Dedicated and experienced Senior Software Engineering Manager looking for the opportunity to bring 20+ years' experience with programming, architecture, technology engineering, and leadership to a Software Engineering Manager role.
SENIOR PRINCIPAL ENGINEER
Progress, Chef Infra Client
05/2022 - Present
Troubleshooting Windows builds for Chef 18 release and stabilizing the build
Community PR and Issue Triage
"Ad Hoc" Jobs architecture and development in Golang
Solve complex to set up and trace problems, often with Ruby, packaging, and target operating systems
AIX: building of libarchive
Windows: Solving heap memory error with UCRT in invoking PowerShell from Ruby through C++/CLI
Windows: Resolving OpenSSL FIPS fingerprint error by invoking /DYNAMICBASE:NO in linker
Solaris: Find a solution for a mismatch between Solaris patch version of customer fleets and internal build systems
SR SOFTWARE ENGINEER / SUPPORT TEAM LEAD
Everly Health
03/2021 - 04/2022
Mentoring new junior engineers in support, ActiveRecord and SQL queries, and DevOps
Mirth and HL7 messaging support
Prioritization of support concerns and analysis of top candidates for automation
Legacy Rails app Labs Module enhancements and build stabilization
Compass Project adding Rack::Middleware and log formatters to filter sensitive data
Datica to LogicWorks (on EKS) migration, focusing on helm charts and configuration
SR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER
Appriss Health
08/2018 - 03/2021
Remote manager of a team of up to 13 remote US and Warsaw-based developers
Architecture Design Sessions for tech debt
Rails 5 Upgrade
Interviewing of Director of Engineering, Manager, and Software Engineering candidates
Migration of Legacy Prescription Management Program monolith new functionality to Vue.js
Debugged platform/performance issues with Platform team, utilizing New Relic and AWS Performance Insights
Manager of Site Reliability Engineering team, tuning alerting with Sumologic and New Relic
SOFTWARE ENGINEER III -- IV
Appriss Health
07/2012 - 08/2018
Co-developed flagship Prescription Management Program monolith in Ruby on Rails
Served 43 distinct state configurations, scaling to billions of rows of data in PostgreSQL
Co-developed Prescription Management Program API "Gateway"
Led team that developed a Medical Marijuana Registry for Ohio
Led team of 1-3 developers to launch a pilot of a Xamarin mobile app
Led team book reads and discussions of books such as Exceptional Ruby and POODR
INTERN TO SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
Yum Brands
05/1996 - 07/2012
Promoted to multiple roles; from co-op student writing C and debugging assembly to Solutions Architect
Java developer supporting EAI processes built on JCAPS 6/Java Web Services/JMS/DB2
Solutions Architecture, training leadership teams on use of social media platforms
Enterprise Search with IBM OmniFind integration to SharePoint and WebSphere
Credit card and gift card POS integration and business analyst for flagship projects
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C01) achieved 3/21/2022
AWS SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C01) achieved 03/23/2021
AWS Certified Developer Associate (DVA-C01) achieved 01/26/2021
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Achieved 12/1/2020