Leading the development of the iOS and Android Applications.

Leading the team responsible for stability and security of the Starbucks Mobile Order and Pay Application for Android. Maintaining and monitoring the Starbucks Alexa Reorder Skill. Instrumenting the lambda running in AWS to gather data and provide alerting through New Relic. Maintaining and monitoring the Starbucks Actions on Google Assistant. Instrumenting the functions in GCP to gather data and provide alerting through New Relic and to provide analytics for the business stakeholders. Fixing bugs in my freetime. Working with cross functional teams to ensure a performant, secure and leading-edge application for our customer.Analyzing production dashboards and customer reviews to discover trends and utilizing that data to champion improvements to our application.Consulting with 3rd party vendors and global partners. Served as acting manager while my manager was on paternity leave for three months.

Developed various features of the Mobile Order & Pay Android Application including: Fingerprint Authentication and Authorization, Marshmallow, Nougat and Pie migrations, A/B testing framework, and caching solution for network calls.Winner of three Hack Day events : “Your Mobile Order is Ready” - Sends a push message to customers when their mobile order is ready to eliminate crowding at the counter. Team won second place; however this idea was put into production. “Look Ma, No Hands” - Used Google Voice Recognition to allow a customer to navigate through the Android Mobile Order & Pay Application. Allowed a customer to order a previous order at a previous store, add a tip, and get driving directions to the store without having to touch their phone. Team won first place. “The Flash” - NFC enabling the Mobile Order and Pay App to allow a customer to tap their phone at an in store kiosk to send their usual order to the baristas. Team won best in show.Wrote a AR prototype using ARCore that displayed stars on a android phone, the thought was a Starbucks customer could collect stars through this app.Built an application for the Android Things board I got from Google I/O. The application would display the weather and sunset, helping me plan my bike commute home. The application's background would display any photos uploaded on to the device.

Shipped several applications in HTC ROMs and through Google Play as a contributor and lead developer. Built the cloud storage framework for encrypting, saving, retrieving and decrypting backup files to Dropbox, Google Drive or VDisk. Developed protocol and framework for delivering notifications to the HTC Vive over bluetooth. The framework allows a user to respond notifications.Implemented continuous integration using Jenkins, Gradle and Git. Builds verified with unit tests using JUnit and Mockito. Served as lead developer on HTC Backup and HTC Match, running daily standups, assigning tasks and enforcing code reviews. Used Eclipse and Ant or Android Studio and Gradle to build applications. Worked as the Build Engineer, because someone had to.Built a presence detection system using a beagle board and BLE that I programmed to detect my office workers’ phones and Fitbits when they came into the office. Not paranoid, but it was fun to build.Wrote a game for Google cardboard using Unity.Using Raspberry Pi’s and USB web cameras, I created an overly complicated camera system for my house. One of the Pis was set-up outside my home network’s DMZ and allowed me to control all cameras through an Android App I created.

Led the team as Scrum Master while building an e-commerce solution for mobile devices. Mentored junior programmers with J2EE server side development. Became proficient with working in the cloud(AWS), writing my own server templates to spin up instances of servers when needed. Worked on converting an Oracle database to Mongo.

Lead Developer/Senior Engineer integrating multiple EMR(Electronic Medical Records) systems to deliver an N-tier web application so patients can access their medical records online. Java, HTML, JavaScript, XML on a Redhat. Tomcat as a servlet engine. Introduced Agile methodologies to existing process. Key initiatives: Daily stand-ups, product backlog, code reviews, and release train method of delivering new versions of our product. Worked with patients, doctors and pharmacists to gather requirements. Researched and introduced new technologies including: Apache Axis and AJAX.24/7 production support.

Solutions Architect, 2006-2008Worked across teams to deliver end to end solutions to carriers. Designed and implemented the customized solution based on the customer requirements. Developed server side components for prototype mobile solutions. Java, J2EE, WAP, Oracle, Tomcat and JBoss. Senior Engineer, 2004-2006Lead developer for the Global Solutions Engineering Team, customizing a core product to a carrier’s needs.

Wrote software in Java for a CRM framework, focused on Application Security and Telephony Integration.

Wrote software that is still classified.