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* Worked with the team to create a positive culture that drives excellence. * Drove architecture for refactor of 6 year old code base into a SAAS product adding data warehousing, and modernizing the tech stack. * Upskilled engineers to improve morale and technical acumen. * Built and maintained relationships with peers and stakeholders across the organization in Product, CS, QA, IT, and DevOps. * Created processes as needed. * Led and evolved agile ceremonies cross training the team to remove bottlenecks.

* Working both with the team to implement and create best practices and with company leadership to define and execute the engineering department’s strategy in support of company OKRs.* Handled manpower turnover and hiring across teams based on needs and budget.* Worked with stakeholders across the company to define roles and contracts between departments, implemented training, and encouraged team ownership.* Developed best practices and strategies for team growth and how to communicate team successes to the broader company audience.* Helped establish and grow a culture of teamwork, ownership, and quality.* Worked with team members to define individual career growth plans that supported both their career needs as well as companies needs.

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* Managing multiple teams of over 22 engineers as part of a globally based group delivering prescriptions and medical services directly to users online.* Building and organizing teams around business needs.* Improving processes to meet development and business needs in a rapidly growing organization.* Supporting and organizing responses to customer incidents* Review code and work with technical teams in a Reactjs/Node stack.* Establish OKRs and take an active part in the growth of engineers to help them identify and reach their goals

* Responsible for timely deliverables, process, hiring, retention, and morale.* Devised and promoted organizational engineering standards for web/hybrid mobile development across more than 12 teams to streamline cross-team engineer exchange and enable cross-client feature transfer.* Lead engineering re-platforming initiative to modernize development frameworks from legacy AngularJS (with Ionic) to modern React (with NextJS for web) and ReactNative (for Mobile), including custom framework features specifically designed to support client and business needs.* Collaborate closely with teams and stakeholders; creative UI/UX, CyberSecurity, program management and product leadership in development of new comprehensive API standards in effort to productize and normalize back-end system access.* Collaborated with executive leadership to define vision for overall engineering, hiring and business strategies.* Built front-end engineering team identity and hosted weekly engineer training to increase retention.* Drove CI/CD initiatives that reduced cost and developer time, while delivering vital business information to product and program management.* Collaborated closely with executive stakeholders to transform high level organizational direction into concrete implementations, and lower level tactical engineering strategies.* Directly involved in pre-sale and ongoing client communications in support of existing business and new project development. Providing ideation on feature creation/level of effort and resource planning/costing.* Escalation handling of P1 system outages with critical resource identification and cross team coordination.* Built out multiple offshore teams to support global business needs.

* Managed multiple teams of over 30 highly skilled and passionate engineers delivering products to customers over web, mobile and in house Kiosks supporting dozens of customers over 20 million end users.* Established strong working relationships with other teams to improve communication and process allowing for more reliable product releases.* Fostered innovation in process and product solutions in the Front End deliverables.* Served as lead technical architect promoting training and technical decision making.* Lead evaluation of build versus buy decisions as well as evaluation of partner organizations providing contractors.* Worked to continually improve quality and speed to market across multiple delivery channels.

Senior engineer setting team wide development standards, supporting and coaching team leaders, establish hiring processes, delivering products for high profile projects.

* Working directly with SAIC’s customer, the La Jolla Institute of Immunology, redesigned and implemented a re-imagined version of their globally used product Immune Epitope Database (www.iedb.org). * The database, a collection of 40 years of complex data from scientific papers, is delivered in a scientifically relevant manner using common practices in user interface design. * Took a legacy java program supporting an 11 year old website and separated its components isolating technical concerns and creating an easily maintainable environment for the sustaining engineers to work with. * Used Python, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, jQuery, D3, CSS, HTML5 to create a cohesive application while supporting full operation of the legacy system. Lead requirements gathering, implemented all client side coding, integrated feedback from user interface and graphic designers. * Assisted with server side coding, and improvements to data structures and access layers. * Lead meetings, managed customer expectations and worked to establish good estimation techniques.

* Worked as a member of a high performing team on the edge of emerging web technologies. * I helped create web applications built entirely in Javascript with JQuery, CSS3, and made use of the new HTML5 APIs (websockets, svg, canvas, video, contenteditable, draggable).* I used PHP inside of the Zend Framework on several projects to serve content (modules, controllers, models, mappers, utilities, helpers, etc ). * I used PHP outside of the framework and Java to build OS level services.* I worked with web storage (chrome client side sqllite) and cookies to manage user information and experience. * Using CSS3 I created custom web elements reminiscent of standard elements but pixel perfect to the specification of the design team. I used data from social networking APIs (Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr) to give a unified multimedia experience to end users. * I designed a distributed network architecture (typical SOA) to support multiple language service programs and allow for easy access and use by Sony's many web development teams. I* also proposed and led the javascript object model for the current multimedia application.*Working with other units within the company merged applications with other teams for back end storage as well as front end user experiences.

n my role at Meteor I worked hands on as the owner of their client side Javascript solution. I handled all features and bug fixes, customer integrations, as well as being the engineer responsible for trouble shooting issues with browser compatibility, other APIs (such as jquery, prototype, and , etc ) and third party tools (such as Google Analytics, Webtrends, in house tracking, etc ). I was also responsible for prototype and research working on items such as Facebook, AS3 (Flash), embedding in Wordpress, etc I took on the role of quality control implementing several open source tools (jslint, rhino, etc ) to validate and regression test all features and tools ensuring an increase in stability and decrease in introduced issues. I worked with our sales teams and often directly with the customers which ranged from larger companies such as Microsoft and AT&T to smaller agencies and contracted engineers. I also worked on the user interface in PHP (with a customized version of codeignitor and non-cms) and then in Python (Django) to display data derived from Postgres and Couch databases in a manner that the sales team could use to 'tell their story' occasionally crafting custom queries to find data that supported our customers positions.

Began this contract by creating a custom PHP forum system that enabled children chats to be monitored and edited. The technology was a Flash based children's game that integrated with the PHP driven site. The sites data came from a MySQL database. I integrated flash components as they were created by external vendors that I managed. The site was originally hosted on GoDaddy and I researched, negotiated, and then ported the site to a remote hosting service. In the process added logging and monitoring facilities, code versioning (Subversion), and created custom reporting tools for the company's owners. Contract was ended early, so the rest of the enhancements were laid out in an actionable product plan.

In this role I worked as the Product Owner with Agile development teams who were using .Net technology to build web tools for various customers. I worked with clients to understand their technical needs gather their requirements. I then worked with the Project Manager who handled time lines and scheduling to determine time-lines. Finally I worked with the development teams to make products that the customer wanted. I handled in house and customer site acceptance testing, delivered goods, and negotiated features.Keywords: Requirements gathering, Product Owner, Agile, Project management.

In this role I was on a team of analysts that were responsible for working with end users in a vast company wide upgrade of their internal systems from the original smalltalk to a new Java based system. My specific area was in the core system design where I worked with and supported the companies technical architects. I volunteered to lead small analyst teams to handle specific problem areas. Working with thirty year industry veterans taught me one of the most important lessons in software architecture; there is more than one right way to do things its a matter of which side effects you are best prepared to handle.

In this role I worked on the server side technology behind a system that delivered audio content (Podcasts) to mobile devices. I came in originally to port the Python infrastructure to Ruby, but after working with the language for several months found Ruby to be to immature of a language to support what we needed to do. In the process I was able to submit improvements to the signalling libraries of the language itself. My responsibility was to build a CORBA based Python system which searched the Internet for content, downloaded said files, organized, converted, and prepared them for streaming playback on customer devices. I used a multithreaded self balancing network model that allowed additional instances to be launched across hardware to 'catch up' should the need arise or if there was an issue. Built in monitoring and reporting was available as well. This was done across Linux machines using Mysql databases. We used CVS as our repository and a customized version of bugzilla for issue tracking.

On contract I worked on the testing infrastructure. I used C and Python to create a test harness, wrote test cases, prepared documentation and generated a PHP reporting mechanism. I ran tests, interviewed, recommended for hire, trained and was the lead for the Quality Assurance team.

I began this position as a Software Quality technician running basic tests on hardware. I had various responsibilities with different teams. From developing tests, I developed several product lines including a graphic monitoring tool in Python, command line installation tools, and a Solaris system recovery system. I worked with larger teams on the companies flagship software product, a network disk replication tool. In my love of problem solving I was always chosen to work on particularly pernicious issues that were difficult to replicate and solve. I worked on self installing Linux installations, wrote and altered kernel drivers, and did direct hardware access routines in C/C++. I also built the companies web based procurement system and a barcode scanning system for inter-department tracking of work orders.

Various jobs in various places

Travelled the world, saw exotic new places, met exotic people.