
Accomplished Software Engineering Leader with deep hands-on and strategic leadership experience 15 years of experience driving strategic initiatives and leading high-performing, cross-functional teams. Expert in navigating complex, high-stakes business domains and managing through organizational change and ambiguity. Proven track record of delivering results through data-driven decision-making and iterative value delivery. Recent Accomplishments - Cut 30% of bloated project scope within 2 weeks of joining a team, without sacrificing functional requirements in collaboration with other project leadership - 100% retention rate of direct reports in current role - Coached and mentored team members, resulting in 3 promotions to senior roles and 1 promotion to manager with unanimous consensus from managerial team - Identified and filled gap in competency definitions for staff engineer, leading to a successful promotion to senior staff engineer Management Expertise - Staffing & Org Design: DDD, Team Topologies, consultant models, offshoring, outsourcing, recruiting, hiring, strengths-based org and team design - Deliverable Management: Kanban and Scrum certified, forecasting cycle times using Monte Carlo Technical Expertise - Languages: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, CSS/SCSS - Platforms: AWS (serverless and EC2), Heroku, Linode, various LAMP stacks and one-off PaaS's - Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Django, Sinatra, React, Express/NextJS - Other Tools: CI/CD, Observability, upstream anomaly detection, TDD, resilient design patterns Creator and Host of Developer Tea Podcast - Top 100 podcast in iTunes Technology category with over 15 million downloads and over 1200 episodes - Platform to share insights and grow as an engineering leader Let's connect to discuss how I can bring my expertise in software engineering leadership, strategic thinking, and driving results to your organization.
getgarner.com
guildeducation.com
clearbit.com
atlantabread.com
tesorio.com
calendly.com
pbs.org
Greater Chattanooga
Software Engineering Manager
Garner Health
• www.linkedin.com/company/getgarner
Mar 2025 - Present
Senior Engineering Manager
Calendly
• www.linkedin.com/company/calendly
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
Senior Engineering Manager
Guild
• www.linkedin.com/company/guildeducation
Sep 2023 - May 2024
Engineering Manager II
Guild Education
• www.linkedin.com/company/guildeducation
Jan 2022 - Sep 2023
Director Of Technology
PBS
• www.linkedin.com/company/pbs
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
Engineering Manager
Tesorio
• www.linkedin.com/company/tesorio
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
Senior Software Engineer
Clearbit
• www.linkedin.com/company/clearbit
Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Co-Founder
Spec.fm
May 2015 - May 2015
Everywhere
Guitar Teacher
Metro Music
Jan 2003 - Dec 2005
Dothan, Alabama, United States
spec.fm
fuelbrandnetwork.com
gatech.edu
medium.com