My career began when I was hired part-time for a consulting firm IAES when they were retained for an Internal Audit Transformation for Silvergate Bank. Throughout the engagement, we worked with their Chief Audit Executive to rewrite, revise, and expand their internal audit charter. I was hired to ensure complete coverage of all the federal reserve requirements for the new charter.

When I met the auditing team, I found they were all using Excel to map regulations manually, so I fed their unstructured data into an Access database and wrote a Visual Basic application that automated their regulation mapping. During this period I gained a wealth of experience eliciting user requirements. What I came up with was an evergreen solution for periodically changing regulations, in a format that connected with employees' existing workflow. It was something that could be maintained by the users at hand.

Working full stack, I learned the ins and outs of restful API, integrating node js and typescript code with an AWS-hosted Postgres server.

Finally, I was given the chance to expand on my auditing solution for silver gate using the skills I developed at Target Catcher programming restful API. They contacted me again after they were retained by a family lawyer to assist in trial preparation.
I developed a JavaScript application called Port:folio that made use of an SQLite embedded database to help organize trial evidence and arguments.

What motivates me the most at work is the problem-solving aspect of the development process. Of course, there’s the obvious problem-solving that’s involved in everyday coding, but what excites me is coming up with clever and concise solutions to problem sets. I don’t just want to solve the problem, I want to think about the reason there is a problem and solve that.