// Experience
From enterprise systems to AI-powered products
Solutions Architect supporting modernization and culture change across ten teams. Architected intermediary system for processing payroll files in AWS (replacing on-premises). Delivered WORM-compliant audit trails for high-visibility platform satisfying financial fiduciary duty. Led think tanks on AI adoption, mainframe usage, and AWS cost optimization. Presented across the organization on AI adoption with focus on storytelling.
Founded a product development and consultancy building customer-facing products. Built and deployed multiple generative-AI storefronts using Railway. Developed cross-platform apps with Svelte, Capacitor, SvelteKit, and React.js for iOS and Android. Designed sports recruiting platform and Bluetooth-connected smart-light control app. Clients in IoT, generative AI, sports-recruiting, music, and lead-generation.
Connected users to seller platforms and payment service providers, unifying experience across John Deere. Deployed serverless architecture in AWS with TypeScript and Terraform through CI/CD using Jenkins. Developed Swagger-documented payments platform defining seller-platform onboarding. Fostered team productivity through active leadership in Agile Scrum environment.
Designed AI-based self-service customer experience, reducing ticket creation by 41% and saving ~$5k/week. Created UX flow, system flow, sequence, and architecture diagrams. Supported Nonprofits Platform including on-call support and root-cause analysis. Deployed Azure Service Buses, SQL DBs, Cosmos DBs, Azure VMs, C#.NET APIs, and Azure Functions. Enforced accessibility through automated pipeline scans.
Delivered software for government mandate enabling client access to data using Node.js and React.js. Specified Swagger docs for offshore resources and drove last mile of implementation and integration. Managed Azure DevOps repos and pipelines for project components deployed in AWS.
Mentored junior and senior teammates on TDD to improve JS and Java codebases. Automated provisioning of IAM, network, and compute resources with Jenkins and Drone. Contributed standalone, reusable React.js components to Deere UI community. Built customer-facing web app for managing tank mixes and products.
Implemented process coordinating brokers, traders, and customer service using SQL Server and Azure Service Bus. Designed Angular.js app with nightly process and SignalR.js updates for real-time status reflection.
Launched incentives and recognition web apps using Node.js and JavaScript libraries. Developed MVC.NET pages using Knockout.js, SQL, and Entity Framework including DB migrations.
Bachelor of Science — Computer Engineering
Graduated December 2014 · Ames, Iowa
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