Sacramento, California, United States
Specialties: PHP, Java, Go, API development, REST, Automated Testing, Ability to learn new languages and skills quickly, team leadership, architectural design, management. I am passionate about designing, developing, and implementing solutions for technology-based businesses. I pair over 20 years of experience programming with high-level communication skills, allowing me to bridge the gap between technology and business needs. I have experience in management and welcome opportunities to motivate and mentor my team members. I have served on design groups for multimillion dollar international projects, allowing me to further develop my communication proficiency in diverse settings. GitHub: https://github.com/Mosherr Website: http://dmscherr.com
I worked with 10 teams and 20+ other Staff Engineers to help architect large scale projects and guide them to delivery. I was responsible for the early design decisions and for making sure all of the teams moved in the right direction. I worked with the companies legacy monolith enhancing it while pulling pieces off into micro services where it made sense. I reported directly to the director in my department and chief architect of the company to build and follow North Star goals.
This position allowed me to take on further leadership and design responsibilities outside our company. Accomplishments include designing the CEVA order management system, integrating services with outside companies, and traveling internationally to establish a large-scale joint venture across four separate companies.
In addition to engineering responsibilities, this position involved team management and architectural planning within the company. Accomplishments include working with product management to design and implement feature requests across the company.
During my tenure at Shipwire, our engineering team grew from 4 engineers to over 50. Accomplishments during this time include transitioning from an individual contributor to a team lead; creating infrastructure for onboarding new employees and mentoring them; and isolating and separating old code to convert into microservices.
At Fordela I worked closely with product management to efficiently create customized features for clients. Accomplishments include creating a content management system for sharing and selling videos, creating a secure media management website, and designing a mobile app.
Drupal, CakePHP, javascript, jQuery coding for creating secure media management websites.
Working with Grails, Java, Groovy and other tools to create and debug software used for online advocacy. Created automated tests that would check web-forms and make sure that they worked the way the developers intended.