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Curriculum vitae

experience

Eagle Metal Products

Dallas, TX · Remote

Software Technical Lead

2025–present
  • Shape technical direction for the internal Laravel/Postgres ERP that runs plant operations, translating business priorities into architecture decisions and a delivery roadmap.
  • Lead technical delivery through design and code reviews, implementation guidance, and mentorship; review and merge the majority of the team's changes.
  • Serve as the primary owner of release readiness and production deployments for the ERP.
  • Partner with stakeholders to uncover root causes, translate operational needs into maintainable software, and automate repetitive workflows.

Senior Software Engineer

2025
  • Led initiatives across the production ERP to improve runtime performance, data correctness, and code reuse.
  • Reduced Laravel boot time from ~600ms to ~30ms, removed ~200ms from request runtime, and doubled CI test throughput.
  • Converted the codebase to CarbonImmutable and Postgres timestamptz (microsecond precision), eliminating a class of mutation and timezone bugs.
  • Developed open-source and internal Laravel packages that standardized shared behavior and reduced duplicate implementation across applications.

Software Engineer

2022–2025
  • Delivered ERP capabilities supporting plant production, maintenance, inventory, shipping, and customer support.
  • Introduced PHPStan and brought a 15–20-year-old codebase to level 5 compliance, identifying type errors before production.
  • Designed CI/CD pipelines that reduced runtime by ~75% through parallel DAG stages and test execution; administered Docker development environments and on-prem production servers.

Sandia National Laboratories

Albuquerque, NM · Remote

R&D Mechanical Engineer

2020–2022
  • Served as Principal Investigator for OSD JFTP and LDRD programs, leading interdisciplinary research and advising staff and management across an annual portfolio exceeding $1.3M.
  • Secured ~$1.1M for two new OSD JFTP projects: a sub-scale ballistic water-impact test method and micro-bead encapsulation for shock-hardened electronics.
  • Led mechanical design and analysis for the department's portfolio of hypersonic, embedded fuzing, and electronic safe-and-arm systems.

R&D Mechanical Engineering Intern

2017–2020

Walgreens

Albuquerque, NM

Shift Lead

2017

Certified Pharmacy Technician

2016–2017

Customer Service Associate

2015–2016

Double Horseshoe Ranch

Sylvester, TX

Ranch Hand

2013–2015

24 Ranch

Sylvester, TX

Ranch Hand

2013–2015

education

M.S. Mechanical Engineering

2019–2020

University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM

Distinction. GPA 4.2. Thesis on gaseous hydrodynamic mixing models.

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, minor in Mathematics

2015–2019

University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM

summa cum laude. GPA 4.0.

publications

awards

  • DOE Secretary's Achievement Award2021

    Flight Experiment 2 Design and Test Team

  • Carter Endowed Scholar2018–2020
  • National Science Foundation Scholar2018–2019

licenses

  • Engineer in Training (EIT)2020
  • ASME Y14.5-2009 GD&T Technologist2020
  • PTCB Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)2017–present
  • Licensed Amateur Radio Operator (Extra Class)2011–present