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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, Docker, Fastly, New Relic, Kibana, Amazon Web Services, git, Jira. Responsibilities:• 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 environment included Amazon Web Services, Java, Ruby, PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, git. Responsibilities:• 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.• Collaborated on technical issues with colleagues, vendors, and partnering organizations.

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, monitoring and management. The team’s technical environment included: XML, XPath, XQuery, HTML/XHTML, Javascript, Java, Node.js, SVN, git, Eclipse. Responsibilities:• 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.• Collaborated with colleagues in other engineering groups, product management, quality assurance, documentation and support to plan new feature release cycles.• Negotiated and communicated changes to project scope, design and timeline.• Tracked and reported on progress through all phases of the development cycle.• Triaged and prioritized bugs for service releases.• Facilitated technical interchange and feedback cycles across functional boundaries within engineering (product management, support) and with field technical staff.

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 delivering code and unit tests. Products released in MarkLogic versions 4.1 - 7 included:• 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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