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At Opnbook, our mission is to be the world's most trusted voice in AI optimization, by delivering unparalleled intelligence about our customer’s AI ecosystems. We believe that with the right tools and insights, every organization can leverage the power of AI to drive innovation and growth.We believe the future belongs to businesses that can innovate with AI, but we also know that success requires more than just tools—it demands insights, strategy, and measurable impact.💼 What sets Opnbook apart?🔍 We’re not just another AI tool; we’re the first and only platform helping businesses measure the ROI of AI investments.📊 We enable companies to make data-driven decisions, leveraging AI to its fullest potential.🧠 Our approach? It’s about being the most trusted voice in AI Enablement. We help people innovate with AI and help businesses measure its impact.I'm coming on as Principal Engineer to bring my multidisciplinary skillset to work on this new product and platform bridging human innovators and AI capabilities.

Leveled Up: Using everything in my multidisciplinary skillset to work on the largest Smart City development initiative in the United States.Acquired by Orange County, CA-based ocV!BETec, LLC, the organization behind the largest smart city development initiative in the United States. Have become part of the organization's newly created Digital Experience Design (DxD) team, a multi-disciplinary team focused on accelerating the district's experience offerings through best-in-class design and technology solutions. DxD's work connects physical and digital worlds, extending from immersive brand experiences to connected customer experiences and smart building design.My focus will be on leading the engineering part of product and platform initiatives, culminating in a dream of mine to direct on a project that encompasses everything I've ever worked on into one massive, big-picture effort: embedding expertise on experiential design and development, component-driven development of applications and UI tooling, cross platform architectures and orchestration, 3D/XR multimedia and interactivity, Adaptive/Intelligent UIs and systems, and working on big picture collaborations with creatives, technologists, and hardware talent. Focus on solutions thinking that combines domains that are currently way too siloed.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Growing from Technical Director and working alongside my team’s System Architects to re-organize our overall development team and its departments, more closely align ourselves with our Creative leads, and strategize process/pipeline improvements for the company’s overall direction of execution leading to embedding our expertise into productization and platform.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Leading super cool devs on super awesome projects.Responsible for leading a young, talented, and hungry team of interactive developers and engineers, in a highly collaborative team environment, creating visually rich and performant immersive media applications and services across a variety of platforms. Also work closely with client stakeholders to translate often vague technical requirements into actionable development plans for a multi-disciplinary team to execute on (this includes front-end/back-end developers and production artists)- Sourcing / hiring of developers for our core dev team as well as contract specialists - Manage project technical feasibility, expectations, architectures, and timelines/costs from initial proposal to client, discovery of technical problems and solutions, all the way through to execution and post-project support - Led technical direction on creative interactive applications especially on React.js/Redux and Unity tech stacks, often employing unique hardware/software combinations to please client expectations and bend technologies to various whims - Spearhead infrastructure toolsets and content management systems alongside my Sr. Backend Architect to facilitate creative ways to re-use custom modules of code from varying projects to the next, and establish platforms to build foundations upon (including message exchanges, internal web tools, client facing dashboards, and re-usable UI components), all preemptively, in order to help guide the company’s overall technical direction outside of client demands - Help research exciting new technologies and interfaces for client proposals

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Britelite Immersive is a Creative Technology agency that places people and brands at the center of content-driven experiences. We specialize in building interactive installations, immersive environments, emerging technology campaigns, mixed reality experiences, and large-scale digital activations.How we play: interactive installations, product launches, experiential branding campaigns, corporate events, web/mobile development, game launches. What we do: creative direction, immersive projection, video mapping, multi-touch design, video production, webcasting, reactive display, social engagement.I was hired as a generalist software engineer using my toolbox of various skills for a variety of creative brand solutions, but also having a primary focus on creating interactive installations and video display solutions powered by web technologies. I have created reactive applications for large resolution touch walls, video stiches, and mobile devices using html/css/js as well as leveraging my modern Front-End Engineering skills like using React.js w/ Redux and Node.js. I have also helped with bridging the gap between other proprietary technologies and web technologies, like leveraging Python scripting in TouchDesigner apps, as well as communication layers between Web-exported Unity games and the browser environment they are embedded in. I have also begun working on Unity and WebGL projects, including shader work.

Santa Clara, California, Us

SoundHound Inc. are an innovator in Sound Recognition and Search technologies with a portfolio of technologies including audio identification, speech recognition, natural language understanding, and singing/humming search, deployed globally through app stores as well as partnerships with device manufacturers and automotive.Hired as a web swiss army knife, I mainly focused on creating experiences in the mobile app that were not native, using web technologies within embedded webviews in the iOS and Android apps. I worked closely with the iOS/Android developers to collaborate on the exposed APIs in JavaScript that I could make use of within my webviews to trigger app-specific actions (like launching media in our custom player instead of your system default), as well as create seamless transitions (and analytics flow) from native app page, into loaded webview, and then back out again into the native app. I also worked very hard with the app designers to recreate many of the styles/animations/look-and-feel from the native pages within the webviews with html/js/css, to ensure the users didn’t ever notice what was a native page and what was a webview. I also had to work within the performance and capability constraints of whatever webview the native app developers were embedding (as they were not entirely like mobile browser capabilities installed on the user’s device). Among other things, I also implemented a redesign of the corporate site, assisted the CEO with web prototypes for important company demos, implemented third party ad creatives including stacks that powered our annual real-time rundown of both the Super Bowl and Grammys, and worked on creating internal toolsets for employee processes using javascript stacks like AngularJS, Node.js + Express, and React.js, including a curator tool that would allow non-technical team members to populate pre-built campaign experiences I had made. I also assisted with an image processing pipeline made in Python and OpenCV.

Delray Beach, Florida, Us

FriendFinder Networks, Inc is an Internet-based social networking and multimedia entertainment company operating several of the most heavily-visited websites in the world. Their sites' services include social networking, online personals, live and recorded video, online chat rooms, instant messaging, photo and video sharing, blogs, message boards, email and premium content websites.Specialized in Mobile Web Development, converting many of the desktop versions of the friendfinder social network sites and cobrands with custom javascript frameworks targeting mobile web browsers, especially adultfriendfinder.com and more recently cams.com. Also experimented with development of web apps for internet-enabled TVs, such as Samsung Smart TV, Panasonic VIERA Connect, and Google TV, and I assisted with a simple iOS web browser app released in the App Store.

Python programming and testingSole QA Developer/Analyst. One man QA team.Net Enforcers was a technology-driven brand protection company that represents clients ranging from consumer electronics manufacturers to large pharmaceutical companies. The team was a collaboration of IT experts and business managers who specialize in investigative research, intellectual property rights, and market trends.In need of a quality assurance department, I was laterally promoted into what would be a one-man quality assurance team responsible for all of NEI’s services. I created workflows for development and testing as well as managed weekly releases of bug fixes and new features on an iterative schedule. I had maintained manual testing procedures that were being worked into automated testing procedures, developed workflows for ticket creation and project management in FogBugz, and code management in Subversion and Mercurial, developed procedures for deployment of code and services between development, staging, and production environments, and maintained sending out regular release notes and status updates on tickets in the testing queue.

Python, Pylons, MySQLNet Enforcers was a technology-driven brand protection company that represents clients ranging from consumer electronics manufacturers to large pharmaceutical companies. The team was a collaboration of IT experts and business managers who specialize in investigative research, intellectual property rights, and market trends. They report data via human means but utilize a number of in-house tools and automated functionality to allow their human analysts to collect and manage the data and workload more efficiently. These tools and services were built with Python server side code, as well as the large web interface, which all the analysts used, built using the Pylons web framework. I started out as a Python programmer writing web applications to build into these services, working on server-side Pylons controllers, model code for utilizing our MySQL database with the SQLAlchemy ORM, and writing dhtml/css and javascript to be used in Mako templates which were served by the Pylons paster server.

Gainesville, Fl, Us

PHP, MySQLGrooveshark was the world's largest on-demand and music discovery service. With over 15 million songs, Grooveshark was an ecosystem that brought together music fans, bands, music labels, and brands.I worked with Senior Web Developer Skyler Slade (whom I also worked with on 138fx) and we wrote the PHP/MySQL backend for the initial Grooveshark product. We brought the framework we had worked on with 138fx and modified the classes, session manager, mysql objects, etc to suit the project and eventually it became an enormous beast on its own. We engineered backend procedures that fetched and inserted information from MySQL database information to be utilized in front-end web development (consisting of much jQuery javascript and actionscript) and rendered for the web browser using Smarty PHP Templates. We wrote scripts that manipulated and maintained the MySQL database, as well as replication of data across servers. I had joined the project nearly at its inception and helped get the project off the ground and running within a year and a half wearing many hats, though my primary responsibilities were as a developer.

Django, MySQLPrior to LinkedIn’s dominance, this site was a prototype community/social network for entrepreneurs and web ventures. It was to allow entrepreneurs of startups and others interested in startups to promote themselves as well as join and become informed of other startups that are happening. I was hired to be a Django web developer but I also became involved with the actual design of the product, its unique features, and its user interface design. Eventually LinkedIn grew to dominate this area and utilized the same unique features we were coming up with, so this project was left and we went our separate ways.

PHP, MySQLPrior to Youtube’s arrival, this hobby site was a community/social network built in PHP/MySQL for independent video from filmmakers and film audiences. Unlike other video sites at the time, membership was free and uploading content was free. Also instead of using web video codecs like Quicktime, WMV, or Realplayer embedded content, all video on the site was presented in Macromedia Flash, which was browser friendly, lightweight, and cross platform. Using IMDB style credits, people could claim credit on videos they made, as well as rate videos and network with films and filmmakers. Youtube’s arrival effectively killed the project.

Software Engineering

Digital Audio Technology, Game Audio Production/Programming