Grand Tetons National Park

 

I’m a self-taught software engineer and team lead focused on mobile systems — Kotlin/Android and Swift/iOS — plus the hardware and back-end those apps depend on. I lead a team of 7 that owns the front-end for our company’s fleet products: dozens of applications used by hundreds of companies and municipalities, and thousands of vehicles worldwide.

While front-end is my core; I love working full-stack because software is an integrated system. I treat architecture as an interconnected whole to solve problems. I don’t throw hard ones over the wall to another team — I trace them, fix the cause, and ship the correction. Similarly, with the advent of LLM’s, I learned to design and use AI frameworks effectively. I aligned with my team to add new development workflows so that we all can move faster without giving up architectural control.

Before software I was an operations manager at Sherwin-Williams, running stores with $1.5–3.5M in annual sales. I graduated from the University of Colorado. Five years into software and computers, I’m still aggressive about picking up new tools. That’s the job and I love it.

Technical Skills and Languages

  • Kotlin/Java/Jetpack/Android

  • Swift/UIKit/iOS

  • Php/Python/scripting

  • JavaScript/TypeScript/HTML/CSS/Web-tech

  • Amazon’s Azure and Googles Firebase ecosystems

  • GraphQL/SQLite/SQL/no-SQL databases

  • Claude/GPT/Copilot/Cursor/Grok/etc

  • AIDLC/AIFoundry/VertexAI/etc

  • Hardware: Cameras/Scales/RFID/Sockets/HMAC/GPIO/Bluetooth/Zigbee/ZeroConfig(NSD/Bonjour)/Biometrics/misc hardware or third party integrations.

 

Recent Technologies

  • AGILE, JIRA, Slack, Miro, Postman, and other software tools/aides

  • Github, Bitbucket, etc

  • Google Ecosystem: App Store, Google Analytics, Google Cloud, Firebase, etc

  • AWS Services: Lambda, Dynamo, Gateway, Cloudwatch, etc

  • Azure Services: Azure DB, Pipelines, etc

  • Codemagic: A CI/CD Pipeline

  • SureMDM: A CI/CD Pipeline

  • Bluetooth Networking Technologies (BLE and Classic)

  • ZeroConfig Networking (NSD and Bonjour)

  • Encryption Protocols (AES, DES, RSA, etc)

  • Biometrics, RFID, hardware authorization

  • Sockets/LiveData

  • Gson, OkHttp, Firebase, Lottie, Picasso, and many more different external libraries

  • Signed Bundles and APK’s

Recent Problems, Projects, Achievements

  • My team, the OBC team, is porting over a widely used fleet application, from Cordova, to Kotlin, while improving and modernizing the app. The company plans to use it as a brand new flagship application to be the face of the company.

  • Personally wrote a new integration with a 3rd party company to integrate material scales on site with our InCab product. I led the inter-team coordination, was point man for QA efforts, and built out our front-end code design for the project.

  • Leading my team in our hardware integrations and just personally re-vamped and modernized an old, 2015, serial library to talk to GPIO hardware integrated into customer truck beds.

  • I on-boarded, and was one of three people, that interviewed and hired my entire team. They were handpicked and are the best team one could hope for.

Management and Sales Skills

  • Customer Service: Going above and beyond to guide a customer who may not know exactly what they want, towards leaving with the product that best accomplishes their need.

  • Quality Control: Ensure that everything my team and I do is the best we can achieve.

  • Employee Management: Was responsible for all scheduling of employees, hours, OT, holidays, etc. Involved in the hiring of three employees and interviewed and directly hired two others.

  • Inventory Management: Responsible for inventory, placed roughly 30k+ orders weekly and organized/implemented the shipment and warehousing of all products.

  • Business Finances: As one of two managers, I was deeply involved in the financial performance of the store. As operations manager I ensured my team could focus on their specific jobs by making things run smoothly. Further I aimed to lead by beating my own personal sales goals. During my final year at Sherwin my team and I increased gross sales almost 20%, roughly 700k.