Bryan Saxon Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Al, Us

Birmingham, Al, Us

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

- Worked directly with the COO, VPs, and directors to identify bottlenecks within 12 operational teams and lead a team to work and resolve those problems.- Managed multiple teams with 10+ engineers covering 3 different business domains; Developed to 2 engineers for promotions.- Led the engineering team’s architecture committee, which worked to identify and address technical debt, set architectural standards, and propose new architectural solutions for upcoming features.- Led the engineering team’s book club, which helped foster growth and development for the employees.- Led a successful 6 month NetSuite integration project that increased the capabilities, visibility, and traceability of assets for the furniture operation teams.- Built a Ruby on Rails application to automate the triage of emails between properties, Landing, and its members, reducing the mail review burden from 5,000 emails daily to under 400.

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

- Built an application to more effectively and efficiently update pricing and availability for apartment units listed on Landing’s website, reducing manual labor by 200% and increasing the frequency of updates from every two days to twice daily.- Built a feature to group price homes based on the property’s floorplan, increasing the margin on apartments rented.- Built a days-to-ready calculation algorithm configurable by market to reduce the earliest available date available to move in by an average of 5 days.- Redesigned pricing and availability processing pipeline to be extendable and interoperable with other interfaces.

Birmingham, Al, Us

- Partnered with the head of DevOps to rearchitect the WebRTC solution for proctoring test takers, saving the company over a million dollars a year.- Redesigned the ML pipeline, leading to a more robust, scalable solution.- Built a system to reduce the processing of prerecorded proctored videos from 2 hours to under 5 minutes.- Helped transition the WebRTC and machine learning IP from an offshore consultancy to an in-house team of two senior engineers and an ML engineer.

Birmingham, Al, Us

- Worked with product managers and business stakeholders to identify root problems and pragmatic solutions that balanced impact and effort.- Was the technical lead on the Google GSuite Certification partnership, traveling and working directly with the Google Cloud team to design their proctoring solution for adults and K12.- Presented and represented the technology leadership of ProctorU at multiple client pitches and meetings (McGraw Hill, Pearson VUE, WGU, UNC)- Worked with product management and development at ProctorU and Pearson VUE to build the first fully integrated automated proctoring solution within a test delivery system.- Founded an architecture committee and architecture decision review process to enable senior engineering leaders to collaborate and own the architecture within their teams.

Birmingham, Al, Us

- Created a plan for a new product offering for verifying user identity through keystroke biometrics and public record challenge questions and successfully pitched to the executive team.- Led the development of the identity verification solution with another engineer.- Designed a robust API for handling the consumption of multiple verification providers, normalizing the responses for a clean interface.- Peer-reviewed features, bugs, and technical debt from other engineers.- Mentored junior engineers through pair programming.

Birmingham, Al, Us

- Worked with stakeholders to identify root problems and create plans to solve them.- Built new features to support the proctoring organization.

Birmingham, Al, Us

- Identified and fixed bugs and assisted in maintaining the application during peak operating times.

Auburn, Al, Us

- Approached a professor regarding a research topic, which resulted in the current working paper, “Revisiting the Evidence on Size and Price to Book Effects on Stock Returns."- Presented working paper to Auburn University’s College of Business Advisory Board, outlying the research topic, historical findings, research methods, preliminary findings, and possible reasons for the resulting preliminary data.

Charlottesville, Va, Us

- One of three selected to represent Auburn University.- Applied knowledge of finance and economics to research a publicly traded company, created a buy sell recommendation report, and final presentation that was locally evaluated by high-profile panels of experts from top financial institutions.- Analyzed business drivers of the company and helped create a model for forecasting future company earnings.