Relay Foods, Software Systems Designer / Product Manager

In the last two years at Relay, my responsibilities have included enterprise architecture, devops, interaction design, Agile planning and management. Here’s an abbreviated list of my accomplishments.

• Maintained and extended legacy ERP/Retail backend:
  • Built robust, general, event-driven mechanism for sagas on top of Kinesis
  • Leveraged saga facility for orchestrating critical overnight operations: delivery routing, order labeling, fulfillment
  • Enabled reliable, distributed, event-driven integrations with both internal and 3rd-party services
• Introduced and improved use of technologies and Agile practices:
  • F#, AWS Kinesis, Lambda, and DynamoDb
  • ChatOps (Kinesis to Lambda to Slack/OpsGenie)
  • Refined and improved standups, estimation, and retrospectives
  • Professional development bookclub
• Meal Planning: “Shop Meals, Not Aisles” — grocery shopping by recipe
  • First-class contributor to interaction design, leveraging DDD and Balsamiq
  • Designed and built an intent-driven, event-sourced API with a generalized architecture
    • Intent-driven architecture enabled domain focused API design and rapid iteration
    • Event-sourced implementation allows clients to enable powerful UX without API changes
  • Dynamic ingredient parser leveraging Stanford NLP, units of measure, and search
  • “stoichiometric” minimization of ingredient purchases across recipes

Tech

F#/C#, ASP.NET WebApi, SQL Server, node (ES6/Babel/gulp/Webpack/Chai)

AWS

RDS, DynamoDb, Kinesis, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk

Snap One, Principal Engineer

June 2012 ﹘ October 2013

Duties included legacy platform/application maintenance/extension and new product development. Some highlights:

• in-house authentication/authorization API, refactored from legacy API with 100% compatability acheived by proxying the legacy service and learning from discrepancies;
• REST photo sharing and management backend that aggregated multiple photo sharing services
• prototyped a file sync engine on Windows using Rx, leveraging rsync;

Tech: .NET (C#/F#), WCF, Silverlight, AWS, SQL Server, ServiceStack, git, Powershell, some Rails

Independent

April 2012 ﹘ May 2012

Sub-contractor to develop irrigation and farm implement asset management

Tech: ASP.NET MVC, C#, Google Maps, jQuery

Thoughtworks, Senior Consultant

August 2010 ﹘ March 2012

• Development/Architectural lead for medical content authoring tool
  • AJAX Validation using server-side DDD models
  • ExtJs event-driven validation
  • Introduced continuous delivery
  • Tech: C#, ASP.NET, jQuery, Sencha, Powershell, SQL Server, YUI
• Major Air Carrier website
  • Front-end performanced enhancement program, including:
    • Implemented and systematized most PageSpeed suggestions
    • Put page speed score into automated testing and in build radiator
  • Implemented an internal quality improvement technique called ratcheting
  • Implemented a contest management solution in Grails
  • Tech: Ubuntu, EJB, JSP, Grails, Apache, PageSpeed, git

Independent

April 2008 ﹘ July 2010

• Ported an electronic signing application for a major private educator
  • Classic EJB app was ported to ASP.NET/WCF
  • Memory requirements for peak load reduced from 16GB to 4GB
• Industry-leading Self-Publishing Platform
  • Introduced agile/XP practices
  • Designed and Implemented an event-driven SOA for backend services
  • Created a single sign-on solution across brands
  • Led a team to maintain and enhance a self-service brand
  • Implemented an AJAX book cover designer
  • Implemented a constraint-solver backed workflow engine

Tech: ASP.NET, WCF, jQuery, Rx, SQL Server, CruiseControl.NET, MbUnit, WATiR, TFS, Powershell

E-gineering, Senior Consultant

January 2006 ﹘ March 2008

• Design and development of an analytics platform for automotive dealerships
• Insurance Quoting system engineer-in-test

Tech: ASP.NET, Infragistics, SQL Server, DB2, Rational Robot, Stylus Studio, ClearQuest

Independent

August 2004 ﹘ December 2005

• Freelance MCT
• Staff aug at HR/benefits consulting firm
• Home staging checklist web app

Tech: VB6, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server

Cayman Consulting/FAST Software, Developer Manager

May 2003 ﹘ July 2004

• Lead development/architecture and managed developers
• Automotive CRM development
• Small Banking CRM

Tech: C#, Windows Forms, .NET Remoting, XML/XSLT, SQL Server, Infragistics

Kizan Consulting, Senior Consultant

October 2001 ﹘ April 2003

• Supported existing consulting clients
• Wrote and delivered training
• Wrote a simple security tool auditing tool SQLExploiter

Tech: Windows DNA, VB5/6/.NET, C#, ASP/ASP.NET, COM+, Netware, Access, SQL Server, Active Directory, LDAP/ADONETS

Vobix, Developer

August 2000 ﹘ September 2001

• Virtual Hosting System for Training
• Multi-tenant Application Hosting Platform
• Web-based CMS

Tech: VB6/ASP, LDAP, SQL Server, VMWare ESX, SOAP Toolkit, Perl, SOAP::Lite, VB.NET

Patriot Homes, Developer

December 1999 ﹘ August 2000

Designed and implemented a costing application to construct and price a bill of materials via web-browser

Tech: VB6, SQL Server, ASP, XML Data Islands, IE Behaviors