IT is my passion and excelling at it is my ambition. 10+ years of experience and a proven track record of accomplishments, compounded with a strong and constantly improving technical expertise, make me a competitive candidate for a growth position at a company.
I firmly believe that the word "impossible" should not be in any IT professional's vocabulary. Finding modern solutions to business challenges peeks my interest, keeps me engaged, and fuels my creativity.
"The only constant is change" is an idiom I firmly believe in. This is especially true in modern web technologies. Ongoing research and analysis of frameworks, patterns, and best practices are an absolute must. Without this, skills, decision making abilities, and relevancy will deteriorate rapidly.
In both of my development and leadership styles, staying agile and responsive are of utmost importance. I prefer iterative development cycles which allow me to focus on ensuring the product is of the highest quality and continuously improving on what is already existing.
Knowledgable in ASCAP's business model throughout 10+ years of technology implementations.
5+ years of leadership experience. Currently a Senior Application Architect on an Enterprise Architecture team of five individuals.
Responsible for re-architecting a system to increase performance by more than 5000%. This system ingests works (songs), and their revisions, into ASCAP and is now a golden example of ASCAP's modernization effort and desire to keep one step ahead of the competition.
Designed and led the implementation effort of an enterprise wide authentication/authorization API that leverages AWS Cognito and runs on API Gateway and Lambda. In addition to upgrading to a more modern and cloud based identity provider, this effort also saves ASCAP approximately 1 million dollars a year.
Worked with technical managers to assemble a roadmap that lays out the path to break ASCAP's aging, under-performant, and difficult to maintain monolith. This work included a deep understanding of over 1.5 million lines of code, modern refactoring approaches, as well as designing the final cloud hosted landing zone. The roadmap laid out the infrastructure (ECS clusters, monitoring, logging and tracing, automated recovery, autoscaling, etc.) as well as a Total Cost of Ownership and an incremental approach to dissecting the application itself into smaller independent services.
Designed a highly extensible log and metric aggregation system that could span across ASCAP's hybrid application portfolio.
Company Description
ASCAP, an organization owned and run by its members, is the leading U.S. Performing Rights Organization representing over 500,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers.
