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# Career

Building software-based solutions for effective people.

I enjoy building technology to improve business processes as a software engineer. I build on industry best practices, but I use my detail-oriented and quick-learning nature to better understand how they can be adapted and improved for local needs. I bring my experiences as a developer, operator, and user to provide a more holistic perspective on solution discussions.

# Occupation

1. ![Logo (VMware)](https://dpb587.me/assets/images/org-vmware~256.jpg)
   
   [**VMware**](https://dpb587.me/about/occupation/vmware)
   
   December '19 – January '22 · Full-time
   
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   _Senior Member Technical Staff_ leading the technical design and implementation of telemetry reporting for organizational stakeholders. Other efforts included migrating data systems to Impala; building Kubernetes-native distributions of Cloud Foundry products; and maintaining development tools used by other teams. Joined via acquisition of Pivotal Software.
   
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1. ![Logo (The Loopy Ewe)](https://dpb587.me/assets/images/org-theloopyewe~256.jpg)
   
   [**The Loopy Ewe**](https://dpb587.me/about/occupation/theloopyewe)
   
   May '06 – April '21 · Part-time
   
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   _Systems Engineer_ developing and operating a custom e-commerce platform for a craft-focused business. Responsibilities included development and long-term support of front- and back-office retail systems; operations of AWS-based environments; integrations with third-party payment, shipping, and marketing services; and familiarity with industry best practices.
   
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1. ![Logo (Pivotal Software)](https://dpb587.me/assets/images/org-pivotal~256.jpg)
   
   [**Pivotal Software**](https://dpb587.me/about/occupation/pivotal)
   
   November '15 – December '19 · Full-time
   
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   _Staff Software Engineer_ building cloud-agnostic infrastructure tools and supporting short-term organizational initiatives. Efforts include anchoring BOSH to work closely with product and external teams; open-source community support via GitHub and Slack; research for Kubernetes Cluster API, internal development tooling, and training new Cloud Operations teams.
   
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1. ![Logo (City Index (Labs, R&D))](https://dpb587.me/assets/images/org-cityindex~256.jpg)
   
   [**City Index (Labs, R&D)**](https://dpb587.me/about/occupation/cityindex-labs)
   
   April '13 – August '15 · Contract
   
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   _Systems Architect_ to research and build cloud-native tools supporting development and log processing for a small, distributed R&D team based in London. Work included packaging and operating Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana for AWS and BOSH environments; performance testing for terabyte-scale workloads; establishing practices and tooling for monitoring.
   
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1. ![Logo (Sentry Data Systems)](https://dpb587.me/assets/images/org-sentryds~256.jpg)
   
   [**Sentry Data Systems**](https://dpb587.me/about/occupation/sentryds)
   
   July '09 – October '12 · Full-time
   
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   _Software Developer_ building internal support applications and leading migrations to open-source frameworks for a small, healthcare technology startup.
   
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# Certification

1. ![Logo (Taylor University)](https://dpb587.me/assets/images/org-tayloru~256.jpg)
   
   **Bachelor of Science** (Computer Science, Systems)
   
   May '09 · [Taylor University](https://www.taylor.edu/)
   
1. ![Logo (Westminster Christian Academy)](https://dpb587.me/assets/images/org-wcastl~256.jpg)
   
   **High School**
   
   May '05 · [Westminster Christian Academy](https://www.wcastl.org/)
   

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