Resume

I was hired by Sibi to work on the Partner Integration Team. On PIT, our job is to integrate with the current technology of our strategic partners like Carrier, GE Appliances, MSI Flooring, Mohawk Carpet, and others. As one the senior members of this team, I played a significant role in shaping the architecture and implementation for all of Sibi’s largest integrations. I also mentored and guided Junior Software Engineers grow in their profession.

After working on the team for a few months, I noticed that if we changed our archictecture we could greatly reduce the length of time it would take to integrate a new parnter. The architecture change I proposed was to create a set of “abstraction” services, i.e. orders-service, tracking-service, etc. These services would two definite interfaces, one for the parnter services to send data to and one to send/receive data from the rest of the Sibi platform. This allowed us to turn the partner services into simple translation services that would convert “Partner” to “Sibi” and then send that data to the relevant abstraction service.

I also implemented numerous performance improvements throughout the Integrations platform which resulted in huge time savings on our most critical APIs and significant cost savings.

At Lucidworks, I worked as a Software Engineer on the Identity and State Management team, we were responsible for the Authentication and Authorization and the state management for Lucidworks’ new SaaS application, Springboard. Springboard is a collection of Springboot applications that run on a Kubernetes clusters hosted on GCP.

Springboard is a Search as a Service Platform. It quickly allows their customers to integrate high quality machine learning based search into their websites.

For authentication and authorization, we used Okta to handle authentication and generate a JWT for the users session. We would then verify the JWT against Okta to ensure a request was authorized. To do the authorization, we leveraged the Spring Security library. WE would also use custom claims to pass information about the user to our system for the in-house analytics.

To handle state management, the Identity and State Management team created a service to be the single source of truth for the entire Kubernetes based backend. To accomplish this our service would consume all Pub/Sub messages produced in the system and store them in a Firestore database. The service also had the ability to replay sagas to help reconcile the state of a disrupted service.

Working through Black Key Software, I worked as a contractor for NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge, CA. While working there, I worked to help the transition of internal image processing tools to the Cloud, AWS. I migrated two systems from running on servers full time when they were only used occasionally to bring serverless applications. This cut the cloud bill for these applications by 90%. As part of this effort, I taught my team and the organization to rethink how they thought about architecting their solutions in the cloud.

Due to budget issues with the parent organization sponsoring the project I was working on, JPL was not able to renew the contract I was working on for FY22.

Software Lead for the Polaris Project. Polaris is the name for the project that will build the software and controls platform for all future projects at Agjunction. The platform is a Yocto Linux based application platform where each process is run in a docker container.

As part of the Polaris Project, I oversaw the design and implementation of a docker based micro-services architecture on an embedded device. As part of this effort, I led the creation and completion of software sprints. I was in charge of mapping out a sprint schedule the would make sure the software team hit its goals for the year.

Wrote a low-level driver for a Magnetometer to run on a microcontroller. The majority of the driver was written based on the current code and the datasheet. This driver only required minimal integration and test time before the entire system was ready to be tested on a tractor.

Ported an existing feature, a special type of turn, from AgJunction’s OEM product to their consumer product. This feature allows the user to be able to automatically do a U-turn at the end of a pass on the field and begin a new pass with the implement behind the tractor lined up perfectly with the previous pass, with no overlap. This feature makes the consumer product much more valuable to Agjunction’s customers.

Updated production test software of one of AgJunction’s products to be more configurable and flexible. The previous implementation of the production test software had every parameter hardcoded. These hardcoded values no longer worked the configurations coming from the factory. I made the hardcoded parameters flexible and made some changes to the software to make it easier to update version numbers and server names to save time on maintenance in the future.

Maintained two separate code bases for the embedded software of a software-defined radio. Due to the sensitive nature of the program, there were two different sets of software, the real app and a test app that could be used in a more open environment

Updated a communications receiver built as a Windows application to work with Windows 10. This required the security for the software to be updated to work the TPM 2.0 instead of TPM 1.2. I lead the effort to port our security implementation over to a new library I wrote that used the TPM 2.0

Made numerous improvements to the production test software of the software-defined radio. These improvements included improving our pass rate from 80% to >95%, implementing a test report that made it easier for the test operators to see if and how a unit failed the production test, and increase the test coverage to cover all use cases of the radio.

Characterized the RF performance of the software-defined radio, then performed detailed data analysis on the resulting data leading to an improved hardware design of the radio. Python, pandas, NumPy, and matplotlib were used to perform the data analysis.

As a Test Engineering intern, I Made improvements to production test software and processes resulting in a cost savings of $200,000 over the life of the contract.

As a Systems Engineering intern on Rescue-21, Developed a process improvement to save over 20 hours per week in Engineering labor by automating the assignment of trouble tickets saving the program $125,000 per year.

Electronics Technician with the following specialties, Strategic SHF Satellite Communitcations Technician, TACAN (Tactical Air Navigation) Technician, CBSP (Commercial Broadband Satellite Program).

As a SATCOM Tech at NCATMS LANT det Rota, Spain (Naval Computer/Telecommunications Area Master Station, Atlantic detachment Rota, Spain), I was in charge of the troubleshooting and maintenance of a multi-million dollar satellite communications system. I was also the head instructor for the SATCOM training program at the command. As part of my other duties, I was the lead watchstander for the duty section (workgroup) which put me in charge of two other people, often of a higher rank than myself. I was awarded a Flag Letter of Commendation (A letter of commendation from an Admiral) for my superior technical ability demonstrated during the decommissioning of the SATCOM terminal.

After the SATCOM terminal was decommissioned, I was transferred to a new department where I became a Communications Watch Officer. With this role, I was in charge of monitoring and maintaining all communications circuits for the United States portion of the Naval Base in Rota Spain, as well as the secure communications for the embassy in Madrid and the Air Base in Moron. I was in charge of a watch team of 4 - 5 people where I had to perform their yearly evaluations and mid-term counsellings. At the conclusion of my time in Spain, I was awarded the Navy Achievement medal for my achievements and accomplishments during my time at the command.

While on stationed aboard the HSV-2 Swift, I was regularly in charge of embarked technicians that were there to work on different systems on the boat. I was also made the temporary LPO (Leading Petty Officer) while the actual LPO was unavailable. This put me in charge of 12 people, 9 of which were higher ranking than myself. I was in charge of tasking the department from orders given down by the officers on the boat and reporting the status back to them. I also had to routinely brief the Admiral in charge of the fleet as the status of the systems onboard our ship as we were part of a high profile mission.

Within 1 week of being onboard the ship, we had an equipment casualty that led to us finding out about 90% of the communications circuits on the boat were not functioning. Within 2 weeks, with some outside help, I had all the communications circuits up and running. As part of this effort, I found numerous configuration issues that would need to be fixed throughout the year. For this effort, I was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal for the second time.