As a software engineer at Tableau Software, I contribute to the development of Tableau Desktop. Tableau Desktop is data visualization software that helps people see and understand their data. I improve and enhance the user interface for both Mac and Windows.

Technical lead for SMART Notebook, SMART's flagship Windows and Mac desktop software with over 12 million active installs and over 1 million daily users. Developed mainly in C++ and Objective-C, but increasingly uses HTML/CSS/JavaScript, python, Qt and other technologies to provide the best experience for our users.I am responsible for providing technical leadership to ensure we deliver the product on time, on quality, and on margin. I ensure code quality remains excellent through high energy agile development, code reviews, and bug triages. I interface with program management and other development teams to help architect a complete vision for the product.I facilitate my team by eliminating blocks, being responsive, automating wherever possible, and ensuring that my team can operate at 100%. I am continually and purposefully learning about the technology, the product, and our customers to improve myself and those around me.

Technical lead for SMART Notebook, SMART's flagship Windows and Mac desktop software with over 12 million active installs and over 1 million daily users. Developed mainly in C++ and Objective-C, but increasingly uses HTML/CSS/JavaScript, python, Qt and other technologies to provide the best experience for our users.I am responsible for providing technical leadership to ensure we deliver the product on time, on quality, and on margin. I ensure code quality remains excellent through high energy agile development, code reviews, and bug triages. I interface with program management and other development teams to help architect a complete vision for the product.I facilitate my team by eliminating blocks, being responsive, automating wherever possible, and ensuring that my team can operate at 100%. I am continually and purposefully learning about the technology, the product, and our customers to improve myself and those around me.

As a software developer at SMART Technologies, I contribute to the development of SMART Notebook collaborative learning software. Notebook is SMART's flagship software offering with over 12 million active installs. It provides the tools to create and deliver engaging, interactive learning experiences across grades, subjects and learning styles. Notebook is cross platform, running on Windows and Mac, written in C#/WPF/C++/Objective-C. Development is completed with high energy using Agile processes.

Satellite Architecture Visualization and Animation Tool [2013 - Present]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------As lead of Aerospace’s Satellite Architecture Visualization and Animation Tool I worked to enhancing and modernizing the tool. We employ methodologies that help deliver working code ahead of schedule.The tool displays 3D animation of thousands of satellites and ground stations through space and time. Communication link performance and coverage areas are also visualized. Multiple map projections and Earth-centered inertial (globe) frames of reference are available for a highly customizable output. The tool is used to assess the performance of military and commercial satellite communication architectures. The results of this analysis are used to determine the number and type of satellites and antennas that are needed to meet the customers required throughput and service demands. The tool is developed in C++, Qt, and OpenGL.

Advanced, General System for Plotting and Listing (AGSPL) [2008 - Present]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------As part of a small team, I developed Aerospace's Advanced, General System for Plotting and Listing (AGSPL), a telemetry data analysis tool that provides fast access to Aerospace’s extensive repository of launch vehicle telemetry data. The tool supports space launch vehicles such as Atlas V, Delta IV, Falcon 9, Delta II, Titan, and Centaur among others. The tool allows analysts to:• Generate fully customizable plots of vehicle parameters in real time• Generate text listings of telemetry data for extraction to other applications• Write scripts to generate customized plots and listings quickly and repeatedly• Analyze and edit data using smoothing, averaging, interpolation, differentiation, integration, etc.• Import data from other sources for verification and validationAnalysts used the tool during the successful launches and tests of NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover, SpaceX’s ISS resupply missions, and hundreds of GPS, weather, telecommunications, and imaging satellites.The tool was originally developed in C. Over the past five years I have helped to upgrade and modernize the code, transferring much of the legacy, procedural code to a modern C++ and Qt object oriented architecture. I introduced regular expressions for processing data. I improved the user experience (UX) by studying how analysts use (and misuse) the GUI during launch operations and enhanced the application to meet their needs. I improved the development process by advocating for the use of an issue tracking system, Doxygen style comments, and automated GUI testing.