Awards

Alamon, Inc.

President’s Award for Innovation

Annual Leadership Conference 2017-Jan Kalispell, MT

U.S. Department of State

Dedication to Mission

2010 - 2012 US Embassy Italy

U.S. Department of State

Extra Mile Award

Information Management Office 2011-Sept US Embassy Italy

Patents Pending

Systems and Methods for Distributed Blockchain Monitoring and Inherent Latency Compensation

18/323408

2023-May-25

Systems and Methods for Economic Price Discovery In Social Media Networks Including Games

18/323409

2023-May-25

Publications

Two Must-Have Tools for Jakarta EE Developers

InfoQ.com April 2022

Enter Jakarta EE: an Inoculation Against Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt in the Java Community

Linux Journal No. 287 June 2018

Introducing the Culture of Free and Open Source Software to the Department of State

Internally Circulated Strategy Paper Department of State (SECRET/NOFORN)

Department of State - November 2010

Candela Global, LLC, Portland, Oregon

Software Engineering and DevOps Manager: January 2022 – Present

• Systems Architecture and Modernization
  • MicroServices
    • Quarkus, Rust, Kubernetes, Docker, Podman
    • Kafka, RabbitMQ, Postgresql Cron Module
  • Monolith to Microservices Migration/Refactor
    • Java/Jakarta EE to Quarkus with Apache Kafka & Spring Boot to Quarkus (Vertx)
• CI/CD Implementation
  • Terraform, Ansible, OpenTofu, GitHub/GitLab Actions, Jenkins
  • Cloud and Cloud Native, Migrate AWS to/from Linode, Establish Greenfield Backend - Azure, NixOS and Debian Containerization
• Private CA Authority Transport Layer Security (TLS) Systems
  • Biometric Identity - DNA, Facial Recognition
• Machine Learning
  • Pipeline Simplification, Analyze and mitigate model overfit
  • Migrate Python Routines (Tensorflow) to/from Rust
  • DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid Information System) Identity Validation
• Mobile Applications
  • Migrate JavaScript Applications to Flutter, HarmonyOS Preparation
• Startup Support
  • Cost Control Analysis: Cloud Spend Mitigation, Budget Preparation, CapEx & Depreciation Planning

Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana

Graduate Studies Refresher: Fall 2021

• Artificial Intelligence (AI/ML) Ph.D. Participation
  • Full Time Fall 2021
• Participate in Ph.D. Seminar
• Foundational Mathematics Course Work
• Accepted to CS Ph.D. Program: Elected to return to industry

Alamon, Inc., Kalispell, Montana

Chief Technology Officer: July 2018 – August 2021

• Define and represent the firm’s technological agenda
• Designed and Developed Mobile Application
  • Enabled Division recovery
    • $330,000 Loss 2018
    • $3M Net Profit by 2021
  • GIS Enabled Android System using AWS as Backend
    • Includes GIS Data export/import/validation
      • ArcGIS, Windmill, PostGIS, qGIS
  • Near Real Time Material Tracking and Inventory
  • Real Time Reporting and Work Assignment
  • Microsoft Dynamics / MS-SQL Project Accounting Integration
  • IML Resistograph Analysis & Bluetooth Integration

Alamon, Inc., Kalispell, Montana

Operations Manager: Information Technology: March 2012 – June 2018

Sept 2017: Elected Trustee of ESOP Board

May 2017: Elected Company Officer; Secretary & Treasurer

• Achieved significant cost reduction by building in house employee Payroll and HR portal
  • 8,032 Administrative Man Hours Saved in initial year (2014), 15,008 by 2018
• Reduced project analysis time (450%) increased, Increased Bid Turn Around 32% by 2018
  • $217,000 Direct Cost Reduction, $432,000 Direct Cost Reduction (2018)
• Ensure IT support and communication capabilities of highly mobile workforce
  • 37 States in FY 2017, 45 States in FY 2018
• Architect and Design for Enterprise Applications
• Project Management and oversight of SDLC using Agile, Kanban methodologies.
  • Full Stack Java EE Development, SQL Modeling and Normalization
  • Manage software development team and IT systems and support personnel
• Define and Prepare Project Objectives, Design Documents and Budgets
• Recruit, Hire and Train New Team Members