Employment

TDS Telecom

Madison, WI

October, 2015 – present

Principal Software Engineer

  • Lead and mentor a team of developers of varying skill levels
  • Work to maintain data modeling standards as part of a cross-team standards group
  • Advise and consult with cross-functional team of architects and leaders to design order management software
  • Design, develop, and maintain applications related to system integration
  • Certified Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP) and Kanban Management Professional (KMP), working to implement Kanban and Agile practices with my team and the rest of the IT organization
  • Support and maintain RabbitMQ servers
  • Support legacy Java and proprietary Oracle integration software
  • 2018 recipient of the Inspiring Excellence Award

State of Wisconsin Court System (Omni Resources)

Madison, WI

April, 2013 – October, 2015

Developer

  • Ruby on Rails web development for public, semi-public, and internal web applications
  • Legacy code maintenance, bugfixes and new feature development
  • Linux support of development and production servers (devops)
  • Use Ansible and Docker to separate dependencies for diverse web application deployment

Alice.com

Middleton, WI

October, 2011 – April, 2013

Developer

  • Ruby, Rails, and Sinatra web development for alice.com and related websites
  • Business logic and domain space development in Ruby and Java
  • Created combined codebase for alice.com and alice.es with international development team

TDS Telecom

Madison, WI

May, 2006 – September, 2011

Sr. Software Developer

  • Maintain and enhance applications in support of enterprise Internet services
  • Coordinate and oversee development of Java, EJB and web-based telecom provisioning application, with front-ends facing internal and external users
  • Integration of billing, hardware provisioning, shipping, and availability systems
  • Gather requirements from and provide estimates to business units
  • Maintain Jenkins, Confluence, and JIRA based development management system
  • Maintain Maven and Ant-based build systems

Altruist Media

Arlington, VA

September, 2001 – April, 2006

New Media Manager/System Administrator/Programmer

  • Technical team lead
  • Internal network and desktop support
  • Multimedia application and web developer
  • Technical support for live in-person and satelite events

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Washington, DC

June, 2000 – September, 2001

Technology Specialist

  • Lead developer to rewrite and rebrand the Eurekalert website
  • Administer and maintain services for old and new websites

UW-Madison - Computer Science Lab

Madison, WI

January, 1998 – June, 2000

Webmaster, System Administrator/Programmer

  • End-user support for Unix and Windows
  • Administer departmental Apache/Solaris web servers

Skills

Programming Languages & Frameworks

  • Python
  • Django
  • Flask
  • Go
  • SQL
  • Javascript
  • JQuery
  • Java

Presentation Languages

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • SASS/SCSS
  • XML
  • Markdown
  • REstructured Text and Sphinx

Operating Systems

  • Linux (Debian, Redhat)
  • Windows

Protocols & Communication

  • HTTP
  • SOAP
  • REST
  • CGI
  • AMQP
  • SSL
  • IMAP
  • POP
  • SMTP
  • LDAP
  • Samba/CIFS
  • DNS
  • DHCP
  • SSH

Software

  • Vim
  • Git
  • Subversion
  • Ansible
  • Docker
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • Apache
  • Nginx
  • Postfix
  • Ant
  • Maven
  • Jenkins
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • RabbitMQ

Education

University of Wisconsin - Madison

BS, Computer Science

  • Supplemented coursework with self-study and work on open-source projects
  • Graduated, May 2000