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Twenty plus year veteran of building highly productive software engineering organizations and highly available solutions

Area of Interest

Software engineering leadership opportunities with an organizational need for SDLC best practices, mentorship, and culture building

Work History

10/2022Present

Senior Director of Software Engineering

Travelers

Responsible for software engineering direction for enterprise Digital Enablement web platforms with strategic emphasis on cloud and SaaS adoption...

    • Optimizely DXP lead engineer for travelers.com and dozens of related enterprise sites
    • Unily lead engineer for enterprise employee experiences

Responsible for modernizing Digital Enablement web application quality engineering practices, including the establishment of automated visual and functional regression tests using Playwright

Responsible for design and accessibility system consumed by 100+ software development teams

Delivery of the technical evaluations across the domains of software development engineering, software quality engineering, software engineering support, cloud, SaaS, Martech, and AI

Delivery of talent acquisition improvements in support of Travelers engineering growth

Mentorship of software engineering leadership

04/202210/2022

Director of Software Engineering

ServiceTitan

Responsible for software engineering direction and oversight of FieldRoutes, an AWS cloud native SaaS platform delivering eight figures of ARR, via full stack web development, mobile app development, and API development

Responsible for FieldRoutes engineering SDLC processes

Delivery of talent acquisition improvements in support of FieldRoutes engineering growth

Mentorship of software engineering leadership

12/201803/2022

Director of Platforms and QA

Appriss Insights, an Equifax Company

Software engineering lead in the $1.825B acquisition of Appriss Insights (2021)

Responsible for software engineering direction and oversight of multiple AWS cloud native SaaS platforms delivering nine figures of ARR...

    • Intelligence Platform: the nation’s most comprehensive source of incarceration and natcrim data, powered by proprietary and industry leading continuous monitoring
    • IDS Platform: natcrim, social trace, etc. for background screening
    • CDaaS Platform: court case research for background screening

Responsible for software quality engineering and site reliability engineering direction and oversight across Appriss Insights

M&A related transformations of engineering teams, SDLC maturity, technology stacks, cloud adoption, risk reduction, security controls, and product rationalization

Organizational expansion from seven to twenty-nine team members during COVID-19 pandemic, including both managers and individual contributors

06/201312/2018

Senior/Lead Software Engineer and Software Architect

Appriss

Responsible for cloud native system architectures with five 9s of availability

Microservice oriented architecture design and development (Java, Dropwizard)

FBI CJIS Security Policy analysis and adherence

CI/CD pipeline design and implementation with Atlassian Bamboo, AWS ECR, Rancher

AWS design and development with Kinesis, Lambda, EC2, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, VPC

Unique offerings:

    • VINE: the nation's victim notification service
    • BuyCrash.com: vehicle crash report e-commerce (sold to LexisNexis in 2015)
    • DataXchange: internal data platform
05/200506/2013

Senior Software Engineer

Lexmark

Full stack Web development for global e-commerce

Mobile development on Lexmark's first production app team

Embedded development of apps for device panels across 52 locales

Windows and Web development of print device notification system, Lexmark Toolbar, Printable Web, Tools for Office, imaging drivers and libraries

USPTO applications US20080055613US20080275963, US20100299588

08/200204/2005

Advanced IS Analyst

ExxonMobil

DevOps for a global e-commerce using 1,300+ servers

Technical lead of career development system with 2,200+ users

01/199908/2000

Software Engineering Intern

Motorola

Development and test automation for automotive projects

Education

Etcetera

Kentucky Colonel

Kentucky Governors Scholar

Unofficial Bourbon Connoisseur

Reality TV Show Vote Influencer

Mild Yet Rarely Predictable Prankster

Skills

Engineering Leadership
  • Adaptability
  • Creativity
  • Mentorship
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Problem Solving
SDLC
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • Software Development Engineering
  • Software Quality Engineering
  • Site Reliability Engineering
Cloud Computing
  • Amazon Web Services, Azure
  • Kinesis, EKS, App Services, Lambda, EC2
  • S3, SQS, DynamoDB, RDS
  • CloudWatch, App Insights
Regulatory Compliance
  • CJIS
  • HIPAA
  • PCI
  • SOC2