Twitter: @heckj, Facebook: ccjoe, Linkedin: josephheck
Work Experience & Projects:
- Director, Dell EMC
- Founder and VP of Engineering, Renasar Technologies
- VP of Engineering, Nebula Inc
- Director of Automation and Cloud Services at Disney Connected and Advanced Technologies
- 24 years experience in development, system administration and system analysis.
- 15 years experience leading and mentoring engineering and development staff.
- Proven ability to create and direct effective teams to accomplish amazing things.
- Diverse experience encompassing both small organizations and large institutions.
- Worked within environments from 3 to 30,000 employees.
- Managed systems supporting multiple geographic locations.
- Management and support of over 5000 servers in heterogeneous OS environments (Windows and Linux).
- Software development using NodeJS, Python, Objective-C, C#, Perl, C, and Java,
- Distributed Systems, web services, micro-services, and application development
- Project Technical Lead (Keystone) and OpenStack contributor
- Mac and IOS development (SeattleBus)
- Holistic and deep involvement with developement, quality assurance and operations for multiple web based service plaforms.
- Test directed development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.
- Development support and management of version control systems, bug tracking, system metrics and monitoring and configuration management systems.
Education:
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, May 1990 from University of Missouri – Columbia, MO.
Affiliations
- Member of ACM
- Founder, Seattle Xcoders SIG
- Technical Committee member and Contributor to OpenStack IaaS platform
- Contributor to Django python web framework
- Contributor to Keystone (identity and authorization system) and OpenStack in general
- Contributor to Review Board code review web application
- Creator of the Eyes open source monitoring project (inactive)
- Creator of the Django-Queue-Service open source project (retired)
- Contributor to UnitKit Objective-C testing framework (retired)
