DataBee, a Comcast Company – databee.aiManager I, User Interfaces2019 – Present

  • Early member of the engineering team to combine a Comcast internal tool and BluVector research prototypes into a commercially available product
  • Manage a development team composed of three direct reports and four matrix members
  • Create job requirements and conduct interviews for candidates, resulting in hiring of 2 direct reports on my team, and filling 3 positions on a separate UI team with 100% retention since onboarding for the past 2 years
  • Author technical design documents to generate detailed requirements from concepts created outside of the engineering department, and then present them cross departmentally for senior leadership approval before implementation
  • Highly responsive to customer needs and issues, active in conversations directly with users to resolve problems, discuss newly delivered features, and collaborate on ideas for future feature development

BluVector, Inc – databee.aiUser Interfaces Team Lead2014 – 2019

  • Ran an Agile team of 6 composed of local developers as well as 2 outsourcers
  • Key member in design and planning of major platform architecture rework to separate a monolithic software platform into Docker components
  • Presented at C-MRIC London on ThreatVectors for contextual workflows and rapid event triage

Acuity Solutions – acuitysolutionscoproration.comSoftware Engineer II2013 – 2014

  • Designed and developed a full ORM in Python for Infinispan, an in-memory database
  • Introduced Celery to manage long running tasks and built full featured task management system for the UI with progressive feedback

Northrop Grumman – northropgrumman.com Software Engineer II 2010 – 2013

  • NCIC Cyber Situational Awareness IR&D
    • Developed a PHP web application to provide a hierarchical visualization for situational awareness of traffic on the global Internet, or on private networks, capable of handling millions of unique IP addresses in a PostgreSQL database
    • Rewrote core components of the application to use PHP5 classes supported by over 40 unit tests in PHPUnit.
    • Created a deployment procedure utilizing Jenkins CI to run the unit tests, build documentation using NaturalDocs, and create RPM packages for installation and setup the application and its dependencies
    • Wrote a web installer to handle creating and updating configuration settings and database structures
    • Managed and mentored a team of 5 developers, balancing tasking issues, peer review and providing training to improve their skills
    • Drafted a XML schema for integration with other applications
    • Collaborated and integrated with multiple different external teams to allow the the application to be used as the visualization for their data through JMS feeds
  • Net Centric Capability Systems Engineering Team
    • Developed data generation software using Python, MySQL, and FOSS packet analysis and manipulation software in support of testing core capabilities for a large software deployment and integration program
  • Lean Process IR&D
    • Researched and implemented an Agile work flow for continuous integration and testing of applications using Rally, FitNesse, Jenkins and Subversion
    • Created a local environment of Fedora's Koji and Bodhi systems for building and packaging software into YUM repositories
  • Model Based Systems Engineering IR&D
    • Development on a Microsoft XNA C# visualization supporting stereoscopic 3D and the Microsoft Kinect for a IBM Rational Rhapsody systems engineering model based simulation
    • Integrated with JMS between the application and IBM Rational Rhapsody

Center for Distributed Learning – cdl.ucf.eduWeb Developer2008 – 2010

  • Redbeard / To Be Done 3
    • Developed an internal Django client and course management system to aggregate course, student, faculty & staff information from supported enterprise systems allowing the team to support, develop, and track online courses for the University of Central Florida
    • Mentored a team of 3 other developers; delegated tasks and provided training
  • Techrangers Web Site
  • The Central Florida Nonprofit Nexus

Central Florida Future – centralfloridafuture.comStaff Photographer2006 – 2008

  • Traveled throughout the area photographing local news and sports events

Education

University of Central Florida – ucf.eduUndergraduate2006 – 2010

  • Bachelor of Arts – Digital Media, Interactive Systems — Specialization in Web Development and Design with a User Centric Focus.
  • Minor in Secure Computing and Networking (SCAN) — Studies in securing networks and software.
  • Awarded Dean’s List multiple semesters
  • Member of UCF Crew team for 4 years