Having always been fascinated by technology I've been tinkering with computers since a young age, eventually going from creating a tic-tac-toe game on a TI83 calculator to architecting and developing full blown cloud based software systems. Creating and understanding 'things'​ has always been a great passion of mine whether they be mechanical or electronic. Over the years I've been involved in BattleBots (built three of them), radio control cars/planes/helis/quads and all sorts of computer related hobbies ranging from custom counter strike map making to white hat hacking. My areas of expertise include: Management • Management of software development teams using agile processes • Product design and development, collaboration with stakeholders and customers in requirements gathering for development initiatives • Business process design and improvement • Team building, hiring and mentoring of software developers Software Development • Full stack web development using modern tools and frameworks • Development of DevOps practices such as unit testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery to ensure rapid and repeatable delivery of system changes • Architecting large scale data analysis back ends for high performance big data workloads • Design and development of data analysis algorithms • Development of custom interactive analytics dashboards • Data modeling in both relational and non-relational databases • Integration with third party APIs such as social networks, CRMs, and credit card processors • Development of APIs for third parties to integrate • Architecting secure, highly available, and cost effective web scale cloud based systems