This customer later ended up migrating to a new ERP, and we were able to maintain the existing system, on the old ERP, and transitioned to the new ERP with no downtime while continuing to ship new functionality at the same time. We also added on another API client that needed to help expose customer quotes in their Adobe Commerce Edge implementation.

Building on the success of the digital sinage project, we developed a new streamlined ERP front end in Nuxt.js for Showroom sales staff that integrated with Entra ID. To accomplish this we extended the previous API to include their ERP, and Bloomreach Customer outreach tooling.

Rehabilitated an existing Vue.js, Couchbase, on-prem digital signage application that experienced extended down times, and inaccurate information. We converted it to a .NET API, with a Nuxt.js front-end. This allowed us to quickly bring the application to a point where new features could be deployed.

Worked with the engineering team to build out and grow the search infrastructure to support searching web crawled data containing public sector information.

Learned a lot about web crawling, searching for documents that keyed on the primary toponym (the "Bethel" in "Bethel Volunteer Fire Department") and other complexities in dealing with 2nd and 3rd order government bodies.

Working closely with the CEO and Head of Sales we developed a pricing model that allowed us to take advantage of our new automated provisioning process leading to a better understanding of our cost model, and our customers needs.

Worked closely with the Head of Sales to build out a unique product offering that would help companies better manage their search infrastructure. In the process of working with the Head of Sales we were able to increase the average deal size from $500/mth to $8,000/mth

Worked closely with the CEO to explore various modern ways to run a business including the deployment of a 4 day work week, aggressively limiting the number of meetings and exploring options for async communication.

I choose this opportunity because it would allow me to explore a position in a company's leadership. For years I've been reading books on business strategy and leadership. I was now in a position to both exercise that knowledge and realize just how much I had to learn.

The first task was to automate the process of provisioning our customer's clusters. The project successfully reduced the time for custom clusters from two days to 15 minutes.

Building on that success, we leveraged that process to scale from 200 machines to over 8,000 servers in AWS and GCP with no increase in head count.

During this time I dived deep into how search engines work. Even going so far as to contribute some simple features to the Tantivy library. This gave me a fundamental understanding of inverted indicies. Which removed another "magical" layer of how computers work.

While at MAG, I worked with a distributed team located across the country to build a multi-tenant fulfillment layer on top of two different ERP systems allowing the heterogeneous environment of a $1 billion multi-divison company to transition to the new ERP as it made business sense.

I choose this opportunity because it would allow me to reexplore the larger Enterprise Architecture concepts that only show up in large companies. Additionally, it would build on top of my fulfillment domain knowledge that I started with V23 Athletics and Amplifier. Lastly, I would have the pleasure of finally working with some long time friends.