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I'm here to make Super Bowl ads boring, because the normal advertisements people see are relevant, timely, and enthralling while still respecting privacy. Here are the organization’s focuses to accomplish this:Don’t be Creepy - Privacy and consumer needs are an ever-evolving space in Ad-Tech. Our top rule is don't be creepy.Build a Team we Love - The Attribution organization has multiple focuses. We are continuing the MNTN tradition of building great teams that love being a part of MNTN.Trust through Clarity - Our advertising partnerships range across CTV, Display, and Mobile. We use these to make sure it is clear to advertisers how their CTV ad spend is performing in relation to their goals.Build a Moat - Double down on key differentators.Key org influences:* Build teams, expertise and operational considerations for reporting interconnects to internal and third party platforms such as Google Analytics and GA4, Adobe Omniture, Kochava, and other display and mobile attribution partners.* Hire cross functional roles such as Kotlin/Java Software Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Full Stack (typescript/react/graphql) Software Engineers.* Establish goals and credible timelines for revamping Identity and event matching considerations.* Establish working patterns, Scrums, Design Reviews, and intra-team communications including Daily Parking Lot context, monthly newsletters to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and others.* Drive Alignment between internal PMs, customer service teams and leaders, and other Engineering Leadership on priority and execution of goals and initiatives for short- and long-term goals.* Establish north star goals for the org and teams. This includes making it clear to the teams how they contribute to those goals.* Partner with recruiting to revamp the hiring pipeline and process, doubling the quantity of backend engineers on the team.

* Manager for multiple lines of data dissemination technologies including our internal slice and dice tool for ad-hoc investigations, Looker for dashboarding, internal batch reporting jobs, ad-hoc data investigations, weekly business reports, and our AB testing platform.* Developed tech leaders and managers to coach them into leadership positions both in my teams, and with other teams as needed.* Established best practices on the team with regards to reviewing operations, balancing tech debt and feature development, and cost attribution.* Communicate with Directors and VPs on the direction and goals of the team.* Partner with Product, Data Science, Sales, Finance, Content, Governance and other Engineering teams to empower their teams with self serve analytics on very complicated data.* Partner with an internal tools PM to establish roadmaps on investment areas for our data tool suites to provide insights to our internal customers with more speed, accuracy, timeliness, and with more clarity on the impact relevant to their team and their business.* Partner with Data Science and Applied Research to deploy novel data analysis techniques such as COND (an evolution of CUPED) to improve our testing power, or provide better insights to study runners and metric owners into heterogeneous treatment effects (HTE) with multi-testing adjustments.

* Brought up the Mercury platform for slice and dice analytics on ad-tech data. We drove insights on the relatively new RTB ecosphere by empowering our sales associates to self-serve data insights into maximizing ROI for our advertising partners.* Tech lead for platform items for slice and dice analytics.* Mentor and tech lead for batch processing and interactive computations.* Tech lead for a (poor man's) bootstrapped experimentation platform.

Manage teams to scale and innovate real-time ingestion systems and query engines with an industry focus on AdTech.* Manage a team of very talented local and remote engineers.* Interview potential new hires.* Coordinate and plan Platform Engineering strategic initiatives.* Coordinate and improve effective cloud spend in AWS and GCP.* Manage software timelines and engineering effort to meet product and business needs while ensuring future development velocity.* Attend and present at conferences.* Write technical blog posts highlighting our engineering efforts.* Coding in python, java, scala, and go.* Developed secure credential storage mechanisms based on cloud KMS for cross-cloud services.* Manage post-mortem follow up prioritization.* Train new hires.* Code reviews.* Manage scaling strategies for multiple stateless and stateful systems.* Drove gross margins from below 25% to over 60%* Reduced the frequency of high severity production issues from more than one per month to one per quarter, and still improving.

Backend Engineering. Develop systems for processing making over 3M events per second instantly queryable.* Review pull requests for internal and external projects mostly consisting of java, scala, and python.* Author and supporter of Query Time Lookups (QTL)* Author of Caffeine cache extension (not Caffeine itself)* Author and maintainer of the Druid Spark indexer* Design, develop, deploy, monitor, automate, and provide training materials for our internal usage of Druid, Spark, Mesos, Marathon, http-client, memcached, and others.* Design, develop, deploy, monitor and maintain the currently used Druid deployment and upgrade system including methods for doing A/B testing for early performance regression detection in production rollouts.* Coordinate with product, data engineers, and frontend developers to make the most sensible use of our services.* Help on-board new platform engineers.* Drove development, validation, analysis, deployment, and utilization of compression jobs which reduced overall on-disk footprint by approx 50% for historical data.* I don't just drive utilization of big data technologies, I make big data technologies better.

* Distinguished Contributor to core Big Data enterprise backend solutions.* Reduce error in foreign key counting from ~6% to 0% in a privacy compliant manner.Implement core logic to allow inter-tool communication.* Develop cutting edge data analysis platforms to cut key query responses down from 8 seconds to 0.1 second.* Winner of Top Award for contributions.* Optimize Vertica queries for both data onboarding and query response.* Write Hadoop / Pig / Hive scripts for data validation and ETL.* Investigate new technologies including Shark/Spark and Druid.

• Managerial Dutieso Manage project timelines and budgets to meet expected research outcomes.o Coordinate research efforts among various on premises and remote research groups.o Investigate market forces for addressable market and business strategy planning.o Maintain communication with program managers from funding agencies to determine applicability of Zipton Labs developed technologies.• IT Dutieso Manage and implement (and develop when necessary) information technology systems including ITAR and EAR compliant e-mail, file storage, and collaboration software (SharePoint and Vibe).o Manage and implement (and develop when necessary) intellectual property protection standard operating procedures.• Other Dutieso Manage and implement shipping and ordering logistics.o Manage and implement ITAR and EAR compliance.

• Technical Dutieso Write and manage proposals for Phase I and Phase II research efforts. o Manage effort reporting and accounts receivable of research efforts. o Conduct research and development of UV and IR detectors that can lead to marketable single-pixel, linear array, and focal plane array devices and determine servable market of such devices.o Simulate, design, fabricate, and characterize UV and IR devices. o Design and acquire photolithography masks and characterization equipment required to properly develop UV and IR devices.

• For II-VI / III-VI materials integration on 0.61 nm substrates: Design, simulate, process, and characterize PN, PIN, MQW, and other photodiode and photovoltaic devices including multi-band, IR photodetectors. Evaluate novel technologies for tunnel junctions, contacts, and doping.• Investigate novel characterization, contact, and tunnel junction techniques for III-V multi-junction Photovoltaics.• Managerial Dutieso Help Prof. Zhang coordinate deadlines for project milestones.o Draft, revise, and edit quarterly reports to funding agencies.o Help Prof. Zhang coordinate ~6 Ph. D. students in achieving project milestones.o Advise an Electrical Engineering Senior Design team from Arizona State University who is building a solar-powered autonomous aerial vehicle. o Review funding opportunity announcements for applicable opportunities.o Draft, revise, and edit grant proposals.

• Design, simulate, process, and characterize PN, PIN and advanced photovoltaic junctions including doping and composition grading for GaP, AlGaN, and ZnSe/GaAs devices.• Evaluate solutions for reducing front surface carrier recombination.• Achieve a record Voc for GaP solar cells.• Develop a reaction chamber suitable to run a vehicle utilizing an aluminum-water reaction to produce hydrogen and evaluate the effect of various contaminants on the alloy and reaction mechanics.