Experience

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  2021
  Universal Music Group - Lead Developer

  Universal Music Group is the largest music and entertainment company in the world; it is home to some of the largest musical artist ever. I work in their Global Commerce division, which provides software solutions for eCommerce store management, as well as integrations across storefront, order and PO fulfillment, and warehousing.

  I spend my time designing systems in Go and Typscript/Remix.

  Highlights

  • Reduced processing time of the customer self-cancel process by 75% (95th percentile)
  • Built a service and process to standardize chart reporting for US, Canada, Australia, Britian, France, and Ireland
  • Built the foundation service for processing Shopify webhooks with an event architecture to the UMG services stack
  • Built services to integrate OMS, WMS, and product data for hundreds of UK online stores
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  2019
  Co-Owner and Developer of App Nerds LLC

  App Nerds is a company I helped form with a parter to build web sites and applications. We specialized in custom websites in Wix, and custom software applications and integrations. I sold my shares in 2024.

  I designed applications and system using Go, JavaScript, and Wix.

  Highlights

  • Designed and built a workflow web application for In-Lingo to manage paralegal document translations, with over 200 users processing over 48,000 documents.
  • Built a service responsible for handling vendor and payment management for Title & Title, completely automating a previously manual process
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  2010
  API Healthcare/GE Healthcare/Symplr Healthcare - Senior Engineer/Software Architect

  API Healthcare purchased Clearview Staffing Software, and I came back to work here after the acquisition. API Healthcare, and later Symplr, provided solutions for staffing agencies, direct hospital staffing, scheduling management, self scheduling, and vendor credentialing.

  We built systems using Typescript, Angular, and Java.

  Highlights

  • Onboarded and trained a team of Java developers on JavaScript and Typescript fundamentals for an upcoming project
  • Spearheaded an effort to redesign an outdated Client Access portal application using newer, component-based client and server code
• EF
  2010
  Equator Financial Solutions - Senior Software Engineer

  Equator Financial Solutions built custom workflow web applications for financial institutions, primarily banks, to better facilitate and track the short sale and foreclosure process. Here I wrote ColdFusion web applications. I also served on the architecture team to help improve coding standards.

• EP
  2009
  eSports Partners, Inc. - Senior Software Engineer

  eSports Partners provided an eCommerce solution for college and professional sports teams websites to sell merchandise. I was brought in with a new team to build a new version of their eCommerce platform in ColdFusion and JavaScript, with an emphasis on improving speed and reliability. I also introduced Java and Groovy components for critical backend processing.

• CS
  2005
  Clearview Staffing Software - Software Architect

  Clearview Staffing Software built software for staffing agencies who staffed qualified nurses to hospitals. This included temporary, on-demand staff, as well as long term "travel" nursing. ColdFusion and Microsoft SQL was the primary tech stack. Over time, I introduced adding Java components to portions of the stack. I also built internal tooling for tasks like deployment and customer management using C#.

• IT
  2003
  IT Storm, Inc. - Software Engineer

  IT Storm was a small business formed by myself and two business partners. We built custom web sites and ecommerce solutions in PHP and ColdFusion.

• SD
  2001
  Scan-Direct, Inc. - Programmer

  Scan-Direct was a company building custom document digitization and archival solutions. They offered large-scale document scanning and digitization, along with a custom (early days) OCR solution. I helped build internal tooling in C++ for splitting and saving multi-page TIFF files onto company file shares for archival and storage.