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San Diego, CA, US

Santa Monica, CA, US

Doing all things tech at ROSTR to realize the vision of a better, more well-connected music industry (and beyond!)

Zug, CH

I managed Technology and R&D efforts for the Creator Services business unit at Utopia, comprised of multiple engineering squads and associated product engineering teams. I was one of a group of 6 Engineering Management Leads for the company. Together with the CTO, our group led, developed and managed best practices, guidelines, communication and management.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE

Living the dream at one of the best companies in the world: back in the Bay Area! Transferred back to SF to team up with the Spotify App Integrations crew. I led the engineering effort to bring Instagram Stories sharing to life, and I help to support all of Spotify's external application integrations (FB Messenger, iMessage, Waze, Samsung, Google Clock.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE

I'm using my technical & leadership experience to build and lead engineering teams to deliver our software products. We create features and tools that enable artists to connect with & engage their fans. Our goal is to help artists grow their presence, engage with their fans, and monetize their work through the Spotify platform.

• I'm responsible for the full stack at an early-stage startup that was acquired by Spotify.We're building a system that records the visual history of awesome events that people like you and me were a part.
• Designing fault-tolerant, scalable application infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform
• Using and administering highly scalable data storage systems (mongo, memcached, redis, mysql)
• Building new processing stages for our flexible, automated content ingestion system
• Designing image processing and vision systems, consumable as internal REST micro-services
• Implementing and optimizing distributed/parallel background queue processing systems

Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JP

I was Senior Engineering Manager for the Platform Server team, as well as Product Engineering Lead for User Monetization at DeNA West. My team was responsible for implementing services, solutions, optimizations, and new features for DeNA's Social Gaming Platform, Mobage.I was also the Product Engineering lead for all virtual currency, in-game inventory and.

US

• I was a member of the Engineering and Executive Management teams. I owned and was responsible for several parts of our engineering and operations efforts:
• Migrating our systems infrastructure from colocated services to cloud-based virtual servers on Amazon Web Services
• Designing and building custom release deployment and game tools
• Engineering our Facebook Connect, stream posts and viral platform features and integration
• Designing and implementing our Java application servers used for game RPC and data exchange
• Integrating Mixpanel for analytics and A/B testing

San Francisco, CA, US

Acquired by AOL!Java, Actionscript 2.0 & 3.0 Principal Software Engineer. Technical Lead for Core Engineering team at Bebo, Inc.

Sound Emitter LLC is a privately owned and operated production company. Our current services include professional digital recording, mastering, and CD production. We can also provide technical consulting for a wide array of disciplines, and custom programming solutions for professional, high-end media-oriented projects.

I began my work with this organization as a volunteer. I developed and designed their first professional website in 2001, as well the current website and member portal located http://www.iapci.org. I have assisted IAPCI over the last 7 years with custom software programming, technology consulting, and support for a wide range of technical and non-technical.

• Designed and developed complex computer-based training and interactive simulation software
• Created SCORM-compliant SCO modules and software
• Working technologies included Flash 8, ActionScript 2.0, C++, VisualBasic, and XML
• Created installation packages for distribution and deployment of commercial software products
• Designed, authored and published printed reference manuals distributed with commercial software
• Developed and led training sessions for education of our employees

• Developed and tested code for a suite of commercial, enterprise-level web applications
• Oracle DBA, responsible for cross-platform development strategies and database solutions
• Designed, developed and tested the data migration software tools that automatically converted MySQL to MS-SQL or Oracle databases for our various software products
• Traveled nationwide to perform custom installations for client base
• Installed, tested, and configured Linux & PC platforms for MySQL and Oracle databases

• Primary ActionScript Developer for a 3-D interactive, game-oriented Flash website at http://www.blacklistproductions.com
• Installed, configured and maintained FreeBSD and Windows 2000 servers
• Configured and maintained a Streaming Media Internet audio server

• Member of team that created and maintained 13 websites for a national magazine publisher
• Developed a software tool in C++ to aid in code syntax checking for our team
• Developed StoryServer 4.2 templates published worldwide using SQL and TCL 7.2
• Created commercial Flash-based interactive web content using custom ActionScript code
• Deployed hardware and software for development servers running Windows NT 4.0

• Member of launch team for a nationwide technical support call center for Intel, Inc.
• Responsible as Team Leader for 15 employees
• Provided technical support on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, networking and more than 250 software titles and hardware configurations for users nationwide
• Assisted in the design and development of our company Intranet

Cupertino, California, US

• Provided internal and end-user technical support for the entire Apple Computer product line
• Beta-tested and supported all aspects of the Newton MessagePad and its software
• Developed and led internal training sessions for Mac System 7 PRO
• Received commendation for outstanding support skills and customer relations
• Aided in the development of the Apple Newton platform by providing real-world operational input to the Apple Engineering Team

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Computer Science

Computer Science

Diploma