Joshua Miller

Experience

• Carewell 2020-2021

  VP of Engineering

• Skookum 2018-2019

  VP of Engineering; Technical Consultant

• Skookum 2016-2018

  Director, Co-Production; Technical Consultant

• Tech Talent South, Charlotte 2018

  Instructor, Web Design & Development

• NASCAR Digital Media 2013-2016

  Senior Manager, Web Development

• Imperatives, LLC 2011-2013

  Senior Consultant, EcoSure, a Division of Ecolab

• Digital Health Department 2001-2011

  VP of Technology; Co-Founder

• Eagle Technologies Group 2000-2001

  Senior Web Developer

• CityNet Internet 1999-2000

  Web Application Developer

• Snowshoe Mountain Resort 1997-1999

  Graphic Designer; Web Developer

• Imagraphics Corporation 1996-1997

  Graphic Designer

• Special-T Screens 1994-1995

  Graphic Designer; Printmaker

Capabilities

Management

• People Management
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Agile Project Management

Consulting

• Software Architecture
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Microservice Architecture
• Cloud-Native Implementation
• API Planning, Design & Governance
• RESTful API Design
• Agile (Scrum & Kanban)
• Business Case Analysis
• Cost/Value Analysis
• Value-Stream Mapping
• Prioritization & Estimation
• Technical Writing
• Process Documentation
• Presentations & TechTalks

Front-End Engineering

• HTML / HTML5, CSS3
• JavaScript, TypeScript, ES6+
• Webpack, Gulp, Grunt
• Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch

Back-End Engineering

• Node.js, Express
• RESTful API Design, Microservices, Web Services
• T-SQL, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, DocumentDB
• SQL Performance Monitoring, Query Tuning
• XML, XSL-T, XSD, XPath
• Production Experience with: Java & JSP, PHP, C# & ASP.NET, Ruby, Perl, ColdFusion

Platforms, Analytics, etc.

• Single-Sign-On, OAuth3, Gigya, PingFederate
• Web Analytics, Ensighten, ExactTarget
• SEO, Metadata, and Microformats
• Cloud Service Management (AWS, Azure, Google)

Community & Volunteer Work

• Summer 2019 - Charlotte Meetup Mashup

  Spearheaded an event that brought together more than a dozen local Meetup groups for a single night of lightning talks based on a wide array of subjects. This event ran two tracks, both technical and non-technical, and featured speakers from various groups in and around Charlotte's technology scene.

• Summer 2018 - Skookum DayShift

  Created a two-week program for high schoolers, college students, and those making career transitions into technology. The purpose of this program was to introduce particpants to the processes that digital agencies use to build products in the modern era - something that is often neglected in college and code-school curriculum.

  DayShift introduced participants to the full life-cycle of product design and development from Ideation through Voting through User Testing and finally to the creation of a Clickable Prototype using the Google Design Sprint methodology.

  Participants then spent a second week working as an Agile (Scrum) Software Development Team, creating a working version of the prototype. During this week, team members formed smaller Agile teams, participated in Story Writing, Sprint Grooming & Story Estimation, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, a full Sprint Demo in front of the entire organization, and concluded with a Sprint Retrospective to review our work, processes, and suggest improvements for future iterations.

  Along the way, participants met with representatives from all of the different roles within a digital agency to learn about the skills, experience, and path that led them to their chosen career.

• Summer 2017 - Charlotte Meetup Mashup

  Created an event that brought together over a dozen different local Meetup groups for a single night of lightning talks based on the topic of Diversity in Technology. This event ran two tracks, both technical and non-technical, and featured speakers from various groups in and around Charlotte's technology scene.

• 2016-Present - CLT Devs Meetup

  Serve as a professional mentor to various members, and sponsor and host a number of events through Skookum. Also help to advise the staff and provide resources to the adminstrative team. Occasionally I give a presentation, or host panel talks between various members.

• 2017-2018 - Charlotte iOS Developers Meetup

  Co-Organizer of a monthly Meetup at Skookum for iOS Developers.

Education

• 1995-1996 - Art Institute of Pittsburgh

  AST in Visual Communication; Dean's List.

• 1994-1995 - West Virginia University at Parkersburg

  Fine Art and General Education

• 1989-1993 - Ravenswood High School

  Diploma

References

Josh posses the unique ability to straddle the line between designer, programmer, teacher, and writer. He is easily one of the most talented individuals that I've ever had the pleasure to work with. His work ranges from websites that are both beautiful to look at and well written in the background, to node.js moving data, to flowcharts that explain complicated processes to those less technical.

I've worked with Josh at multiple companies for over twelve years, and I can confidently say that if you have the chance to hire him, do it.

Chad Larter - Director, Technical Operations at NASCAR Digital Media

Josh is one of the premier web database developers in the country. I have worked with Josh in various capacities for over 10 years and have found his work to be creative, innovative and great quality. Any web development work that you may need, especially in high end web database applications, Joshua will always deliver a product that is excellent. In addition, he is a great person to work with. I highly recommend him.

Guthrie Chamberlain - Founder/President/CEO, Eagle Technologies Group, Inc.

Working with Josh Miller over the past 6 years has been a great experience. He possesses a broad range of software design and development knowledge that makes him a valuable asset to any development team. As part of his leadership role in the company, Josh is responsible for the entire development staff as well as the overall concept of the software product, which he originally designed and implemented during the early days of the company. He has been the major force behind the growth and development of the product since then, and uses his considerable skill and creativity to conceptualize enhancements that improve the look, feel, and operation of the application. Josh is also a great mentor and always makes time to assist others with questions and problems, both technical and non-technical. I would recommend Josh to any company looking for a smart, dedicated, creative leader in software design and development.

Amy Tabor - Founder and CEO at distroBaby

Josh has the ability to look at task both quantitatively and qualitatively, and then present the options in a clear manner. Josh's professionalism, passion and dedication to getting the job done has been a key component in meeting company goals.Josh has perfect balance of technical skills and people/ management skills. Even under the pressure of tight deadlines or the unexpected, Josh always remained a calm, level headed and confident leader that wasted no time in getting things corrected and done. He would be a great asset for any organization. I highly recommend him.

Chirag Bhatt - Former Bureau Chief, City of Houston, DHHS - EH Division