Experience

Quantum Metric

Senior Director of Engineering | Spring 2019 - Present | Denver, CO

Enthusiastic engineer, leader and learner with a passion for professional and personal development. I believe that highly functioning organizations start at their foundation. Optimizing for transparency ensures teams and individuals possess a deep understanding of larger organizational initiatives. I care deeply about continuous improvement to how teams build, release and iterate on products they own.

CommercialTribe

Site Reliability Engineer | Sr. Software Engineer | Fall 2016 - Spring 2019 | Denver, CO

Core contributor in containerization and migration of entire platform to Kubernetes. Our team leverages a CI/CD pipeline to isolated environments allowing frequent delivery of features. Additionally, led effort in introducing and practicing SRE discipline across engineering, which allows us to sustain a reliability target of ~5 minutes of total downtime per month.

Carvana

Distributed Systems Engineer III | Fall 2015 - Fall 2016 | Scottsdale, AZ

Refactored scheduling and purchasing system to utilize CQRS backed by an event store. During this time, I developed an appreciation for the impact architecture can play on the evolution of a scalable system.

Swerve

CTO & Co-founder | Spring 2015 - Summer 2016 | Scottsdale, AZ

Engineered a mobile vending platform allowing consumers to have their food and beverage delivered directly to them using a mobile application from any sporting and entertainment venue. This was my first experience on the executive level of an organization and provided valuable insight into the technical and non-technical inner workings of a start-up.

Connexta

Software Engineer | Summer 2015 - Fall 2015 | Phoenix, AZ

Contributed to open source interoperability platform, Distributed Data Framework (DDF) providing secure and scalable discovery and retrieval from a wide array of disparate sources.

Integrate

Software Engineer | Project Lead | Summer 2012 - Summer 2015 | Scottsdale, AZ

Developed, supported and led team of technical and non-technical personnel supporting Integrate’s PingTree platform. Also worked closely in the initiative to refactor existing system to a more distributed system.

SuperShuttle

Software Engineer | Fall 2011 - Summer 2012 | Phoenix, AZ

Led development effort on Booking Engine responsible for all reservation booking across several consumer facing applications used for SuperShuttle. I was also responsible for internationalization of the booking engine to 4 additional languages.

ClickPoint Software

Software Engineer | Winter 2011 - Spring 2012 | Scottsdale, AZ

Delivered Lead Standardization with Postal Address Verification for automated lead distribution system, LeadExec. Refactored data layer for SalesExec Lead Manager Platform to use MongoDB.

The Chatfield Group

Java Engineer | 2010 - 2011 | Mesa, AZ

Implemented and maintained enterprise correspondence system for Retail Assistance Corporation. This was my first introduction to Continuous Integration & Development and gave me the appreciation I share for CI/CD today.

Education

Arizona State University

MSE | Master of Software Engineering | Fall 2010 - Spring 2012 | Tempe, AZ

Focused studies and research towards Distributed Systems in Software Engineering.

The Citadel

Bachelor of Science | Computer Science | Fall 2007 - Spring 2010 | Charleston, SC

Graduated with honors (Cum Laude) in three years with a B.S. in Computer Science and a Minor in Management Information Systems.