I am product-focused, a technical problem solver, a logic based decision maker, and I'm not afraid to dig into new technologies (if they will solve the problem best).
I consider myself entrepreneurially oriented and love startups. I’m an avid Hacker News reader and Product Hunter; anything to stay up to date on the latest and greatest.
I co-founded Reactor Inc. developers of Winston for iPhone, an app that further connects you to your friends and world around you. We created an audio visual experience to absorb content that we typically read from social media or news sites. I was the second member of the team and hacked together a PHP prototype and then later a Node.js build during DreamIt Ventures’ NYC 2012 program.
Since then, I've been working at startups around the Boulder, Colorado area, including SendGrid, Conspire, Simple Energy, and Yonomi.
I studied and worked at...
Growing teams & engineers
Giving engineers & tech leads the tools, confidence, and motivation to make wise decisions.
Maintain a balance between building sustainable high-impact projects and shipping quickly.
Instilling best practices and providing coaching and mentorship.
I built features and tools from thought to production. Was an early champion of Agile Methodologies, TDD, CI/CD, and instilling engineering best practices.
Designing and Architecting new serverless microservice architecture for ease of product development.
Created design proposals for new microservice based architecture that allowed the company be more agile in new product development.
Developed Simple Energy's Rebates as a Service, improving margins and cutting costs by implementing on AWS Lambda with Zappa.
Building features and tools from thought to production.
Building features and tools from thought to production.
Creating SendGrid Internal tools and services.
Created tools and processes to efficiently scale customer support efforts while also providing excellent customer service by responding to technical support requests.
Winston is your well-informed friend who reports the news you care about from your social streams and favorite news feeds. He delivers personalized news and social content as a narrated, audiovisual presentation that you can enjoy on your iPhone.
We used Node.js and MongoDB.
We were accepted into DreamIt Venture's NYC 2012 startup accelerator program.
Designed and enhanced internal web based applications and test tools in ASP.NET, PHP, Javascript and XSL/XML.
Programmed with in-house test scripting language and Java to stress-test high-performance storage systems.
Test Automation Lab Administrator, duties included: maintaining documents, maintenance, troubleshooting hardware and software errors, installations, orders and developed a web-based tool to manage hardware and power consumption.
I used and learned a lot of tools: Java, PHP, ASP.NET, Javascript, XML/XSL
Studying Economics allowed me to develop my analytical skills and allowed me to continue playing around with computer science stuff on the side, from my internship at LSI to many different programming classes.