About

Me at the Kennedy Space Center, with a very serious Wally Schirra (A member of the Mercury 7)

I graduated from Western Washington University March 2015 with a BS in CS and a minor in math. For the past 5 years I worked as a Senior Software Engineer, connecting up databases to the web, arguing over best long-term architectural decisions, and whatever else they needed me to do. Currently working as a freelance developer, living  in beautiful Minneapolis, MN.

In my spare time, I play with infosec, reverse engineering, learning Japanese, and whatever else catches my fancy.

Education

Degree

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science with a Minor in Mathematics

• from Western Washington University. Graduated March 2015 with 3.5 GPA

Ongoing

Security

Attended multiple Webinars by Wild West Hackin’ Cast

• Intro to OT(Operational Technology) 1 hour webinar
• Intro to Linux Forensics Logs 1 hour webinar
• SOC Core Skills 16 hour webinar

Embedded systems

• Programmed an ATmega328p from an Arduino Uno, without using the Arduino ecosystem
  • Taking it off the Uno and using a programmer
  • Getting rid of the Arduino IDE
• Did some intro reverse engineering of a modem
  • Explored the software
  • Found test ports and got a serial command line with bus pirate
• Created an interactive game of life with a neotrellis
• Took apart a printer and replaced a nintendo switch joystick
• Completed Udemy course on Unit testing and the Unity framework, written by the authors of Throw the Switch, a community that “wants to unleash the awesomely flexible power of C on our Embedded Systems without fearing the dangers”

Web technologies

• Learned Node.js
• Created a working docker file to run .NET Core on heroku

Work

Freelance Software Developer

2020 to present

Currently working with individual clients and non-profits to develop custom websites and applications to support their businesses. I do web development and hosting work to create stable, simple solutions that do what my clients want, to enable them to keep their businesses working.

Senior Software Engineer

2018-2019

Work Included:

• building out a more automated build process for SPIE’s websites
• Sole developer importing 500,000 XML files generated by hand over 20 years into a relational database
• wrote powershell scripts for automatically setting up dev VMs, refactored to be used for dev, test, and multiple VM environments
• developed and organized Confluence documentation to help on-boarding and knowledge transfer
• Member of interview team for other senior software engineers
• created take home project for senior, junior, and intern software engineer interviewees
• sole developer for initial refactor of business layer code to support new digital library clients

Software Engineer

from January 2015 to 2018

Work Included:

• Full time initial dev for new Digital Library website, https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org
• Full stack developer for SPIE.org using C#, Razor, HTML, Jquery
• Data Layer DLL connecting with multiple SQL databases
• Develop plugins, workflows, web resources for Dynamic CRM using C#
• Set up ELK stack using Docker and VMs to push for Logging Visualization system
• Created and leading team to improve the software development lifecycle at SPIE via automation towards CI, CD, logging visualization and other process improvements.
• Create powershell scripts for managing data normalization