Deavon Barlow Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca

Sapient is rated by CNN, Forbes, Glassdoor, and Business Insider as being one of the Top 20 "Most Difficult Companies To Interview For" in the entire country.• Join the exclusive team which created the ubiquitous Coca-Cola Freestyle soda machine, with 19,000+ network-synchronized machines operating in 10,500+ locations globally, also available in 16 countries on 3 continents.• Lead technology efforts for an exclusive team of Harvard, Stanford MBA, Princeton, MIT, Caltech, and Google alumni, innovating across many disciplines• Provide level-of-effort and staffing estimates for $1MM+ projects• Lead research and development efforts for various technologies and concepts• Interview and evaluate candidates for hire• Provide oversight on the development of an in-store, extended aisle, touchscreen application for a Top 3 retail brand. Kiosk ultimately deployed to many of this brand's 2,000 stores.• Lead multi-disciplinary team members on augmented reality, machine learning, micro-location, computer vision, and other advanced topics.• Collaborate with Global CTO, Sheldon Monteiro, on Sapient's office digital strategy.• Contribute to A/B tests• Serve some of the world's best brands, including: The Coca-Cola Company, The Home Depot, Sony, Verizon, and Target.

Atlanta, Ga

• Act as the technical lead for six of twelve components in the development and successful launch of AT&T’s $4MM flagship store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Lead risk analysis and formal documentation effort, preventing major failures in project delivery.• Develop specifications for two highly-successful and industry-recognized $1.5MM+ technology labs in cooperation with Gensler. Each lab became the feature story on Adweek's homepage for an entire week. Oversee construction, vet blueprints, design AV racks, oversee Crestron AV automation component development, and lead labs operations.• Garner recognition as a team via articles written and posted on the home pages of: Ad Age, Adweek, BBC, Bloomberg, Engadget, Fast Company, Kotaku, Mashable, Microsoft, Wired, The New York Times, and many more.• Develop video-wall based showcase application utilized as the centerpiece for all pitches to chief-level executives from some of the most respected brands in the world.• Co-develop dash and center-console touchscreen interface for the launch of Ford’s first battery-electric vehicle, the 2012 Ford Focus Electric.• Lead a kiosk hardware and software deployment effort for ADT, increasing total Best Buy location installs by over 700%.• Develop many Kinect-based prototypes and projects, including many other C# components. Innovate by developing the first WPF iOS-style toggle switch, and the first Kinect-based attract break mechanism in the industry.• Contribute as technology lead for many microsite projects for AT&T, Kraft, BlackBerry, Razorfish, etc.• Receive "shout out" recognition in 2011 for my work on the ADT account. Only 5% of the Atlanta workforce garnered this exclusive recognition.• Develop an Android NFC peer-to-peer prototype, garnering individual attention from many of Razorfish’s top chief-level executives, including its Global CEO, Bob Lord.

San Luis Obispo, Ca

• As the front-end technical lead on a $4MM project, develop HP Setup in C#. NET (WPF) for Hewlett-Packard. HP Setup was installed on all 100 million HP and Compaq computers sold and distributed worldwide. Final product won universal acclaim from many internal HP groups.• As technical lead, develop touch screen interface for Theranos’ flagship consumer product. Meet with company founder, and now self-made billionaire and innovator, Elizabeth Holmes. Theranos has revolutionized their industry by reducing required blood test volume to a fingerstick, supporting up to 30 tests from a single sample. (Python 2.5, MooTools, Nginx, Xfce)• Act as a key technology resource on projects for the following accounts: Apple, Black & Decker, BlackBerry, ESPN, HP, Micron, Oakley, Tesla Motors, and Quiksilver.• Implement proprietary JavaScript libraries for the department to utilize between projects as an investment in company assets.• Train and support department staff in various advanced web development concepts.

• Manage and mentor many direct reports to lead all front-end web efforts for Ancestry.com worldwide

This Juilliard-endorsed music school came to me with the need for software to manage the daily tasks of their campus management staff and private musical instructors. I provided the consulting, product development, user interface design, database schema design, and entire back-end and front-end development for their campus information system, Jaco, from the ground up. Project utilized: PHP 5 (MVC), SQL Server, IIS 6, JavaScript (Ajax), XHTML 1.0, and CSS 2.

JavaScript, PHP 3 - 5, MySQL, Photoshop.

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JavaScript, PHP 3 - 4, MySQL, Photoshop.