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Galvanize 2017-02 — current

Principle Full-Stack Developer / Lead Instructor

Train students in Full-stack JavaScript, manage and develop instructors/residents

Highlights

  • Taught first blended curriculum cohort
  • Help develop assistant instructors into full-fledged instructors
  • Redesigned JavaScript curriculum
  • Received high NPS for all classes
  • Acted as the campus developer evangelist
  • Assisted with development of internal tools

Develop Intelligence 2016-02 — current

Enterprise Instructor

Train corporate clients on-site/online in software development/methodologies.

Highlights

  • Instruct staff, principal, senior, and entry level engineers in modern tech stacks
  • Scope courses during sales calls, and develop course content
  • 4.9/5 average course rating
  • Training topics: JavaScript, Java, Python, React(Redux/GraphQL/Relay/React-Native), Angular, Docker, TDD, and BDD
  • Clients: SalesForce, Intuit, Starbucks, Indiana University, Liberty Mutual

Code Fellows 2016-11 — 2017-3

Director of Corporate Training

Develop corporate course offerings, build corporate relationships, and sell courses

Highlights

  • Developed initial course list offering
  • Curated list of client
  • Engaged in sales and technical scoping calls with clients

Code Fellows 2015-02 — 2017-03

Lead Instructor/Developer

Train students in full-stack JavaScript and Ruby. Develop internal CMS and Tools.

Highlights

  • First Instructor to teach the latest curriculum end to end
  • Spearheaded Corporate Training offerings
  • Instructed the inaugural course for the Portland campus
  • Training topics: JavaScript, Ruby, Data Structures, Algorithms, ExpressJs, React, Angular, Mongo, SQL, SASS, HTML, and CSS
  • Mentor and manage assistant instructors and teaching assistants
  • Developed Ruby on Rails based CMS
  • Developed internal React based tool for charting net-promoter scores

Shippable 2015-02 — 2015-05

Technical Evangelist

Evangelist, develop, and document the Shippable Continuous Integration platform.

Highlights

  • Primary author of the company blog blog.shippable.com
  • Blog achieved over 3,000 unique hits per month
  • Increased site traffic by over 300 percent
  • Regularly created sample code of new features at github.com/Shippablesamples
  • Finalize the design of public REST API
  • Documented public REST API

Amazon.com 2013-09 — 2015-02

Software Development Engineer

SDE for the Amazon Web Services Elastic Beanstalk team.

Highlights

  • Created, tested, maintained, and deployed software to customers
  • Worked with all aspects of product: Development, QA, Testing, Deployment, Customer issues
  • Individually responsible for major features such as Java 7 Python 2.7, and Ruby 2.0 availability
  • Worked in a Unix development environment with several technology stacks (Java, PHP, Node.js, Python, and Ruby)
  • Sole Developer of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Ruby 2 Puma container
  • Documented new product features and cross team work experience (worked full time with another team for one month)
  • Published writer for the AWS Application Management blog
  • Help with product direction for the Ruby/Rails container by researching community standards/development

Office of Navel Research 2012-09 — 2013-09

Research Programmer

The aim of NETVUE is to design an intuitive real time visualization system using a simple unified metaphor—the geographic map—to readily visualize network activity of interest.

Highlights

  • Ported .NET networking system to the JVM via Scala
  • Implemented Quad tree data structure for network visualizations
  • Converted data structure library from C++ to C#

Honeywell Aerospace 2012-05 — 2012-08

Software Engineer Intern

Developed internal tools for the Aerospace division.

Highlights

  • Created a build tool to resolve and evaluate project dependencies
  • Created a Python based web scraping tool to export metrics into Excel sheets

RAN Consulting 2009-05 — 2013-08

Owner

IT and Website consulting Firm.

Highlights

  • Designed and maintained the company website
  • Provide miscellaneous IT support
  • Create static and PHP based websites

Hack The People

Director of Marketing

Help foster minority mentor-mentee relationships in the tech community

University of Arizona

Computer Science

Docker Orchestration and Micro-services 2016

Published by Pearson

Docker Orchestration and Microservices LiveLessons provides developers with key insights and best practices for how to develop and orchestrate containerized microservices.

ReactJS Fundamentals and Advanced 2017

Published by Pearson

From basic React, to state management with Redux, this series covers everything you need to know to develop modern web apps with React

An Introduction to Deep Learning 2016

Published by Algorithmia

Technical Blog Posts

Published by The New Stack

Technical blogging about modern JavaScript, Devops, and the Tech Community

Programming Languages

  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • Ruby
  • Python

Frameworks and Libraries

  • React
  • Redux
  • GraphQL
  • Docker
  • Express
  • Angular
  • AWS
  • Rails
  • Git

Methodologies

  • TDD
  • BDD
  • Agile
  • Scrum