Microsoft

♦ Led a team of 12 in the architecture, design, and development to deliver a new internal service for all production clouds at Microsoft. Drove the collection of requirements from 4 separate customers through multiple interviews and meetings per customer to understand their use case for VMs used for troubleshooting. We designed a centrally managed and scalable compute solution that enables engineers to simply click a button to login to a fresh and secure virtual machine to test their service or reproduce a customer issue that is automatically deleted when no longer needed. This service replaced 100% of insecure debugging virtual machines from 2 cloud environments and contributed to automated front-end testing for 2 other product teams.
♦ Championed the augmentation, development, and coordination with cross-organizational teams to deliver the internal DevOps platform used to automate the deployment of 100+ services into special cloud environments saving more than 200 engineering hours per month over the existing process.
♦ Reduced network isolation deployment times by 40% by and eliminated the need for two users to initiate concurrent deployments while increasing the completion rate of deployments by optimizing the code running the deployments.

Site Reliability Engineer II

US Navy

♦ Led the design, development, team of 5, and delivery of an application and database solution to solve inconsistent human resource response times and reduce labor-intensive operations.
♦ Communicated with 15+ users to draft requirements and iteratively deliver functionality based on their feedback.
♦ Designed back-end database tables to include fields, data types, and relationships to implement 5+ functionalities in application.
♦ Troubleshot over 700 customer inquiries on application functionality and desired features resulting in 20+ major bug fixes and minimal data loss.
♦ Researched objects and syntax required to deliver automated filling of paperwork cutting 3 weeks of work down to 5 minutes semi-annually.

Application Development Lead

♦ Led a team of analysts dedicating 3,500 hours, analyzing 250,000 results from 200+ queries; resulted in valuable intelligence from 28 previously undiscovered documents, 20% of which yielded 500+ new selectors, increasing the number of known selectors for the team by 25%.
♦ Executed queries on targeted DNI and DNR selectors to satisfy intelligence needs.
♦ Performed tasking, maintenance, and compliance for all targets.
♦ Performed contact chaining to identify the center of gravity in organizations.
♦ Identified new electors for tasked and developing targets

Target Digital Network Analyst

♦ Provided timely SIGINT reporting to the IC through 1,000+ hours of analysis, 150 hours of quality control, and 80 hours drafting 5+ reports. Efforts increased mission production by 200% and established the standard for reporting in the 502 CMT in support of Pacific Commander's objectives.
♦ Drafted and edited initial reports based on quality assurance findings.
♦ Performed both initial and final quality assurance on reports drafted within 502 CMT before released tot he Intelligence Community.
♦ Provided reporting information in response to Intelligence Community (IC) requirements and in accordance with missions of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Information Assurance, and Computer Network Operations.

Target Analyst Reporter

♦ Operated signals collection equipment, systems, and antennas for analysis in identifying essential elements of information.
♦ Maintained cryptologic databases to gather additional target information and operating characteristics while protecting sensitive methods and sources.
♦ Supervised signals collection, analysis, reporting, SI communications and assigned personnel.
♦ Allocated Signals Intelligence collection resources and adjusted tasking as required.
♦ Complied with classified information storage, transportation, and protection requirements.

Cryptologic Technician

♦ Located and detected new and sustained targets of interest through search and survey.
♦ Executed Radio Frequency (RF) scans to identify relocated or Off The Air (OTA) targets of interest.
♦ Processed high priority sustained collect signals including both Digital Network Intelligence (DNI) and Dialed Number Recognition (DNR) across multiple field sites.
♦ Identified, troubleshot, and mitigated collection and processing issues associated with sustained mission across two major assets.

Signal Recovery Team (SRT) Signals Analyst Lead - National Security Agency (NSA)

♦ Performed the fix actions necessary, including restarts, configurations, and maintenance.
♦ Performed acquisition, analysis and reporting of state-of-the-art communications signals at the intermediate level.
♦ Provided indications and warnings to national level policy makers through data collection processing and forwarding to the Office of Primary Interest.
♦ Trained operators in the use of multiple follow on processors, signals databases, and other tools needed to complete relocated missions.

Signals Collection and Analysis Operator - National Security Agency (NSA)

♦ Built Infra-as-Code to dynamically generate configuration files for back-end Skype/Teams call routing deployments for more than 5 environments.
♦ Automated feature flag detection resulting in identification and creation of over 1,000 bugs saving more than a month over the current process in the delivery of features for 3 special cloud environments for Microsoft Teams application.

Site Reliability Engineer

Northwestern Mutual

♦ Used financial vehicles to help clients achieve their personal financial goals.
♦ Licensed to sell Life and Health Insurance in the State of Ohio.

Financial Representative Intern

Alex Thielman

IdeaFoundry.dev

Building MVPs and enhancing existing solutions for web and mobile applications.

Software Engineer

Gretchen Rubin Media

Lead developer for a frequently user requested full-stack journaling feature, including designing and implementing the PostgreSQL data model, Express.js API, and React-Native UI, creating a second major revenue source projected to increase user retention and profits by 35%

Utilized Amazon CloudWatch logs to discover and eliminate over 5,000 unnecessary API calls per day due to logic errors in React useEffect hooks and inefficient caching, thereby reducing load time by 10%

Eliminated multiple date display bugs by refactoring and optimizing date handling throughout the app with full unit test coverage using Jest, improving data accuracy and user experience for a key section of the app related to daily check-ins

Utilized an iterative improvement strategy for the most error-prone aspect of the app through research and code reviews with senior engineers, solving 95% of known errors

Developed and implemented a full-stack feature enabling mobile users to edit their goals and how they are measured, leading to a 23% increase in user activity

Mobile Software Engineer

Stealth Startup

Spearheaded the rapid development of an MVP using Next.js, Prisma, and Auth0 to served 100k+ rows of sports data which led to a successful demonstration and subsequent acquisition of the company.

Amotions, Inc.

Developed an algorithm combining users' preferences and activity data to display recommended video leading to a 45% increase in videos watched per user, a core success metric

Single-handedly designed and deployed a feature to onboard B2B clients within a strict 24-hour deadline, enhancing the company's client onboarding process and customer satisfaction

Enhanced user experience and security by refining user signup validation by adding role-based control for teams, leading to improved access control and data integrity

Implemented a robust feature enabling users to conveniently access and filter their past submission data, leading to improved user satisfaction and increased engagement with the platform

Software Engineer Intern (Full-Stack)

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Full-Stack Developer with a biochemistry/pre-med background, startup experience, and a love of learning. 

I made a decision to get into medicine during the Ebola crisis. I saw what Doctors Without Borders was doing, heroes who took on massive amounts of student loans, and spent over 10 years studying were leaving their normal lives to fight a terrifyingly deadly disease far away from home. I wanted to be that kind of person.

After finishing my premed coursework I discovered something when a simple script I made was downloaded and run on the other side of the planet: Programming has reach. One doctor can treat one patient at a time, but code can be run by as many people as want to run it. I saw another path, taking my exposure to Python for scientific data analysis I began digging into the idea of using code for good, seeing it as a tool to uplift people. 

From there I have expanded into the JavaScript and React ecosystems, gaining experience at startups using React, React-Native, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node, Firebase, PostgreSQL, and more. In essence, I'm a problem solver, a creator, and overjoyed to be able to code every day.

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