Founder / Chief Technologist / Sr. Architect / Sr. Consultant / Devops Engineer Resume
Dallas, TexaS
SUMMARY
Leveraging my 20+ years of experience in innovating, developing, and deploying technology solutions to help clients create products and solve business problems. Specializing in hands - on architecture, proofs of concept, and development of open source, big data systems using modern devops techniques.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: Scala, Python, Java, Javascript, Go, Erlang, C++
Big data / fast data: Cassandra, Kafka, Zookeeper, Elasticsearch, Spark, Hadoop, Storm
NoSQL: RedShift, Cassandra, Vertica, Redis, MongoDB
Cloud and hosting platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, VMWare / VSphere, OpenStack
AWS Services: API Gateway, Lambda, Kinesis, Elasticache, Redshift, DynamoDB, Data Pipeline
RESTful APIs: Scala, Akka, Spray.io, Play Framework, Node.js, Python, Falcon, Flask-RESTful
Devops: AWS CloudFormation, Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins
Distributed Systems & Containers: Mesos, Docker, CoreOS, Kubernetes, Fleet
Messaging: RabbitMQ
Front-end: ReactJS, Node.js, HTML5 / CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, AngularJS, Bootstrap
Relational databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Dallas, Texas
Founder / Chief Technologist / Sr. Architect / Sr. Consultant / Devops Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Confidential is my incorporated entity for developing innovative software solutions leveraging scalable hosting infrastructures, open source technologies and vast data sources from the expanding ecosystem of web services (social APIs, etc.).
- My primary focus at Confidential today is leveraging my well-developed expertise in innovating, developing, and deploying complex technology solutions to help clients create products and solve business problems.
Confidential, Dallas, Texas
Vice President Operations & Technology
Responsibilities:
- I served as a Vice President at Confidential, a public media company, after it acquired my company Confidential in 2005.
Confidential, Dallas, Texas
Cofounder / Chief Technologist
Responsibilities:
- Confidential fully developed the early Advergame concept (see Confidential below) and became a well-known Branded Entertainment Agency, developing web and iOS based games and entertainment solutions for major consumer brands and numerous Fortune 500 companies.
- I developed early technologies involved in client campaigns and later architected full-stack, cross-platform, integrated solutions for clients.
- Confidential acquired Confidential in 2005.
Confidential Dallas, Texas
Chief Operating Officer
Responsibilities:
- Confidential provided a wide range of technology and Internet solutions for businesses during the Confidential boom.
- I served as COO after Confidential acquired my company Confidential, Inc.
Confidential, Dallas, Texas
Cofounder / Chief Technologist
Responsibilities:
- Internet solutions company providing web development services which later became an early innovator in Advergames.
- I was instrumental in developing web and application technologies used in client solutions.
- I conceived of and led the company’s development of a number of viral marketing games, such as Elf Bowling (the most played unbundled computer game that Media Metrix had ever recorded).
- Confidential acquired Confidential in 1999.
Confidential, Dallas, Texas
Cofounder / Chief Technologist
Responsibilities:
- I created the concept, software and technology behind the hugely popular 3D Art prints in the early 1990s, commonly known today as Magic Eye.
- I oversaw software development and technology as the company expanded into 3D digitizing for the entertainment and manufacturing industries.
- The company is currently a technology leader in the 3D digitizing industry.
- I sold my remaining interest in the company in 2002.