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Santa Clara, CA, US

• Collaborated with multiple ML project teams to identify common MLOps requirements and gaps in the current infrastructure and tooling.
• Developed generalized approaches to MLOps platform design.
• Architected a general approach to data definition and management. Validated the approach across multiple product teams. Led a small team to develop the first production version.
• Helped define engineering approaches to improving collaboration between front-end and back-end development teams.

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Contributed to design and implementation of ground-truth pipeline and front-end tools.
• Identified user requirements, architected, and implemented multiple MLOps pipeline components including dataset management, manual curation tooling, and data operations services.
• Helped scale development efforts by mentoring and training engineers to work with MLOps component code bases.
• Synthesized overarching data pipeline approach across multiple Autonomous Vehicle product and infrastructure teams.

San Francisco, California, US

• Technical design and implementation of data collection and analytics application.
• Analyze existing codebase, propose and lead refactoring and performance improvement efforts.
• Gather requirements, design, and build internal data management and manipulation tools for customer support and consulting teams.

South San Francisco, California, US

• Set and implement company-wide software technical direction.
• Architect and develop multi-tenant, scalable web application for collecting, aggregating and IoT reporting energy usage data and for implementing and evaluating energy management strategies.
• Implement a wide variety of features including SaaS subscriptions, interactive data visualization and exploration using d3.js, time series data collection and analysis algorithms, and high-capacity RESTful data APIs.
• Participate in strategic planning, product design, product development, and human resource and schedule planning.

Honolulu, HI, US

• Architected and led the development of an enterprise-scale, multi-tier application for delivering financial analytics to the desktop at a global investment company.
• Architected and developed modular server architecture for providing optimized RPC-style calls over HTTP+XML to Unix-based, financial analytics libraries.
• Architected and led the development of extensible, optimized WCF-based service for deriving financial analytics from real-time market data and aggregating into deliverable data packages.
• Architected and contributed to WPF-based desktop client platform to support modular, parallel development in a geographically distributed team.
• Developed prototypes for real-time market portfolio management and evaluation along with tools for exploring ‘what-if’ scenarios.
• Developed prototype of automated sentiment analysis tool for real-time social media intelligence.

Honolulu, HI, US

• Conceived and produced high-level system architecture for control software around experimental daytime camera and satellite recognition algorithms to be deployed on Mauna Kea telescope.
• Developed prototypes for rendering geo-coded FLASH (http://www.oceanit.com/oceanit/flash-hostile-fire-detection-system.html) sensor data within NASA's java-based World Wind visualization SDK.
• Developed Unix-based graphical interface using the Tk GUI framework for assembling and debugging data paths in a modular digital signal processing system.
• Contributed to presentation software for large-scale threat mitigation analysis for AMTRAK. Helped drive project finalization and delivery.
• Led and contributed to multiple Department of Defense grant proposals.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Orchestrated re-design and implementation of content-creation tool suite.
• Developed overall system design including integrated user experience, tool-side data architecture, tool/runtime integration, and interactive editing and debugging protocols.
• Oversaw multi-disciplinary design teams engaged in Scenario-Based Design methodology. Communicated and integrated ideas across teams.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Primary designer and implementor for world builder incorporating 3-D environment art manipulation tools, 2-D logic editing view, table-based logic entity editor, and 2-D logic component editor.
• Significant contributions to asset system, asset browsing and searching, and prefab system. Bug fixes and extensions to terrain painting sub-system and live-edit connection to running engine.
• Design and develop core features and extensions for asset processing, dynamic asset generation, and statistics gathering tools.
• Provide support and training for tools throughout the company. Identify and respond to users' problems. Manage weekly releases of tools updates.
• Gather requirements and feature requests. Design user-interface and gather usability information. Schedule the development and roll out of new tools and tool upgrades.
• Mentor and supervise a junior developer with regards to schedule estimation and tracking, feature design, and working with the user base.

Sydney, NSW, AU

• Participated in test-driven, agile development process.
• Developed and maintained Web 2.0 wiki plug-ins with Java and JavaScript using multiple open source tools and libraries (e.g., jQuery, Maven, and Velocity).

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Led design and implementation of an application framework/SDK for lightweight collaboration tools using Java, Hibernate, and MySQL in conjunction with Adobe Flex, ActionScript 3, and LiveCycle Data Services.
• Designed information architecture for web application for the US Department of Education. Built XML-based data management and translation tools for Fedora assets.
• Contribute to ongoing planning for multiple research and development projects.

Omaha, NE, US

• Developed new algorithms and system designs for interactive visualization of Digital Nautical Maps using Java and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform with OpenMap and elements of the Spring framework.
• Collaborated on grant proposals, conference papers, and customer technology briefings.

• Business Education Department Chair, System-Wide Articulation committee chair, Curriculum Process Revision committee.
• Authored curriculum for new Game Programming courses. Wrote introductory Java programming textbook A First Sip of Java (unpublished).
• Developed and delivered instruction in computer literacy, programming, computer science, software engineering, and project management.

Seattle, WA, US

• Directed the design and implementation of an internal SDK for a new generation of RealNetworks consumer products.
• Directed enhancements to the RealPlayer product line, including performance improvements and feature extensions culminating in the release of RealPlayer 7.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Contributed to prototypes of 3-D shooter (Half-Life). Presented prototypes and provided technical explanation to potential publishers. Helped secure funding.
• Extended the Quake game engine to include independently controlled third person camera. Added a 16-bit color model and a 24-bit, colored lighting model to the pre-glQuake rendering engine.

US

• Developed massively multiplayer online game client software (Castle Infinity)
• Designed and implemented highly interactive, distributed game system. Conceived and implemented distributed object model optimized for high-latency, low-bandwidth network.
• Designed and implemented a hierarchical resource management system for multimedia software. Developed CD-ROM layout optimization techniques and tools.

US

• Implemented low-level memory and resource management systems as well as high-level, polymorphic abstractions in C for flight simulators.
• Implemented artist and developer tools for world design, CD-ROM data management, and video compression. Provided technical support.

Phd, Information And Computer Science

Master’S Degree, Information And Computer Sciences

B.S., Computer Science