SUMMARY

• Well qualified manager and engineer wif 20 years professional experience across multiple disciplines in teh technology space. Experienced in start - ups, digital strategy, systems administration, software development, devops, business process, infrastructure analysis and project/product management.
• me has worked on projects for SMB's as well as Fortune 100's. me has regularly been responsible for teh following duties:
• Extensive experience in interviewing, selecting, compiling & managing local and remote developers & development teams wif varying technical requirements; ranging from low level embedded systems to mobile & web applications systems programming and general IT operations
• Built out and managed remote engineering teams across 12 time zones.
• Regularly interface wif clients & client customers while facilitating communication between development teams and clients
• Developed various socially enabled media capture and streaming platform and client applications
• Interfacing wif clients for extensive requirements gathering, project scoping & estimating (time, monetary & opportunity costing)
• Create & manage product development timelines & deliverables
• Develop short & long term digital strategies wif C-Level management & client agency directors
• Architect and develop real-time geospatial / geotemporal applications for military field ops
• Developed and implemented Rails app for enterprise scale Mobile Data Center validation and diagnostics utilities of 1-1000's of servers
• Design, architect and manage teh development & integration of custom Business Intelligence analytics systems for Fortune 100 marketing teams
• Design & Manage teh development & implementation of back office automation systems
• Design/Architect software systems, data models, wireframes & prototypes based on requirements & business processes
• (Dev-Ops) Configure, Deploy & Administer server environments and administer Big Data platform and Kafka cluster pipeline.
• Develop & implement testing procedures, bug tracking, isolation & resolution procedures

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Puppet, SaltStack, Chef, Ansible BigData
• Hadoop, Yarn, Tez, Datameer, Hbase, Hive, Oozie, HUE, Drill, Ambari, Spark, Kafka
• Docker, Mesos, Marathon, Consul, Terraform, Vault, Jenkins, Artifactory
• Ruby, Javascript, PHP, ColdFusion, Python, AS2 & AS3(Flash), Java, ASP.NET, XAML, Perl, C, XHTML, CSS
• MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Neo4J, MongoDB, Riak
• Rails, Sinatra Facebook OpenGraph,
• BackboneJS, AngularJS, NodeJS, Meteor, Jquery, Jquery-mobile, prototype, dojo, MooTools
• Wordpress, Flash, Flex, AIR, Magnolia, CodeIgnitor, Zend, Model Glue, Fusebox, Joomla, Drupal, ContentMan (Internally developed CMS wif over 20 extensible components),
• Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Suse, Arch), MS - All Versions, OS X
• AWS, Openstack
• JIRA, PivotalTracker, Asana, Basecamp, Trello, MindMeister

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin, TX

Founder

Responsibilities:

• Technology Consultant, help clients identify solutions, architect, design and develop various applications in multiple verticals. Manage local and remote development teams
• Developed applications and worked wif V/C-Level executives at various Fortune 500 companies including Cisco, IBM, HP, Frito
• De-construct monolith applications into independent composable services. Create CI/CD pipelines and architect new world container based application ecosystem. Automate AWS ECS and RDS infrastructure.
• Member of Technology Leadership Team, Designed and implemented new world architecture for 1-click deploy of dockerized applications to ECS utilizing Jenkins and Terraform. Developed frameworks for all future service applications so engineers could create production ready deployable apps free from env noledge as well as infrastructure frameworks all managed via code. Extracted multiple broken application components and deployed into independent services saving teh company $500,000 wifin 90 days.
• Development and maintenance of tools critical to teh CI/CD pipeline for all company deployed applications. Maintenance of teh big data platform (HortonWorks) and pipeline. Development of config modules for a variety of production level applications. Created and Implemented internal team scrum procedures and dashboards.

Technologies Used: Rails, Sinatra, NodeJS, Puppet, Docker, Mesos, Marathon, Vault, Foreman, Artifactory, Jenkins, Datmeer, Hadoop (Hortonworks Data Platform and related ecosystem components), Kafka, Spark, MySQL, HUE, Apache-Drill, AWS, Terraform, Consul, Datadog, Nagios.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr Rails Developer

Responsibilities:

• Build out and implement a rails based application for identification and validation of mobile data center components across a site wide installation capable of running diagnostics across an entire rack of devices simultaneously.
• Implemented rails app utility for executing diagnostic tools simultaneously across entire racks of hardware capable of scaling to 1000's. Re­factored most of teh existing hardware validation tools application while restructuring teh authentication and rules management components for multi­tenancy.
• Advise teh FreqSho team on scaling their existing platform and implementation of their various client interface smart device applications. Architect teh new platform and manage migration from existing Grails stack to Ruby & HTML5 JS frameworks

Technologies Used: Grails, Java, Spring, MOVL, Ruby 1.9, Sinatra, Backbone, Postgres, Riak, Heroku, Node.JS

Systems Architect / Rails Developer

Responsibilities:

• Work wif stake holder clients to scope, design and develop functional Ruby On Rails applications. Hold discovery Sessions and estimate project costs. Manage communications between development specialists.
• Developed a Responsive GeoSpatial, Real Time, Event Driven Situational Awareness Application for use by military operations personnel in teh field.
• Makes use of cellular communications networks, geo-location utilities and GIS
• Contributed to teh LoneStarRuby Conference Site
• Contributed to a Graph database backed recommendation engine application which analyzes facebook user data to make personal recommendations.

Technologies Used: Ruby 1.9, Rails 3, MySQL, MongoDB, HTML5, JQuery, JQuery Mobile, IceCast Streaming, Chef, S3, OpenStack, Facebook Opengraph, Twitter, Google+, Oauth, HAML, Google Places, rmagick, ActiveMerchant, Doorkeeper, GeoCoder, Gon, Git, Android, Objective C, WebAudio, VST, Mplayer