Work Experience

• Senior Software Engineer, Navitus Health Solutions

  Dec, 2025 - Present

• Principal Software Engineer, OpenText

  Dec, 2021 - Dec, 20254 years

  I led R&D for the Fortify on Demand product team, OpenText's premier AppSec management offering.

  • Improved system performance and saved tens of thousands of dollars in monthly cloud expenses by migrating over 13TB of application data from SQL Server to AWS S3.

  • Rapidly designed and delivered backend integrations with Magellan (BI Reporting) product team after M&A.

  • Successfully released greenfield .NET cloud-native, containerized microservices to extend and modernize the legacy application.

  • Created and implemented observability standards for distributed services using OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo and AWS CloudWatch.

  • Implemented Documentation as Code and custom build tooling for automating developer environment bootstrapping, container orchestration, linting, quality gates, CI/CD to increase code quality and developer productivity.

• Independent Contractor and Consultant, Gowon Ltd. Co.

  Jun, 2006 - Jun, 202418 years

  • Consulted and designed various graphical assets for company and event branding.

  • Designed and operated websites for various clients including small businesses, non-profit organizations and universities.

  • Developed open-source web applications and projects utilizing various technologies: C# .NET, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL.

• Lead Software Architect, Clearwave Corporation

  Apr, 2021 - Nov, 20217 months

  • Set development standards and guidelines for the company; successfully adopting Agile methodology, code-reviewed branch promotion, GitFlow, Chocolatey package management and TDD with a team of 12 developers.

  • Improved department culture by introducing and leading Lunch & Learns, cross-team development committees, Innovation Sprints, and promoting internal upskilling through certifications and training.

  • Redesigned and optimized Continuous Deployment pipelines, reducing deployment cycles by 75%.

  • Designed and implemented plans to refactor monolithic codebase into N-tier architecture layers, contributing to code reuse and increasing code quality.

  • Developed and presented proof of concept applications using various technologies and patterns: Blazor, WebView2, BEE Plugin, Quartz, Sass, OpenAPI, Dependency Injection, CQRS, .NET Generic Host.

  • Developed integration frameworks for inbound and outbound communication with HL7 FHIR and HIPAA EDI interfaces.

  • Created cross-platform PowerShell scripts and .NET CLI tools to automate common developer activities, reducing bootstrapping overhead.

  • Conducted detailed research of new techniques and frameworks for continuous improvements.

  • Collaborated with key Product Owners and Business Resources to gather business requirements and translate into Technical Requirements and influence strategic roadmap objectives.

• Lead Software Architect, 

  Aug, 2019 - Apr, 20211 year 8 months

• Senior Software Engineer / Solutions Architect, Yancey Bros. Co.

  Jul, 2016 - Jan, 20181 year 6 months

  • As the first internal development hire, consolidated the source code from legacy applications into Visual Studio Team Services for source control and issue management tracking. Performed domain analysis with internal business partners to help develop functional requirements and scope out project plans.

  • Developed an automated reporting application to replace manual reporting for monthly cost estimates and projections. This reduced 120 man-hours per month of manual effort to a 90-second background task, while also reducing the percent error of estimations from 30% to within 2% of actual costs.

  • Architected and implemented a software and hardware solution for customer signature capture in a heavy-duty warehouse environment. This effort resulted in thousands of dollars in equipment savings and an improved customer experience based on surveys.

  • Developed an integration with fleet management system to collect distance traveled and other metrics from company vehicles for more accurate expense tracking.

  • Created a service-oriented architecture framework for the development of internal enterprise web applications, middleware and services using various technologies: C# .NET, ASP.NET MVC & Web API, SQL Server, JavaScript.

• Software Engineer, SolTech Inc.

  Mar, 2015 - Jun, 20161 year 3 months

  • Designed and implemented custom software solutions for clients using a wide range of technologies, including: C# .NET, ASP.NET MVC & Web API, SQL Server, JavaScript, Amazon Web Services, Azure.

  • Created service oriented architectures to support enterprise-level web applications.

  • Worked on many projects at varying places in the software development lifecycle, from analysis and design through development and testing to production deployment.

  • Experience communicating with clients and delivering product presentations and demonstrations.

• Technology Analyst / Lead Developer, Norfolk Southern

  Jun, 2013 - Feb, 20151 year 8 months

  • Designed and developed an enterprise-level data management application utilizing a service oriented architecture and various technologies including: C# .NET, WCF, ASP.NET MVC & Web API, JavaScript, DB2, TIBCO.

  • Successfully moved product through the Software Development Lifecycle from A&D to Production.

  • Served as interim Lead Developer for over 6 months, leading a team of 7 developers through iterative development cycles and increasing development productivity by 400%.

  • Developed and documented protocols for bug-tracking, release management and disaster recovery.

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