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

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 skills, and mentorship for the technical organization for the company.I led US and European hiring efforts, along with developing interview and qualification standards and techniques for the company. We scaled the Creator Services business unit to over 40 new full time employees, worldwide, during my tenure. Collectively we scaled the company to 300+ employees in less than a year.In addition to the above, I continued to be hands-on with the ROSTR stack and engineering team, and was a key contributor and lead for the continued feature development and scaling of our product offerings to the ROSTR customer base.

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, and more...)Working with Big Data processing and implementations using Google Dataflow, Scio, Luigi, and related technologies for data processing and analysis.Still keeping the Crowdalbum stack and tech alive after integrating the tech to create Concerts features in the Spotify client.

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 of:https://www.crowdalbum.comThings you might find me doing on any given day would include:• 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• Tuning and scaling our automated, no-downtime application deployments• Designing and implementing core user-facing features in HTML, CSS and Javascript• Planning the technology roadmaps for product and infrastructure• Defining technical direction and strategy for the company

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 financial/banking systems. Our systems processed hundreds of thousands of transactions over millions of requests per day, worldwide, across the entire Mobage platform.During the beginning of my career at ngmoco:) / DeNA, I began designing and engineering high-volume service-oriented architecture for the Mobage mobile social gaming networks. The design and implementation I created for our Core data service became the initial foundation for other parts of the stack migrated to a modular, service-oriented architecture pattern.

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• Leading our TechOps efforts and on-call duties

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 issues.

• 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 • Head audio engineer, responsible for recording, editing, and mastering of project-related audio using a ProTools | 24 MIX studio environment

• 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

• 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