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Denver, Co, Us

Lakewood, Colorado, Us

Assumed responsibility for a sixty-person engineering team with extremely high attrition and lowsentiment survey scores. Reorganized the team to create more focused collaborative groups andpromoted several people into leadership roles. Reduced attrition to less than 1% and drove sentimentsurvey results to an all-time high.● Eliminated the practice of allowing proof of concept solutions to be driven into production as aresult of executive pressure● Empowered engineering leaders to drive all facets of architectural direction previously dictatedby founder● Initiated developer-focused surveys, standard cadence of engineering all hands, and establisheda strategy to enable cross-team collaboration to leverage standard approaches to problems● Strengthened Agile practices and daily stand-up process to augment responsibility andaccountability of all team members● Halted the development of new features to address tech debt and a large defect backlog, both ofwhich were derailing the team on a daily basis with emergencies and customer complaints● Opened a new development site in Poland, hired a team of strong engineers, got the office upand running, worked through numerous legal issues around employment and officemanagement.● Created a new architecture and development plan for a reimagined product, that expanded ourproduct line and technical capabilities on the latest technologies and the highest level ofsecurity. Built a team of contract help for hardware design, product security, and CMpartnership

Lakewood, Colorado, Us

Lakewood, Colorado, Us

Lakewood, Colorado, Us

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Lead development of Charter’s highest user base video product -drive process improvements,mentorship, and developer engagement.● Implemented quarterly goals for the organization aligning leadership’s corporate objectives withthe team’s focus● Quadrupled developer output through improved processes, clear expectations and betterengagement● Drove refactor into React for better testing/quality and performance

New York City, Ny, Us

Responsible for career growth, planning, goal setting, etc. for several teams within Bluprint’s engineering org. Focus on the growth of technical skills and simplifying processes to focus on smaller deliverables. * Implement agile scrum across the engineering org* Drove a lot of process improvements and changes to buy back more engineering time* Turn around apps performance (e.g. iOS app rating from 2.3 -> 4.4 in ~8 months)* Implemented bi-weekly coding challenges

Austin, Tx, Us

Brought back to help drive the next phase of physical access control technologies. Investigated alternatives and developed proof of concept solutions involving RFID, Machine Learning, C/C++, Google Cloud, Node.js, Python, etc.● Worked with embedded devices & machine learning for facial recognition and hybridizedauthentication● Investigated, chose and implemented an IoT protocol● Researched and developed and the proof of concept for an IoT gateway

New York, Ny, Us

Own the development, growth, and leadership for a new engineering team within a new pillar of thecompany strategy for creating wholesale and made to order products. Created front and middle of thehouse internal tools, and customer-facing e-commerce applications built entirely using modern,open-source technologies in cloud environments.● Grew a new team from 2 - 12 with a cultural focus on humility and simplicity that was able tocreate usable products with limited and unclear requirements on incredibly tight timelines● Organized, created and hosted an internal conference focused on increasing internalcollaboration and identifying low hanging fruit for improvement. Leadership from around thecompany as well as leaders from external companies to discuss challenges and find solutions tohelp the company scale● Delivered numerous greenfield products including external partner integrations, e-commercemodules seen by millions of customers and internal tools to improve business workflows.● Implemented change management processes to improve the speed of reorganizations

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

**Technical Scope: C#, WPF, Javascript, d3.js, Node.js, Underscore.js, AngularJS, REST, WebApi2, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Xamarin, MVVM, CSS, Mono, MEF, NUnit, xUnit, CodedUI, Express.js**Hold key responsibility for daily management of a team charged with the validation of $400 million in bare metal embedded, real-time OS, Windows desktop, mobile, and web-based products. Provide overall team vision and innovative solutions for company that is a trusted source for products, services, and solutions related to the creation, management, and use of secure identities for millions of customers around the world. Key Achievements:*Grew team from 6 to 12 engineers and developed new testing and development strategy vision to grow remote sites and increase cross-functional collaboration, a vision strategy that has been successfully utilized during the last 16 months.*Defined new team structure for enhanced output, improved overall productivity, and initiated and drove Agile methodologies with a variety of implementation projects.*Researched, identified, and implemented a system for tracking product testing electronically, a process that has increased documentation, transparency, and efficiency.*Added automation and tools to improve testing, timeliness and accuracy, increasing coverage while slashing testing on one key product from 12-15 weeks with 6 full-time engineers to 3-4 weeks with 3 full-time engineers.*Built a tool that utilized AgilePLM APIs to validate the structure and definition of a complex project, defining highly extensible architecture that allows validation across different products and rules, defining identifying problematic rulesareas, and reducing production errors.*Inspired cultural changes to improve morale, innovation, and customer focus.*Drove company development and contribution to open source.*Currently involved in building a software engineering team in India.

Austin, Tx, Us

**Technical Scope: C#, Python, C/C++, Caliburn.Micro, WPF, MVVM, MEF, NUnit, TDD**Promoted to Staff Engineer to work with corporate engineering teams around the world to improve development practices. Charged with developing architectures, frameworks, and white papers to drive the adoption of good engineering practices.Key Achievements:*Drove improvements in coding standards, continuous integration, code re-use, software architecture, automated testing, and test/behavior-driven development.*Developed an automated discovery mechanism to enabled distributed, automated testing for globally dispersed teams *Designed and built a tool chain solution for capturing clean objective data around a key product development metric for RFID, utilizing robotics and 3D printing, reducing a portion of the development cycletime from 6-7 months to 2-4 weeks, and sharing concept with teams around the world.

Austin, Tx, Us

Promoted to Senior Engineer in recognition of corporate achievements. Charged with embedded development of a high-value code base used in numerous products across the company.Key Achievements:*Conducted bare-metal embedded development.*Developed a low-level SPI driver.*Participated in project to implement and optimize CLR virtual machine.*Integrated ANSI378 biometric device.

Austin, Tx, Us

As part of secure embedded firmware team, continuously integrated and conducted automated testing for framework for embedded platform.Key Achievements:*Engineered distributed infrastructure and framework to manage numerous embedded device permutations used in automated testing.*Developed a new DTK software platform to help partners work with embedded products. *Developed manufacturing tools to increase speed and accuracy of device provisioning.*Introduced a documentation wiki, and created a continuous integration and automated test framework for working with embedded products, increasing development testing by 2,500%.*Dramatically reduced duplicated code, cleaned design, and grew overall code by 200%.

New Haven, Ct, Us

**Technical Scope: C#, MSSQL, WCF, SOAP, ASP.NET, jQuery, N-Tier**Served as technical lead for a 3-4 member team of developers, preparing module designs and guiding team members through implementation. Built enterprise-level solutions in .NET, closely integrated and built upon SharePoint platform. Architected and defined many of the now-standard patterns and practices for application teams for global leader in door opening solutions, locks, access control, and security solutions. Key Achievements:*Initiated standards document for UI/UX on product, completing preliminary design documentation, initiating using larger open source projects, and driving team toward consistent use of S.O.L.I.D. software design principles.*Customized corporate CRM software to integrate with other internal business applications.*Crafted a fully customized IoC Container with full dependency injection as part of enterprise initiative for test-driven development.*Utilized SQL Server Fulltext to implement full-text search for corporate data.

New Haven, Ct, Us

**Technical Scope: C#, VB.NET, MSSQL, ASP.NET, N-Tier, JavaScript, jQuery**Created a Master Data management system and custom CRM.Key Achievements:*Initiated and wrote documentation wiki for each product.*Implemented automated testing, unit test framework, mocks framework, and dependency injection framework to improve development practices.*Developed master customer data application that included numerous ERP/mainframe systems, detailed database design, and optimization in SQL Server.*Built common business functions as SharePoint web parts that could be deployed independently or in conjunction with other web parts or controls.*Created tiered application development with a focus on integration and reusability.*Designed and built common libraries of UI functions and corporate information that was being inconsistently reported across numerous applications.

**Technical Scope: ColdFusion, MSSQL, C#, JavaScript**Held key responsibility for UX/UI design and graphic design for products and advertising. Managed customer support and sales duties for CRM designed for automobile dealers.Key Achievement:*Developed in-house JavaScript library for extensive DOM manipulation.