## Work Experience

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Engineering Manager

@Trava (Series A Startup)

08/2023 - 02/2024

Provided leadership, coaching and mentorship to a geographically distributed, 5-member team to ensure delivery of innovative solutions. Improved employee satisfaction by 20%.

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Principal Full Stack Engineer (Internal: Head Of Engineering)

@La Vette (Post-Seed Startup)

08/2021 - 06/2022

Lead frontend, backend, and mobile teams (10+ contract engineers) to architect, design, test, implement, optimize, and upkeep using agile methodologies to create a robust and visionary video dating platform.

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Senior Solutions Architect (Internal: Chief Technology Officer)

@Guaranty Support Inc

01/2020 - 06/2022

Led the technical effort to transfer more than 200,000 claims and 25 million records, and over 25 terabytes of claim and policy images from more than 10 separate insolvent companies utilizing a wide range of technologies: Python, Pandas, Go, Postgres, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and VMware ESXi/vCenter.

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Director Of Information Technology Services

@the National Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds

08/2021 - 06/2022

Directed a five-member engineering team in enhancing, maintaining, and upgrading the company's comprehensive infrastructure.

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DevOps Engineer

@the National Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds

04/2019 - 08/20221

Architected, project managed, and implemented a multi-stage migration of the company's entire infrastructure from on-prem VMware vCenter clusters to Microsoft Azure, with the final migration of the database servers executing without unplanned downtime and with no loss of data. The resulting architecture led to business increasing critical system uptime by 4%.

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Helpdesk Technician

@the National Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds

07/2017 - 05/2019

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Technical Support Engineer Intern

@Cisco Meraki

06/2016 - 08/2016

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IT Intern

@Purdue Research Foundation

10/2013 - 05/2014

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Technology Intern

@Litchfield Community School District

04/2012 - 01/2014