I love to build meaningful solutions; solve problems! Also, to help others learn about technology and show them how to apply it to their day-to-day lives.
Driven technical leader, Manager, Architect. Knowledgeable in full life-cycle, enterprise software systems.
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Currently work as the Principal Enterprise Architect in Starbucks Technology, based in Seattle, WA
Helped Lead and Architect the Starbucks Alumni Community Platform - launched in Sept 2021!
Prior to Starbucks, I worked for Panera Bread, based in St. Louis, as one of the core members of the award-winning Panera 2.0 Foundation eCommerce Platform
Presented at Adobe Conference re: How Panera Reimagined Its Digital Ordering Experience with Adobe Target
Led the team that built the Google Transactions POC for Panera, which was featured on stage at Google I/O in 2017
Regularly involved in Leadership and team building!
In 2019, helped Panera become a platinum sponsor and mentor teams at TigerHacks
Helped sponsor pickhacks at Missouri S&T in Rolla!
Helped build and architect the Voice Ordering Platform at Panera Bread
20 years of experience in Java
6-year Volunteer with Junior Achievement!
Specialization in Cloud Computing and Cloud Managed Services
10+ Years Designing and implementing RESTful Web Services, MicroService and Service Oriented Architectures
Developer Advocate: Passionate about learning and promoting new UI/UX frameworks to enhance productivity!
I was the Lead Instructor for Java LC101 Class at Launch Code (non-profit) in 2019 and 2020!
