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• Manage a team that maintains and develops new features for the Adobe Stock web site (https://stock.adobe.com) and APIs. The team’s technical environment includes PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Node.js, Redux, React.
• Manage 11 full stack engineers, providing continuous feedback, coaching and individual career development.
• Integrate new content sources and develop new features for the site and APIs, with attention to performance, security and scalability.
• Collaborate with colleagues across business units to facilitate integrations of Stock services into Creative Cloud applications (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premier Pro, Spark).
• Partner with product management to articulate product roadmap.
• Work with architects and lead engineers to review requirements, create implementation plans and ensure that implementations are performant, secure, stable and maintainable.

• Managed a team responsible for maintaining a suite of highly integrated systems (both in-house and vendor hosted) serving students, faculty and staff throughout the University of California system. The team’s technical.
• Managed eight engineers.
• Oversaw service operations, technical infrastructure and best practices to ensure uninterrupted service to end users.
• Coordinated with service managers to align technical resources and timelines with program priorities and goals.
• Developed technical project plans and proposals, including requirements gathering, cost estimates, budgets, schedules, and resource allocation.
• Managed technical projects as needed.

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

• Led a team responsible for APIs and tools for rapid data-driven application development. Key feature areas included full-text and boolean search, document transformation and ingestion, and MarkLogic Server deployment.
• Managed a team of five engineers through two major release cycles.
• Recruited and retained talent in a competitive market.
• Provided consistent coaching and performance feedback, and fostered opportunities for individual career growth.
• Established collaborative development culture and practices, including rigorous design discussions, unit tests and code reviews.
• Reviewed requirements and functional specifications with an eye to consistent interfaces and maintainable code.

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

• Co-founded a team producing APIs and tools for rapid application development. Engaged in establishing team culture and process, training and mentoring new developers, and contributing to the community in addition to.
• Search API: Query parsing, result pagination, snippets, query suggestions, and faceted browse. Highly configurable and extensible, with a strong focus on scalability and performance.
• Application Builder: Browser-based interface for configuration and deployment of a faceted search application without writing code. Responsible for performance of generated application code at scale.
• Information Studio: Browser-based tool and API for configuring reusable content transformation and loading pipelines. Developed APIs, implemented security measures, drove performance testing and tuning.
• Management API: REST services for building, configuring and monitoring distributed MarkLogic clusters.
• Client APIs: Team lead for development of REST and Java APIs that expose document management, search and analytical capabilities.

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

Field consultant, working with customers on MarkLogic Server implementations. * Provided recommendations on application design, document structure, and indexing strategies.* Wrote and optimized code: XQuery, XPath, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java.* Conducted training sessions for MarkLogic Server developers and administrators.

Led development, testing and assessment of candidate methods of generating recommendations in a prototype catalog system, to inform next-generation system development efforts.

• Managed content and developed new applications for high-traffic Web site and on-line collections database. Technical environment included HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP, Perl, mySQL.
• Managed the Museum's flagship Web site (http://ucmp.berkeley.edu)
• Migrated server and desktop support to centralized campus services to achieve significant cost savings and improved security.
• Developed interactive modules for Explorations Through Time, an educational series funded by the National Science Foundation.
• Initiated a partnership that delivered the first on-line specimen and image databases for the museum, including dynamic mapping capabilities.
• Led implementation of the Paleontology Portal, a paleontology community site funded by the National Science Foundation.

Masters, Information Management & Systems

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