Seasoned Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience in engineering, technical product management, and project and team management. Spearheaded high-impact initiatives, instrumental in optimizing data storage and API development, ensuring system reliability. Proven track record in incident management and process improvement.
Known for entrepreneurial spirit, high-quality service, transparent communication, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking. Decisive leader who demonstrates adaptability, agility, and strong relationship-building skills. Passionate about contributing to social justice and equity causes and developing technology solutions that support a promising future.
Designed, built, delivered, and maintained software solutions, translating business requirements into technical specifications and managing project estimates and scheduling. Created technical documentation. Researched and resolved issues with stability, security, and performance. Troubleshot server issues, maintained SQL databases, resolved bottlenecks, and enhanced existing code. Participated in design and code reviews. Assisted with architecture, design, implementation, and deployments of SmartVMA applications, AWS, and Azure. Administered and configured AWS services, including EC2 instances, Route 53, and S3.
Designed and implemented a custom PHP API server for an updated mobile app, including OpenAPI 3.0 specifications and auto-generated API docs. Increased response speed by as much as 1000%.
Authored Azure functions to automate ETL of vendor data from FTP site to SQL Server production database, reducing human interaction and speeding up the process by 15%.
Created a virtual machine image using Vagrant, Windows Server, Chocolatey, and PowerShell scripts, providing engineering team members with identical, custom, standardized development environments to eliminate deployment errors due to environment or configuration inconsistencies.
Introduced modern software workflow procedures, including version control. Transitioned pull requests, code reviews, and deployments from FTP uploads to Git, vastly reducing deployment errors and supporting the quick location of issues.
Company Description
BG Products provides aftermarket automotive maintenance products and services.
