Resume
Resume
Developer, DevOps engineer and Solutions Architect: 19 years of experience, skills, education and certifications.
Experience
- 2025 – Present
Solutions Architect · The Word & Brown Companies
- Design distributed systems on Azure Container Apps, Azure Functions and Service Bus
- Architect scalable document generation and processing platforms
- Drive DevOps automation and CI/CD improvements
- Improve observability through telemetry and performance monitoring
- Mentor engineering teams on cloud-native architecture patterns
- 2023 – 2025
Lead Software Architect · The Word & Brown Companies
Led software architecture and technical direction for the company’s application platforms.
- 2018 – 2023
Sr. .NET Software Engineer · The Word & Brown Companies
Built and shipped .NET software for the company’s core business platforms.
- 2012 – 2018
Principal Software Engineer · Loews Corporation
- Led ASP.NET MVC application development
- Ran DevOps tooling on TFS and VSTS
- Supported Office 365 administration and Power BI reporting
- Drove modernization of legacy web platforms
- 2011
IT Support / Systems Administration (part-time) · University of Providence
- Systems administration and networking support
- Active Directory management
- Maintained university web applications and CMS platforms
- 2009 – 2010
Developer · Shortgrass Web
- Built custom site functionality and content management features
- Delivered front-end and back-end components
- Handled ongoing updates, maintenance and troubleshooting
- 2007 – 2009
Infrastructure & Application Systems Engineer · American Capital Funding
- Administered Windows Server and Active Directory; ran DNS, DHCP and group policy
- Supported SQL Server databases, the company intranet and internal applications
- Built a custom shop floor tracking and job costing app for a sister machine shop, whose labor history made future quotes more accurate
- 2005 – 2007
Snowboard Instructor · Wintergreen Resort
- PSIA-AASI Level 1 certified
Education
- 2009 – 2011
University of Providence
B.S. Computer Science · 3.95 GPA, Summa Cum Laude
- 1999 – 2002
Radford University
Computer Science
Certifications
- MCSA: Cloud Platform (2017)
- Microsoft Certified Professional (2017)
- Exam 532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions (2017)
- Exam 533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (2017)
- Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions (2017)
- Azure Container Apps and Azure Container Registry (2024)
- Microsoft DevOps Testing (2018)
- PSIA-AASI Level 1 Snowboard Instructor (2006)
Skills
Cloud
Azure · Container Apps · Azure Functions · Service Bus · Container Registry · Azure NoSQL
Backend & Data
.NET · ASP.NET MVC · SQL Server · Redis
Frontend
Angular · TypeScript · HTML / CSS · React / Next.js
DevOps
CI/CD · Azure DevOps · TFS / VSTS · Docker · Observability
AI & Agentic
AI workflows · Agentic systems
Infrastructure & Tools
Windows Server · Active Directory · DNS / DHCP · Power BI · Office 365