creds.
- Graduated from SMU’s Cox School of Business in May of 2014, with a concentration in Strategy and Entrepreneurship.
- Graduated from UTA in Fall of 2007 with a B.S. in Computer Science.
- 15+ years of software development for both the web as well as client/server projects
- 10+ years of consulting experience.
- 10+ years of customer service exposure.
Working and experienced with Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and C#/.NET Core. I’m familiar with various frameworks around these development languages, platforms and tools, but these come and go as needed and on a case by case basis.
I’ve worked at a few companies in my time:
eCommerce - SoftBallJunk - simplistic HTML forms, connectivity to payment gateways, etc.
While I was in college, I started out my development career with Foresight Automation, a small mechanical engineering firm that happened to be a vendor for Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control, an organization I ended up doing a couple of internships with towards the end of my junior year and beginning of my senior year. I also interned at L-3 Communications’ Link Simulation & Training, who eventually hired me full time about a month after I graduated with my BSCS degree.
My consulting career started really while I worked with The Scruggs Group (website no longer active) in the private actuarial consulting world for a while as a software consultant to the team and their clients, and I worked with Sogeti USA for a time as well, really enjoying working with Fortune 500 companies like Pier 1 and Alcon, as well as mid-sized organizations like the Federation of State Medical Boards and Broadlane/MedAssets.
After Sogeti, I worked in the private sector with Monitronics for a while, and did some minor work for Cheaper Than Dirt.
I moved back into Consulting when I worked with Imaginet (a great organization, for sure, and just a great group of folks who are an absolute pleasure to work with) and then jumped to Catapult Systems, where I got to dive into mobile application development and really started looking at the cloud.
From there, I got to work an extended period at Avanade working with Microsoft Azure fairly exclusively for building SaaS applications using a microservice architecture.
While I was at Catapult and Avanade, I started my own small consultancy, Methodology, LLC and have amassed a few clients that I work with regularly to deliver real-time web apps and custom application development solutions.
I left my gig at mr.cooper after nearly four years, but I loved working at this company and really connected with the people I worked with. While I was there, I helped them transform their internal IT culture and led the successful delivery of several products. We also managed to introduce a few cool things - containerization with Docker, YAGNI-based development with a Scrum-based process, pair programming, truly automated CI/CD pipelines with VSTS (now Azure DevOps). We worked with and illuminated the pros/cons of microservice-based architectures and design approaches, test-driven development and test automation.
I was with Big Compass for a while but then COVID-19 hit. I worked with them to help Exxon Mobil with their integration needs.
After this gig, I contracted with Bank of America for a few months before finding a great opportunity at City Innovate. We’re developing a Governments-focused SaaS product to assist them with Challenge-based procurements.