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Seattle, WA, US

New York City, US

• Delivered new Max Android app on-time with a condensed schedule by leading the multi-team effort across nine time zones

• Designed and developed Kan-Do, an iOS app focused around plans, action, and tracking to help the user better manage their time, through the appropriate display of information and prompting
• Designed and developed other undisclosed projects in Objective C and Swift

New York, NY, US

• Migrated HBO Max from an internal framework to React Native and React Native for Web, by leading a multi-team effort, identifying gaps and assigning work, mentoring devs at different levels, driving and solving issues.
• Enabled subscription offers by leading service API design and mentoring other engineers through implementation
• Revamped HBO Max search experience through ideation, design, and coordination of cross-organizational Search full-stack effort involving four development teams, product and design, expanding capabilities across.
• Reduced Apple TV boot times by 25% and identified other bottlenecks in client–service interactions by leading the performance working group and building tools to analyze performance problems
• Improved accessibility in HBO Max by leading a multi-team cross-functional effort to identifying problems throughout the entire product, and producing solutions to meet legal requirements and product vision

New York, NY, US

• Laid the foundation for HBO clients on iOS and Android, acting as a subject matter expert to support multiple teams throughout the organization
• Enabled in-app purchases in HBO by leading the design of a cross-platform framework for Android/Java and iOS/Swift, and guided others in their implementations for other platforms
• Raised the bar for code quality as a key code reviewer for the organization, by establishing standards and processes. Developed a talk on improving code reviewing practices. Periodically ran workshops to help others.
• Solved issues with interaction design and usability across mobile, desktop and television experiences, by working with designers
• Mentored developers on best practices, design patterns and implementation approaches, including considerations for user experience, testability, accessibility and extensibility

• Mentored team of iOS developers through reviewing code, identifying problems, and guiding the development of alternate solutions
• Identified and fixed various performance bottlenecks to achieving smooth scrolling, and reduced memory usage by 60%, using inspection and trace analysis, and leveraging caches

Redmond, Washington, US

• Enabled the modernized Windows 8 boot experience under major time constraints, creating a framework to enable partner teams to focus on writing plug-ins and scripts for user flows
• Advocated for and led development of Windows 8 screenshot feature, persuading the Input team to add hardware support
• Built prototypes, code and paper, to validate user experiences and code architecture for features including the Share charm and Screenshot, and led development of the Share charm user experience, coordinating.
• Built Gridder and other tools to support improving implementations of the Metro design language, adopted through the organization and saving hundreds of hours of work
• Drove implementation of Explorer thumbnails architecture, mentoring teammates, addressing performance issues in collaboration with NT performance team, refining appearance and transitions
• Led development of visual toolkit used for Windows Vista, gathering requirements from across the Windows organization, providing support and documentation, reviewing designs and code