ABOUT
Senior Full Stack Engineer with a proven track record in scaling platforms, harnessing emerging technologies, and fostering innovation. Experienced leader adept at steering cross-functional teams to deliver transformative solutions that align with business objectives. Recognized for driving end-to-end development of cutting-edge technology products across agency, enterprise, and startup landscapes.
WORK EXPERIENCE
VP, Platform Engineering, Scout
November 2014 - Present
Founding team member – responsible for Scout's apps and core platforms
- Responsible for Scout's APIs, back end processes, mobile apps, video services, monitoring, whitelabel and third-party integrations
- Led engineering efforts from initial consumer-facing Kickstarter through IPO, and eventual IoT platform whitelabel
- Developed internal, customer and partner-facing apps powered by React, React Native and Electron
- Developed internal services for managing device connectivity, event processing, video streaming and video transcoding
- Developed Scout Alarm for web, iOS, Apple Watch, Android, Android Wear, Amazon Alexa and Google Home
Interactive Director, Sullivan Higdon & Sink
March 2009 - October 2014
Lead developer for a full-service advertising agency
- Concepted and coded several award winning mobile apps and websites
- Started as lone developer and grew the team and interactive business from the ground up
- Responsible for project planning and budgeting, wireframing, app and site development, hardware hacking, devops and CI/CD
Marketing Specialist, Bunting Magnetics Co.
September 2007 - March 2009
Responsible for trade shows, online marketing campaigns, web development and server administration
- Wrote a custom analytics platform to track leads from internet marketing campaigns in realtime
- Automated legacy Oracle/Access based sales reporting tasks using Salesforce
- Optimized website search results which led to a 600% YOY increase in online orders
VOLUNTEER WORK
Organizer, Startup Wichita
April 2013 -
Coordinated to bring Startup Weekend and various entrepreneurial events to Wichita
SKILLS
Languages
Node.JS JavaScript TypeScript HTML CSS Java Kotlin Objective-C Swift Ruby Python PHP C++ C C# ASP Perl ColdFusionMobile Development
Android iOS React NativeDatabases
DynamoDB MySQL MongoDB Firebase Redis ElastiCache Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL MsSQL OracleTechnologies
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud Platform React Docker Bluetooth / BLE Zigbee Z-Wave Thread Matter WiFi sensing AI / LLMs Computer vision WebRTC SMTP / Email WearablesAPIs
AWS IoT Sendgrid Shopify Salesforce Twilio Plaid Stripe Recurly OpenAI IFTTT Amazon Echo Google HomeEDUCATION
Master, Business Administration - Wichita State University
January 2007 -
Bachelor, Business Administration - Emporia State University
August 2005 - December 2006
AWARDS
Hacker Olympics - Place[0] - Twilio
18 September 2013
Champion of the 2013 TwilioCon Hacker Olympics