Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks
San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks
San Francisco Bay Area
I'm a senior consultant at ThoughtWorks. I spend my time writing code, doing tech lead responsibilities, and political tiptoeing.
Previously, I was part of FeedBurner, building out their advertising serving engine and other exciting applications. It was a great experience working on the core engineering team that led to a successful acquisition by Google.
Before that I was at a boutique consulting company as a web application developer of custom enterprise content management solutions. Clients were primarily Fortune 500 companies.
I'm always interested in meeting with entrepreneurs and idea people.
Software Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Internet, Marketing and Consulting.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Best practice coaching and organizational transformation.
Agile application delivery.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)
I run a training and publishing company that helps landlords increase profitability and track metrics on their business: LandlordAccounting.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)
Software engineer at FeedBurner, building applications with a focus on revenue generation. Member of the the core Ad Serving team which served millions of ads for millions of customers and thousands of advertisers daily. Successfully acquired by Google.
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Real Estate industry)
June 2002 — April 2007 (4 years 11 months)
* Purchased, rehabbed and rented as sole owner residential investment property when 19 years old.
* Earned 16% yearly return on investment.
* Trained HomePlace, LLC owner in QuickBooks computer accounting program to fully replace previous bookkeeping system.
* Launched LandlordAccounting.com online business for training investors in QuickBooks.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 6 months)
Java, jsp, servlets, javascript and html software developer.
Intermediate CSS and graphics/design creative work.
Creating customized MediaWiki WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, php) Wiki Knowledge Base.
EMC Documentum DFC, DQL, WDK, and Webtop development on a daily basis.
Technology Services Group provides consulting solutions for innovative document and content management applications. We are a Documentum Partner, as well as an Alfresco (open source enterprise content management) early adopter consultancy.
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
August 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 3 months)
* Research performed during Junior and Senior Years at Purdue.
* Persuaded the dean of Industrial Engineering into contributing $1000 of funding.
* Responsible for construction of one tactor-vest controller circuitry.
* Investigated the perceptual effects and cognitive load of tactor stimuli in zero gravity.
* Engaged in school youth and community outreach presentations and education.
* Developed outreach website and promotional video (a must see click the video tab!) http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/HIRL/projects/nasa2003_iflyvomitcomet/index.htm
* Publication: Anu Bhargava, Michael Scott, Ryan Traylor, Roy Chung, Kimberly Mrozek, Jonathan Wolter, and Hong Z. Tan, "Effect of cognitive load on tactor location identification in zero-g," Proceedings of the 2005 World Haptics Conference (WHC05): The First Joint EuroHaptics Conference and the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa, Italy, pp. 56-62, Mar. 18-20, 2005.
Bachelor Science , Industrial Engineering , 2001 — 2005
3.6/4.0 GPA
Elegant code, business, economics, sales, microfinance, emerging markets, fitness, vegetarian
Purdue Alumni Association, Free Geek, IIE, Student Pugwash USA, PHP Users Group, TECHCocktail
TenThousandSmiles founder and visionary, created 14,000 smiles in a day (2003)
International Science and Engineering Fair 4th Place Grand Award Engineering (1999)
Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout