August 2015 to Present

Software Development Engineer II  Fabric.com (Amazon subsidiary)

• Full-stack web developer, modifying e-commerce and warehouse managing applications with diverse frameworks (Spring MVC, Asp.Net, Angular) and languages (Java, Groovy, C#,Javascript),  using both traditional databases and AWS.

• Recent accomplishments:

  • With a coworker, designed and implemented our inbound warehouse system, with a microservices architecture, using spring cloud, and aws services.

  • Currently implementing Pricing service, with a microservices architecture, using DynamoDB, SQS and Kinesis

August 2013 to August 2015

Software Development Engineer II Microsoft (Bing)

• Created a data mart, importing data from a variety of sources. Big data processing, ETL,  and databases containing hundreds of millions of rows.

• Helped define and implemented performance metrics for Display Advertising.

• Created a web application to produce reports based on the data mart.

• Performed custom data analysis based on databases and big-data (Cosmos) sources.

• Main Accomplishments:

  • Created performance metrics and dashboard for Display Advertising.

  • Optimized penalty function for display delivery, reducing underdelivery penalties by more than 30%, with potential revenue impact in the millions of dollars.

August 2002

to October 2013

Assistant, then Associate Professor, Computer Science

Southern Polytechnic State University (spsu.edu)

• Taught classes at the bachelors and masters levels, in computing related areas. Courses have included Databases, Programming, Data Structures, Android and iOS among others.

• Created notes, labs and example programs and projects using a wide variety of programming languages and technologies.

• Supervised Graduate Student projects and theses.

• Continually maintained a linux server (including web server, DB server and applications servers, as needed for classes) for student access.

• Performed research in teaching and computing.

August 2007 to August 2009

Lead Software Developer (Consultant, PT), GA Board of Pardons and Paroles

• Designed and implemented a system to extract semi-structured text from PDF documents and parse that text to extract information to store in a database, and a web-based interface to allow users to validate and improve on the data extracted. Used Java, J2EE, XML, html, javascript and YUI.

September 2001-

July 2002

Computer Manager, Geography Department, Texas A&M University

Managed a network of about 50 computers (including Windows 2000 and Unix/Linux servers and workstations), provided technical support to students and faculty, managed the computer resources for the department. Windows, Linux, Bash scripting, Python.

August 1999-

May 2001

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Wofford College

Taught classes as needed; advised students as needed. Maintained a Linux server and a Linux lab for student access.

Summer 1999, Summer 2000

Research Scientist, Naval Research Labs

Performed research on Object-Oriented, Distributed and Geo-Spatial databases.