Clover

June, 2012 November, 2012 Director of Technology

• Recruited to bring expertise for existing and future company technology differentiators in house.
• Relaunched proprietary restaurant point-of-sale system (POS) on a Debian based AWS EC2 instance to gain administrative control of production server; web based POS client — initially targeted at Safari on iPod Touch — intended to allow order-taking, food-prep, and future stations to use commodity hardware.
• Updated POS code base for Django 1.4 and Python 2.7 and patched critical orphaned packages for language and API changes to increase maintainability.
• Migrated POS database from the MySQL MyISAM engine to InnoDB to ensure validity of AWS backups and to improve system fault tolerance.
• Worked with the director of finance to ensure accurate sales and sales tax calculations in POS; created daily automated sales reports to simplify computation of location specific gross margins and to ease reconciliation of cash and credit card sales.

Smartleaf

February, 2010 May, 2012 Principal, Capital Markets Data

• Maintained and enhanced securities processes for prices, corporate actions, and social screens representing non-client input to portfolio rebalancing process.
• Migrated securities processes from legacy Oracle 8/Perl web app to Oracle 11/Ruby on Rails.
• Developed and deployed refactored ssh scheme to handle automated uploads of client portfolio data; decoupled upload handling from system ssh server and improved both client and Smartleaf security with chroot jails, environment rather than machine specific configurations and private keys, and public key authentication rather than passwords.
• Wrote and deployed script to allow client systems to continue to use legacy ssh server while Smartleaf systems used new ssh server scheme; worked with client IT staff to transition to new upload servers and developed rollback plans to mitigate failure scenarios; verified with client IT both Smartleaf and client public key fingerprints via phone and e-mail; transitioned support of new upload scheme to Smartleaf ops team.
• Enthusiastically participated in informal peer mentoring.

Harvard University Extension School, CSCI E-168

September, 2009 January, 2010 Teaching Assistant Building Web-Based Software with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

• Taught twenty-one student section.
• Graded assignments and provided detailed feedback adn assistance to students.
• Collaborated with teaching team to create solution sets.

MIT

August, 2009 July, 2010 Interim Housemaster, Senior House

• Led team of graduate resident tutors.
• Acted as an additional resource for residents.
• Facilitated dispute resolution between house government and house manager; worked with deans from the Division of Student Life on issue of importance to Senior House residents.

Refresh Software

January, 2009 May, 2009 Principal Software Architect

• Designed and implemented new features and enhancements in the EJB 3.1 content management product.
• Reimplemented and streamlined the asset retrieval API for multiple programming languages to support client needs.
• Updated third-party HTML editor widget to latest version and refactored its use by the application to ease future upgrades.

Prospect Markets

January, 2008 October, 2008 Director of Engineering

• Designed and built initial version of a web application creating a marketplace in business-to-business sales leads.
• Established processes to plan, manage, and assess both the business and technical tracks.
• Implemented features and managed the software development process.
• Presented to the Boston Ruby Group a Rails plugin implementing an in-database tree utilizing the materialized path algorithm.

Citadel

March, 2005 October, 2005 Consultant (C++, Sybase, scripts)

• Designed and built aspects of the investment risk calculation and reporting system: parsing and loading scheme for large (in excess of 1 gigabyte) XML documents using Xerces C++ SAX2 interface and Sybase; reporting UI using existing Citadel infrastructure; production scripts to drive acquisition and loading of reporting data.
• Collaborated on the design of other aspects of the risk system.

Business Innovation, Inc.

April, 2004 February, 2005 Senior Architect

• Led technical implementation of a product sales web site for a catalog and manufacturing company making a strategic move away from a legacy sales system.
• Guided colleagues in design and development best practices.
• Built reusable components for configuration, logging, encryption, and site-generated e-mail in C#.

Business Intelligence Advisors, Inc.

January, 2003 September, 2003 Consultant (full stack)

• Developed a web-based data collection and reporting application for the personnel security organization of a BIA key client.
• Used an iterative approach with BIA key client to develop UI and functional requirements in ASP.NET and T-SQL.

Zareta

August, 2000 April, 2002 VP of Engineering

• Designed a high-performance, fault-tolerant, pluggable architecture for an anonymizing TCP proxy handling request/response protocols of the general form of RFC 822 messages (HTTP, SMTP).
• Built prototype of HTTP gateway and oversaw development of other anonymizing prototypes including single-use and single-service e-mail addresses.
• Demonstrated anonymizing capabilities to investors and potential clients.

Sapient

March, 1998 May, 2000 Architect

• Led completion of implementation, testing, and rollout for Maine and New Hampshire's Immunization Information System (IMMPACT); modified the design to achieve performance requirements; guided the twenty-member team in resolving C++, Oracle, Visual Basic, CORBA, and design constraints; mentored individuals on career development issues and goal-oriented software development.
• During IMMPACT hiatus, optimized stored procedures for a key SoNet Premier batch process allowing it to complete in the available window.
• Worked as a consultant to a variety of client and internal project teams and participated in project reviews providing guidance on all aspects affecting project execution; demonstrated technical competence in C++ and Tuxedo necessary to close a system design project for The Hartford; enabled the New Hampshire Managed Care System team to replace Oracle Application Server with Apache JServ two weeks before going live; advised Java framework team on system architecture and component design.
• Led a five-person team in creation and rollout of a one-week course for new developers focused on company methodology and emerging technologies.
• Created and taught two days of content for software architects focused on testing, security, and middleware; transitioned delivery to a director of technology.

October, 1995 February, 1998 Lead Developer

• Led workshops on business issues, technical needs, and system integration for the State of Maine Medicaid Long-Term Care eligibility system.
• Designed the technical solution and implemented a C++ framework for Tuxedo allowing server code to be reused on Windows 95 laptops.
• Led sub-team responsible for work flow and client system integration.
• Led enhancements project and 7x24 support for the Managed Care Enrollment and Capitation System.
• Designed and implemented a rules engine driving the enrollment process.
• Trained client personnel in Oracle, Tuxedo, Visual Basic, and HP-UX.