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Denver, Co, Us

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Lowered Time-to-Login by 2+ seconds on a Reading app by analyzing a complex microservice architecture, improving communication code, and increasing cache reliance.Reduced costs by 5-figures per year for a high-throughput backend service by migrating it to a more sustainable and affordable architecture.

Designed and Built custom media management software for the New England Aquarium's Marine Mammal program. Shipped the product on time and on budget while leading another software developer and managing client relations.Created branding, user interfaces, and interactive mockups of the app in Figma. Utilized DASH Video Streaming technologies.

New York, Ny, Us

Supervised the Data I/O department.Managed teams of software developers to build internal tools and apply the glue layer between 3rd party software and web APIs.Designed and built a custom web application that democratizes the Data IO workload to non-technical staff. This includes a web server and communication protocol that offloads long-running tasks to scalable cloud VMs in a Kubernetes cluster.

New York, Ny, Us

Supervised the Data I/O department.Performed Scrum Master duties for our Experiential Design department.Researched, designed, and built a data syncing web tool that leverages multiple 3rd party tools to seamlessly backup our active data to the cloud, giving The Molecule off-site storage and complying with a number of our clients' security protocols.Built integrations between a number of our communication and organization tools, such as Slack and Shotgun Studio.Added custom monitoring scripts to our infrastructure to reduce downtime and enable proactive error management.

New York, Ny, Us

Handled incoming and outgoing media formats, color spaces, and specifications for in progress television series and films.Increased the efficiency of the data pipeline by building 22 new tools and scripts which led to a reduction in overtime hours needed to execute the standard workload.Programmatically converted over 10,000 image sequences and videos, from 15 different codecs within many formats by building a robust transcoder which allowed each asset to be streamed over the web.Built dozens of formulas in Google Sheets which enabled project and staffing projections to be calculated automatically.Searched for, interviewed, selected, and trained 2 new employees in the Data IO Department.

Set up projectors and projection screens at various campus events requiring video support.Created DVD duplications, scheduled events, kept office staff informed, rented projector packages, took phone calls, kept information organized.

Completed the production of physics based tutorials for the Interactive Video Vignettes project.Carried out and assisted with technical and creative tasks including the following: videography, lighting, sound, editing, color correction, animation, and video compression.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Led a team of 20 Orientation Assistants through training, in preparation for the Fall 2015 new student orientation week. Worked with a Co-Lead to manage our team throughout the orientation week, offer support, and contribute to managerial tasks. Presented 'Intro to Leadership' to 150 new Orientation Assistants with a partner.

Enhanced the user experience of Downey Products' website and created techniques to optimize their search engine ranking in order to improve website traffic and online sales.

East Syracuse, New York, Us

Built, populated, and wired presentation desks for local colleges and local community centers that needed the installation of a presentation system. Desks that we created included electronics such as video distribution amplifiers, audio amplifiers, video switchers, and SMART technologies.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Motion Picture Science

Advanced Regents Diploma