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Acton, Massachusetts, Us

Louisville, Ky, Us

YUM Brands provides a point of sale (POS) for their 4 franchisees (KFC, PizzaHut, Taco Bell & Habitat Grill). The POS system is an Android based POS system deploying to tens of thousands of stores. • Designed and maintained an Android-based point of sale (POS) system to be deployed across all 4 of YUM! Brands franchisees. This application handled complex, non-standard Android tasks to deliver a robust and reliable POS solution.• Implement solutions for challenging problems using distributed databases, real-time syncing, message queues, and distributed transactions.• Mentor junior developers and promote best practices in coding and architecture through regular architecture meetings.

San Diego, California, Us

Became a contributing manager in 2020 and split engineering time with being an advocate for the Android team and building the Propeller app to improve patient outcomes in respiratory care. Responsible for expanding the team, improving team output, and keeping developers engaged and happy. • Grew the Android team from 2 to 6 and created an amazing team. Used that new engineer momentum to own and improve many aspects of the Android application. • Collaborated with product and marketing teams, providing technical expertise and serving as a subject matter expert to address and resolve technical inquiries related to the technology. • Implemented an accessibility strategy for becoming WCAG compliant. • Facilitated team ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) to ensure alignment and continuous improvement.

San Diego, California, Us

As senior mobile engineer, responsible for consistently improving application performance, usability, and understanding where the application succeeded or failed with patients. • Moved away from async tasks to a modern architecture with Compose and Flows. • Modularized components for better logic encapsulation and compile times. • Introduced testable architecture with dependency injection using dagger. • Created scripts to generate models and services from API documentation.

Madison, Wi, Us

Noble Applications creates custom mobile applications for customers. • Created numerous custom mobile applications for new and existing customers. • Responsible for the release of all of Noble’s Android applications from start to end. • Communicated with clients about their request, the mobile marketplace and guided clients towards a solution.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

StudyBlue provided online services to students in the digital age to help them study with digital flashcards and notes. • Improved the app by implementing many features and user requests. • Greatly improved speed and reliability of the application. • Identified and fixed crashes which greatly reduced negative user feedback for Android version. • Improved overall speed and usability of the app by creating an expected Android experience vs. the initial iOS clone version.

Aliso Viejo, Ca, Us

Quest Software (Acquired by Dell Computers) provided products for integrating the various email and calendar systems with each other through connector software. • Worked on and created various connector systems configuration tools. • Built tools for interfacing with existing systems for easier management. • Implemented solutions to encrypt password communication between systems.

Madison, Wi, Us

Sonic Foundry’s primary product in these years was a presentation solution to capture and replay lectures and presentations. • Designed and built internal systems to add a podcast feed for lecture series • Automated captioning of videos via a remote service for clients where closed captioning was required.

Tokyo, Jp

Brought along as an existing expert when Sony purchased the desktop software division of Sonic Foundry in 2003.• Developed and supported the existing software suite. • Created several new custom desktop applications to support new and existing Sony electronic products for other divisions.

Madison, Wi, Us

Started as an install engineer, later managed the install team, lead misc. projects and eventually lead all localization efforts for every product in the software suite. • Lead the install team building installers and CD Images for all products. • Lead larger code improvement projects (eg. 32 to 64 bit architecture and Unicode support). • Lead the localization/internationalization of all Sonic Foundry software across 13 different languages.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Associate'S Degree, Applied Electronics