Portfolio
Today is my last day at Accenture, fka Headspring. I’ve worked here for 11 years; near a third of my life, near the length of a primary and secondary schooling. And what a schooling it was. Headspr...
Outlined the cloud and platform layers of a robust reference architecture for a manufacturing and networking products company as they introduce data pipelines into the solutions they provide. Over ...
Loved speaking at KCDC again this year - giving a slightly updated version of my "Min-Maxing .NET Minimal APIs" talk. Some folks in the audience followed up with me that they're putting lessons fro...
Spoke on Min-Maxing .NET Minimal APIs! I had a wonderful time at the second THAT TX, met some fantastic people and participated in some great Open Space discussions. https://that.us/activities/Lcbv...
Ran my first Twitch Stream! I have been wanting to stream for a while, and with fan-favorite chill and silly Ooblets releasing out of early access the time was right. Plans for future streams inclu...
Presented The 800-File Gorilla: Lessons from Reviewing a Very Big Pull Request at KCDC 2022. This is the first time I've given the same talk at multiple conferences - a hot topic! KCDC is great abo...
Presented The 800-File Gorilla: Lessons from Reviewing a Very Big Pull Request at THAT Conference. This talk is based on an experience from last year (also highlighted here) and demonstrates both m...
Presented Exploit Your Brain! Habits at Work and in Life at THAT TX. When I first started my career in software, I recall being impressed with my senior coworkers speaking at THAT Conference, so it...
Hosted once-and-future coworker and pal Dan Malagari on OK Human. Dan is in a boat that has traveled the path Headspring is on now after his previous employer was acquired by Accenture a few years ...
Relaunched so fresh and so clean clean version of https://loudandabrasive.com. Completely restyled, re-architected, and re-organized to highlight life and arts with the same impetus as technical po...
Hosted OK Human with guest Beth Noser of the University of Kansas Health System and Kansas City Women in Tech. We talk about Beth's work at KCWIT, her experiences as a woman in the software industr...
Hosted OK Human with guests Rob Sartin and George Mauer from findhelp.org, discussing their experience working at a social impact company, including their technical and organizational challenges an...
Hosted OK Human with guest Jeff Webber, the CTO of IntelliGuard, a medical smart-device company. Jeff joins us to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted not only Intelliguard's dev teams and wo...
Hosted OK Human with guest Walk Hauck. Walt is Headspring's new COO as well as President of Headspring Healthcare, a new sibling organization focused on healthcare technology. He shares with us wha...
Hosted OK Human with guest Megan Baker. As a project manager, Megan has overseen several of Headspring's big tech-shifting efforts for our clients. She tells us about what it's like and now only ho...
Hosted OK Human with guest Vasudha Prabhala on effective change management at an organizational level: what's required, what helps, and why it makes a difference.
Hosted OK Human with guest Mark Gould, the CTO of Spindlemedia, to talk about the ways teams can or ought to transform during software modernization efforts.
Wrote Better than passwords: Securing cloud infrastructure with Azure Managed Identities for Headspring's Dev Corner. Of all the new Azure features, I have really enjoyed working with Managed Ident...
Hosted OK Human with returning guest Lola Mullen, this time speaking with us on how to juggle different roles and responsibilities effectively. She turns the interview tables on me, and we explore ...
Hosted OK Human with guest Jimmy Bogard on the benefits of Vertical Slice Architecture. Jimmy is Headspring's chief architect and the mastermind behind beloved (depending on who you ask) OSS tools ...
Hosted OK Human with guest Lola Mullen answering listener questions about project management and agile processes. Lola is a certified Scrum master and I can attest first hand from her coaching that...
Hosted OK Human with guest Glenn Burnside. On how the new Blazor front-end tech might impact organizations as well as developer identities.
Hosted OK Human on Developer Experience, intentional APIs, and hackathons with guest Ian Jennings
Hosted OK Human with guest Ryan Thomas, who told me about Emotional Intelligence and how to be more thoughtful with folks, as a preview to an upcoming talk of his.
Wrote Options for a more agile data architecture for Headspring. I love SQL as much as the next developer, but these days there are so many other ways to store our data, it's likely there's somethi...
Started my thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail
Completed my thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail
Graduated from RIT with a BS in Game Design and Development