Hey, you!

These are hardly ever read, so I’ll keep it short and sweet.

I went to school and started my career as an Accountant. Because my boss and mentor at the time believed in my ability to learn and technical aptitude he gave me the space to explore and thrive as a software developer. The first true development project was fixing a webpage a consulting company developed for us at The CORE Group. After that, I was hooked. During my tenure at The CORE Group, we automated and digitized the entire Accounting process, to the point that when COVID hit none of the Accounting department needed to go to the office, even increasing efficiency and accuracy. To a large extent we used the Business Process Management software DocuPhase. We were doing things with DocuPhase that impressed them enough to invite me to speak as a keynote at their conference.

After a few years of building various websites and honing the processes of the Connect Platform, the company I worked for was acquired. After the acquisition, my job at the new company moved away from software development which led me to work at Amazon. At Amazon, I’m a part of the Fulfillment Technology organization. My work centers around Authentication, User Lifecycle Management, Fulfillment Center Menus, and Labor Activity Tracking. Each one of those has at least one Tier one service associated with it. Meaning that they are business critical and cannot go down. In July 2026 I stepped up to Senior Software Development Engineer. The team at Amazon is great and is teaching me a lot about what it means to be in a high performing team and how to think and take criticism, with minimal ego.