Manager, Engineering at ProductPlan

• Recruited by ownership to evaluate and strengthen the company's engineering practices
• Work across a Ruby on Rails and React monorepo, shipped continuously via daily deploys
• Lead a team spanning both feature development and platform work
• Built the foundational AI infrastructure for the product, including an in-app chat assistant and several internal Slack bots
• Mentor developers and manage two direct reports

Technical Lead at TalentReef

• Led the highest-performing feature team — a distinction earned within six months of inheriting a formerly production support team
• Designed a new architecture built on Spring Boot in ECS, Node.js Lambdas, Postgres in RDS, and supporting AWS services
• Established engineering best practices and the procedures to enforce them
• Coached other team leads on effective leadership and value delivery
• Automated repetitive DevOps work with CloudFormation, Terraform, and shell scripting
• Organized two-week Agile sprints in Jira

Software Developer at Carfax

• Built Spring Boot and Spring Batch applications in Groovy and Java 8
• Built Node.js services with React frontends
• Deployed via Jenkins to Kubernetes on AWS or on-premise DC 3.0
• Promoted to acting team leader within ten months of joining

Senior Programmer Analyst at Boone County Government

• Built full-stack web applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript on ASP, ASP.NET, and Java backends
• Wrote COBOL and IBM CL applications on IBM System i
• Served as product manager for two major projects end-to-end
• Earned three merit-based raises outside the annual review cycle

Columbia College — Columbia, MO

Bachelor of Science — GPA 3.68

Major: Computer Science — Minor: Business

• Graduated cum laude with a GPA of 3.68/4.0
• Earned an A in all computer science classes

David H. Hickman High School — Columbia, MO