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Olympia, Wa, Us

Kent, Wa, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Managed cross functional teams of software developers focused on end to end applications and autonomous vehicle frameworks for self driving semi trucks. Responsible for roadmap and implementation of software large compute modules, over the air updates, vehicle interactions, and much more. Team supported research teams and helped harden algorithms for production. Focused on delivering metrics and understanding of the software on the vehicles. Linux with C++17 and Python 3. Used Lean, Agile, Growth Mindset, and other similar approaches to empower the team to deliver the best self driving software. Supported hardware, safety certification, and security teams.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Managed large software development teams using Agile and DevOps. Mentored managers and SDEs. Coordinated efforts between product and production teams. Managed relationships with other teams both upstream and downstream. Porting legacy code to new code. AWS, Java, Python, Redshift, MySQL, and many other technologies. Handled security audits, privacy, etc. Reviewed architecture and corrected gaps. Team software handled $6B in annual transactions using cutting edge science and subject matter experts. Put together strategies for retiring legacy code and moving to new software within business guidelines and restrictions.

Auburn, Wa, Us

Managed a team of Solution Architects that are focused on security, IoT, cloud, and big data. Developed technical strategies and solutions for the team and the company. Reviewed current and upcoming trends in the market. Prepare briefs and reports on the different trends, problems, and issues in the field. Presented these solutions to C-level executives, sales teams, engineering teams and other stakeholders. These groups were from many places including Starbucks, Exelon, Southern California Edison, Bank of the West, Mercy Health, Tri-Health, Rush Medical Center, state and local governments, school districts, and many others. Focused on building the team as a group process and helped each member feel they were a valued and welcome part of the effort. Led teams of 4-10 Solutions Architects with larger teams as needed. Responsible for over $100M worth of projects annually from architecture through delivery

Auburn, Wa, Us

Alameda, Ca, Us

Technical Solutions Architect who worked with global account teams, engineering, and customers to help understand the company’s portfolio of embedded software products and services. Helped customers develop custom device drivers, security strategies, virtualization, digital twins, and low-level compliance efforts. Worked with varied teams from multiple vendors and departments. Prepared solutions for Ford, Honda, Northup Grumman, Delphi, Denso, Accenture, Cloudera, Cisco, IBM, Rockwell, JCI, Emerson, Intel, Toshiba, and many others. Evangelized Wind River and Intel hardware and software solutions and roadmaps in conferences and presentations. Worked with many different software and hardware teams to get solutions together in complex embedded environments.

Renton, Wa, Us

Managed software development teams across multiple companies and across multiple work sites. Worked with customers to design and deliver software solutions customized around their mobile and embedded business needs. Heavy focus on remote data collections, device updating, cross platform access, UI support, and agile development practices. Interview and collaboration with customer teams. On site development and debugging, tiger team support, and architectural guidance. Complete embedded software delivery from device drivers, boot loaders, OS images, hardware integration. Lead and managed teams of roughly 20 members at any given time, along with multiple complex delivery scenarios.Secured multiple design wins with companies such as the Coca Cola Company, Deka, Zinio, AO Smith, Microsoft, Caterpillar, Motorola, and Google that drove over $40M in new business. Created new project ideas and proof of concepts to secure new business with existing customers. Demonstrated the value of new technologies when and approaches combined with existing products to show thought leadership which lead to new design wins. Pioneered rapid prototype and deployment of custom user interface solutions generating over $1M additional revenue. Developed, managed and led delivery teams focused on understanding the customer and exceeding expectations.

Redmond, Washington, Us

SQL Business Intelligence Team, Reporting Services. Managed relationships between SQL Business Intelligence teams and Visual Studio teams, including conflict resolution, feature parity, and new collaboration ideas. Created combined local and remote browsing features across disparate network, server and custom protocol landscapes allowing for simplified customer experience in complex BI scenarios. Worked directly with customers to improve performance and solve long standing customer satisfaction issues which solved hundreds of complaints that increased the general acceptance of the products. Coordinated Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 releases for the Business Intelligence Team. Managed small team of developers.

Everett, Washington, Us

Developed automated product validation tools and processes that saved the company hundreds of hours in lost project time by determining the fitness of a build in hours rather than days. Multiple patents and patent submissions. Hired, managed, and led small teams of developers.

Worked with large avionics customer to architect and design in-flight entertainment system with in-seat components, data aggregators and customer server pieces. Designed automated testing system to increase developer accuracy and greatly decrease the time to market. Designed custom machine to machine protocols to guarantee timely delivery over multiple network topologies and complex avionics bus requirements. Hired, managed, and led teams up to 10 developers.