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Menlo Park, CA, US

Working at Meta Reality Labs with a focus on Android and leadership.

Seattle, WA, US

At Amazon I have worked in various teams. I am known for being a high performer, with a strong set of leadership, interpersonal and organizational skills. I have been given many recognitions by the leadership, such as play of the quarter for all of Alexa for having a major impact to the Alexa SDK.I have lead teams of engineers for projects involving major.

Austin, Texas, US

• Led a scrappy rough app to a modern and cutting edge application. During a critical time where the application was being acquired by HEB.
• Oversaw hiring, architecture design, beta tester management, release management, and migration to Kotlin.
• Worked directly with senior management, providing estimations and advising on strategic planning.

It was fantastic working with Mobile Assay and their novel solution for helping cure diseases. This was a rare position and I was given the opportunity to accompany the CDC to Haiti to see our work in the field, which helped me analyze the CDC’s tests results. Mobile Assay's core project was an innovative android application that uses 3d printed holders.

Hartford, Connecticut, US

• Led a team of 6 Android engineers on the Aetna flagship application, training the UX team on how to create android-centric designs, decreasing development time by half.
• Advised executive management on strategic planning and high-level planning and estimates.
• Led efforts to onboard technologies such as RxJava and Kotlin adoption.

Golden, CO, US

• I worked on creating the NREL mobility study application. I was the sole Android developer, and was in charge of the complete android portion. Note as the application will not be released to the general public, I can.
• Heavy use of location services, such as the fuse API and the android GPS location content providers
• Communicating with open source libraries for data processing
• Heavy use of third party open source libraries to vastly accelerate the design process.
• Gathering user data, included scraping the user calendar and providing advanced tools to edit their entries
• Multiple collection wizards, with large databases behind them. Ie all the cars in existence and their co2 emissions levels.

Sympoz is a startup which creates premium video media. As they already had a released application I was primarily working on adding and improving features. I also helped them vastly improve the stability of their application. In this roll I become very proficient at using libraries such as GSON in junction with Restful services. As well creating automated.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Worked with a fantastic team of great Engineers. Now that some time has passed I realize how lucky I was to have started my career with such a team. As a college new hire I worked daily with a Sr developer, allowing me the rare to opportunity to start my career with strong engineering skills. As well as reenforcing what it means to create quality world.

Austin, Texas, US

Creation of automated web crawling data mining tools, Automated data manipulation, and data analysis for internal tools.

Fort Collins, CO, US

System setup.Helped new employees and managed system accounts.Created an automated applet to guide new users through account setups.Managed all the computers and handled repairs.