6425Tech

Work Experience

Flynn Restaurant Group

Restaurant Technology Manager

Managed Technology for hundreds of units across 30+ states. Implementing new technologies, replacing end of life, and everything in between.

inmobi

Devops Software Development Engineer II | 2021 - Present

A multinational mobile advertising company, inmobi develops platforms for advertisers and publishers to leverage and monetize their mobile product offerings.

Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue

Systems Administrator | 2014 - 2021

A respected Kansas City Barbecue Fine Dining / Quick Service concept - Originally hired as IT help desk support, several business gaps were identified, and my role stretched to include many aspects of the business. During my tenure here I

Assisted in the migration and implentation of Aloha POS in all operational business units.
Became proficient in supporting Aloha NCR Products. Including AO, ATO, Connected Payments, CFC, CMC, Etc...
Assisted in the planning and build out of two new physical restaurant locations, an event center, and multiple remodels of existing units.
Oversaw and implemented new IT technologies to maximize efficencies in conventional office environments, updating network infrastructure, VoIP phone systems, and refreshing end of life hardware as needed.
Took on a leadership role as project manager for upgrading and optimizing e-commerce operations, and the digital brand as a whole.
Managed all tech from the Cart, to back end order management, call center operations, picking and fulfillment, all the way to the guest's front door.
Coordinated and owned vendor relationships, as e-commerce revenue went from $3M in sales at a net loss to a gross $9.4M in sales over a 5 year period.

POSIM Software

Tier II Technical Support / E-Commerce Ambassador | March 2012 - May 2014

A POS software company focusing on the boutique retail, and textile markets.

Provided end user technical support, and was a resource for tier I escalations for advanced software issues.
Provided live training, and onboarding for users on all aspects of the software.
Wrote advanced SQL queries to troubleshoot, and repair customer database issues as needed.
Worked with a custom API to connect software to our two primary cart products - Product cart and Magento.
Set up Magento and Product Cart store fronts, and configured per customer needs.
Administered IP phone system, and general IT Infrastructure for a small call center environment.

Web Projects

Jack Stack Barbecue

Managed the entire supply chain and vendor relationships relating to E-commcerce. Wrote several web apps during my tenure here. Primary website is written in legacy bootstrap, on a PHP framework.

Created an api to communicate with a 3rd party vendor and pull down orders into this dashboard. Orders are stored in Mongo and then could then be pushed to a flat file for import into another system.

This was built with GatsbyJS with JWT and utilized a couple of node libraries and some custom handling to accomplish the conversion. The vendor didn't want to directly API integrate initially so this web app was built as an automation go between to be used in the interim.

FitStudio KC

A fitness website written in Bootstrap. SEO optimized. Nothing overly complicated in it's tech stack.

Irish Mayhem

An online gaming community that hosted an array of games across different platforms. Front end written using the codyhouse UI framework. Set up an API to the Pyterodactyl server management panel to allow isolated Docker containers with game instances to be called on demand when wanting to spin up additional servers on the dedicated box.

Hammer Down E-Sports

Designed and built an esports tournament site for an overwatch league organization. They wanted it to be turn key so I chose wordpress as the CMS and Divi as the core template. They are able to update their events and other content on their own after training.

Organized Chaos Gaming League

Another Overwatch e-sports entity. They had a need to funnel tournament sign ups into their CMS so they can run their events. Wrote a script to insert data into their CMS API, and set up extensive SEO best practices and advised them on how to acquire organic growth

DJ Struod

Simple DJ promotion website styled with Tailwind CSS and running on Netlify. Client wanted simple, and for ongoing updates to go through his management. So a netlify CI/CD works well as they can do a simple update push and the site will rebuild live.

Professional Portfolio Site

Designed site using Tailwind CSS and Animate.js for core visuals. Bootstrapped a prototype in html with Tailwind Markdown to make a semi functional demo. Then converted into components to function with next using the ssg functionality to promote better SEO rankings over a static site in Next. The Terminal graphic is dynamic and built entirely with Tailwind. Animate.js was used to compensate for the lack of animated utility classes packaged with Tailwind.

Dan Lewis

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