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Northborough, Ma, Us

Northborough, Ma, Us

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

• People Leadership • Direct scrum teams, scrum masters, iOS, and Android engineers/leads • Mentoring, career growth • Immigration, sponsorship, and Visa management • Develop leadership skills with with structured mentoring • Help with understanding personalities and working together • Performance reviews and hiring • Support remote workers • Hardware management, computers, phones, tablets, Bose products• Collaboration • Cross department; product, QA, design, user experience, legal, HR, customer support • Third party partners; Google, Amazon, Spotify, Facebook, Apple, staff augmentation vendors• Software engineering • Consult on long term strategy • App improvements, cloud interactivity, Bluetooth/BLE and Wi-Fi connectivity • Software features, Google cast, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth grouping, EQ • Consumer product integration, Wi-Fi smart speakers and soundbars, Bluetooth speakers, Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones and truly wireless earbuds, audio sunglasses, open ear audio, aviation headsets, pro portable PA • Customer satisfaction, star ratings and reviews, Appbot • Defect triaging, severity assessment and prioritization • Code review process, GitHub PRs • Ticketing, Jira, stories, defects, spikes, tasks, epics • Documentation, Confluence Wiki, Lucid charts • Analytics, data collection, pipeline, reporting • In-app messaging, push, inbox• Administration • Scaled agile, prioritization of work across all software • Project design, planning, estimating, architecture, stakeholder approval• Release process •Scheduling, coordinating with hardware releases, other milestone alignment, reviewer and public availability •Regression testing • Third party licenses, other legal documents • Monitoring apps, Crashlytics, reviews, Appbot, analytics • App deployment, working with app store requirements, release readiness, release notes, stakeholder reviews • Managing yearly OS updates • Localization process and translation

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

Pawtucket, Ri, Us

Framingham, Ma, Us

• Lead development on home-grown web content management system using MySQL and PHP running on Apple OS X servers. Heavy use of JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, JSON and jQuery in a rapid agile development atmosphere. XML output for integration with Adobe InDesign for print catalog production. My small team manages all aspects of the application from front (UI design and development) to back (server configuration and hosting) and everything in between (configuration of apache, php, MySQL, OS X).• Optimization / tuning: utilizing code analysis, caching and good old common sense.• MySQL: triggers, procedures, prepared statements, views, backup, virtualization.• PHP: centralizing code configuration, object transfer between front and back ends.• In-store interactive computer displays – consolidate data feeds from various sources using Perl, XML, XSL, JSON and MySQL and upload to vendor for integration.• Introduced enterprise software development processes. Source control, build and deploy, virtual project development, QA and production support environments.

Framingham, Ma, Us

Staples.com User Interface Lead• Paging carousels, dynamically rendered images, AJAX flyout navigation, price information flyouts, autocomplete.• jQuery implementation, re-writing and optimizing all Staples.com JavaScript.• Site-wide AJAX personalized recommendations.• JSON export of server side settings.• Zone based personalized pricing using mod_cache, Apache SSI, Akamai ESI, Akamai net storage and Akamai edge cache.Deployment and Content Management• Developed nightly delta deploy of 200k+ pricing fragments to Akamai net storage.• Teamsite CMS templates for site content, banner ad scheduling and site configuration. • Designed and developed nightly content deployment for Staples.com and StaplesPreferred.ca. • Scraping of application rendered pages (header, footer, sitemap XML, JavaScript) for web server integration, delivery and performance.Subject matter expert• User experience, usability and visual design: Expert in semantic markup and optimizing for natural search (SEO) and mobile and alternative browsers.• Web programming: JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, RSS, XML, XSL, HTML, JSP, Apache.• Service oriented architecture: JSON, XML.• Security: PCI compliance, credit card security, SSH, SCP, SFTP, https, certificates.• Scripting: Perl, regular expressions, windows, unix and mac shell scripting.• Content management, deployment, source control and provisioning.• Third party integration: Customer reviews, chat, store locator and dynamic images.Technical lead on software development lifecycle• Business analyst: requirements gathering and documentation, business advising.• Project manager: create and manage project plan for on-site and off-shore associates.

Weston, Ma, Us

Designed, integrated and built content management and source control tools and processes.Documented development processes, product requirements and use-cases, instructions and help.Built web products in a team environment using Photoshop, Visio, SQL Server, Access, ASP, VB Script, Visual Studio. Performed daily maintenance on the site home page.Assisted in the hiring process.

Communicated with school music teachers to assess the needs of their programs. Worked with product pricing through contact with suppliers. Discussed sales floor issues with store management and sales staff.Directed a 70 member, 7-8 grade band. Worked with other music faculty to update music curriculum.