Work Experience

December 2016 - June 2019

Avalara

Avalara is the industry standard for accurate tax calculations in real time.

Lead Engineer

PHP MVC HTML CSS JS Wordpress MySQL git Linux Apache BASH S3 Composer

• Lead of the Full stack "Systems Team" (consisting of local & global developers)
• Responsible for implementing & integrating outside systems and APIs into Avalara web properties as well as Release Manager responsibilities
• Development of front and backend applications using extensive custom JavaScript libraries, internal APIs as well as MVC PHP frameworks such as Laravel

February 2016 - December 2016

GreaterGood (CharityUSA)

GreaterGood.com (CharityUSA) runs a network of cause and lifestyle oriented sites & blogs serving 4+ million active users a day. GreaterGood also runs multiple online boutique stores.

Sr. Software Development Engineer

PHP MVC HTML CSS JS Wordpress Google Analytics MySQL Memcache git Linux Apache BASH AWS S3

• Lead development of custom multi-site publishing platform
• Maximize performance and scale content for millions of users
• Currently in the process of updating and modernizing legacy features in Java code base to PHP
• Lead development of custom Wordpress plugins to extend both external blogs & internal publishing system
• Work directly with Design Team to implement new designs and features to replace legacy features
• Collaborate with Social Team to leverage Facebook APIs and tools to maximize views
• Leverage Google Ads, Google Analytics and more to drive & analyze traffic
• Create reports and expose valuable data to multiple teams
• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements and create specs for new features

March 2011 - December 2015

Subsplash tell me more

A mobile focused content delivery company. We grew the company from roughly 100 clients to over 3,000 and from 50,000 app downloads to over 15 million.

Lead Web Developer

PHP MVC HTML CSS JS MySQL MongoDB Memcache git ffmpeg Stripe Linux Apache BASH Rackspace Cloud AWS

• Worked with the Product Team to develop thousands & power millions of iOS, Android, and Windows Phone apps
• Led the Web Team in the development of a web based dashboard for on-the-fly app creation and updating
• Collaborated with the Design Team to create an advanced Bootstrap hybrid UI Kit for the app dashboard
• Devised an app analytics system tracking tens of millions of app interactions a day using MongoDB
• Joined forces with the Support, Sales and Finance Teams to develop a custom intranet and CRM system
• Helped move client signup from a time intensive manual system to a self service online signup process using Stripe
• Created a video/audio hosting and encoding system handling thousands of videos a week and TBs of traffic
• Delicately migrated legacy PHP code into a modern PHP MVC Framework (Lithium)
• Maintained and expanded server architecture from one shared server to 30+ Linux servers with 99.9% uptime

October 2005 – March 2011

Saddleback Church

A 20,000+ mega church with a large tech focus. Here I worked with many different departments to leverage tech to offer more services, save money, expose important data and improve collaboration.

Sr. Database Architect & Web Developer

ASP.NET HTML CSS JS SQL Server TSQL MongoDB Authorize.Net TFS Windows IIS SQL Reports Crystal Reports

• Worked with the IT, HR, Finance, and other teams to improve and enhance the church intranet site and database combining data from millions user accounts
• Spearheaded the development of a web based "Media Center" allowing staff to create podcasts and audio/video archives
• Worked with various leaders to create reports and dashboards using three versions SQL Server

March 2003 – October 2005

Centercode

A company specializing in software and hardware beta testing. Here I focused mostly on QA for their web based beta test software as well as web and SQL Server development.

Lead QA & Jr. Web Developer

ASP.NET ASP PHP HTML CSS JS SQL Server TSQL Windows IIS Linux

• Worked with the Product Team to assure the quality of three successful iterations of the flagship web based beta testing platform
• Collaborated with Lead Dev to move inline SQL to Stored Procedures and improve performance by 300%
• Helped companies such as Adobe, 3COM, Dell and Microsoft improve and run their beta tests

May 1998 – October 2001

MITRE

A government and military contractor, I started working here while still in High School. I started off working in one of the labs and moved on to creating an intranet site that combined data from property asset, barcode, HR, and network info databases to better track lab and department assets.

Systems Engineer (Part Time)

PHP Perl HTML CSS JS MySQL Oracle LDAP Windows Sun Linux FreeBSD MacOS

• Supported department lab with PC, Mac, Linux, Sun and Unix servers
• Created intranet site combining multiple internal databases (MySQL, LDAP, Oracle) for searching and tracking lab and department assets
• Sponsored for and approved for a US Secret clearance
• Collaborated on projects for the Navy, Army, DARPA, DEA, and more

Hobbies

Does anyone really read this part of a resume?

Anyhow, some of things I like to do other than work are: cooking (ask me about my Thai chicken tacos), tinkering with things the Intel Edison, Raspberry Pi or LEGOs (mostly to do silly things), playing Nintendo games (not exclusively, but often original NES cartridges), traveling and taking pictures, or just hanging out with my 9 year old son.

Contact

You can contact me via [email protected]