Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area (Remote: NYC)
▪Using serverless lambdas, developed HIPAA compliant integrations of third party patient case management and adjudication systems (Virtual Benefits Tracker, PAPTracker) with internal, proprietary, company reporting, case management, and pharmaceutical applications (Summit Care Management, MyRxHelp).
▪Responsible for crafting new corporate engineering standards and practices resulting in greater transparency of development initiatives and improving overall corporate efficacy of proprietary technologies, as well as the oversight in testing interoperability of application modules as developed by in-house engineering and outsourced development teams. Ensured engineering directives aligned with business requirements (HIPAA compliance) and corporate goals by actively engaging in cross-pollinated, collaborative efforts, exploratory research, as well as managing the prioritization of both pre-existing, and new technical issues as they arose.
▪Improved overall corporate efficiency and data usability across corporate entities (Performance Health, Summit Care Management, MyRxHelp). Planned, coordinated, and managed architectural implementation of corporate engineering initiatives; primarily focussed on implementing newly developed distributed services integrations with existing, legacy software alongside third party services with zero downtime.
Tech
NodeJS, JavaScript (ES6/7/8/9/Next), PHP, MySQL, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, ReactJS, NextJS (SSR), Redux, SASS/SCSS, Styled-Components, Zeit Now, RESTful APIs, Micro-Services
Rock Hill, South Carolina (Remote: NYC)
Highlights
▪With a strategic focus on resource efficiency, cost-effective expenses, planned budgeting; Generated 200k+ in Angel funding.
▪Developed Investor decks, Proof of Concept (POC), Prototype, Early Registration Portal, Platform Release (v1), as well as custom internal tooling.
▪Team size growth from two to seven plus additional remote contract workers; not including successful brokerage of intern partnership with local University (Winthrop University).
Summary
▪Responsible in crafting and carrying through company official year one, pre-seed to seed round, technologies development, strategies, goals, and implementation for all company intellectual properties; where anticipated financial costs, including new hires and projected technology costs relevant to development phases, as well as expected technical debt, would be. With various development phases acting as investor milestones in between, articulating said strategy/goals to investors, as well as growing company internal teams, both technical and non-technical (product teams).
▪Effectively managed growing company development team's internal processes including new hires/exits, onboarding, bi-weekly meetings, sprints and retrospectives, as well as one-on-one individual meetings, and setting direction in defining overall tech culture.
▪Actively participated in the development of company products; in the trenches writing code, sprint planning, and scrum master role/duty delegation, managing overall deliverables, coordinating cross-pollinated retrospectives, and, after careful evaluation of insights/perspectives garnered from collective teams, making final technology architectural decisions.
Tech
ReactJS, NextJS (SSR), Redux, Grommet, Distributed Object Protocol (DOP), SASS/SCSS, Styled-Components, Storybook, NodeJS, PHP, JavaScript (ES6/7/8/9/Next), Fastify, AdonisJS, Express, API Gateway, BookshelfJS, Redis, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS, Zeit Now
Hamilton, Ohio (Remote: NYC)
▪Acted initially as support for emerging needs of rapid growth within the company providing audit of all existing corporate technologies; assessing scaling bottlenecks and determining integration solutions for proprietary mobile electro-mechanical workforce platform from existing legacy platform offerings (AMPS Staffing). Afterward, acted as the primary point of contact between departmental managers and executive officers for intracompany technology needs.
▪Lead on engineering proprietary IP initiatives which included: Learning Management System (AMPS Learning), On-Boarding System, Integration Service Engine for construction management systems, Supplier Diversity Portal and Website, Customer Management System, Back-Office Administration platform connecting field employees located at job sites across the United States, Canada, and Mexico in real-time with internationalization/localization (French and Spanish) which met US regulation requirements.
▪Established business engineering practices and crafted previously non-existent development pipeline. Provided support in testing, updating, and troubleshooting company supply chain management systems and warehouse logistical applications that monitor metric and intake data.
Tech
ReactJS, NextJS (SSR), Redux, D3JS, Styled-Components, SASS/SCSS, NodeJS, JavaScript (ES6/7/8/9/Next), Wordpress, RESTful APIs, Micro-Services, Serverless Lambdas, AWS, Zeit, Github, TravisCI, Yarn Workspaces, Lerna, Monorepo, API Gateway, JWT, Strapi
Greater New York City Area
▪Served as main point of contact for HBO (Apps Group) between NYC, NY and Helsinki, Finland offices; Played an active role in formulation/implementation of architecture redesign of new and existing micro-services for HBO Apps Group (HBO GO/HBO NOW) utilizing NodeJS to create backend API services and libraries. All proprietary.
▪Crafted new service layers/libraries and optimized legacy services/libraries for HBO Apps; wrote clean, efficient, testable, performant code which served to enhance an already complex technology ecosystem; all successfully integrated with zero downtime of existing technologies, and made ready for presentation in regular client demos.
▪Responsible for spearheading Reaktor’s internal VR/AR research/dev team in NYC and acted as consult for potential VR startups in Helsinki to serve company investment ventures department.
▪Collaboratively devised engineering strategies relative to client needs. Traveled regularly internationally to work alongside clients directly and with remote teams. (Reaktor clients include: HBO, NASDAQ, Michael Kors, Houghton Mifflin, Finnair)
Tech
NodeJS, JavaScript (ES6/7/8/9/Next), Micro-Services, RESTful APIs, Proxy Services, Docker, WebVR, Unity3d, Redis, Promises, Bluebird, ReactJS
Greater New York City Area
▪Designed/strategized/programmed scalable front-end development environment from scratch for use between multiple engineers.
▪Successfully introduced newer, performant web technologies/strategies into engineering environment including NodeJS, Gulp, SASS, Nunjucks, ReactJS, cache busting, and CDN's.
Tech
JavaScript (ES6/7/Next), NodeJS, Python, Django, Flask, SASS/SCSS, Gulp, Nunjucks, Amazon-Web-Services
Education
2007 — 2014
Winthrop University
Bachelor's degree
2007 — 2014
2008 — 2008
McNeese State University
Radio and Television Broadcasting Technology/Technician
2008 — 2008