Nerd

Responsible for shaping the technical vision and strategy for Nerd. Driving innovation, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and ensuring the successful delivery of groundbreaking Web3 solutions. The team here at Nerd is a highly talented team of engineers, data lovers, and architects who build and maintain robust, scalable, and secure decentralized applications.  I am honored and thrilled to work with them.  This team is the best I have ever worked with and we could not do it without them!

Chief Technology Officer

Sr VP of Engineering over our brands!

Ensuring Core Platform adoption across all brands.
Supporting, mentoring, guiding and assisting the Brand VPs of Engineering.
Working with amazing people over product, project, and engineering.

Sr VP of Engineering

Leading Engineering and Technology at Nerd United for the Liberty brand.

https://libertyblockchain.com/
Liberty is a worldwide community committed to creating unique opportunities for veterans around the world. From starting and owning a business to leveraging skills learned in the service to build a better life, Liberty will provide a variety of opportunities.

- Building out an Engineering / Innovation team! 
- Web 3.0, Crypto and Blockchain.

VP of Engineering

Allergan Data Labs

Platform Squad Lead
- Put together technical approach documents (TAD) for new features/systems.
- Identity Technical approach document
- New Messaging Technical approach document
- Mentor, guide, lead the team to victory!
- Define our areas of responsibility and take ownership of our systems and services.

Core Services Lead Engineer
- Technical approach documents for new platform
- Identity system owner
- Email / Messaging system owner
- Shared Library Owner
- Botox Day and Okta Support for Identity and Core Services.

Lead Software Engineer

Bonneville Communications

Led a team of 5 web/backend engineers
Projects:

Skylight (https://www.skylight.org/)
 - Backend: Firebase: firestore, dynamic links, functions. 
 - Video platform and APIs is on AWS
 - React Landing page (https://app.skylight.org/)
 - Skylight Dashboard (React) internal tool for content management of the iOS app
CI/CD: github actions & netlify

EdConnect (https://www.edconnect.app/)
Web Front End: (https://app.edconnect.app/) built with React 
Backend: (AWS (DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, Elastic Transcoder), Serverless, GraphQL, Typescript, node)
- Direct Message feature which is used across all our platforms.
- Platform As A Service ( Lambda Authorizers and DynamoDB )
- Created and published a Slack App (https://slack.com/apps/A01150UKX1S-edconnect)
- EC2 instance that is running a node server to handle LTI integration with Moodle
- AWS Transcribe - used Lambdas, Cloud Watch Events, transcode to setup captions with our videos
CI/CD: CircleCI, github

Radiant-Video-Transcoder: Kubernetes Cluster with Fargate - node and FFMPEG to create videos from image & audio/text

Say Backend Services.
Say (https://www.say.co/) Asynchronous Video chat platform on iOS, Android, and Web. Services and frameworks used to form the backend architecture.
  - Serverless, Typescript, GraphQL, Node, PubNub, Lambda, SNS, SQS

Node Media Server for RTMP video protocol.
  Benefit: put a lot of the heavy code server side which made our mobile apps lighter. 
 - Node, Express, AWS S3, FFMPEG, EC2, kubernetes

RTMP test streamer.  Used for testing our Node Media Server's RTMP Video Streaming.
- Node,  FFMPEG, mediaValidator

Setup PubNub for pub sub messaging.

Inspector Say - Internal Tool, Web SPA to debug and gather data during development. 
- React, Node

Say.co Website “www.say.co” - Landing page for the Say Product.
- React, Netlify

Video Content Detection.
- AWS Rekogniton, SNS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Node, Typescript

PayClip Inc.

Architecture Team
- creating new node modules
- maintaining existing node modules
- Dockerize javascript projects
- provide training / examples for javascript developers
- implementing AWS Secrets Manager for Node Boilerplate project

Business Operations Team Lead
- With team we set our team Mission & Objectives.
- 4 direct report engineers
- Support and provide internal tools for Business and the Engineering Teams.
- Participated in interviewing Engineering, QA, Project / Product Management roles for the company.

- Logistics (React/Node)
- Logistics Print Client (Electron)
- Admin Dashboard ( re-write old Ruby App into React/Node )
- Node Boilerplate 
- Node Logger (npm module)
- Node Response (npm module)
- node.external-reports ( node app )
- Commissionist Service ( node ) 
- Node.Notify - web-push notification server using VAPID & GCM.  Using service workers for the front end of our applications that will use push notifications.  Subscriptions and Notifications saved in Dynamo DB

Black Ops Team Lead
- Set team Standards & Best Practices.
- 5 direct report engineers
- Node Boilerplate project. [Node]
- Internal Node Module for logging using Winston. Integration with Loggly.
- Logistics Service. [Node, MYSQL, MONGO, AWS]   Created project, structured & configured app. 
- Settlement Administration Transaction Cancellation Tool.   [Node, Jade, Angular, MYSQL] 
- Logistics Legacy. [Node, Angular, MYSQL, Mongo]  Adding open pay functionality and PCI compliant checks.

Engineering Technical Lead

SilverVue

Projects I worked on.

SilverSuite - Node Express web server.  
- Helped get project created and setup with winston logging,  and unit tests.  
- Added server side  templating using handlebarsjs and nightmarejs which we use to  generate PDFs and then email to customers.

SilverSuiteMobile - React Native/ Redux - iPad/Android app for hospital Case Managers to assist Patients finding a suitable Post Acute Care (PAC) facility. This project is an architecture /re-write from the previous generation of iPad/Android app we had.  
   - Implemented react-native-maps to the project 
   - created components
   - created a Photo viewer / Gallery

SilverSearch - Meteor/Cordova -  iPad/Android app for hospital Case Managers to assist Patients finding a suitable Post Acute Care (PAC) facility. This project is legacy and will be replaced with SilverSuite.
- Implemented Google Maps on our application
- Cordova App Development
- BlazeJS
- Node 
- Meteor
- MongoDB
- CouchDB

SilverInscription - node app - A node application using C++ libraries to form fill PDFs and doing a little magic to add digital signatures to those PDFs. Can do multiple signatures for a form. 
- Used Mocha for unit testing.
- Istanbul for code coverage. Over 70% code coverage  
- Load tested application using Siege and it could handle 10 concurrent users at 100% success rate.
- Wrote detailed documentation for the api including how to test, install, log and configure.
- Added Winston for logging and have multiple logging levels. (Dev Ops loved this one)
- PDF filling/signing in node
- Express
- AWS S3  integration
- Redox integration

Senior Software Engineer

Vivint Solar

- Tranche Funding application - maintenance and finishing up new features that are being requested. Application is SOX compliant

-Worked on a web application in Angular to handle work orders for our people in the warehouses and for the installers in the field.  If you saw Undercover Boss Todd Peterson told Alma who worked in the warehouse that we would provide a paperless solution which we recently deployed company wide.

- Developed a mobile application to manage inventory for iPhone and Android using Cordova 4.0 with ZXing barcode scanner library and ZBar barcode reader and AngularMobile.  Deployed December 2014 and we have it rolled out to all offices in the company.

- D3 analytic charts for internal business reporting.  Pie charts, Bar charts, Line charts, Stacked Bar charts etc.

- Implemented Google Map API in our Mercury analytics and account management system. 

- Designed and Architected Web Services for our Mobile applications using nodejs, amazon SES and amazon S3.

- Designed and Architected a Web Service for handling mass file uploads for entire company (Vivint inc. and Vivint Solar) using nodejs, amazon S3, and amazon SQS.

- Development Manager / Liaison  on a sales application for iPad that was outsourced.

Attensity

User interface design/development on Analyze (analytic tool for customers) using Flex.
 - Implemented AnyCharts-AnyMaps (Map API) for use with Analyze

SaasCore products using JavaScript/HTML 5  
- Created Data Visualization charts ie : bar charts, stacked bar charts, time series, bubble chart, word cloud using D3.js.
- Worked on different UI pieces ie: side bar option panel, custom popup menus, modals. 
- implemented heat maps with markers by using jvectormap.
- used Google Maps API for our pinmap charts  
- created/worked on custom social media dashboards for Nike, Southwest, Medion, Apple

Software Engineer

Total Quality Systems

Designed and developed client/server application for the military in Flex/Air with Java MT and Oracle server.

US Air Force Reserve

As an ROTC cadet I had the opportunity to serve in many leadership roles.

Flight Commander:  Led about 6-10 cadets in my flight. Marching, goals setting, Military Customs and Courtesies. 

Squadron Commander:  Led 2 Flights of 6-10 cadets. Marching, goals setting, Military Customs and Courtesies.

Color Guard Commander: Led a group of 15-20 cadets in all the duties responsible the Color Guard 

Group Commander: Led multiple Squadrons of cadets.  Marching, Goals setting, Military Customs and Courtesies.

Participated and helped organized Pass in Review (Military Parade) for the end of the year.

Awards: 
 - BMT(Basic Military Training) Ribbon
 - Marksman (9mm)
 - Distinguished Graduate (DG) of Field Training (FT) 
 
"in each flight, cadets are ranked from first to last. The top 10% earn the distinction of "Distinguished Graduate"."  

for more info on ROTC see 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Reserve_Officer_Training_Corps#cite_note-24

ROTC GMC/POC Cadet

Worked as a Crew Chief for the USAFR for the F-16 Fighting Falcon (Viper).  During this time I went through Basic Training (Lackland AFB), Technical School (Sheppard AFB), and Hands On Training (HOT)  (Luke AFB). After training I was assigned with the 419th Fighter Wing at Hill AFB UT and the CLSS (Combat Logistic Support Squadron) where I also got some ABDR (Aircraft Battle Damage Repair) training.

Crew Chief, Fighter Aircraft Maintenance (F-16)

I love learning new technologies and solving complex problems using whatever tool is right for the job.  
I take great pride in mentoring others and motivating the team/business to accomplish goals.  
I know that everyone on a team has their strengths and weaknesses and that I can learn from others and share what I know to make the team better.

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