System overview.
I'm a Solution Architect who strives for the best in performance and efficiency, fast to adapt to new programming languages and environments. I believe critical thinking and communication are the most important skills for development — and for a great work environment.
I'm expanding my skill set beyond development with a goal of becoming an enterprise architect. Main interests: Big Data, Cloud Infrastructure, Microservices, IoT, and Healthcare Management systems.
Education & professional experience.
Currently studying data science methods with an emphasis on applying analytics and machine learning to real-world architecture and infrastructure problems.
Studied security risk management and implementation with a specialization in cloud security.
Specialized in web development and database design. Member of multiple honor societies and the Auburn University Marching Band, 2004–2006.
- Support Dealertrack, a SaaS solution giving Dealers and Lenders a suite of F&I and titling tools.
- Own the modernization roadmap for Digital Document Service (DDS) to AWS.
- Review F&I Solution workloads against the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Build Power BI metrics and business insights for the F&I Architecture portfolio.
- Implement OAuth2 with a centralized identity provider for modernization efforts.
- Developed the strategy and business case for migrating on-prem infrastructure to the cloud.
- Automated migration at scale using AWS CloudEndure/Migrate with on-prem vCenter.
- Built a modernization framework for federated cloud environments.
- Developed a resiliency strategy for fault tolerance and disaster recovery.
- Designed and maintained a data analytics platform (Collibra, Alteryx Server), cutting man-hours by the thousands.
- Integrated Alteryx, Collibra, Hortonworks (Hive/HDFS), and a custom SQL platform.
- Built a self-service SQL provisioning POC on Azure.
- Served as Scrum Master and developer on multiple high-profile projects.
- Built .NET web services for an iOS app tracking military vehicle maintenance.
- Led a dev team on maintenance/enhancements; ran code reviews for junior engineers.
- Built a document management system automating metadata extraction from onboarding images.
- Maintained Kofax OCR and Rightfax systems for the document pipeline.
What I'm building.
More soon.
This section is reserved for write-ups on projects I'm working on. Check back for updates.
Let's connect.
If you've got a role, a project, or a question — I'm listening.
Whether it's an opportunity, an architecture problem worth discussing, or just a debate about smoker fuel types, feel free to reach out.