Senior Engineering Leader: Performance-driven, versatile, and hands-on engineering leader with a strong analytical and solution-oriented approach. Proven track record in hiring and leading high-performing teams to deliver mission-critical solutions for companies ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. Excels in navigating complex, uncertain environments and collaborating cross-functionally to deliver solutions that address business needs, performance, scalability, and time-to-market constraints. Emphasizes customer-centricity and cultivates an agile culture centered around unity, inclusion, quality, innovation, and efficiency.
Page Mill Consulting
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Freelance Software ArchitectPage Mill Consulting Sep 2023 - PresentLos Angeles Metropolitan Area* Developed an app using AWS App Sync to assess its ease of development and production suitability.* Developed a benchmarking tool to evaluate performance of GraphQL vs Rest APIs.* Delivered an AI mobile app that categorizes and adds descriptions to a photo library.
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Senior Engineering ManagerRivian Oct 2021 - Apr 2023Los Angeles, California, United States* Managed 2 teams of 25 engineers responsible for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Facilities Management (FM) solutions.* Built trust and opened communication between engineering, product, business and customer stakeholders. Increased engineering productivity by 30% while reducing production defects by 60%.* Architected and delivered new CRM solution that providing a 360-degree view of the customer data resulting in a 30% increase in productivity for the customer service agents.* Delivered new FM features incorporating all project, budgeting and timeline data to create a single source of truth for all facilities projects. -
Software Development Manager At Amazon Music - Artist And Label ServicesAmazon Feb 2020 - May 2021Santa Monica, California, United States* Hired and managed a 10-person team.* Delivered an Amazon Music in-app merchandise feature released March 2021 to 38M users enabling music customers to purchase artist procured merchandise.* Revised engineering processes focusing on code quality, test automation, accurate agile task estimation and tight collaboration with product management resulting in a 20% increase in productivity.* Delivered backend services that enabled artists to stream live content from their Twitch accounts to customers via the Amazon Music mobile client. -
Software Development ManagerAmazon Studios Aug 2018 - Feb 2020Santa Monica, California, United States* Hired a 12-person team of engineers and DevOps.* Architected and automated the AWS infrastructure reducing complexity, improving scalability, security and observability.* Reduced production defects by 60% by automating AWS test environment creation, automating unit and integration testing to the CI/CD pipeline.* Delivered a platform to manage all phases of production for Amazon Studio's projects including budget tracking and content rights management. -
Software Development ManagerAmazon Prime Oct 2017 - Aug 2018Santa Monica, California, United States* Hired and directed a team of 10 engineers to maintain and address major issues in the legacy systems to improve operator productivity.* Architected and delivered new content rights management services increasing rights operator productivity by 40%.* Delivered operator tooling to add and manage rights.
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Hands-On Senior Engineering ManagerWestern Digital May 2015 - Jun 2017Mountain View, California, United States* Lead a team of 18 engineers (7 full time, 11 contractors) to architect and deliver My Cloud Home clients (mobile, web, desktop), microservices, integrations and observability.* Guided and mentored the engineers and project managers on Agile, mobile development, and services development.* Championed the leveraging of ReactNative mobile frameworks to improve development efficiency, become less dependent on native iOS / Android developers and reduce project timelines. -
Head Of EngineeringReach150 Dec 2012 - Apr 2015Mountain View, California, United States* Led engineering in a three-person startup that created a referral management system realtors could use to grow business and sphere of influence.* Integrated with Google AdWords to allow customers to enable and manage ad banner advertising via the web application.* Fully automated enabling and disabling Google AdWords including auto-generating ad banners leveraging existing profile information and providing analytic reporting on metrics. -
Engineering ManagerLab126 (An Amazon Subsidiary) Nov 2009 - Dec 2012Cupertino, California, United States* Hired a team of 9 engineers and delivered a New Renderer that supports HTML like formatting for content, a new content ingestion pipeline and integrated with all Kindle backend supporting services.* Collaborated with Amazon teams in Paris, India, and Seattle to design, architect, and implement services.* This included integrating with existing Kindle services and operational tooling to ingest, format, and deliver content to the renderer.* Championed and managed a web-based Kindle client that supports the same formatting capabilities as the new e-Ink renderer. -
Director, Software DevelopmentPanasonic Cloud Entertainment May 2009 - Nov 2009San Jose, California, United States* Architected the cloud services responsible for gaming and social features and was a key decision-maker in selecting our device's vendor chipsets and operating systems.* Deeply involved in the selection of a chip set as well as the BOM (Build of Materials). -
Director, Advertising Systems ArchitectureMove Networks Jan 2008 - Jan 2009Provo, Utah, United States* Collaborated with Chief Strategy Officer to define an advertising software solution that provide an end-to-end publishing and monetization service for premium content providers.*.Evaluated third-party OEM partners to accelerate the tight integration of advertising services to the Move Networks solution. -
Hands-On Director, Software DevelopmentBlackarrow, Inc. (Now Cadent Technology) Sep 2004 - Dec 2007San Mateo, California, United States* Communicated with the Chief Technology Officer and Founder to define product requirements, architect the solution, and build a team from the ground up.* Audited the end-to-end broadcast advertising processes through employee interviews at Starcom MediaVest and GM PlanWorks.* Led further field trials with Turner Networks and integrations with Cisco Systems, RGB Networks, Tandberg TV, Flash Media Player, and Move Networks.* Successfully led the deployment of two dynamic advertising broadband customer trials (including PlumTV) in New York. -
CtoBrightteam Jun 2002 - Aug 2004Los Gatos, California, United StatesArchitected and managed the implementation of an SOA-based J2EE-based collaboration solution providing features such as application sharing, audited instant messaging, remote file access, and white boarding capabilities. Support both web-based and wireless clients (J2ME, BlackBerry).
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Product Marketing EngineerLumenare Networks Jun 2001 - Jun 2002Milpitas, California, United StatesTechnical lead for solutions architecture and implementation with Fortune 500 customers such as British Telecom, Sprint and Hitachi Data Systems. Responsibilities included product gap analysis, requirements gathering, return on investment (ROI) analysis and onsite customization specifications and customer issue resolution. -
Principal EngineerPropel, Inc Sep 1999 - Jun 2001San Jose, California, United StatesE-Commerce Software Startup* Worked with the CTO to design and implement platform services to develop a complete e-commerce application foundation including a generic XML-based application framework to provide a robust and scalable solution to provide integration with 3rd party solutions. * Managed a four person team in the integration of Propel’s e-commerce software with Oracle ERP using SeeBeyond’s e*Gate product, an enterprise application integration (EAI) solution. -
Software EngineerCisco Aug 1995 - Sep 1999San Jose, California, United StatesKey engineer on involved in the architecture and development of CiscoWorks 2000, a ground up web-based replacement for the Solaris Motif based CiscoWorks solutionMajor contributor to 4 approved patents directly related to the CiscoWorks 2000 solutionDesigned and implemented an SNMP-based inventory collection engine designed to maintain inventory information and detect changes in the network based on the SNMP dataDesigned and led the implemented a real time reporting system for the IP-based interactive voice response (IP IVR) product. The reports are used to improve the systems call routing workflow
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Computer Engineering
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