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Web Developer @ Education First As volunteer web developer, developed web applications to establish and sustain the critical link between volunteers and donors. Improved existing record-keeping applications, allowing Education First to more easily track and report financial records. I also spearheaded the transition to a Drupal-based CRM system. From 2007 to September 2008 (1 year) Volunteer @...

Web Developer @ Education First As volunteer web developer, developed web applications to establish and sustain the critical link between volunteers and donors. Improved existing record-keeping applications, allowing Education First to more easily track and report financial records. I also spearheaded the transition to a Drupal-based CRM system. From 2007 to September 2008 (1 year) Volunteer @ Computers4Kids Refurbished computers for distribution to needy children. From 2000 to 2001 (1 year) Co-owner and System Architect @ Travellious.com Web developer and editor of travel site, focused on helping people learn to travel more independently, instead of relying on guidebooks and tours. Led technical study for choosing technologies suitable for a travel site, including evaluating different blogging platforms.Developed PHP templates & CSS for site customization, as well as javascript-based tools to simplify content generation. Developed database, processing, and Google maps interface for mapping tool, used to enhance city guides. From April 2007 to October 2015 (8 years 7 months) Senior Software Engineer @ X10 Wireless Technology Web developer, developing both UI and backend software for busy E-Commerce site. Work done in Perl, Oracle PL/SQL, Javascript, HTML, and C/C++. From April 2010 to September 2011 (1 year 6 months) Senior Software Engineer @ Advanced Interactive Systems * Acted as primary engineer for development of a system that tracks and identifies firearms using laser spots and a variety of other identifying technologies. I developed a flexible infrastructure for handling various cameras, external identifying hardware, and algorithms for near real-time matching of laser spots and external identifying data. This development was in C++, on a Windows platform.* I've also developed portions of web user interface for marksmanship training system, including server-side processing of user input. As part of this work, I developed a framework that integrates Oracle xmldb with our training system. This framework allows us to quickly and efficiently store and retrieve various types of xml data, using XPath and XQuery as the mechanisms for communicating with the database. The backend processing is done in C++. From January 2007 to April 2010 (3 years 4 months) Senior Software Engineer @ General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems As a senior software engineer, I led the development of a suite of network applications using CORBA that facilitated the communication of imaging data within a distributed sensor processing system. Led formal testing, integration, and delivery at Navy customer facilities. I also led the development of a video processing, network distribution, and display system for US Navy submarines. Delivered production system to customer and ran formal testing during installation on a US Navy submarine. My development was primarily done in C++ on a Linux platform, along with some shell scripting and Python. I oversaw the CM system, which ran both CVS and Subversion. Earlier in my career with AIS (then Digital System Resources) I worked as a part of a team to develop an embedded sonar training system. This was a PHP-based system, running on UNIX and Linux. From July 2001 to December 2006 (5 years 6 months) Principal Software Engineer @ F5 Networks PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER* Leading effort to design and implement operators to act as control plane for F5 technologies within Kubernetes clusters, including requirements gathering, architectural design, technology investigation, proof-of-concept development for new products, and cross-team collaboration* Acting as subject matter expert within larger organization to provide engineering direction and guidance to senior management and cross-functional teams* Participating in cross-team technical leadership group, helping to shape architectural and procedural patterns for my organization.* Led effort to design and implement modern CLI for BIG-IP, including requirements gathering, technology investigation, proof-of-concept development, and authentication architecture design* Led the modernization effort for the BIG-IP configuration GUI, from Java-based server generated pages to Vue single page application.* Lead team of 11 engineers, by planning and prioritizing team's work based on architectural and business goals* Acting as lead engineer to provide technical oversight and mentoring to team members* Acted as Scrum Master for teamSENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER* Developer on Core UI team, adding features to BIG-IP line of products. * Research into new UI technologies. * Mentoring new UI developers.* Acting as subject matter expert for BIG-IP GUI, by serving as key code reviewer inside out outside of immediate group, as well as evaluating all vulnerabilities affecting relevant GUI technologies. Greater Seattle Area