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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Responsible for setting overall technical vision, team leadership, and core engineering that helped Relevvant scale.- Designed and implemented a cross channel marketing orchestration platform that used targeted SMS and email to engage and collect data from users. - Built and managed small engineering team to define the architecture and design/implement common components necessary to productize new analytical applications at scale on the cloud.- Led and executed on a migration of MySQL to SAP HANA/Casandra to split analytic and data warehousing workloads as well as improve query time on complex queries by as much as 14x.- Launched and designed a highly scalable backend using Gearman for message queuing, which in many cases allowed us to easily saturate third party pipelines, and do background batch processing easily.- Defined and managed Proof Of Concept projects to demonstrate new use-cases for real time data analysis- Integrated the product with such third party platforms such as Facebook, ExactTarget, OpenMarket and more.- Acted in the role of dev ops for our AWS backed servers, defining standards to allow managed continuous deployment of a highly complex environment

Shenzhen, Guangdong, Cn

Designed and implemented a PHP framework to allow plug and play integration of flash based web games into Facebook. Work with all facets of the Facebook platform (FBML, XFBML, FBJS, REST API, JS SDK)Designed and developed an analytics suite, including the integration of Kontagent and additional core functionality internallyDeveloped an A/B testing interface of stream posts to allow easy analysis of stream effectivenessDesigned and lead development on a JSON flash interface to allow easy maintenance on Facebook integration to keep up with Facebook’s changing APIArchitected and maintained a database in MYSQL of user activities within social gameHelped the design and production teams understand the Facebook functionality and how it could be used to increase user engagement as well as any limitations it may imposeDid every single piece of Facebook API integration for all released social games, including Published User Actions, Invites, Notifications, Dashboards, etcDesigned and implemented a versioned release method using SVN to promote code from testing to live environments

Headed web development initiatives coding in JSP and JavaScript Managed the company’s Apache Tomcat web serversTransitioned user environment from green screen to more user friendly web based GUIsProfiled existing code to create specs for new web based programs and provided better documentation for usersPlanned, developed and implemented new analytical tools to improve user efficiencyRedesigned company database while maintaining functionality on existing programsDebugged and updated legacy code in RPGIV/ILE and CLUsed the Toyota Production System both as a method to guide my own work behavior and as a functional requirement for new programsWorked with a team of both English and Japanese speakers

Wood Dale, Il, Us

Member of a committee to improve the programming environment with a focus on security and standardizationAssisted internal users operating in-house systems often by searching through code to find the flows in questionWorked with end-users to define requirements for new programs and to improve older functionsDebugged and improved programs written in RPG/CL which were critical to the companies' global businessMade modifications to existing code to implement requirements for local business so that the code could be shared with global partnersPerformed version control maintenance to ensure code created or revised by our global partners could be safely integrated into our system Worked with a team of both English and Japanese speakers in a working environment modeled after the Japanese style