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Seattle, Wa, Us

Head of Developer Tooling for Alexa Skills Kit. Advancing capabilities in Generative AI tooling, Dialog Management(Alexa Conversations), Developer Tooling (SDK, CLI, IDE), Low Code Solutions ( Alexa Blueprints ), No Code solutions for Content Creators and the Alexa Developer Portal (Developer.Amazon.com).

Seattle, Wa, Us

SDM for Skill Metrics and Analytics team for Amazon Alexa to imagine a framework for reporting on user interaction and behavior analytics on the Alexa platform. Launched teams to improve accuracy and adoption of 3P skills.We are currently hiring talented web developers and software development engineers to take Skill Analytics and Metrics to a world class Analytics solution.

St Petersburg, Florida, Us

I work for the "#1 retailer-monetization ad agency in the world", helping create, manage, and operate online media programs for leading ecommerce websites. Triad delivers innovative, custom digital ad and media campaign opportunities that empower 1000+ national brands to reach, target, and engage shoppers while they’re researching brands and making final purchase decisions. As Sr. Director of BI Engineering I am tasked with product management and solution architecture for a digital advertising firm based in St. Petersburg, Fl. Responsible for establishing platform technology, product roadmap and engineering process in support of software solutions for several of the world’s largest retailers. Manage onshore/offshore resources in disciplines such as HTML5 web development, responsive web design, mobile development, dashboard visualizations, database development and systems integration. Work closely with a diverse cross section of business entities including creative, ad operations, web analysts and media planners to define key metrics that measure the performance of the organization. Design and deliver intuitive solutions which turn metrics into actionable data for business stakeholders. Organize and lead weekly cross functional meetings centered on process improvement, product updates and product innovation. Instrumental in selection and implementation of several technologies including Tableau, Hadoop, Team Foundation Server and Atlassian Jira. Since joining Triad Retail Media in mid-2013 - developed solutions to help contribute to 40% year over year corporate revenue growth, developed data acquisition methodology and helped scale data footprint from 4TB to 106TB, developed automation processes eradicating 50,000 YOY hours of manual process, imagined and developed client reporting interface for some of the worlds largest retailers and developed business intelligence consulting practice for major clients.

Tampa, Fl, Us

Project and Resource Manager for global ERP commercial software firm based in Tampa. Responsible for planning and execution of all production supported software products in ERP suite. This suite is comprised of a core web based ERP system, HTML 5 Mobile products, Office 2010 Add-Ins, Business Intelligence Portal, Business Objects reporting platform solution and .Net SDK platform. Managed both in-house and offshore development teams. Worked closely with Product managers, Customer support and Account managers to improve product quality and drive innovation. Experience with Agile, Iterative and Waterfall SDLC methodologies. As resource manager, I managed twenty two talented team members. Responsible for staffing as needed to meet the demands of the annual technology roadmap. This encompasses the Development, QA, Technical writing and Infrastructure teams. Perform bi-weekly one on one’s, staff meetings and annual reviews. I remained proficient with .Net/WCF/SQL Server to provide constructive guidance to team members via design sessions, code reviews and lessons learned over the course of a project.Acquired Product Manager responsibility for .Net based SDK product and SOA integration product which serve as extensibility tools for core ERP system. Responsible for Product Roadmap and design direction for the Integration Platform.I provided weekly product team updates to Steering Committee on project status, risk identification and resource alignment for strategic objectives. Participated in client round table discussions to gather feedback on product quality, new feature requests and integration opportunities.

Responsibilities include client, project and resource management. Managed development and design of thirty plus hosted sites on our servers. Considerable development in the Financial, Credit Card/ACH processing, and Workmen’s compensation insurance industries. Projects include architecture and development of mission critical VB.Net 2.0 Client Management System for Goldman Sachs LLC, a web based ASP.Net 2.0 accelerated mortgage application, ASP.Net 2.0 practice management software product for private investigation firms and a web based resume management system for technology staffing firm Dataforce International LLC. In addition, Active in the community attending events sponsored by the Tampa Bay Technology Forum, Tampa Bay Technology Leadership Association and the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce.

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Primary project lead for the software development company Lodestar LLC, a subsidiary of Unisource Administrators based in Sarasota, FL. Led team of 5 developers and two business analysts from design through implementation of a Liability insurance application. Also served as lead on project team of 3 developers and 2 business analysts in development of a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) application, the first ASP.Net 1.1 web application developed by this organization. Project lead responsibilities encompass application development, participation in business requirements gathering, architecture of data store and application, resource allocation, status updates, and release scheduling. In addition, I served as a team lead on the Claim 2.0 rewrite project with a hand in all phases of the project life cycle. This includes application architecture, the development of the initial VB.NET 2.0 prototype, web service and class architecture and project planning for deliverables. I remained a hands-on developer through the Beta delivery.

St. Petersburg, Florida, Us

Systems analysis and design in support of the retail group at Raymond James Financial. Primarily responsible for architecture and development of flagship web based applications detailing client holdings at the region, division, advisor, and account levels. Also designed and implemented web based document management systems to replace both hard copies of 1099’s and client Fixed Income holdings. Provided leadership and guidance for junior development staff in all phases of the software development life cycle.

St. Petersburg, Fl, Us

Systems EngineerWorked as key member of database conversion team at HSN dotcom translating Oracle packages to SQL Server stored procedures. Additional responsibilities include software development and database design for the customer service call center software. Also developed web enabled reporting systems for the merchandising group at HSN dotcom. Development of reporting applications for executive management in MS Excel. AnalystProgram development in the Research and Analysis group of Database Marketing at Home Shopping Network. Major responsibilities include generating a monthly business review of sales and customer data via SAS programs executed on a Windows NT/Unix operating system. Other responsibilities include designing a data extraction process to generate files from an Oracle 7.0 Information Repository that replaced data coming sourced from an existing mainframe application. Report development with Report Writer and Crystal Reports. Wrote several ad hoc reporting applications in Excel, FoxPro, and Visual Basic for external departments.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Management Information Systems, General

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