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Richardson, Texas, United States

- Wear OS smartwatches- Connected devices

Cupertino

- Drive action plans of large engineering projects, facilitating alignment across numerous orgs and external partners.- Set and communicate team vision and strategy.- Lead team of software engineers, clearing blockers and delivering tasks on schedule.- Responsible for team hiring process, resource planning and allocation.- Manage prototypes to validate feasibility and identify required support.- Lead yearly software development cycle from planning to release.- Excel at… Show more - Drive action plans of large engineering projects, facilitating alignment across numerous orgs and external partners.- Set and communicate team vision and strategy.- Lead team of software engineers, clearing blockers and delivering tasks on schedule.- Responsible for team hiring process, resource planning and allocation.- Manage prototypes to validate feasibility and identify required support.- Lead yearly software development cycle from planning to release.- Excel at identifying gaps in engineering and product plans.- Successfully deliver projects with incredibly lean resources and strict deadlines.- Keep projects on track by creating cross-functional plans, hosting weekly engineering meetings, tracking status and facilitating replanning.- Present and demo progress of key projects to Directors and Executives.- Improve engineering processes to increase efficiency and predictability.- Promote engineering culture of clean, maintainable, trackable code. Show less

Sunnyvale

- Lead redesign of LinkedIn iOS app networking code to improve load timesby parallelizing data downloading and parsing.- Carefully ramp new features to millions of users in a staged manner.- Review and analyze network metrics to ensure each release is stable.- Advisor for mobile development best practices as member of company’sMobile Working Group.- Work cross-functionally with Site Speed team to increase granularity ofnetwork performance metrics.

Cupertino, Ca

- Lead engineer on Game Controller framework.- Game Center macOS and iOS app development.- Build numerous internal technology demos for executives on short notice.- Create virtual thumbstick for easy developer access to Apple TV remote.- Contribute to requirements, design and implementation of automated test rig to measure game controller latency for each new OS build.- Provide product direction for third-party game controller vendors partnering with Apple (ergonomics… Show more - Lead engineer on Game Controller framework.- Game Center macOS and iOS app development.- Build numerous internal technology demos for executives on short notice.- Create virtual thumbstick for easy developer access to Apple TV remote.- Contribute to requirements, design and implementation of automated test rig to measure game controller latency for each new OS build.- Provide product direction for third-party game controller vendors partnering with Apple (ergonomics, responsiveness, fit & finish).- Wrote game controller diagnostic iOS app for internal and external use to standardize MFi certification process, minimizing third-party resubmissions.- Apple Design Awards committee member.- Five patents pending for Apple.- Speaker at Apple Worldwide Developers Conference across multiple years: “Controlling Game Input for Apple TV” (2016), “Designing for Game Controllers” (2014), “Integrating with Game Controllers” (2013) Show less

Redwood Shores, Ca

- Idle Animation System: Rapid prototyping, thread-safe animation requests, multiple priority queues for variable alert levels.- Interaction Queue Priority System: Wrote technical design document, sought and incorporated feedback from team, flexible design allowed easy adding and reordering of priority levels.- Sitting / Posture System: Standardized way for Sims to sit in chairs. Easy to “tag” interactions (e.g. reading a book) as permissible while seated. Extensibility allowed reuse… Show more - Idle Animation System: Rapid prototyping, thread-safe animation requests, multiple priority queues for variable alert levels.- Interaction Queue Priority System: Wrote technical design document, sought and incorporated feedback from team, flexible design allowed easy adding and reordering of priority levels.- Sitting / Posture System: Standardized way for Sims to sit in chairs. Easy to “tag” interactions (e.g. reading a book) as permissible while seated. Extensibility allowed reuse with barstools and sofas.- Weather System: Interfaced with many systems (e.g. scripts, graphics, audio). Quickly created “bare bones” version to unblock dependent engineering work. Innovative “Season Chooser” UI with optimized data IDs.- EA Studio Showcase Demo: Programmed and provided creative direction for demo of The Sims 2 Pets for press, fans and employees. Received praise from Vice President and Senior Producer for flawless demo.- GRAD Guide Mentoring: Accepted request from University Relations department to mentor five new college graduates. Met twice monthly for six months each. Helped integrate into company, shared experiences, offered career advice. Show less

- Bootstrapper: Co-developed tool that sequentially installed software and configured PCs. Ensured fast and consistent setup for new team members.- Performance Metrics: Inserted code to measure performance of art preview tool. Identified serious communication bottleneck.- Automated Build Software: Wrote scripts that allowed non-technical employees to build studio’s games. Determined build breakers and emailed results.

- Hardware Design: Designed schematic diagram and wrote firmware for television broadcast monitoring card.- Remote Monitoring Software: Co-wrote application that monitored status of distributed television broadcast equipment via SNMP. Real-time visual fault warnings improved identification time of unexpected failures.- Hardware Configuration Software: Designed GUI and programmed data transfer back-end. Allowed configuration settings of broadcast-monitoring equipment to be… Show more - Hardware Design: Designed schematic diagram and wrote firmware for television broadcast monitoring card.- Remote Monitoring Software: Co-wrote application that monitored status of distributed television broadcast equipment via SNMP. Real-time visual fault warnings improved identification time of unexpected failures.- Hardware Configuration Software: Designed GUI and programmed data transfer back-end. Allowed configuration settings of broadcast-monitoring equipment to be saved to and loaded from a PC. Greatly decreased customers’ setup time. Show less

- FTP Software: Designed GUI front-end. Collaborated with network engineer to interface with communication back-end.- Interactive Seating Plan Demo: Wrote application that demonstrated company technology to prospective clients.

- Call Center Client/Server Application: Added Call Summary feature that automatically tracked mutual fund transaction history. Enabled internal operators to offer customers significantly better long-term support.- Web Development: Added expand/collapse functionality to public Investment Center web pages using Dynamic HTML.- XML Technical Report: Wrote forty-page report that identified how XML could improve workflow and save money.