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Sunnyvale, CA, US

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• AisleFire is an information and marketing services company that leverages location-sensing and IoT technologies to enable new operations, marketing and insights solutions for brick & mortar retailers and their CPG.
• Drove the effort to convert prototype and pilot-focused projects into market-ready solutions.
• Led mobile team in major architectural revisions to enhance stability, reliability, and reusability of internal frameworks. The effort included updates to data models, transport layer, and isolation of sensor data.
• Led cloud team in the transition from single-application monolith to scalable microservices platform utilizing Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, RabbitMQ and Kafka messaging services, and deployed on a Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
• Grew team from 4 to 8 FTE positions – including both internal and external resources.
• Worked closely with data science team to enhance data pipeline, location engine, and machine learning efforts.

• Primary responsibility for the design, architecture, and implementation of AisleFire’s web services and API platform, as well as reporting and analytics. Written in Spring Boot, backed by MySQL, and secured with OpenID.
• Owned data architecture and database design throughout the organization.
• Responsible for infrastructure design. Evaluated and managed relationships with cloud service providers, multiple contractors, internal specifications and requirements, and implementation on Rackspace cloud.
• Managed back-end, reporting, and analytics teams, including internal and external resources.
• Key contributor in design, research, and development of first generation proprietary mapping and location services algorithms, utilizing mobile phone sensors and Bluetooth (BLE) iBeacon technologies.
• Worked closely with hardware engineers to build custom Arduino-based hardware and firmware.

Deerfield, IL, US

• Hired as the first full-time employee to bring technical expertise and software development skills to an infant-stage startup. Designed, developed, and maintained solutions spanning from several successful pilot.
• Quickly went from having no previous cloud experience to being the internal AWS expert.
• Designed the initial system architecture.
• Led the effort to port the existing code base to the new platform.Responsible for architecture and development of DemandView Engine (DVE) – an internal C# service that marshals the execution of daily processing tasks.
• Responsible for initial design, as well as several substantial improvements.
• Designed an enhancement to allow run-time parameter specification for tasks, greatly improving system flexibility. Oversaw development and testing by an offshore team.

Deerfield, IL, US

Designed earliest prototype task management engine, supported development of the core analytic engine, worked with customers to receive daily data feeds in various formats (CSV, XLS, EDI), and supported successful pilot initiatives.Built a number of customized data transformation utilities to translate customer-supplied data files into internal.

Vastera provides software and services to streamline international shipping and trade processes. Hired as a technical consultant to aid in implementing custom solutions at partners. Primarily worked with UPS Supply Chain Solutions as an on-site consultant and technical liaison to Vastera engineers.

DLS Systems produces resource management systems, primarily for the airline industry. Coordinated and implemented a network infrastructure upgrade for the Colorado State Youth Soccer Association. Led development on a Java-based report generating system, connecting to various database platforms and giving output in both HTML and PDF formats.