Solutions architect, specializing in those difficult non-traditional problems that no one else wants to touch - e.g. deployment, security, automation.
As a seasoned software engineer, author, speaker, manager, team lead, and solutions architect, I am at home leading development projects from inception through delivery, communicating vision and architecture to both executives and development staff, and establishing architecture patterns and practices for a variety of development platforms. I also enjoy teaching and mentoring, having written a few books (published by Apress) and given various talks on architecture and continuous delivery and Agile development.
Back in college, I double majored in Physics and Mathematics, minoring in Computer Science, and have since spent the last nearly 20 years working in development and production capacities on Microsoft and Linux platforms. I find that I do particularly well solving those difficult non-traditional problems that no one else wants to touch - e.g. dev/test/prod environment automation, networks and systems integration, cloud migrations, application security, and continuous integration and delivery.
Work Terms
Generally part time, mostly off-hours work, prefer emails and collaboration tools (e.g. Google Docs, Google Hangouts).