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Work Experience
Founder
Bosun's Brew Bottling Company•  August 2023 - Present•  Moseley, VA, USA
In late 2023, my Brother in Law Turner approached me with an idea for a simple but flavorful hot sauce. He had the recipes, but needed labels and branding help. Using my design experience from consulting and my experience with iterative product development and compliance gained at a credit union, I've helped grow Bosun's Brew to a small brand with a small stable of exciting and flavorful condiments featuring nautically themed labels.
Lead Innovation Engineer
Virginia Credit Union•  October 2016 - August 2021•  Chesterfield, VA, USA
Worked with VACU leaders to test prototypes that could help our members. As part of VACU's Innovation group I evaluated new tech, designed and executed studies to validate member behavior, and ran VACU's communities of practice in support of its Agile transformation. Partnered with Duke Behavior Scientists to run an in app experiment that demonstrated Cardholders are almost 2x as likely to save their cash rewards if savings is the first redemption option, created and modified Angular and Bootstrap codebases for member-facing experiments, worked with organizationally unfamiliar cloud platforms including AWS and Azure to deploy projects without impacting fully loaded operations teammates, and broadly participated in the solution design and validation process.
Senior Mobile App Developer
Shockoe | Mobile by Design•  July 2013 - October 2016•  Richmond, VA, USA
Worked as a core member of a fast paced and growing mobile applications consulting startup. I worked with emerging mobile and API technologies to develop cross platform applications targeting Android and iOS, and provided server support for all web and mobile teams. Built a Jenkins CI system for client apps (reducing build time by nearly 50%), mentored new developers and got them comfortable with Shockoe’s tools quickly, led code review and standards conversations to drive code consistency, and provided project estimates and technical advice in support of initial sales and ongoing development. Major clients included Capital One, Winn-Dixie (grocery), Caribou Coffee, NVR/Ryan Homes (construction), Homes.com, Philips Healthcare, ONEOK (energy), and CanWest DHI (agriculture).
Education
Virginia Commonwealth University
Computer Science, BS•  August 2009 - June 2013