Forward-thinking software and data engineer with 22 years of professional experience across highly-regulated industries including commercial software, defense, and education. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Adept research and analytical skills. Award-winning teacher and avid speaker. Seven-time Microsoft MVP. Small business owner.
Lead a tactical team of designers, analysts, and data scientists to promote learning best-practices in Pluralsight learning experiences. Construct data signals to instrument cognitive and teaching concepts in content. Embed with product teams to advocate for learner personas.
Close $5M in revenue through white-glove service aligning learning with business outcomes for enterprise customers.
Raise profit by $200,000 per year using GPT-3 technologies to replace error-ridden manual content indexing tasks.
Develop in-house Learning Science literacy curriculum for product, technology, and content production staff.
Automate data pipelines and reporting to support analysts and data scientists.
Forecast Data Professional library needs and identify authors appropriate to fill these needs. Curate course proposals and author auditions. Resolve quality and technical issues in course content. Mentor course authors to improve the learning experience from their courses. Develop curriculum for general learning, certifications, and customer-specific training requirements.
Direct planning and operations for the most cost-effective segment of the Pluralsight content library.
Grow data author NPS by 7%, reduced time to data course production by 17%, and increased throughput of author contracts by 22% through tractible data-driven processes of curriculum planning.
Support data-driven role and skill planning using web scraping, data mining, natural language processing, and machine learning.
Develop in-house data literacy curriculum for Content teams.
Design and sales of custom crochet pieces that incorporate electronics, biosensors, programming, and mathematics.
Create the ChainOneTurn application to translate images into filet and colorwork crochet patterns.
Code Owls, LLC
2009
- Present
Owner
Provide contracted software engineering, data engineering, and project management services across highly regulated industries, including gaming, defense, and education.
Reduce expenses of a large school district by 1.2 million dollars by implementing a cloud-based answer sheet processing system, allowing the district to use inexpensive commodity scanners.
Release the open source p2f framework, which Microsoft now includes as part of the code base for PowerShell and Azure Cloud Shell. (https://github.com/PowerShell/SHiPS/blob/development/docs/Design.md)
Implemented software and services to support automated poker tables and poker rooms. Research and development. SCM, build master, and Scrum master.
Reduced time and cost of regulatory approval cycles through implementation of data-driven documentation and static code analysis systems.
Designed and developed enterprise application security and file integrity systems, including line-of-sight and monitoring of real-time status in accordance with regulatory demands.
Increased automated functional testing coverage to 80% of observed human behavior using a domain-specific language for describing poker room activity.
LearningStation, Inc
2002
- 2005
Senior Integration Engineer
Integrated systems across various education platforms and architectures. Created and managed a SAML-based identity federation service.
Eliminated 37% of all support incidents through automated data audits.
Implemented line-of-sight into data integration systems to support 99.9% uptime SLAs with external vendors.
Convey Systems, Inc
2000
- 2002
Software Developer
Developed browser-based communication and collaboration software.
Added 4.2 hours of average productivity per developer per week by automating software component documentation efforts.
Reduced response time for support incidents by 15 minutes through centralized real-time logging.