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Seattle, Washington, US

Seattle, Washington, US

Oakland, CA, US

Norfolk, Virginia, US

Norfolk, Virginia, US

Norfolk, Virginia, US

Richmond, Virginia, US

• Developed new media processing APIs to allow for dynamic image manipulations (cropping, auto white balance, resizing, etc) and file formats (jpeg, webp) capable of processing more than 1000 images per second.
• Developed integration architecture for 3rd party innovative media processing tools.
• Created and deployed new machine learning models to HA Kubernetes cluster to drive enhanced customer experience on carmax.com resulting in a significant incremental lift in leads.
• Led team of developers responsible for vehicle imaging process.
• Reengineered image processing pipelines into multi-tenanted container-first microservices to support additional product teams.
• Invented second patented image processing tool which resulted in significant increase in revenue for CarMax.

Richmond, Virginia, US

• Engineered microsite pattern and migrated car detail page to improve page load time by more than 3 seconds.
• Created new cloud architecture for media processing saving CarMax more than $180,000/yr.
• Established highly advanced edge caching configurations and evangelized caching in general across the product organization.
• Led intern product team to overhaul internal associate discount calculator website.

Richmond, Virginia, US

• Led team of three to build mission critical photo capture software utilized by CarMax associates to capture and upload photos to Azure.
• Responsible for integrating Canon DSLR cameras, PLC hardware, and mobile phones into automated photo process.
• Invented patented (10,699,413) image manipulation tools which improved associate pace time by 2 minutes.
• Launched new car interior 360 photo process allowing customers to view car interiors on carmax.com resulting in a significant lift in leads.
• Participated in on-call support rotation for entire IT team and served as primary support for store incidents for product team.

Richmond, Virginia, US

• Developed new Azure Functions media processing pipeline responsible for processing more than 100,000 images daily to replace legacy on-prem WCF services.
• Built image analytics REST API to integrate Azure environment with legacy reporting Teradata databases.
• Established new TeamCity pipelines to preform continuous deployments to Azure environment including automated unit tests, acceptance tests, smoke tests, and blue/green staging deployments.
• Implemented Ionic progressive web app to communicate with Theta S 360 cameras for car interior 360 testing

Columbia, SC, US

Resolved over 6000 user inquiries regarding computer software or hardware operation to diagnose and resolve problems.Securely managed and distributed software packages to over 7000 users.Maintained a first-call resolution rate of over 90%.Maintained records of daily data communication transactions, problems, and remedial actions taken, or installation.