Objective
Highly skilled Scala developer with 20 years experience in software engineering, functional programming, distributed systems, and data processing. Committed to furthering my contributions in current role by leveraging my skills to build scalable, high-performance applications that meet evolving industry demands.
Professional Experience
boodleAI
Remote (October 2018 - Present)
Staff Software Engineer
Tech Stack: Scala, typelevel libraries (cats, cats-effect, http4s, circe, fs2, doobie), sbt, metals, RabbitMQ, Sqs, RDS, EC2, k8s, mysql
Leadership: Lead backend engineering team. Created a culture of working together towards the same goal of incremental product improvement with the customer experience at the forefront. Cultivated a plain-text documentation standard practice to facilitate remote-first asynchronous work. Created convention based releases, deployment, and branching strategies that are flexible to accommodate changing business priorities.
Product Development: Worked closely with product, front-end, and data teams to find customer focused solutions to new features and issues. Used scala and typelevel libraries to craft services to run in a kubernetes environment.
Ventana Medical Systems
Tucson, Arizona (February 2015 - October 2018)
Software Engineer
Product Development: Quickly understand, debug, design, document, and fix key issues for a Windows GUI application written in Delphi.
Innovation: Lead the architecture and development of an automated extensible testing application that brought predictability and consistency to an error prone process.
Leadership: Mentored junior software engineers and software test engineers. Scrum master for the staining procedure development team. Identified, tracked, and removed impediments that kept the team on target to meet sprint goals.
IBM
Tucson, Arizona (May 2005 - February 2015)
Staff Software Engineer
Product Development: Developed embedded software in C for the enterprise high-performance IBM System Storage DS8000 product line. Primary focus was the Copy Services function z/OS Global Mirror asynchronous mirror solution for disaster recovery. This included system wide level debugging, architectural planning, iterative design, following established documentation procedures, implementation using prescribed coding standards and methodologies, documenting and executing unit test plans, and successful hardware integration.
Worked with cross-functional technical worldwide teams leading the design and development of new Copy Services, Cache, and Non Volatile Storage functions that provided enhanced customer data protection, reliability, and performance.
Defect Analysis: Performed root cause analysis and provided fixes on hundreds of field and test defects.
Customer Engagement: Served as an IBM Systems Technical Advocate for two of IBM’s Global Mirror customers. Developed close trusting relationships with these customers. Worked closely with the account teams formulating trusting relationships that helped close a multi-million dollar sale.
Invention: Filed seven patent applications one of which was deemed a High Value Patent, five publications, and several technical summaries.
Testing and Tools: Developed an automated extensible regression test procedure that reduced testing time, produced repeatable results, and improved code coverage especially in error case scenarios. Developed tools in perl, shell scripts, and C to automate simple tasks, improve debugging and real time data analysis.
IBM
Tucson, Arizona (January 2003 - May 2005)
Co-op Pre-professional Programmer
Developed and maintained Korn shell scripts for an Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) microcode AIX based development environment.
Led the design and development of CLI performance metric monitoring solution written in Java for the IBM ESS Model 800 Global Mirror function. Headed regular design, documentation, and code review meetings that helped achieve early delivery with zero test or field defects.
Education
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona (2001 - May 2005)
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering 2001-2005
Magna Cum Laude with Honors
Minors in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Electrical
Engineering