Experience

Architect / Founder

Petter Software Systems and Consulting

2022 — 2026

  • Work with principle stakeholders to define requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
  • Currently building AI solutions for a company to manage social media, estimates and other back office tasks.
Achievements
  • Created architectural plans and data schema for the following projects:
    • tourism/travel social app with an emphasis on exploration and community involvement
    • video-based community app focused on debate and discussion
    • restaurant management system (reservations, ordering, staff ops, payments, analytics)
    • gig-work matching app for local freelancers
    • wellness survey to provide suggestions for better lifestyle

Team Lead (Big Data)

QSR

2016 — 2020

  • Maintained high-throughput data pipelines for kitchen data across US/Europe (thousands of events/sec)
  • Maintained databases curated from data lakes and microservices; built data pipelines and reporting apps
  • Built Grafana dashboards and mobile/web reporting; led a cross-functional team and scrum ceremonies
  • Attended AWS re:Invent to research and share solutions
Achievements
  • Built .NET Core services to read AWS queues and store data in S3 and Redshift enabling monetization of kitchen data
  • Created preprocessing services to populate Redshift for fast, complex reports
  • Built schema-update process for Redshift to ensure consistent deployments
  • Created microservices, web dashboards and real-time APIs and mobile apps (Xamarin Forms)
  • Published a public site during COVID showing percent-change attendance heatmaps by state
  • Created deployments using Helm charts to define microservice requirements for deployment to Kubernetes clusters.

IT Director

Kwantek

2013 — 2016

  • Roadmaps, team mentoring, code reviews, training and conference organization
  • Built integrations with Salesforce and vendor systems (SOAP / REST)
  • Wrote code in C#, .NET MVC, Bootstrap, Knockout, TypeScript and MS SQL; converted legacy ASP to MVC
  • Managed Office 365, DNS/SSL, monitoring and servers; led hiring and reviews
Achievements
  • Implemented release process in Salesforce and VSTS; moved QA to Azure saving ~$8,000/year
  • Led data center and OS/DB migrations; moved team to Office 365 and Azure AD

Enterprise Architect

PBI Bank

2008 — 2013

  • Maintained and refined architecture, coordinated compliance and security
  • Built web, Windows and service applications in .NET, C#, WCF and SQL Server; SharePoint reporting integrations
Achievements
  • Released public site with custom CMS and banking integrations; released internal apps for ticketing, ACH, wires, compliance and loan intake

Programmer

Mercer

2006 — 2008

  • Developed Windows and web apps on .NET 1.1/2.0 with Oracle for global benefits/pay analysis
  • Added unit testing and code metric tracking

Lead Programmer

Doe Anderson

2000 — 2005

  • Created coding standards and web/back-end solutions (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, .NET, SQL)
  • Built CRM used by Maker's Mark Ambassador program