Experience ---------- HILLROM – Remote, Sarasota, FL Sr. Engineering Manager (Aug 2019 – Present) Hillrom is a major med-tech company with a diverse portfolio, ranging from smart beds and instruments to on-prem and cloud software systems. My previous employer, Voalte, was acquired into its Care Communications business unit in 2019. • Managed the enterprise architecture team for Care Communications • Set the unified architectural and technological direction for the business unit's software development, totaling ~150 developers • Owned the enterprise roadmap, cross-departmental integration, APIs, initiatives, and alignment • Worked with leadership at various levels on policies to improve recruiting, retention, productivity, and training • Established new collaboration norms to improve communication, break down departmental silos, and minimize tribal knowledge • Expanded guilds/communities of practice and organized design summits, which yielded major advances and increased rapport • Led major design initiatives • Creation of in-house video communications PaaS (based on SIP and WebRTC) and integration into multiple product lines • Introduction of Kubernetes across the business unit, including the migration of legacy on-prem systems • Introduction of a centralized system bus based on RabbitMQ for data sharing between all products • Adoption of FHIR as the common data model for all intercommunication • Inception of two brand-new products (implemented in React, React Native, and Node.js serverless functions) VOALTE – Remote, Sarasota, FL Engineering Manager (Aug 2013 – Aug 2019) Voalte was a startup that brought VoIP and chat messaging to healthcare, growing from roughly one dozen engineers when I started to three dozen, distributed globally, when it was acquired. As both a senior technical and people leader, I had a hand in almost all facets of engineering, across platforms, disciplines, and software tiers. • Created and managed multiple teams of up to 12 engineers • Including 3 cross-functional (Erlang, Android, iOS, and web/JavaScript) development teams and DevOps • Crafted a majority of departmental policies and advocated for Engineering at the corporate level, resulting in extremely low turnover • Was heavily involved in recruiting, including crafting the interview process and interviewing most candidates • Organized the annual Engineering Summit—a beloved week-long in-person event for all Voalte developers, globally • Led major initiatives • Development of the client architecture, its Android implementation, and streaming communication protocols (MsgPack, WebSocket, Java) • Introduction of methodologies and tools to improve robustness, provide external APIs via SDKs and REST, and integrate with 3rd parties • Fifth-year overhaul of the system backend to drastically improve performance and flexibility (in-memory graph cache, GraphQL APIs) • SRI INTERNATIONAL – St. Petersburg, FL Software Engineer III (Sep 2007 – Jul 2013) SRI is a research institution, and so I worked on a wide array of new development projects of varying sizes, scopes, and nature. I was tech lead for three teams (platform, data models, and infrastructure) on the SIMON project, which was a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for aggregating sensor data, and a developer on other projects, working mainly in Java and Python, using Tomcat, XML, JSON, and WSDL. MANTECH INTERNATIONAL – Sarasota, FL Staff Software Engineer (Aug 2004 – Sep 2007) I worked for ManTech's Real-time Systems Laboratory, which developed primarily signal processing applications, and ancillary data management services. I served as tech lead for NSim, a distributed simulation platform, and as a developer on the X-Midas and CCSI projects, programming in C, C++, Java, Python, SQL, and working with XML/XSD/HTML. ARGINT CONSULTING – Gainesville, FL Co-Founder (Jun 2002 – Aug 2004) Designed budget websites for local businesses and organizations while in grad school. Education --------- UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA – Gainesville, FL Master of Science (Electrical Engineering) (Jan 2003 – Dec 2004) Focus areas: machine learning, computer networks, statistics Bachelor of Science (Electrical Engineering) (Aug 1998 – Dec 2002) Patent ------ VOALTE – Remote, Sarasota, FL Connection-Oriented Messaging and Signaling in Mobile Health Networks (June 2015 – June 2035) As part of a team, designed and implemented methods to create a robust communications channel over an unreliable wireless medium. The bulk of my work was around connection management: responding to quickly to connection interruptions, buffering data, and re-establishing the connection. US Patent #9,749,825