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Austin, Texas, Us

Engineering leader for two teams (as organization evolved): Search and Recommendations, and Outcomes. While the Search and Recommendations team powers the two most important Job Seeker surfaces (search and the home page), the Outcomes team powers the job seeker profile, job application flow, job posting ingestion, and Trust & Safety). Teams included both software engineering and data science, and partnered closely with Product Management and User Experience leadership.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Engineering Leader for the Online Data Infrastructure organization. We store and serve data in real-time to power the LinkedIn site, mobile app, and enterprise products. This includes data storage, search, and analytics. If it’s shown in response to a user action, it likely came from (or derived using) these systems. Previous roles have included Feed infrastructure and Machine Learning infrastructure. All systems are high performance, fault tolerant, and scalable distributed systems, focused on powering LinkedIn’s businesses.

Engineering leader in Realtime Data organization, building Stream Processing infrastructure to surface insights from Facebook's data as quickly as possible.• Improved system availability SLA by 10x, from 90% to 99%.• Developed strategy to unify multiple stream processing architectures.• Began unification of Batch and Streaming languages and tools to ease adoption ofstream processing and accelerate batch processing.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Engineering leader for Bing Ads serving, the Paid Search serving system core to a $6B business. These systems serve tens of thousands of search queries per second, matching relevant ads to the user’s search intent using grid-based data mining, machine learning, and large scale serving techniques.• Moved from “acquired manager” on side project, to senior leader in 1.5 years.• Defined and delivered next generation architecture via evolution. Strong platform/application division to simplify complexity and improve agility. Cut investments that weren’t paying off.• Helped evolve Microsoft processes to be more agile. Adoption of independent releases, shorter planning cycles, and resource allocations for outside-of-plan requests.• Moved from a Dev/Test/Ops organization model to a Combined Engineering model.• Added support for major 3rd party publishers, expanding business.• Improved serving capacity by over 50% through multiple efficiency initiatives• Delivered near-real-time marketplace metrics and alerting (vs 6 hours delay), dramatically improving live site management.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Engineering leader for the Paid Search serving system, core to a $4B business (over 50% of Yahoo!’s revenue) running in 23 markets worldwide. These systems were shut down and the service was outsourced to Microsoft in 2010.• Greatly improved cross-functional relationships, creating a productive team (Systems, Science, Product Management and QA).• Consistently delivered increased revenue, advertiser return on investment, and improved user experience, while maintaining very high quality.• Delivered two major next generation serving systems for ad serving and ad selection.• Build servers to seamlessly proxy publisher requests to Microsoft upon signing of Yahoo! / Microsoft Search Alliance.• Transitioned majority of team (and self) to Microsoft

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Engineering management (development, test, OEM integration), software architecture, and customer relationship management for mobile phone applications, working with large telecommunications companies and cell phone manufacturers. Applications included voice applications (VoIP, voice messaging and push-to-talk), data management applications (contact synchronization), and service quality management tools for use by the carrier.• Grew team from 10 to 40, with responsibility for development, QA, and OEM Integration.• Grew product line from one handset product, to multiple handset and server offerings.• One product line spun off as separate VC funded company (Carrier IQ).• Developed handset software embedded in dozens of handset models from multiple OEMs, on multiple carriers. Over 20 million units shipped by the time I left.• Servers deployed both at Carrier, as well as in Core Mobility ASP hosting center.Product lines / technologies:• Embedded VoIP client. Built handset software for Sprint’s ReadyLink “Push-To-Talk” (PTT) VoIP application. Worked closely with other vendors to deliver solution. • Client / server solution for service quality management. Application uses downloaded rule sets to gather RF, CDMA protocol, and high-level application metrics. The metrics are uploaded over-the-air and stored in a data warehouse for analysis and reporting. Co-authored two Patents (7,551,922 and 7,609,650) on this technique. • Client / server voice messaging. Application combines an MMS based voice application with web, email, IVR, and SMS capabilities. Servers are J2EE based, and built for telecom-class reliability and scalability. • Client / server data synchronization solution. The product synchronizes the user’s phone book (or other data) over-the-air between handset and server.

Toronto, On, Ca

Engineering management, software architecture, and outward-facing relationship building with the field and with key customers. Responsible for a suite of products to deliver financial data (quotes, news, and historical data) over the Internet and intranets. Features include real-time streaming and static XML/HTML delivery.• Roll-out of major new functionality on aggressive timelines to meet customer needs.• Oversight of architecture, including merging two architectures after Bridge merger.• Built productive relationships with the field and key customers, helping turn around hostile customers, closing several large sales, and exposing team to future directions/needs.• Worked closely with major customers, including Fidelity, JP Morgan and UBS.• Dramatically improved external perception of both products and team.• Transition of product development to St Louis upon closure of Palo Alto site.

Engineering management and software architecture for this advertising based dot-com startup. The company developed website for the creation and distribution of Interactive Streaming Broadcasts of music and voice. The product supported both live broadcasts with audience interaction, as well as on-demand replays, and had a use model that supported virtually anyone with a web browser in minutes.• Design of overall system architecture, with focus on flexibility and stability• Implementation of several key subsystems and features of the system

One of three founders of a Windows CE platform provider for hand-held and embedded devices. Company developed custom hardware and software, and offered Windows NT consulting services. Responsible for software development, and coordination of hardware development. • Development of four MIPS-based and one Pentium-based Windows CE platforms• Delivery of OS kernel, drivers, desktop shell, and demo applications• Numerous Windows NT projects including wafer handling robotics, atomic force microscope control, data analysis infrastructure, and user interface.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Managed engineering teams developing simulation user interface tools, a cycle-based digital simulator, and a rapid design synthesis tool targeting emulation.• Evaluated with marketing build vs. buy for next generation UI (decision was to buy/license)• Porting of user interface and simulator from Unix to Windows NT• Corporate representative for division to user interface team and Windows NT porting team

San Jose, California, Us

(Analog Design Tools was acquired by Valid Logic in 1988. Valid Logic was then acquired by Cadence in 1991. I worked at all three companies, as per the dates below.)Held numerous roles over 12 year span, starting from Software Engineer at Analog Design Tools (a startup), and advancing to Engineering Director at Cadence. Responsible for the development of a CAE product suite for the design and simulation of Analog and Mixed-Signal circuit boards. • Product line evolution and integration, to meet needs of two corporate mergers• Cross-functional product team leader• On-schedule release of major new enhancements and technologies• Team leader for a corporate quality audit conducted in partnership with Motorola

Houston, Texas, Us

Worked in a variety of HP divisions. Projects included database user interface, Printed Circuit Board CAE product, and Workload scheduling and management tools.