About
Paul has more than 28 years experience in the Information Technology industry spanning academic, start-up and enterprise environments. As Associate Vice President, Architecture at Cox Automotive, he currently leads a team of architects providing strategic direction and implementation guidance to the organization. As a Pluralsight course author, Paul has delivered training across a broad spectrum of technologies, including node.js, Apache Cassandra and Java API development.
Pluralsight Courses
Cassandra for Developers (2020)
This course is designed to familiarize you with Cassandra's resilient, distributed architecture while equipping you with a thorough understanding of the Cassandra Query Language (CQL).
Node.js: The Big Picture (2019)
Curious if Node.js is right for you? In this course we look at how Node is commonly used, examine its asynchronous development model, explore leveraging the npm module ecosystem, and assemble a set of tools to help get you started on your journey!
Building Command Line Applications in Node.js (2018)
Most of us use command line applications in our jobs every day. This course will introduce you to the basics of building a CLI in Node.js, including managing configuration, interacting with the user, and distributing your finished product.
Building Asynchronous RESTful Services With Jersey (2014)
In this course, we explore writing asynchronous services, as well as many other features found in Jersey. We also cover dependency injection, exception mapping, filters, Grizzly, Jackson, JerseyTest, and more.
GitHub Projects
twttr
A minimal Twitter API client
cdk-twitter-activity
An AWS CDK construct to publish Twitter activity to AWS EventBridge
gatsby-transformer-playlists
A Gatsby plugin that leverages the YouTube API to add nodes for playlist and video information.
vscode-phantypist
An extension for Visual Studio Code that will slowly paste text from the clipboard, as if someone is typing.
jersey2-akka-java
An example asynchronous REST API written in Java using Jersey 2 and Akka