Grow and lead the engineering department to deliver a best in class user experience for children's tech.

www.gigday.coResponsible for creating the product and technical infrastructure for a construction tech startup.- Leveraging developers from around the world, we built a cloud native infrastructure on Google Cloud.- Created a responsive, Material Design single page Progressive Web Application to give a first class user experience (including push notifications) without users having to install an app.- Created native applications with enhanced user experience to support platforms with limited PWA support along with adding contact sharing, not currently supported by PWAs- Created a real time chat messaging system, sending push notifications to notify users of new message/deliver messages in chat to allow seamless experience.- Leveraged Neo4j Graph DB to create recommendation and syndication based on user's network and actions.- Built delivery pipeline to drive CI/CD based on Git Repo commits and successful tests.

Hired as a Contractor to help build the US team to build the next generation of Visa APIs.- Created the US team interview process, including questions and candidate tracking. Grew the US team from 2 developer to 8 developers.- Changed the team’s Agile Grooming meeting to be more efficient, allowing the team to point almost 2X more stories per meeting and reducing planning by over 50%.- Reduced project creation time by 90% and eliminated configuration errors by creating a base template project to create new projects. Documented how to quickly set up service accounts, repositories & CI automation (security scans, code scans, deployments) to allow anyone on the team to do set up work.- Developed the strategy for creating demo/test applications (both mobile & back end). Including the architecture design, technologies, API spec, & process flow for the applications.- Focused on testing by creating the testing strategy (including tools & technology) for testing our APIs. Introduce validation testing pattern using JUnit 5 features to test more edge cases with 70% less code.- Lead the creation of a new microservice to meet a government deadline 4 months away. Resolved issues with custom framework code & helped improve DB query from 1.2 seconds to 1ms. = Delivered service faster than our Product Owner had EVER seen a service delivered in 10 years at Visa.- Helped architect/implement a unified customer experience for testing complex interactions of Visa Payment systems.- Refactored Flutter app to use BLOC and Redux patterns to isolate business logic, network, storage and UI logic. Became a Flutter technical resource, answering questions about the technology/capabilities.- Lead investigation for key product features to work across Product teams to determine current capabilities & gaps to better align downstream dependencies prior to starting development efforts.

Lead a team of mobile software engineer along with test engineers.- Fine tuned an agile system where we were able to deliver sprint after sprint. Our quarterly output was one of the best of the company, where we only failed to meet estimates once in 6 quarters(which we missed by a week).- Worked closely with the Product Owner to define the none only what they were asking for but the context around the problem, which helped my team create solutions that met business needs instead of Product Owner requirements- Captured statistics around our sprints, along with posting them on our team room wall, to help proactively address anomalies or times we weren't on track.- Worked with Test Engineers to help create prototypes for automated mobile testing. - Worked with Test Engineers to help create/review the test framework that was to be used for the entire companies automated testing- Created customer Docker images to build our mobile Products. Was so successful that created them for other business units to leverage the same system.

Lead the vAuto Provision Android and iOS team, delivering an industry leading mobile product. Responsible for the planning, tracking and execution of the mobile team with a priority on continuing to build better quality applications.Not only responsible for every line of code that goes into the product via code reviews, but I still code on a daily basis utilizing Android programming techniques including:• Custom user interaction/widgets (expandable widget/table variant, slide to reveal list elements, pinch to zoom view pager, variable speed slider, seekbar thumb animating when pressed)• Custom views• Theming/Styling• Custom Dialogs• Shared Library Projects • ActionBar Design/Support Libraries (v4, v7, v11)• ActionModes• Defining multiple layouts for different device configurations• Integrating applications to Samsung Galaxy CamerasNotable contributions• Rewrote application to remove custom navigation framework• Customized Camera Component• Updating application to use Marshmallow support library (handling new permissions model)

Developing a hybrid mobile application for Android and iOS operating systems. Utilizing popular technology such as:• BackBone JS• Bootstrap JS• Cordova/PhoneGap• Node JS• Underscore JS• Less• Handle Bar TemplatesSpecializing application development and creating native user experiences while creating a common code base for mobile applications.Experience includes not only web development but also native development, Android java coding with the Android SDK on Eclipse and objective C on the iOS SDK on X-Code.

Responsible for the architecture and implementation of Live Text, a high valued text analytics feature in the Lotus Application suite. Created design documents, interacted with product teams, coordinated with test team, wrote suites of unit tests, handled customer issues, adhered to an agile development model, and evangelized at conferences.Utilized Both Java and Javascripting technology to integrate text analytics in the Lotus Notes desktop client, Lotus Sametime and the web based email client, Lotus iNotes.FIND MOBILE EXPERIENCE IN PROJECTS BELOW

Responsible for the design and stability of three Lotus product builds. Each was designed to be flexible and stable enough to require minimal manual interaction. Heavily involved with product management, support, development and test to coordinate code deliveries and time lines.Proponent of adding JUnit testing to Build Verification Testing to improve the overall quality of the product.

Contributed a sizable amount of new functionality to Eclipse 3.2 (Callisto release), including target definitions (editor, loading, modeling, and usage), dependency management (build path modications, editor changes, search). Achieved Eclipse Committer status in the Plugin Development Environment (PDE) project, eventually working up to leading the PDE project.Responsible for Eclipse 3.3 line times, mentoring/code reviewing prospective committer candidates, Worked with the design of the inter-workings of PDE including: models, launcher, editors, build path, JDT interactions and import/export.

Planned, designed and implemented Eclipse based OSGi bundle development tooling. Planned and designed a tooling tutorial for focus groups in addition to training the support team on our development tooling.

Tested and designed Eclipse plug-ins for WebSphere Tooling (WebSphere Studio Device Developer, WebSphere Studio Site Developer, WebSphere Studio Application Developer) running on Eclipse IDE. Gained experienced with J2EE, including Java Beans, servlets, and Java Server Pages (JSPs)

Served on international team of developers for embedded Linux PDA reference Platform. Created and customized images, kernels, and multiple Qtopia applications for demonstrations and testing.Ported Linux and Java applications along with OSGi bundles, onto embedded devices to analyze RAM usage of IBM’s java Service Management Framework (OSGi platform).