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Generation Tux is an online tuxedo and suit rental platform founded by menswear legend, George Zimmer. George created the company in 2014 to provide high-quality tuxedo and suit rentals, competitively priced, and in the most convenient way possible -- shipped directly to your door. Generation Tux operates via a custom reverse logistics inventory management system, combining multi-stage IoT/RFID, AI-driven fit algorithms, robotics, and highly scalable cloud-based SaaS services. Generation Tux is a growth-stage Series C startup, and we need your help taking our growth to the next level!

San Francisco, California, Us

Engineering leader for all software + IoT for a customer and employee experience company that spans digital signage, employee mobile apps, employee metrics with points and rewards, AI-enabled cameras, and lift+learn retail technology Shipped 50+ features/year for 3.5 years, leading to massive sustained growth (>300%) as the company moved from seed round to Series CLed technical due diligence on three acquisitions (Hoopla, Sightcorp, Perch)Led integration efforts of those teams into key product lines, including AI facial analysis triggered contentMoved two full product lines from Chargebee+Recurly to Salesforce CPQAchieved four-nines uptime across thousands of customersGrew team from one to thirty engineers spanning six countriesKey leader for SOC2 implementation, GDPR compliance, and SSO supportRaydiant has the highest G2Crowd reviews among competitors and is the most highly funded startup in the signage space

San Francisco, California, Us

Engineering leader for an IoT connected kitchen company. Highly optimized digital marketing leveraging Google Adwords, Facebook, Amazon for Business, Google Adwords all tied together with Segment+AmplitudeDelivered Android and iOS mobile apps as well as core website and community featuresShipped 24 features/year across mobile and web appsImproved WiFi connectivity rates from 50% to 82% systemwideBuilt and delivered the new low-cost Nano and high-end Precision Cooker Pro Sous Vide devicesInitiated the Anova Oven project

San Jose, California, Us

Engineering leader for Enterprise Security’s Common Cloud platform, a globally-scaled platform of UI and backend services for Symantec’s enterprise cloud products; 50+ engineers across EU, India, USShipped Common Cloud platform used by all Symantec Enterprise business products ($3B annual) on OpenStackLed transition from OpenStack to AWS, spanning a $30m AWS spendIntegrated 57 services in IT including ERP into Zuora, and led testing and deployment globally, allowing monthly recurring billing service for any Enterprise product with only 10 lines of codeLed identity management teams for global SSO, oAUth2, OpenID and token management running on a fleet of 1000+ Docker instances on KubernetesPartnered with private equity (SilverLake Partners, Bain) to restructure division, cutting costs by 75%Integrated and shipped SEPC, RiskInsight, CWP, CyberInsurance, SEP 14.1 on the cloud platformProducts using Common Cloud achieved topline growth of 40%

Austin, Texas, Us

Engineering leader for Sites Cloud Service, Process Cloud Service, WebCenter Portal, WebCenter Interactive, Oracle Reports and several other products; 110+ engineers across EU, India, USUpgraded teams by replacing underperforming members and moving to AgileDelivered first Oracle cloud products to market, stabilizing Nimbula, Oracle’s OpenStack offeringRearchitected and redesigned WebCenter Portal, taking page load time from 12 seconds to 500msTrained over 5000 engineers in Agile and moved all of Fusion Middleware to two-week sprintsDelivered over twenty key products as part of the key 12c releaseDrove overall revenue across product lines to $340m annually

Engineering leader for advertising servers, fraud, and QA teams for web and mobile for SAY Media, an international media company that builds ads, delivers them to 150+ websites they own, and syndicates across 20k othersDelivered major overhaul to ad servers, scaling to 650 million unique users per dayAchieved <3% error rates on 25-point ad tracking “beacons” to track and bill for ad servingLed delivery of automated ad campaign optimization system, leveraging flight and reach with targetsEnhanced ad beacon delivery into Hadoop and cut processing time by 50%Directly integrated new ad systems into ReadWriteWeb, Gear Patrol, Fashionista, XOJane, and TypepadDelivered $50m in annual ad revenue

Seattle, Wa, Us

Engineering leader for Amazon Digital Music store and Amazon Music Player on Kindle FireTV 1.0, Sonos. Roku and PS3Delivered highly performant HTML5 music player with 500ms pageload time across four platformsExpanded Amazon Digital Music from one to five countries, integrating into separate payments systems and ERP, including end to end automated fulfillment for MP3 filesMigrated Amazon Digital Music to new digital ordering pipelineEnsured all Kindle devices functioned smoothly through Christmas Day (first-time launch)Sustained four-nines uptime for 100m unique users while delivering five major releases

San Francisco, California, Us

Engineering leader for Restaurant Device software for Windows and iOS, high-performance reservation caching system, and large group reporting and management serviceDelivered major releases for the ERB (7.0, 8.0, 9.0) as well as building first iOS appScaled up from 5,000 to 25,000 restaurantsPatented FlexMode technology in Version 9, which increased revenue by 40% overnightDelivered PCI compliance and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance as key elements of IPOExpanded from one to ten countries, leading integration with TopTable acquisition in EU

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