Summary

Results-oriented seasoned professional with strong experience in cloud, real-estate, logistics and e-commerce startups.
Accomplished leader with proven ability to build and grow teams.
Experienced entrepreneur with key roles in multiple startups from inception through successful exit.

Skills

Experience

Planty TownSan Antonio, TX

12/2022 - present

Mayor of Planty Town
  • Developed and implemented business plan, including market research, competitive analysis, and financial projections for a retail rare plant shop.

BoneNE ArtifactsSan Antonio, TX

12/2018 - present

Founder & CEO
  • Built and grew a profitable small business featuring replicas of historic jewelry manufactured on demand.
  • Leveraged software and operations expertise to design products and create a USA based manufacturing pipeline. Pieces are created using (in house) using CAD models which are 3d printed in wax and (externally) foundry cast and finished.
  • Utilized marketing and sales experience in order to grow website traffic, create a large and engaged social media audience, and onboard wholesale customers such as the San Antonio Museum of Art.

RealPage Inc.Richardson, TX

01/2017 - 12/2018

Senior Manager - Software Engineering [Active Building]
  • People Management
    • 3 Teams
      12 Reports
  • Project Management
    • Agile (SAFE)
  • Orchestrated infrastructure consolidation from cloud to hybrid on premise model. Executed 3 month project with 25 cross department stakeholders in order to move and consolidate virtual machines, database servers, load balancers and DNS. Reduced recurring hosting costs and saved ten thousand dollars a month.
  • Improved customer satisfaction. Refocused product and developed processes to triage and handle all customer facing escalations within LOE. Decreased typical open escalation load from several hundred to single digit numbers.
  • Stabilized and rearchitected a production product with 200k daily active users. Headed a team working on transitioning resident portals from a PHP 5.6 ZF1 monolithic architecture to a PHP 7 Laravel microservice based architecture.
  • Stack:      Tooling: 
Previous: Application Architect (01/2017 - 03/2017)

IBMDallas, TX

2011 - 2017

Lead Software Engineer [SoftLayer Compute - Inventory/Operations]
  • People Management
    • 2 Squads
      8 Reports
  • Project Management
    • Agile (Hybrid)
  • Reduced server provision times by 78%. Faciltated project touching 50 stakeholders across several departments and led a cross-functional team in order to investigate, prioritize, and eliminate provision inconsistencies and develop a fast provision product (Press Release). Development Champion / Technical Lead.
  • Launched thirty-seven datacenters. Owned the API endpoints and interfaces that tracked vendor orders, shipped hardware globally, scanned it into racks, powered it on and made it ready for sale. My team provided technical sign-off around these processes for DC launches.
  • Stack:      Tooling: 
Previous: Advisory Software Engineer (2015), Software Engineer III (2014 - 2015), Software Engineer II (2011 - 2014)

SpeedCommerceDallas, TX

2009 - 2011

Senior Developer
  • Automated imports of millions of items from JCPenney, Spencer's Gifts, Dress Barn and Anchor Blue. Consulted and integrated with customer processses in order to onboard new clients around standardized XML data integrations.
  • Designed pick scheduler. Augmented code for a live large warehouse environment in order to allow scheduled product picks.
  • Stack:      Tooling: 

NextProdigy IncDallas, TX

2006 - 2009

CTO / CoFounder
  • People Management
    • 2 Teams
      7 Reports
  • Project Management
    • Agile (Hybrid)
  • Secured over 1m angel and first round investment from multiple investors.
  • Built a functional prototype real estate search engine with interactive map for viewing and searching residential property listings and comparables engine.
  • Created data integrations with NTreis, Microsoft, Google
  • Stack:      Tooling: 

Native Sun CommunicationsLong Beach, CA

2002 - 2006

Internet Technology / Internet Marketing Manager
  • People Management
    • 1 Report
  • Oversaw internet technology and marketing programming, server administration, web marketing, print marketing and general IT support.
  • Increased web sales 350% to approx $4M per year.
  • Employee of the month September 2006.
  • Stack:      Tooling: 

Education

2002

University of Denver

B.S. Computer Science | A.S. Mathematics | A.F.A. Fine Art

Publications

Methods for Locating a Server via Visual and/or Audio SignalingIBM Internal

2016-08-19

  • author, presenter

Method and System for Pre-Provision Testing of HardwareIBM Internal

2015-07-30

  • coauthor, copresenter

HipHop and Hack: PHP for Real World ApplicationsLone Star PHP

2015-04-17

    https://joind.in/talk/view/14408
  • coauthor, copresenter

Very Casual FridaysSoftLayer Blog

2012-03-30

    https://web.archive.org/web/20161221202037/http://blog.softlayer.com/2012/very-casual-fridays
  • author