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San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

- Enable Engineering Department to be more productive - Defined framework for engineering investments (Product, Velocity & Maintenance) - Review and define Technical Direction & Architecture - Identify high level Velocity improvements - Coordinate cross team initiatives

San Francisco, California, Us

- Enable our team to get to their goals faster while reducing risks - Risk assessment and forecasting - Identifying and tracking open vulnerabilities/risks (BBP, pen test, internal, patch management) to feed into priorities - Adding safe-by-default mechanisms in code and processes - Defined and created Incident Response team for handling high impact security incidents - Transparent BBP & Incident Response (https://hackerone.com/security/hacktivity) - Implemented security learnings and trainings for secure code review, incident response training, log tool usage - Improved product security with the following: - SSO via SAML supporting our top customers - Implementing 2FA and driving adoption - Audit Log for transparency and incident response - Improved logging infrastructure - Request throttling for REST and GraphQL requests - Support Compliance in ISO27001, SOC2 Type 2 and FedRAMP certifications by implementing processes and upgrading product security for controls

San Francisco, California, Us

- Be a facilitator: remove obstacles to engineering - Engineers own their impact, managers help them be accountable - Ensure transparent feedback in support of autonomy, collaboration, and trust - Serve as a resource for technical leadership in others - Support personal growth goals in engineers - Full stack Rails development

San Francisco, California, Us

- Full stack Rails development - Working in React on the front end - Heavy focus on reviewing and fixing security issues - Integrated SAML authentication - Shipping fast and often

New York, Ny, Us

- Rails full stack development- Agile process with pair programming and test driven development- Supported multiple clients with a well versioned backwards compatible API- Setup and documented best practices for process, development and release cycles (streamlined process with Hubot and Teamcity)- Integrated with several third party backend systems- Performed internal security audits- Integrated OAuth and OpenId authentication schemes Technologies: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, CSS, SASS, HAML, Rspec, MySQL, Backbone.js, Bootstrap

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

- Defined requirements, designed and developed first telephone interconnect system to MOTOTRBO digital two-way radios- Named inventor in provisional patent for over the air call processing protocol- Developed system framework to create call server resilient to high loss packet radio network- Developed project plan and hand selected by Motorola Solutions to work in a joint R&D venture- Created support processes based on Kanban to decrease customer reaction from weeks down to days- Served as Product Owner to identify customer requirements, create backlog and coordinate release cycles- Third line support and sales engineering functions directly solving customer issuesTechnologies used : Java, Freeswitch, Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Python

Kanata, Ontario, Ca

- Created EC2 cloud hosted corporate and social (integration to Facebook) flash telephony gateway- Developed backend for one of the first Flash/Flex based phones integrated into all high end PBX, ITSP and PSTN- Utilized technology to stream audio over the web with less than 500ms telephony latency - Defined Javascript based API for simple third-party web site integration with full phone or call buttons- Sales engineering function directly solving customer and PBX interoperability issues Technologies used : Java, Freeswitch, Red5, jQuery

- Sole Developer for new Web 2.0 Ebay search tool through Ebay’s Rest API receiving 500 hits/day- Identified and created high SEO based content and implemented design to drive 10-20% conversion rate- Implemented Facebook application IWantThat! application to share and collaborate on productsTechnologies used : Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Ezpublish (cms)

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

- Designed and developed 2 web applications to aid finance department to save $100,000 a year in budget analysisTechnologies used : .NET, Javascript, XML

Lawrence Township, Nj, Us

- Wrote full design specifications for core component to be used for thousands of user- Managed large workload on the most complex portion of a 7 team member projectTechnologies used : Java

Bachelors Of Computer Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering Technology And Computer Science

Computer Engineering Technology/Technician