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Loveland, Co, Us

Hanover, Md, Us

Cedar Falls, Iowa, Us

Cedar Falls, Iowa, Us

Manager of Software Engineering with almost 30 direct reports for a Series-B start-up company in the FinTech (financial technology) industry. Teams’ areas of focus around Auth/AuthN system security, Fraud Monitoring system integrations, Front-end development, SDKs, Payment Ledgering system, and Card Acquiring and Issuing.

Fort Collins, Co, Us

Technical Lead Manager / Senior Software Engineer for a leader company in the FinTech (financial technology) industry utilizing Java, SpringBoot, GraphQL, React, C#/.Net, and Preact technologies.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Ca

Senior Software Engineer / Full Stack Engineer / Release Manager working on three areas of functionality of a flagship web application for a $34 billion company (as of January 2018):· Release Managero Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and qualityo Measure and monitor progress to ensure timely resolution of any issues along the release pipeline.o Communicate progress status and details to the Business as needed.o Triage and solve issues, and/or coordinate with teams for timely resolution of any issues that arise.· Tech Leado Tech Lead on each squad I have been involved.o Bridge the gap between my squad and other teams.o Bridging communication between stakeholders and the team.o Advocate for change where change may be needed.o Insure the team adheres to technical vision of the organization.o Heavily involved in the definition and design of the digital organization architecture.o Security Champion to help drive the team to reduce the chance of security holes.o Participate in security threat modeling.· React Frontend developmento Started on a team that had two of us working the frontend development in React.o Shortly later was the sole frontend developer for the team with the same development velocity requirements and completion as when we had two.o Cross training others to teach and mentor them in React to allow for greater coverage of frontend development.o Helped lead larger frontend chapter in setting chapter standards and best practices.o Lead the effort to build a common component library to help reduce rework across the frontend chapter development.· NodeJS developmento Design and develop application API endpoints that the frontend client utilizes for obtaining the data that it needs to function as well as business rule functionality.· Ruby/Rails developmento Core layer system that provides database connectivity.

Loveland, Us

Proprietor and chief engineer for a software consulting company specializing in US cable standards (OpenCable – OCAP – ETV/EBIF, DOCSIS, SCTE standards, ATSC standards, etc) and general embedded system design and engineering, clientele include Settop Box manufacturers, television manufacturers, firmware vendors, DVR plugin vendors, OCAP and native based application vendors, MSOs, and general cable industry knowledge. Also specialize in SOA design and architectures (SOAP, REST, WSDL, XML).Wild Coyote Design, LLC. also specializes in Audio and Visual services including film/video production/post production, audio recording engineering, A/V systems design and website design including Web Services (Ajax, HTML5, jQuery, SOAP, RESTful).Mobile development on iOS and AndroidHighlighted projects:• Designed and developed a theatrical, multimedia, control system, originally written in Java (to allow for multi-platform support), utilizing Quicktime APIs, and then ported to iOS platform (both Mac platform and iPad/iPhone platforms). The system allows for a large scale multi-media production from a small to mid-sized theatrical budget.• Solution Architect on a sales opportunity tracking system for a Fortune 500 company, designed and developed a J2EE application, hosted on a WebLogic 10g server, Single Sign On (SSO) with OpenAM and existing LDAP system, and JDBC to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. Designed both the front end GUI (JSP pages, Ajax, jQuery), and backend systems (including table ERD design and implementation). The project solidified varying sales methodologies and tools from the company’s Global Regions and sales offices into one single Global Opportunity Tracking System, increasing sales representative’s productivity and opportunity capture rate, and reducing opportunity lead identification to sale win time.• Designed and developed a CDL2.0 system for a OCAP STB stack vendor. The CDL2.0 portion of the stack was certified by CableLabs with zero exceptions.

Arlington, Va, Us

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Principal Engineer working on OCAP RI stack ports for STB vendors, develop a web services interface for communication between a STB and an iPad device, system design and system architect of the end to end OCAP system for a Canadian MSO using off the shelf products and a proprietary Guide, consultant to a STB vendor that is now moving into the cable industry (previously only in the satellite industry) to explain the DOCSIS, DVB, GEM, OpenCable, and SCTE specifications, contribute to EnableTV’s business development, and act as project manager for two key clients. Highlighted projects:• Developed a SOA application utilizing Groovy/Grails (for quick scaffolding development of Oracle Database and general app configurations), AMQP interapplication messaging using Spring Integration (first with RabbitMQ, then JMS based with SonicMQ, design required to be able handle any messaging broker), SOAP1.2 endpoints using SpringWS for consuming SAFI1.1 payloads, Spring Security for integration with Crowd SSO (Single Sign On), and HTML5 and jQuery componets for UI development.• Project to enable a iPad device to communicate and control a cable EBIF enabled STB via a common Web Services backoffice. I designed the end to end architecture, developed the web services interface (WSDL/SOAP on Axis2/Tomcat, interface in a J2EE platform), and developed the STB EBIF application.• Developed a OCAP based VOD application. Main tasks included: Java subject matter expert (SME), OCAP/cable SME, and application architecture (with emphasis on application performance).

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Principal Engineer (Subject Matter Expert) in the Product Engineering group of the National Engineering and Technical Operations division of Comcast, responsibilities include: design and review of Comcast product requirements, identify gaps in system design, scalibity, and requirement traceablity, participate in system architecture design, work closely with vendors to verify developed products meet system design and architecture requirements, lead projects from requirements all the way to deployment, primary point of contact for each of the projects I lead, and fill in as project manager for the projects I lead when the PM was out of town or unavailable. Highlighted projects:• Lead TiVo in their development and deployment of their TiVo Guide Experience in the Comcast network. Included in this work was reviewing the application design and updating the end to end architecture with performace, and scalibity in mind. The underlining goal of my work was to increase customer satisfaction

London, Gb

Strategy & Technology is a UK based company in the field of digital interactive TV, focused on the provision of technology solutions using public standards. S&T is involved in the deployment of digital interactive TV around the world and provides technology solutions for the following the MHP and MHEG markets in Europe and the OCAP and ACAP markets in North America.

Us

Architected, designed and developed applications and low level systems (embedded applications, drivers, network interfaces, etc) on digital cable embedded systems using C and C++ as the primary programming languages and GNU tools (GCC, MAKE, GDB, etc) on Linux for cross compilation, research and develop for new hardware systems, design and develop new file formats and imaging software (two patents are currently pending), interfaced applications with databases (Oracle, MySQL), design and develop applications for Linux, Solaris, Macintosh, and Windows systems using C, C++, and Java (for OCAP) as the primary programming languages.This position began as an employee of Prasara in Altamonte Springs, FL.

This job continued as an employee of Scientific Atlanta when I was moved to the Lawrenceville, GA office of Scientific Atlanta.Architected, designed and developed applications and low level systems (embedded applications, drivers, network interfaces, etc) on digital cable embedded systems using C and C++ as the primary programming languages and GNU tools (GCC, MAKE, GDB, etc) on Linux for cross compilation, research and develop for new hardware systems, design and develop new file formats and imaging software (two patents are currently pending), interfaced applications with databases (Oracle, MySQL), design and develop applications for Linux, Solaris, Macintosh, and Windows systems using C, C++, and Java (for OCAP) as the primary programming languages.

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