Life Objectives...

Be there for my loved ones

(mentally, physically, emotionally)

Best damn dad

of all time

Life long learner

Live with gratitude

The story thus far...

Experience

2018 to Present
The Motley Fool

The Motley Fool is a multimedia financial-services company dedicated to building the world's greatest investment community.

Alexandria, VA


I came to The Motley Fool to lead the modernization effort for the existing .NET applications that have been powering the site for years. We started out by porting the applications from a legacy "black-box" build system to a 👷CICD pipeline running on Jenkins using Groovy and Cake scripts. Now, we're in the process of migrating everything to .NET Core running in 🐋Docker on ☸️Kubernetes.
2008 to 2018
Cambridge Associates, LLC

Cambridge Associates, LLC is a leading global investment firm aimed to help its clients establish investment portfolios that enable them to maximize their impact on the world.

Arlington, VA


I had the tremendous opportunity to spend almost a decade leading a talented team of developers, business analysts, and project managers. What started out as three work friends hacking away on VBA enabled spreadsheets quickly escalated into an old dev box sitting on the floor of my office running IIS and TFS to support WPF application development. My journey at C|A culminated leading an effort to overhaul the data collection and processing efforts for all of the firm's enterprise data replacing existing applications with a distributed system powered by RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, MS SQL Server, and ASP.NET WebApi.

I built many things during my time at C|A. But, the one thing I developed during my time there that I will always be most proud of isn't a piece of software, it's the the amazing individuals that made my team feel like a family.

Education

2012 to 2016
M.S., Software Engineering
George Mason University

Fairfax, VA

2003 to 2007
B.B.A., Finance, Computer Information Systems
James Madison Univeristy

Harrisonburg, VA

The Tools in the toolbox...

CICD
C#
ASP.NET
Docker
JavaScript
SQL
DevOps
Azure
Go