Objective
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.
Current 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 setup and trace problems with Ruby, packaging, and target operating systems
- 💻 AIX: Building of libarchive solutions
- 🖥️ Windows: Solving heap memory errors, OpenSSL FIPS issues, time zone loading fixes
- ☀️ Solaris: Resolving patch version mismatches between customer fleets and build systems
Healthcare Technology
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 automation analysis
- 🚀 Legacy Rails app Labs Module enhancements and build stabilization
- 🔒 Compass Project: Adding Rack::Middleware and log formatters for sensitive data filtering
- ☁️ Datica to LogicWorks (EKS) migration with helm charts and Datadog configuration
Management Experience
SR Software Engineering Manager
Appriss Health • 08/2018 - 03/2021
- 👥 Remote manager of up to 13 US and Warsaw-based developers
- 🏛️ Architecture Design Sessions for technical debt management
- ⬆️ Rails 5 Upgrade leadership
- 🎯 Interviewing for Director of Engineering, Manager, and Software Engineering roles
- 🔄 Migration of Legacy Prescription Management Program to Vue.js
- 📈 Performance debugging with New Relic and AWS Performance Insights
- 🔧 Site Reliability Engineering team management with Sumologic and New Relic
Healthcare Development
Software Engineer III - IV
Appriss Health • 07/2012 - 08/2018
- 🏗️ Co-developed flagship Prescription Management Program serving 43 state configurations
- 📊 Scaled to billions of rows of data in PostgreSQL
- 🔌 Co-developed PMP API "Gateway" for pharmacy and health system integrations
- 🌿 Led team developing Medical Marijuana Registry for Ohio
- 📱 Led Xamarin mobile app development with AWS Cognito and React + .NET core
- 📚 Led team book reads and discussions (Exceptional Ruby, POODR)
Enterprise Experience
Intern to Solutions Architect
Yum Brands • 05/1996 - 07/2012
- 📈 Promoted through multiple roles from co-op student to Solutions Architect
- ☕ Java developer supporting EAI processes with JCAPS 6/Java Web Services/JMS/DB2
- 🏗️ Solutions Architecture including social media training and Microsoft BI analysis
- 🔍 Enterprise Search with IBM OmniFind integration to SharePoint and WebSphere
- 💳 Credit card and gift card POS integration and business analysis
- 🎯 Mobile ordering proof of concept with POS integration
Education
Master of Engineering, Computer Engineering & Computer Science
University of Louisville • Fall 2003 • Graduated with Honors
Bachelor of Science, Engineering Mathematics & Computer Science
University of Louisville • Spring 2000
Technical Skills
Team Leadership
Legacy Apps Support
Ruby/Rails (10+ years)
AWS Certified 4X
Healthcare Tech
Restaurant POS & BOH
Golang
PostgreSQL
Vue.js
Docker/Kubernetes
DevOps
Architecture Design
AWS Certifications
- 🏅 AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C01) - 03/21/2022
- 🔧 AWS SysOps Administrator Associate (SOA-C01) - 03/23/2021
- 👨💻 AWS Certified Developer Associate (DVA-C01) - 01/26/2021
- 🏗️ AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) - 12/01/2020