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Consultant (iOS Development):+ Successfully led and turned around numerous iOS projects, regularly leading teams, defining requirements, and unblocking developers to ensure smooth execution and delivery.+ Built and maintained strong client relationships, fostering trust through effective communication and a deep understanding of client needs.+ Proposed, prototyped, and architected next-generation point-of-sale system for major quick-service restaurant (QSR).+ Became a subject matter expert (SME) in taxation, designing a novel offline solution to address complex technical and legal challenges.+ Envisioned and prototyped an original computer vision based offering for a major online retailer, demonstrating innovative thinking and technical expertise.+ Rapidly iterated to build an MVP of a machine learning-based security product, showcasing agility and a results-oriented approach.+ Achieved top-three placements in an annual coding competition for 7 consecutive years.Instructor:+ Delivered over 30 corporate and open-enrollment courses on iOS Development, Objective-C, Swift, Machine Learning, and Python.+ Promoted and authored best selling Explore Machine Learning course, maintaining and promoting it as a key offering.+ Trained engineering teams at leading tech companies, providing them with cutting-edge skills and knowledge.+ Presented webinars on Accessibility and Machine Learning, sharing expertise with a broader audience.Manager:+ Managed 30+ engineers over 7 years, consistently achieving the highest employee retention rates and manager development among peers.+ Conducted regular one-on-one meetings, team syncs, and performance reviews, actively engaging with direct reports and celebrating their achievements, fostering a supportive, growth-oriented environment.+ Mentored countless individuals on career, life, and technical challenges, promoting a supportive culture focused on kindness and curiosity.

+ Delivered iOS & Swift Essentials courses on site at largest names in tech.

* Worked closely with clients to identify and differentiate their actual needs from their perceived needs, managing expectations and ensuring alignment throughout the development process.* Delivered a range of custom iOS and Ruby on Rails applications under limited budgets, deploying iteratively to accommodate adjustments and improvements.* Handled significant integrations, including server components, third-party services, and data feeds, while also providing ongoing maintenance and support.* Architected, developed and deployed custom Ruby on Rails web application to track rice from harvest to delivery, including iPhone/iPod Touch interface for mobile access along with outbound SMS notifications to the farm owners.* Architected, developed and deployed custom Ruby on Rails web application to request and process midterm evaluations for college students.* Architected, developed and deployed custom Ruby on Rails web application for local real estate brokerage, including incorporation of new RETS data feeds.* Actively architecting and developing custom Ruby on Rails web application for managing volunteers and needs for causes.

Chico, California Area

• Taught an undergraduate introductory course in C++ programming.• Prepared detailed lectures, exams and original C/C++ based programming assignments.• Hand graded all assignments and exams in order to give appropriate feedback to students.• Independently applied for and awarded $12.9k grant to bring mobile computing into the college.• Proposed and authorized to teach new course in mobile application development with iOS.• Developed new course for teaching Ruby on Rails web programming.• Held regular office hours to aid students with their learning.

• Taught a junior and senior level course in operating system programming. • Prepared detailed lectures, exams and C based programming assignments. • Held regular office hours to aide students with their learning.

• Managed distributed, development team which produced first version of a collaborative software suite.• Created automated, dependency based, build system to setup development and production servers.• Directly supported customers, partners and contractors with setup, explanations, and questions.• Maintained five separate applications in production.• Designed robust migrations to bring data from one version of the software to the next.• Regularly used technologies including Ruby on Rails, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Solaris, FreeBSD, LDAP.• Helped develop and implement system to automate process from purchase to delivery of cloud computing products.

• Diligently advanced Java based platform through refactoring, fixing bugs, introducing powerful new features such as inheritance and templates, and contributing to numerous design decisions.• Exercised patience in analyzing, researching and challenging requirements so as to be sure all of the intended goals were met.• Interfaced well with customers and helped lead offshore development efforts.• Juggled multiple projects, in varying technologies, simultaneously; technologies included Java, XML, XUL, XPath, JavaScript, SQL, JMeter, Quick Test Professional.• Organized numerous team-building events on my own accord.

• Designed, documented, implemented and tested a Java based reporting engine for a custom application in a multi-billion dollar market.• Solely responsible for 100% of reporting code in a self-motivated, unsupervised, results-based environment. • Continually adapted to the client’s ever-changing requirement needs. • Contributed to various business, strategic and marketing decisions.

• Excelled in extensive training, spanning technologies such as Java, C++, Visual Basic, JavaScript, SQL, Ariba Buyer, Broadvision and ATG. • Provided quality assurance for a web-based application by designing and executing a comprehensive system test plan.• Designed and coded recursive SQL for DB2 to traverse and compare bill of materials.• Provided quality assurance and version control for widely distributed client documents.• Documented and performed extensive code walkthroughs for PL-SQL based application.• Trained over 140 new consultants in Object Oriented Programming principles focusing on J2SE and J2EE, as well as SQL, HTML, XML, and XSLT.

Ba, Economics, African American Studies

Activities and Societies: Directed Watts Tutorial Project.Minored in Accounting. Specialization in Computing. Graduated with College.

Ms, Computer Science

Completed course work in December 2002. Completed Master's Project in October 2008. Project Title: A Classification of All Connected.