Credentials.
- 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
- 15+ years of consulting experience.
- 15+ years of customer service exposure.
Working and experienced with Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and C#/.NET. 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, so I won’t bother listing them all out. If you’re looking for an experienced software developer in the above technology stacks with plenty of exposure in consulting and across several verticals, we should have a conversation.
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My consulting career started really while I worked with The Scruggs Group (website no longer active) in the private actuarial consulting world for a while as a software consultant to the team and their clients, and I worked with Sogeti USA for a time as well,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.