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Work Experience

• Director, Software Engineering, Sentry Data Systems, now the Craneware Group

  Jul, 2022 - Present

  Manage three teams of developers, QA, and Solution Architects.

  • Responsible for directing work for 3 teams (5 applications) including establishing best practices and efficient workflows.

  • Mentor team members to help guide their professional development.

• Manager, Software Development, Sentry Data Systems

  Jan, 2019 - Jul, 20223 years 6 months

  Manage two teams of developers and QA for Sentinel application and overall application upgrade effort

  • Put in charge of a team of developers and QA's whose job it was to upgrade our legacy codebase for PHP 7.2 (originally PHP 7.0.8)

  • Project required nearly a thousand individual upgrade efforts to update the frameworks we use to work with PHP 7.2.

  • All upgrades were done across all applications offered by Sentry and under active development.

  • Multiple custom processes were created to automate discover and validation of deprecation fixes. Documentation for the updates was established to preserve knowledge and to set up future upgrade efforts. Many of these processes were adopted by other development teams as best-practices.

  • At the same time, I was placed in charge of the "Sentinel" application where I helped lead the team through four projects being worked in parallel.

  • Established myself as a change agent in the company and have prompted multiple process improvements including a documentation initiative to better distribute knowledge.

• Senior Developer, Sentry Data Systems

  Jan, 2017 - Jan, 20192 years

  Provided guidance and development for multiple applications.

  • As a result of the work done as a consultant, Sentry Data Systems elected to hire me directly.

  • Moved into a Senior Developer role and was relied upon for my development experience to help enhance their flagship product "Sentinel"

  • Worked with the team manager to improve processes, manage workload, and increase code quality.

  • Followed strict SDLC and release processes across multiple environments.

  • Moved to a new "Rapid Response" team, due to my experience, where I was one of three developers asked to work on high-priority bugs for all applications offered by Sentry.

• Senior Dev Advisor/Tech Lead, NTT Data (formerly Dell)

  Jan, 2017 - Apr, 20173 months

  Consultant responsible for leading a team of developers and QA.

  • Lead a team of developers and QA's for a project requested by Sentry Data Systems

  • Established best-practices and organized the project's requirements.

  • Consulted with Sentry Data Systems' Product Owners directly to update a legacy part of their application.

  • Sentry decided to hire me directly as a result.

• Lead Web Technologist & Project Manager, Fellowship Church

  Jan, 2015 - Jan, 20172 years

  Part of a development team in charge of the church websites.

  • Found inefficiencies in the team's workflow and provided solutions.

  • Instituted SCRUM/Agile Development project flow to increase team productivity.

  • Utilize JIRA project management software to provide accountability and to keep an eye on scope creep.

  • Completely revamped workflow and infrastructure used by Fellowship to produce a more stable and efficient cycle of content for over 10 websites, two of which are E-commerce websites with a global footprint.

  • Created multiple Python applications to handle database migration and AQS integration as well as increase development productivity.

  • Cleaned up the JavaScript on the different websites to take advantage of best practices and to better document their use.

  • Responsible for the server infrastructure of all Fellowship websites utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS).

  • Developed numerous plugins (in PHP) for the E-commerce platform used by the church to provide better experiences for users and the customer support teams.

  • Moved the team to utilize the Git version control system during development and Puppet to provision new servers in the shortest time possible.

  • Increased productivity by utilizing development tools such as Grunt/Gulp, Sass/Less.

  • Increased the communication of project details to executives in non-technical ways.

• Web Director, Elevate Curriculum

  Mar, 2010 - Sep, 20155 years 6 months

  In charge of the E-commerce website for the Elevate Curriculum.

  • Utilized Python scripting to automate tasks for the team in order to increase productivity.

  • Established development standards to keep team members on the same page.

  • Managed the curriculum's E-commerce website which utilized the Magento Enterprise E-commerce platform.

  • Saved the church $25,000 per year by moving the site from Magento to ExpressionEngine. I created a custom PHP application to transform the site's database from Magento's data model to ExpressionEngine's.

  • Created multiple PHP add-ons for the ExpressionEngine platform to increase its E-commerce capabilities.

• Technology/Animation Director, Elevate Curriculum

  Mar, 2005 - Mar, 20105 years

  Over animation and technology needs for the curriculum.

  • Responsible for the team of animators for the Elevate children's curriculum used by over 5,000 churches worldwide.

  • Provided creative and efficient project management solutions for the creation of numerous animations with quick turnarounds.

  • Kept in contact with fellow department leads to ensure assets were provided by my team.

  • Used my Python experience to increase workflow efficiency for Art, Animation, and Video teams.

  • Developed an application using JavaScript and Python which generated an HTML report of text within Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator files to be translated by a translation company.

• Lead Technologist/Animator, Elevate Curriculum

  Jan, 2003 - Jan, 20052 years

  Responsible for animation for the curriculum

  • Responsible for taking the Art Director's vision for projects and guiding fellow animators in accomplishing animations on time and with excellence.

  • Developed efficient workflows and asset pipelines for the animation team.

• Creative Specialist, Fellowship Church

  Jan, 2002 - Jan, 20031 year

  Contributed creative direction for children's ministry performances.

  • Responsible for coordinating and leading a team of volunteers each week to put on weekend children's services.

• Lead Developer and Partner, IEClass

  Jan, 2003 - Jan, 20085 years

  Helped establish a high school web development curriculum website.

  • Created a student management and quiz builder application where teachers could create quizzes and tests for their students to take online.

  • As a partner in the company, I also contributed to many different conferences where we taught teachers how to teach PHP and other web technologies.

• Owner, Cob Technologies

  Jan, 2000 - Jan, 20044 years

  Developed websites for clients.

  • Worked with many different clients including brief work with the World Craniofacial Foundation who performed surgery on Egyptian conjoined twins in 2003.

Projects Experience

• FBLA State Registration Website, Future Business Leaders of America

  Jan, 2003 - Jan, 20031 day

  During a semester in "independent study", I created a registration system for Texas FBLA to use when registering attendees for the state conference. This system replaced their unreliable and slow paper-based registration system.

  • Recognized by the FBLA State Board for designing, coordinating, and implementing the system.

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