Technical Skills

AI & Tooling

Claude AI (context engineering, CLAUDE.md patterns) Prompt Engineering AI-assisted development workflows

CI/CD & Source Control

Git GitLab CI GitHub Actions Jenkins Azure DevOps Subversion Team Foundation Server

Cloud Technologies

AWS (ECS, ECR, EC2, S3, Fargate, RDS, Lambda, SES) Docker Digital Ocean Linode

Database

SQL (MySQL, T-SQL) PostgreSQL Redis SSAS SSIS SSDT

Frameworks

Laravel VueJS Angular jQuery Ionic Framework Electron NestJS

Operating Systems

Windows macOS Linux

Practices

Code Review Agile/Scrum (CSM) Clean Architecture SOLID Principles

Programming Languages

C C++ C# Java Visual Basic VB.NET Python R

Scripting

AutoIT Bash PowerShell

Testing

PHPUnit Jest XUnit MSTest JUnit HP Quality Center TDD Automated Testing

Web Technologies

JavaScript/TypeScript PHP ASP.NET CSS

Experience

Founder & Lead Developer / Owner (Part Time)

IcePets.com

2010 - Present
  • Built and operate a long-running production web application, owning the full stack from infrastructure and virtual servers to UI
  • Leading a full architecture migration from legacy PHP 5.6 to Laravel 12, modernizing while maintaining backward compatibility
  • Designed complex data models supporting real-time user interactions, trading systems, and inventory management
  • Led a remote team of artists, moderators, and administrators to meet project and budget timelines
  • Optimized MySQL performance and established automated testing and CI/CD practices for ongoing development
  • Created a CI/CD pipeline enabling less technical team members to deploy code changes without server access
gaming entrepreneurship

Education

University of Guelph

Bachelor of Science - Computing and Information Science (Co-op)

2005 - 2010

Johns Hopkins University (Coursera)

Data Science Specialization

2015 - 2016

Toastmasters International

Advanced Leader Bronze, Competent Communicator

2012 - 2016
  • Sergeant at Arms, Vice President of Education, Mentorship Chair

Certifications

Fundamentals of Ansible

Red Hat

2025

Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT

Vanderbilt University

2025

OpenAI GPTs: Creating Your Own Custom AI Assistants

Vanderbilt University

2025

AI Agents and Agentic AI Architecture in Python

Vanderbilt University

2025

AI Agents and Agentic AI with Python & Generative AI

Vanderbilt University

2025

Building Data Lakes on AWS

Amazon Web Services

2025

Architecting Solutions on AWS

Amazon Web Services

2025

AWS Cloud Technical Essentials

Amazon Web Services

2025

Agile Project Management

Google

2025

Google Project Management Professional Certificate (v2)

Coursera

2025

Project Execution: Running the Project

Google

2025

Project Planning: Putting It All Together

Google

2025

Foundations of Project Management

Google

2024

Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project

Google

2024

Negotiating with Agility

LinkedIn

2019

People Analytics

Coursera

2017

Database Management Essentials

Coursera

2017

Operations Analytics

Coursera

2017

Customer Analytics

Coursera

2017

Data Science Specialization

Coursera

2016

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

2015

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

Scrum Alliance

2015

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Business Intelligence and Maintenance

Microsoft

2011

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - SQL Server 2008

Microsoft

2011

Technology Specialist - .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Application Development

Microsoft

2011

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