Staff Software Engineer, Ford Motor Company
Apr, 2023 - Present
Replace this tiny tool called PREEVision
Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in DevOps, Software Architecture, Automated Software Testing, Software Delivery, and Compliance Testing. Core values in product focused delivery and bridging communication gaps between development, quality, release, and support in Enterprise agile environments. Likes the feel of startups. macOS/Linux guy that runs WSL if I must. Python Developer that used to dabble in C++, Perl, and JS. DevOps is for the enterprise and for the developer. Believer in delivering value to customers, whether internal or external. I love spending my days helping people.
Staff Software Engineer, Ford Motor Company
Apr, 2023 - Present
Replace this tiny tool called PREEVision
Staff Software Engineer, Teladoc Health
Mar, 2021 - Apr, 20232 years 1 month
Leading automation architecture team for the chronic care management group. Supporting test reporting, CI integrations, testing libraries, development pipelines and more.
Leading the automation architecture team to re-architect existing test frameworks to align newly acquired product’s delivery with the larger Teladoc org to reduce automation duplication and scale product delivery.
Leading an automation guild to present vision, intent, best practices, and architectural runway for testing and automation.
Created automated tooling to connect Teladoc’s automated test cases with TestRail’s test case management software to measure requirements and functional coverage. Contributing to open source projects to support this effort.
Worked with partner organizations and customers to create and maintain their own CI libraries for CircleCI, ranging from go-to-market assistance to paired programming with partner company developers.
Creating and maintaining test automation libraries for Livongo (Chronic Care Management) (acquired by Teladoc in 2020) products including web, mobile, backend, and ETL.
Community & Partner Engineer, CircleCI
Jun, 2020 - Mar, 20219 months
Working with customers and partners in our open-source community to produce and maintain CircleCI ecosystem assets.
Launched the CircleCI Developer Hub, a K8s microsite for CircleCI assets (Docker images and CI integrations), as a full-stack developer in React and Go.
Created and maintained CI libraries for dozens of languages and frameworks, e.g. Ruby, GKE, Python, Terraform, used by thousands of runs daily.
Supported open source community Docker images spanning various languages and frameworks, e.g. Python, Ruby, Android, Selenium, for use on CircleCI, each being used in almost 100,000 runs a week.
Worked with partner organizations and customers to create and maintain their own CI libraries for CircleCI, ranging from go-to-market assistance to paired programming with partner company developers.
Primary lead on restructuring CircleCI sample apps and configuration files to improve CircleCI onboarding experience.
Sr. Software Engineer, NetApp - SolidFire
Jun, 2019 - Jun, 202011 months
DevOps Architect for the NetApp/SoldFire AFA and HCI product. Automation Architect.
Architected transition of 1000+ test cases from legacy framework to new automated CI driven testing framework.
Architected new continuous integration and delivery process to parallelize system value delivery, remove circular dependencies and decreased build and test time by a factor of 4.
Architected end to end container and Kubernetes based serverless testing solution for disparate disconnected system tests that removed hundreds of manual hours for each release.
Coached other system architects in scaled agile best practices to enable predictable planning by reducing lead time in exploration phase by 75%.
Architected organizational value stream alignment with other system architects and SAFe practitioners to restructure the teams around value in order to increase delivery to the customer by a factor of 6.
Software Engineer, NetApp - SolidFire
Jul, 2015 - Jun, 20193 years 11 months
Started at SolidFire pre-acquisition, seeing the changes of small start-up to large enterprise from a test automation engineer's pespective
Led software test team in developing complex automated tests and test cases for core SolidFire product features in python and pytest
Scrum master, architect and product owner for re-architecture of internal legacy automation python code base
Automated systems administration tasks such as system monitoring, report generation, code deployment, package management, and server maintenance
Designed and developed REST API SDK for external test case management software for use across multiple teams.
Research Engineer, Southwest Research Institute
Sep, 2014 - Jul, 201510 months
Continued standards developement and began taking leadership oppurtunities within the project space.
Assisted in standards development for a SOAP / UDP-multicast / UDP-syslog based communications architecture for US Army ground combat vehicles known as VICTORY
Software team lead for the Army’s Industry Network Integration Evaluation Demonstration to provide VICTORY Capabilities in an operational environment
Project Manager for a $50k internal research project to develop cost effective, micro embedded VICTORY adapters
Engineer, Southwest Research Institute
Jan, 2012 - Sep, 20142 years 8 months
First position post graduation. Worked to test and integrate boost/libqt C++ code base and real systems on vehicles.
Led software validation experiments developing software components to demonstrate VICTORY Specifications.
Assisted in system integration for US Army field demo of situation awareness vehicle
Assistant project manager and engineer for a combat vehicle high performance video bus architecture.
Python
Typescript / React
Go
Bash
Linux / OSX
Docker / Kubernetes
Saltstack / Ansible / Terraform
Jenkins / CircleCI / Github Actions
DevOps
Value Stream
Process Automation
Web Services
Open Standards
Software Testing
Scaled Agile / SAFe
System Architecture
Storage Appliances
Embedded Systems
Software Integration
Value Streams
Electrical Engineering, Bachelor, Texas Tech University
- May, 2012
Magna Cum LaudeMathematics - Minor
Volunteer, Historic Boulder
Nov, 2019 - Present
Event volunteer and tech support volunteer
Volunteer Judge, Alamo Regional Science Fair
Jun, 2013 - Feb, 2014
Volunteered at multiple science fairs judging Math, Engineering, and Computer Science projects.
Hiking
Baking
Pizza
My Dogs