Google

Member of the Site Reliability Engineering team responsible for maintaining and securing Zero Trust Networks at Google.

Site Reliability Engineer

Employed Google technology (MapReduce, BigTable, etc.) to deliver engaging advertisements throughout the Google Display Network.

Software Engineer

PayPal

Joined the consumer products division to improve internal technology stacks and develop new customer facing solutions.

Software Engineer MTS 1

Startech Global

Second-round venture funded internet startup requested help scaling their internal technology stack.
•	Implemented Python Mechanize web form submission script to replace cron Perl/xtem solution
•	Created admin analysis and control in PHP with integrated Google Chart BI analysis
•	Upgraded website code and data model to utilize MVC and memcache
•	ETL database to an optimized schema with performance tuned application queries

Corporate gift manufacture desired a consumer friendly customization and purchasing website.
•	Managed Flash integration, LAMP team development, and live site upgrades
•	Advised on new product development and usability

Public sector services firm requested a nationwide school resource management system.
•	Evaluated the Castle Project, NHibernate, ASP.NET MVC, LINQ and the .NET security system
•	Designed distributed database schema, ORM layer and MVC structure
•	Managed development of MVC classes and .NET pages, and revisions of ORM and model layers

Fortune 500 client requested consulting resources and training in Oracle Application Framework.
•	Customized OAF purchase flow with additional accounting information and checks
•	Developed and taught month long training covering Java, Java SE, OAF and release management
•	Successfully transitioned six person IT team onto the new OAF technology stack

Internal Process Improvement
•	Migrated SVN repositories and custom Mantis hooks to Unfuddle
•	Customized Unfuddle reports for change management, bug tracking and time management
•	Documented daily, weekly and monthly expectations for Unfuddle

Technical Project Lead

Green Hills Software

Owned and improved the x86 compiler for Linux, Windows and mission critical embedded targets.
•	Enhanced compiler generated C++ debug support for all chip targets
•	Supported Field Application Engineers during first sale deployments
•	Implemented next generation debug server protocol based on GDB protocol
•	Updated the Windows debug server to support Python scripting

ViaWorks

o Developed Microsoft Outlook plugin for our Personal Information Managemet software.
o Created and tested unit testing framework for this plugin.

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