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Fort Myers, FL, US

San Francisco, CA, US

• IDS is an embedded engineering company that designs, develops and manufactures a wide range of electronic components for recreational vehicles. Principal responsibilities include:
• Developing and maintaining core engineering software libraries, protocols, tools, and associated architectural standards used by the embedded and mobile product development teams.
• Promote and evangelize software best practices and design methodologies in an agile environment – provide leadership, guidance, and mentoring to other engineers company wide.
• Work with business managers to set long term technology roadmap for products company wide
• Create development engineering software tools related to company products and protocols (CAN and TCP/IP network analyzers, bus loggers, boot loaders, applications engineering tools, simulators, diagnostic tools.
• Provided leadership on an IoT initiative for remote access/control of IDS's RV electronic components across cellular (OnStar-like capabilities). Infrastructure spanned various cloud tiers including Azure, Salesforce.

Waltham, MA, US

Developing application performance monitoring tools for iOS applications. Utilizing an agent, known as the Dynatrace Mobile ADK, which I previously architected and developed. This agent auto injects into iOS Applications, requiring no coding changes on behalf of the application for implementation, and instruments application activity by producing metrics.

Detroit, MI, US

Designed and developed a complete product infrastructure for capturing application performance analytics for Windows 8.0/8.1 Mobile, Tablet, Metro and desktop applications. Product integrates with Visual Studio 12/13 via NuGet package add-in. When enabled by VS menu attribute selection, analytics are instrumented in automatically as a post-build step..

Detroit, MI, US

Based on prior research efforts, designed and developed a robust record/playback product for iOS native and web-based applications, used for synthetic monitoring. All touch, swipe gestures and baseline performance metrics are recorded and saved within a script. Works on either real devices or against the iOS Simulator. Runtime hooks attach a script manager.

Detroit, MI, US

Assisted Compuware’s Professional Services organization in a.NET architectural review of a prospective client in the Dental marketplace. Client was on the precipice of a total system rewrite of their dental software. It was Compuware’s intention of gaining a services engagement with the client who at the time was the largest supplier of dental equipment.

Detroit, MI, US

To accommodate multiple mobility products maturing into product suites, a common architecture was designed for both iOS and Android. Principal design priorities were to provide unified frameworks for common functionality while promoting complimentary product/suite features, and preventing duplication of code and development efforts. Common functionality.

Detroit, MI, US

Researched iOS internals and developed several working prototypes for product management in the hopes of stimulating new product ideas. Resulting prototypes for iOS applications include: detailed performance trace and analysis; code coverage; memory utilization; script record and playback; and application view/page lifecycle tracing.Key technology.

Detroit, MI, US

Promoted to an elite technical group of highly esteemed software engineers known internally as the “Eagles”, reporting directly to Compuware’s Chief Technical Officer. Our responsibilities were to oversee all technical, development and product initiatives within the Products division. Given free rein to be involved wherever we saw fit, while achieving a.

Detroit, MI, US

Designed and developed the base infrastructure for capturing and transmitting real device metrics and custom user metrics within iOS applications to backend monitoring servers. Originally designed to transmit captured data to Gomez, the product was later changed to feed DynaTrace Pure-Path technology for analysis and reporting.As part of the implementing.

Detroit, MI, US

Along with a fellow technical consultant, developed an iOS prototype for a Chevy Cruise marketing/vehicle ordering app for Compuware’s Professional Services division. This prototype provided technical credibility of Compuware’s competency which helped sealed a deal for a large contractual agreement with GM for developing many of their mobile applications..

Detroit, MI, US

Participated in a CTO led initiative to develop a mobile strategy for the entire corporation (Products and Professional Services). Along with other Technical Consultants reporting directly to the CTO, researched and strategized on product and services positioning. Specific area of personal focus was on the Apple iPhone technology.

Detroit, MI, US

Gomez Portal for Vantage First MileAlong with a small team, researched Gomez Portal Network for gathering mobile related data for inclusion into the Vantage product line reporting First Mile metrics. Subsequently, programmed the necessary interfaces and modules for reporting on the Gomez web portal.

Detroit, MI, US

• Multiple involvement in various product groups:
• Transferred senior developer and architect responsibilities through mentorship for the Vantage Analyzer for.NET product
• Provided leadership and review of the design for the next generation architecture of the Changepoint (IT Governance) product line
• Architected and lead a development team implementing Changepoint/BizTalk ESB bridge
• Mentored a senior architect in the implementation of Microsoft Exchange web services interface with Changepoint
• Provided developer training on the internal workings of Dev Partner Studio’s Analysis product and.NET profiling

Detroit, MI, US

Acted as a key member of the DevPartnerStudio transition project from Merrimack NH to Detroit. A key player to both current DPS 8.x customer maintenance as well as DPS 9.0 project development, specifically in VS 2008/.NET framework Analysis technology. Specialist in the DPS profiler core, central to both Memory Analysis and Performance Analysis.

Detroit, MI, US

Along with another architect, developed and productized the.NET agent for Vantage Analyzer (VA), a performance monitoring tool for enterprise applications. Implemented using.NET’s profiling infrastructure, applications are dynamically instrumented as part of the JIT compilation process where metrics are collected and transmitted to VA’s data collections.

Detroit, MI, US

• Other roles and accomplishments:
• Optimal J for.NET – a research and development project to provide a.NET extension to the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) of Compuware’s Optimal J product. From a web-based MDA model, the extension provided generation.
• Optimal View – led a team in designing a fourth generational business integration web portal for accessing Compuware’s suite of products. Although never fully developed, key design concepts were incorporated within.
• QACenter Planning Manager – provided strategic and tactical planning for Compuware’s quality assurance tool suite: QARun/TestPartner; QALoad and QADirector.
• QARun Development Manager – managed over twenty developers on a test automation tool for Windows.
• Corporate Planner – team leader for providing strategic research products in the area of Wireless Technology.

IMS/DB2 DBA specialist supporting the design and development of a common manufacturing system for Ford Motor Company. At the time was the largest DB2 implementation in the world and was directly responsible for over one third of the functional assets including performance optimization leading into world-wide production launch.

IMS/DB2 DBA performance specialist.

Chicago, Illinois, US

IMS/DC performance specialist responsible for overall optimization of their corporate and stores transactional system.

Houston, TX, US

Manager of Database Administration and System Programming where primary function was to control design, maintenance, recoverability, and performance of data structures in an IMS and DB2 environment for OXY’s North Sea oil and gas operations. Also responsible for data collection of IMS performance usage used in departmental computer change back utilizing.

Houston, TX, US

Senior DBA responsible for corporate IMS systems supporting logical and physical design. Excelled at and became a specialist for complex performance optimizations and problem resolutions.

Minneapolis, MN, US

DBA for General Motors Buick Division. Duties involved all IMS DB/DC development and maintenance activities for several projects.

IMS DB/DC Technical Support Analyst for a new Membership and Billing system at BCBS of Michigan. Responsible for assisting programmers with IMS technical expertise and problem resolution. Did statistical analysis for IMS system performance and tuning.

Minneapolis, MN, US

Programmer Analyst for a warehouse expansion project at Detroit Diesel Allison. Wrote several IMS and BMP type programs.

Programmer Analyst on a Demand Deposit Accounting system for Chemical Bank.

Computer Programming

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