Adam Bird Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

* Oversee Data/Research/Applied Science, Language Engineering, and Software Development Engineering for Alexa Smart Home Spoken Language Understanding.

Seattle, Wa

• Built a team focused on defining, designing, and implementing entity linking/resolution capabilities to improve speech language understanding for voice-based device control.

Seattle, Wa

• Defined the strategic vision for AVC Metadata teams, which support large-scale metadata validation, ingestion, storage, and distribution, and led an organization of twenty-two software development managers, software development engineers, support engineers, program managers, and catalog operators in executing that vision.• Drove key portions of Amazon Video's world-wide multi-lingual UX launch: (1) Defined program overview that highlighted key product simplifications to meet the launch timeline, a high-level architectural approach, the implementation timeline and milestones, key risks (including those related to content acquisition), and alternative approaches for further simplification. (2) Led AVC engineering teams through the implementation of all required changes, including API definition, metadata validation, metadata ingestion, data model definition, and data distribution. • Led the AVC's software development efforts and pre-/post-launch activities of Amazon Channels in the United States (http://tinyurl.com/AmazonStreamingPartnersProgram). This included owning the development schedule, guiding cross-team software design and development efforts, driving status reporting, coordinating the preparation of and exposing test content in support of a beta launch, and preemptively addressing content quality issues via the introduction of catalog metrics/alarming and downstream publishing validation.• Coordinated AVC engineering efforts surrounding a variety of feature launches and high-profile promotions, including Amazon Video's global launch, launching support for free video playback (http://tinyurl.com/AmazonOrphanBlackDay), movie pre-orders, and scheduled pricing.• Directed engineering response of Amazon Video teams during large-scale, customer-impacting outages• Established operational excellence initiatives focused on maximizing Amazon Video selection, quality, and timeliness of publication.

Greater Denver Area

• Proposed, led, and participated in the development of a series of capabilities that contributed to and built upon the Free and Open Source Distributed Data Framework (see "Projects" section, below). These capabilities… + Utilize a variety of technologies, including Java, Apache Karaf, ServiceMix, Aires Blueprint/Spring DM, CXF/JAX-RS, Servlets, Camel, ActiveMQ, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and CometD. + Aggregate, process, exploit, and disseminate data from disparate databases and streaming data sources to users throughout an enterprise via an enterprise service bus (ESB) and a service-oriented architecture (SOA) + Enable real-time and forensic analysis of Wide Area Motion Imagery, Full Motion Video, NMEA/AIS (ship/aircraft tracking), and other streaming data sources. + Provide users with a modular, single-page web application/interface to exercise these capabilities.• Acted as Scrum Master and implemented a hybrid Scrum/XP Agile software development methodology.• Represented LM executives in the role of Product Owner and directed several million dollars’ worth of software development efforts.• Briefed capabilities to a variety of United States and foreign military leaders.• Co-authored an article on work done in the area of Activity-Based Intelligence Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (ABI PED) that was published in the LM Journal of Software Engineering (article available upon request).

Various

• Graduated from a three-year program by obtaining a breadth of experience in a variety of positions and roles throughout the corporation and by participating in leadership training and post-graduate level technical training.

Phoenix, Arizona Area And Greater Denver Area

• Managed a distributed R&D team focused on the creation of full motion video, cross-domain, and MASINT capabilities.• Supported and briefed this system to U.S. and Foreign Government personnel at a joint, multi-national military exercise.• Implemented a hybrid Scrum/XP Agile software development methodology.• Obtained experience in SOA, frameworks, and FOSS-based development.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Proposed, led an effort to define requirements for, and developed a sales forecasting tool that utilized Microsoft Access and VBA to process historical financial data, plan personnel allocation, and perfect sales estimates.• Assisted in the development of basis-of-estimate documentation and pricing inputs for proposal efforts to win U.S. Government business.

Greater Denver Area

• Led a team and participated in the architecture/design, development, testing, and certification of enhancements to a LINK-16 System.• Utilized C++, Java, and Eclipse RCP in designing/developing an architecture that enabled new features to be added four to seven times faster.• Interfaced with personnel from the U.S. Military, the Defense Contract Management Agency, information assurance, quality assurance, logistics, scheduling, and security in fulfilling technical leadership responsibilities. • Resolved a complex database replication issue in an interface between Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman products.

Online

• Piloted/taught an Introduction to Web Design and Development course focused on teaching students HTML and CSS.• Proposed and assisted in the implementation of a large series of course improvements to enhance course quality and the student learning experience.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Utilized ColdFusion and HTML to implement enhancements and resolve anomalies in quality and compliance management software.• Supported a quality assurance team in anomaly resolution verification.

Rexburg, Id

• Utilized ColdFusion and HTML to create a new user interface for, enhance the search functionality of, and simplify the administration of an n-tier web application that provided access to a nationally recognized marriage records database.• Trained and assisted library patrons and co-workers in library research.

Hong Kong

• Oversaw work of and trained other representatives in English and Cantonese.• Gained cross-cultural communication skills.• Developed English-learning materials and taught English classes to Cantonese-speaking students.

Software Engineering Development Management, Computer Software Engineering, 3.95

+ Completed in-depth study/practice of agile development methodologies + Coursework included: Requirements Eng., Architecture/Design.

Computer Science, Computer Science, 3.6

+ Researched and developed an optical Chinese-character recognition system. + Coursework included: Database, Data Warehousing, Computer.