Greg
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Denver Metro Area
Willing to Relocate Howdy@GregMakes.xyz
Last Updated: March 2023 |
I’ve been described as a 💫Shooting Star Developer✨ by those who value my ability to quickly ramp up and solve complex delivery and enablement challenges.
Others describe me as a 🌊Rising Tide Developer⛵️ which can make an entire organization more productive by being around to advise and deliver.
EXPERIENCE
Northern Trust Bank, Remote — Software Developer Mentor & Anchor
Contract with VMware Tanzu Labs
JAN 2022 - Current
- Anchor ⅓ of the development for a system managing $1.5T in investments
- Stand up a modern agile development org within a >100 y.o. business
- Devise and disseminate training on a quickly evolving tech stack
- Build trust between disparate groups in a high pressure environment to enable higher bandwidth collaboration
Diem Foundation (f.k.a. Libra), Remote — Software Development Lead
Contract with VMware Tanzu Labs
JUN 2021 - DEC 2021
- Triaged and prioritized dev tasks independently in high-profile, high-uncertainty context
- Found, identified and patched deficiencies in massive scale payments sys.
- Taught some Facebook developers how to write React 😄
United States Airforce, ███████████ — Agile Leadership Consultant
Contracts with Pivotal Labs & VMware Tanzu Labs
NOV 2018 - DEC 2020
- Grew an organization from 10s to 100s of ICs through practice leadership
- Dove in to deliver on high-complexity, high-value organizational problems
- Provided insight and expertise on cross-domain opportunities
Ford Motor Company, Detroit, MI — Software Developer Consultant
Contract with Pivotal Labs
APR 2017 - NOV 2018
- Unified & optimized vehicle Hadoop big-data store using the Spring Stack
- Engineered modern time card webapp while maintaining backwards compatibility with IMS on z/OS
- Enabled teams to go faster utilizing XP, UCD, and Lean principles
Compuware Corporation, Detroit, MI — Build & Release Engineer
JUN 2013 - APR 2017
- Reduced lead time for hotfixes from 3 days to 4 hours
- Implemented new SCM and CI/CD system for COBOL, HLASM, C, and PL/1 apps
EDUCATION
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilant, MI — BA Computer Science, pursued AUG 2011 - APR 2017
My time at Eastern Michigan afforded me the freedom to explore many different interests before discovering my true passion: improving lives with software.
AWARDS & HONORS
- Elevate Our Best Award, US Tanzu Labs 2022
| - “Most Allocated Consultant in the West”, US Tanzu Labs 2020
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- Theodore Von Karman Award, 2019
USAFs highest honor for Science & Engineering
| - Vice President of Eastern Michigan Women in CS club
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- Winner 2016 National Dropout Prevention Center Hackathon
| - Winner 2015 & 2016 Eastern Michigan University Hackathons
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PASSIONS
- Solving Problems with Software
| - Upskilling Colleagues and Clients
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- Helping Organizations Adapt to Change
| - Accessible software & Assistive Technologies
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| - Loosening the IBM Mainframe BU’s stranglehold on human innovation
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SKILLS & TECHNOLOGIES
Sorry for the word salad, this part is for the computers 😉
- Java; Kotlin; JPA; Spring; Liquibase; Flyway; Scala
| - React; NPM; Yarn; Vite; Webpack; ES6; Javascript; Vue
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- Application Modernization; SWIFT Method; Strangle the Monolith
| - z/OS; COBOL; HLASM; JCL; ISPF; CICS; IMS; REXX; METAL-C; ABEND
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- High Empathy Collaboration; Human Centered Design; User Research; Discovery and Framing
| - Lean Product Management PM; Meeting Facilitation; Stakeholder Mapping; Retro
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- MySQL; PostgresQL; M$SQL; NoSQL
| - Extreme Programming; Modern Agile; Cloud Native Apps; Radical Collab
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- Buildpacks; 12 Factor Apps; PCF; OpenShift; Websphere; Tanzu; AWS; GCP; Azure; Kubernetes
| - Event Driven Systems; Ports and Adapters; Hexagonal Architecture
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- Python; Django; Django Admin; River
| - Rust; IBM Metal-C; Build Processes
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