Experience

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About

I pride myself on my ability to coordinate with diverse teams in fast-paced business environments. I excel in learning and adapting to new technologies, enabling me to drive the success of technology organizations across various industries and market segments.

map[class:object-fit-cover rounded-circle page:map[company:Upbound icon:images/icon-upbound.webp link:https://www.upbound.io/ location:United States · Remote text:Designing, building, and automating critical portions of the Upbound Cloud service infrastructure

Troubleshooting and problem-solving effectively to remediate infrastructure related issues that affect service health

Designing and implementing a self-service solution for the teams that consume Upbound infrastructure

Supporting the entire project lifecycle - discovery, analysis, architecture, design, documentation, building, migration, automation, and production-readiness

Skills\: DevOps, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, YAML, Crossplane, Backstage
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Senior Platform Engineer

Upbound
United States · Remote

Designing, building, and automating critical portions of the Upbound Cloud service infrastructure

Troubleshooting and problem-solving effectively to remediate infrastructure related issues that affect service health

Designing and implementing a self-service solution for the teams that consume Upbound infrastructure

Supporting the entire project lifecycle - discovery, analysis, architecture, design, documentation, building, migration, automation, and production-readiness

Skills: DevOps, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, YAML, Crossplane, Backstage

map[class:object-fit-cover rounded-circle page:map[company:Guidewire Software icon:images/icon-guidewire.webp link:https://www.guidewire.com/ location:Birmingham, Alabama Area text:I implemented endpoints for a RESTful API to interface with Guidewire's insurance product suite that supports multiple insurance companies of various sizes.

I also developed multi-tenanted Java microservices in coordination with cross-functional teams to drive cloud transformations for insurance companies. One of which was a payments serice that enabled payment processing for users of Authorize.net, Stripe, and OneInc to  ensure PCI compliance. 

Delivered internal cloud infrastructure support for the deployment of cloud solutions to customer environments, which includedtroubleshooting Terraform and AWS configuration issues.

Served as the interim Team Lead for four months, defined workflows, assigned responsibilities, and provided coaching and support to team members.

Skills\: TeamCity, Terraform, AWS (S3, RDS, Aurora), Java, Spring (Boot,  Cloud Config) Apache (Velocity Templates & POI),  Extreme Programming,  Agile, Atlassian (BitBucket, Jira, Confluence, Bamboo), SonarQube.
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Software Engineer III

Guidewire Software
Birmingham, Alabama Area

I implemented endpoints for a RESTful API to interface with Guidewire’s insurance product suite that supports multiple insurance companies of various sizes.

I also developed multi-tenanted Java microservices in coordination with cross-functional teams to drive cloud transformations for insurance companies. One of which was a payments serice that enabled payment processing for users of Authorize.net, Stripe, and OneInc to ensure PCI compliance.

Delivered internal cloud infrastructure support for the deployment of cloud solutions to customer environments, which includedtroubleshooting Terraform and AWS configuration issues.

Served as the interim Team Lead for four months, defined workflows, assigned responsibilities, and provided coaching and support to team members.

Skills: TeamCity, Terraform, AWS (S3, RDS, Aurora), Java, Spring (Boot, Cloud Config) Apache (Velocity Templates & POI), Extreme Programming, Agile, Atlassian (BitBucket, Jira, Confluence, Bamboo), SonarQube.

map[class:object-fit-cover rounded-circle page:map[company:Infinity Insurance icon:images/icon-infinity.jpg link:https://www.infinityauto.com/ location:Birmingham, Alabama Area text:I supported the system migration from a monolith to microservice architecture, which improved maintenance processes and reduced costs by 30%. I developed and supported Java microservices that calculated policy premiums. I also implemented a regression testing tool and led the integration into the microservice deployment pipeline.

Skills\: Jenkins, Regression Testing, Groovy, Java, Spring, Oracle, Microservices
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Senior Software Developer

Infinity Insurance
Birmingham, Alabama Area

I supported the system migration from a monolith to microservice architecture, which improved maintenance processes and reduced costs by 30%. I developed and supported Java microservices that calculated policy premiums. I also implemented a regression testing tool and led the integration into the microservice deployment pipeline.

Skills: Jenkins, Regression Testing, Groovy, Java, Spring, Oracle, Microservices

map[class:object-fit-cover rounded-circle page:map[company:MedSnap icon:images/icon-medsnap.jpg link:https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=medsnap&qpvt=medsnap&mid=83E88A2B73F27DAC37F983E88A2B73F27DAC37F9&&FORM=VRDGAR location:Innovation Depot text:I managed a five-person QA team that produced and maintain terabytes of pill image data. Our duties also included conducting medication research and manual testing of MedSnaps pill recognition mobile application.

Skills\: Quality Assurance, Management
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Quality Engineering Support

MedSnap
Innovation Depot

I managed a five-person QA team that produced and maintain terabytes of pill image data. Our duties also included conducting medication research and manual testing of MedSnaps pill recognition mobile application.

Skills: Quality Assurance, Management

map[class:object-fit-cover rounded-circle page:map[company:McLeod Software icon:images/icon-mcleod.jpg link:https://www.mcleodsoftware.com/ location:Birmingham, Alabama Area text:I created technical designs for modifications to existing core software products for the logistics and transportation industries. I collaborated with SMEs to develop quality custom modifications for clients. I also designed and implemented regional-based filtering for less-than-truckload operations.

Skills\: Java, SQL Server
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Software Engineer

McLeod Software
Birmingham, Alabama Area

I created technical designs for modifications to existing core software products for the logistics and transportation industries. I collaborated with SMEs to develop quality custom modifications for clients. I also designed and implemented regional-based filtering for less-than-truckload operations.

Skills: Java, SQL Server

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IT Analyst

SecurIT360
I created technical designs for modifications to existing core software products for the logistics and transportation industries. I collaborated with SMEs to develop quality custom modifications for clients. I also designed and implemented regional-based filtering for less-than-truckload operations.

Skill Inventory

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DevOps YAML TDD Github Admin Crossplane Amazon Web Services (AWS) Java PHP C HTML Programming Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Agile Python Terraform Teaching Quality Assurance Test Driven Development Linux Databases CSS Research Management Software Development Groovy Spring TeamCity REST Regression Testing Computer Science Education SQL Unit Testing Jenkins Apache Camel Kubernetes Microsoft SQL Server JUnit Spring Boot Security Test Automation Leadership JBoss Application Server MyBatis POI Gradle Docker Microservices Computer Science Outreach