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Kirkland, Wa, Us

San Jose, California, Us

At Sleep Number Labs we are supporting wellness through sleep research.

Emeryville, California, Us

I directed the core infrastructure, data engineering and site reliability teams at Zymergen where we applied software tech to genetic engineering. I functioned as the personnel manager, scrum master, product owner, and project manager for my teams and as technical lead for cross-departmental initiatives. I also conducted cross-departmental management training. Accomplishments: Built the team from 4 to 25 people. Achieved orders of magnitude improvements in performance, scale and reliability, Implemented CI and test automation, addressed single points of failure, implemented ETL systems with Kafka and Airflow, implemented parallel compute job execution services, moved applications and services to Docker and Kubernetes. Migrated to a new scalable service architecture leveraging AWS Lamda and API Gateway. Implemented authentication and access control services. Technologies/Methodologies Used: AWS, Kubernetes, Lamda, Microservices, Jira, Agile, Git, RDS/MySQL, Snowflake, Linux, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

Global engineering and QE management for TeamForge, CollabNet's flagship product.

Redwood City, California, Us

At Attensity we apply deep NLP processing to social media and unstructured data sources - Twitter, Facebook, and more. My team is responsible for the core platform.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Technorati Media is an integrated online media company with an advertising network, a social rich media technology platform, and two owned web properties including the internet’s largest blog directory. Launched in June 2008, Technorati Media’s ad network has quickly grown into the largest social media ad network (over 1,300 independent sites, blogs, and social networks), boasting an audience of over 120 million US unique visitors a month. Technorati Media is the 49th largest media property in the US, the 8th largest social media property and the 3rd largest blog property.*Technorati.com, the flagship site, is the world’s first and largest blog search engine and a robust community blogging platform.BlogCritics.org is a journalism 3.0 site with a community of over 3,500 authors who have published over 85,000 articles using the site’s proprietary publishing platform.

San Jose, California, Us

I was one of two engineering directors responsible for all of TiVo's backend service development. My groups focused on Video on Demand services, data processing, provisioning, support for remote deployment and management of our service, and feature development for our partners - the leading cable and satellite TV providers.

San Jose, California, Us

My teams were responsible for all engineering efforts behind TiVo’s Media and Advertising Services. This includes the implementation of a custom media management system, the server and set top box components of advertising campaigns, and viewership reporting. I had overall responsibility for three engineering managers and 25 engineers.

San Jose, California, Us

My group at TiVo was responsible for developing the server software that provides the TiVo Experience at Comcast and Cox. I was responsible for managing all aspects of development including developing the feature and architectural roadmap, defining and implementing best practices, managing outsourced development efforts, interdepartmental communication and coordination, release management and all aspects of personnel management.

As the Sr Director of Engineering I was responsible for all of aspects of development for the firmware, the Java runtime environment, application and tool development, and our desktop management software.

As the Director of Enterprise Engineering I was responsible for all aspects of development of PRN's enterprise systems including media management, content distribution, system monitoring and reporting, and content acquisition.

Us

I was responsible for all aspects of software development for Rapid SQL, DBArtisan, Embarcadero Change Manager and Embarcadero SQL Tuner. These Win32 database tools had an annual revenue of $50,000,000, were responsible for 70% of the company’s revenue, and had an installed base of 90,000 users. I had seven direct reports and overall responsibility for 30 engineers. As a result of the development processes I put in place we made great improvements in product quality, the timeliness of releases, and the morale and productivity of the development staff.

CloudSource was an Internet startup that developed web sites for small businesses. We used an XML based component approach that allowed our production staff to effortlessly “snap together” a web site based on pre-engineered components. During the course of the company's growth I performed many roles - technical lead, engineering director, interim director of operations, and well as participating in fundraising effors.

Norwest, Nsw, Au

Engineering manager responsible for developing SQL Station, a database development tool for Oracle, MS SQLServer and Sybase.

Ba, Computer And Information Science

Bachelor Of Arts, Computer And Infomation Science, Computer Science