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<section id="skills">
    <h1>skills</h1>
    <div>
      <ul class="short-bullet">
        <li>
          Modern front-end web development.  Experienced with Angular, AngularJS, 
          Vue, React, Backbone, Polymer, and Visualforce; building applications 
          with npm run, grunt, gulp, webpack, rollup; writing scalable CSS with 
          Sass and Less.
        </li>
        <li>
          iOS application development with Objective-C, Storyboards, and XIBs.
        </li>
        <li>
          Back-end development with Python (Flask and Django), Ruby (Rails), 
          Node (Express.JS) and APEX (force.com)
        </li>
        <li>
          Embedded Systems development with C/C++/Lua for 
          Arduino/ESP32/ESP8266/Node-MCU
        </li>
        <li>
          Test Driven Development with Mocha, Karma, Py.test, Rspec, Selenium
        </li>
        <li>
          Continuous Integration with CircleCI, XCode Server, Jenkins
        </li>
        <li>
          Cloud application development, deployment, and management on AWS
          (utilizing EC2, S3, CloudFront, Route53, ELB), Google App Engine, 
          Heroku, Docker and Kubernetes
        </li>
        <li>
          Server management and provisioning with Chef, Salt, Puppet
        </li>
        <li>
          Windows and Linux (Ubuntu/RedHat) Server Administration
        </li>
        <li>
          Network Administration, Cisco ASA, Cisco Catalyst, pfSense
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
</section>

<section id="experience">
  <h1>experience</h1>
  <div id="nasa">
    <h2>Logyx LLC<em>Moffett Field, California</em></h2>
    <h3>Software Engineer at NASA Ames<em>April 2015 to present</em></h3>
    <p>
      Lead developer for the Open MCT telemetry visualization framework.
      Responsible for transition of front-end components from from AngularJS to 
      Vue; design and implementation of public APIs and extension points; main 
      point of contact for mission customers and stakeholders.
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li>
        Conduct prototyping efforts with new technologies and techniques, 
        summarize findings, and work with team to implement improvements across 
        framework.
      </li>
      <li>
        Prototyped and built a high-performance, no-configuration telemetry 
        datastore to fill a gap in common mission system architectures and increase
        adoption of OpenMCT.
      </li>
      <li>
        Travel frequently to work with end users and mission customers to gather 
        requirements, prioritize and plan development efforts, organize test 
        efforts, and deliver resulting products to flying missions.
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
  <div id="merchbar">
    <h2>Merchbar<em>San Francisco, California</em></h2>
    <h3>Developer<em>February 2014 to April 2015</em></h3>
    <p>
      Architected and led development of Merchbar's ecommerce web presence, iOS 
      application, core services and APIs.
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li>
        Worked with in-house designer to develop, test, and publish iOS app 
        which has been featured numerous times in the App Store.
      </li>
      <li>
        Built, deployed, and maintained Merchbar's ecommerce website.  Utilized
        progressive enhancement to deliver interactive content quickly to shoppers
        and provide a consistent view of content to web crawlers, resulting in 
        excellent search engine rankings for Merchbar content.
      </li>
      <li>
        Designed, built, and documented Merchbar's HTTP APIs which power all 
        front-end experiences.
      </li>
      <li>
        Built and maintained real-time order processing and fulfillment 
        integrations with Magento, Shopify, Goodsie, and a number of bespoke 
        ecommerce systems.
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
  <div id="getchute">
    <h2>Chute<em>San Francisco, California</em></h2>
    <h3>Developer<em>April 2013 to January 2014</em></h3>
    <p>
      Led front end development on Chute's self-service tools, gaining a deep
      understanding of Backbone and Marionette.  Wrote and tested a custom
      framework for generating and publishing live media displays while reusing
      components across projects, and contributed vision and guidance to other
      projects (both backend and frontend) where necessary.
    </p>
  </div>
  <div id="referly" class="short">
    <h2>Refer.ly<em>San Francisco, California</em></h2>
    <h3>Web Developer<em>January 2013 to March 2013</em></h3>
    <p>
      Wrote, tested, and deployed a number of features for Refer.ly including
      inline editing, improved drag and drop, dynamic page generation and
      pagination.
    </p>
  </div>
  <div id="order_near" class="short">
    <h2>OrderNear<em>San Francisco, California</em></h2>
    <h3>Co-Founder<em>June 2012 to June 2013</em></h3>
    <p>
      Technical co-founder.  Wondering what it's about?  Shoot me an email.
    </p>
  </div>
  <div id="homeless_prenatal_program">
    <h2>Homeless Prenatal Program<em>San Francisco, California</em></h2>
    <h3>Lead Application Developer<em>November 2008 to June 2012</em></h3>
    <p>
      Met with end users, managers, and executive staff to understand
      organizational needs and gather requirements for enhancements to
      existing force.com application.  Wrote user stories and produced
      design documentation for new features, and then built and deployed
      said new features.  Wrote and maintained unit and behavior tests with
      more than 80% code coverage.

      Assisted in contract negotiation and grant writing by contributing
      knowledge of organization's methods and outcomes.  Provided planning
      and organizational assistance to various teams.
    </p>
  </div>
  <div id="sarai_llc" class="hidden">
    <h2>Sarai LLC<em>San Francisco, California</em></h2>
    <h3>Windows Support Engineer<em>July 2008 to November 2008</em></h3>
    <p>
      Provided hardware, infrastructure, and software support to non-profit
      organizations with up to 100 users.  Wrote systems documentation,
      developed budgets.  Assisted clients in developing IT policies and
      procedures and writing grant proposals.
    </p>
  </div>
  <div id="harder_mechanical_contractors" class="hidden">
    <h2>Harder Mechanical Contractors<em>Portland, Oregon</em></h2>
    <h3>Systems Administrator<em>May 2007 to September 2007</em></h3>
    <p>
      Managed Windows domain and provided end user support.  Planned,
      budgeted, and executed setup of new field offices.
    </p>
  </div>
  <div id="freelance" class="hidden">
    <h2>Freelance<em>USA</em></h2>
    <h3>
      Web Development, Systems Administration
      <em>June 2002 - Present</em>
    </h3>
    <p>
      My father was a huge nerd; my technical learnings started early. At age
      seven I had access to our family computer: a 486 with QBASIC.  When we
      weren't playing on the 486, we were launching model rockets or rebuilding
      one of our old volkswagens.

      I have the pleasure to work in a field that I enjoy, and I'm always
      willing to get involved and help a company or individual reach their
      goals.  I've worked with numerous clients over the years in various
      capabilities-- most recently with TCB Courier, a San Francisco based
      company.
    </p>
  </div>
</section>

<section id="toolchain">
  <h1>toolchain</h1>
  <div>
    <p>
      I use my keyboard more often than my trackpad and a CLI more often than
      a GUI.  I'm not afraid of using an IDE or learning new tools, I simply
      prefer tools that get out of my way and allow me be creative.
    </p>
    <p>
      My current toolchain is as follows:
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li>Mac OS X</li>
      <li>Chrome</li>
      <li>zsh</li>
      <li>TextMate2</li>
      <li>git</li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</section>


<section id="side_projects">
  <h1>side projects</h1>
  <div>
    <p>
      I like to have projects to work on in my spare time.  If you'd like to know 
      more about any of the following, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
    </p>
  </div>
  <div id="distributedsymphony">
    <h2>Distributed Symphony<em>February 2018 to May 2018</em></h2>
    <p class="hidden"></p>
  </div>
  <div id="iot_kinetic_race">
    <h2>Kinetic Sculpture Racing<em>February 2016 to May 2016</em></h2>
    <p class="hidden"></p>
  </div>
  <div id="tenthousandpushups">
    <h2>TenThousandPushups.com<em>February 2012</em></h2>
    <p class="hidden">
      Ten thousand push-ups by the end of the year? Join the challenge. A
      simple to use website for logging push-ups and competing with friends.
    </p>
  </div>
  <div id="bittrainer">
    <h2>BitTrainer<em>November 2011</em></h2>
    <p class="hidden">
      Developed a prototype Android application for tracking workouts at the
      gym.  Focus on ease of use, simplicity in design and "siri-like"
      interactions with text to speech and voice recognition.
    </p>
  </div>
  <div id="arduino_sous_vide">
    <h2>Arduino Sous Vide<em>February 2011</em></h2>
    <p class="hidden">
      Shortly after eating my first sous vide egg, I programmed an Arduino
      PID controller and built a sous vide cooker.  The taste of a perfectly
      done rare steak cooked by your own sous vide machine is second to none.
    </p>
  </div>
  <div id="the_local_player">
    <h2>The Local Player<em>May 2010 to July 2010</em></h2>
    <p class="hidden">
      Using Python, the Django framework, and the SoundManager library,
      I built a web application to stream my personal music library (too
      large to store on a mobile device) to any html5 device.  I used the
      app for an entire year, retiring it when Google Music was released.
    </p>
  </div>
</section>