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Working for the Prime Video team

I ran the Advertising Platform engineering team at Hulu, growing the team from nine engineers to over forty people.

Leading the team responsible for the AWS Elasticache service managing Memcached and Redis in-memory database clusters for AWS customers.Responsibilities include:- Work with engineers to improve development processes and standards to maintain and improve quality of existing service- Meet with customers and product management teams to define feature roadmap for the next year, then lead engineering teams to deliver new features and grow the business- Establish career development plans for team members and provide mentorship to enhance technical and leadership skills for the team

Over the course of two-and-a-half years, led software teams responsible for the following functionality for the Amazon Echo launch:- Device authentication and registration- Dialogue management framework- Application Development framework- Alarms, Tasks and Shopping lists, and Flash Briefing (news) user-facing featuresLed teams in implementing Scrum effectively, set standards for automated testing and deployment, consistently met team deadlines by establishing consistent and predictable pace of delivery and following excellent backlog management practices; led remote team to deliver new feature from the ground up in eight months.

Worked on a project to rewrite DoubleClick Search, an advertising tool that helps large-scale search advertisers manage their online advertising campaigns across multiple search platforms, onto the Google platform. Project was highlighted as a Top 10 Quarterly accomplishment for Google.

Helped to build Amazon's Relational Database Service, making it easy for customers to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. (see http://aws.amazon.com/rds/)

As a member of the eCommerce Platform Product Group, wrote software to enable third party applications built on Amazon's eCommerce Platform.

Lead developer for web-based medical transcription platform. Improved performance of application by optimizing Oracle query performance; integrated speech recognition with existing platform. Principal skills: Oracle, Java, JavaScript, BEA WebLogic

Sole member of a new Java web development division for an Oracle consulting company. Assembled tools and development practices while developing two J2EE web applications from concept to functional prototype. EJB/Struts/Oracle/MySQL

Provided custom software development services to documentation department, including online help system development, DocBook XML publication, and Adobe Illustrator automation.