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• 2019: Designed and developed an innovative information UX for macOS → Swift, XCode, AppKit, etc.
• 2018: Designed and developed Lex o’Clock, a word game for iOS → Swift, Xcode, SpriteKit, Python, Sublime, SQL, Postico, regex, TestFlight, etc.
• 2014: Managed the redesign of LASTLOOK, a private photo sharing app
• new user experience for both mobile—App Store and Enterprise—and web
• technical guidance and agile management of a distributed engineering team → Objective C, Xcode, Parse, JavaScript, Backbone, AWS, Heroku, Mailgun, etc.
• 2013: Designed and developed Hyvve, a time management app for iOS (on hold) → Swift, Xcode, Cocoa Touch, Firebase, etc.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Managed the design and development of critical internal software platforms
• multiplatform customization, generation, and distribution of mobile apps
• visual creation and administration of multiservice integration workflows
• secure acquisition of customer metadata for analytics and custom services → Ruby on Rails, Backbone, React, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc.
• Initiated the transition to React in the company, and the leverage of cognitive services
• Managed the design and development of two key components in the core platform

San Francisco, California, US

• Managed an overall team of up to 30 engineers on a very fast growing mobile team
• hired and managed across Poker, CityVille Hometown, ForestVille, and Slots studios
• instituted biweekly 1/1 talks, as well as quarterly performance and peer reviews
• achieved maximum satisfaction and retention, based on anonymous surveys
• helped make Poker the top grossing app for iOS and Android simultaneously
• Contributed to the development of the 350K DAU CityVille Hometown app for iOS

• Developed the initial business plan, business model, and customer use cases
• Researched, designed, prototyped, and patented several product innovations
• multidimensional, dynamically cloneable and transformable graph model
• graph exploration system highlighting distant relations with minimal distortion
• mechanism to display unlimited multidimensional perspectives on a graph
• various improvements related to graph display, navigation, and comprehension

• Recruited and managed a very small but extraordinary product development team
• Defined and fostered a lightweight yet effective aspect-based development process
• Collaborated with the founders to transform a fuzzy vision into a clear product design
• Developed an extensive and thoroughly documented set of user interface sketches
• Filed a patent application for the product’s innovative concept, design, and functionality
• Collaborated with the product team to develop a realistic timeline and budget → Java, Eclipse, Jena, ActionScript, Flex, Tomcat, AWS, MySQL, Omnigraffle Pro, etc.

• Invented a new web search experience—see New York Times and NYU ReadMe
• Raised a total of $11M+ in funding from angels and top tier venture capital firms
• Recruited and mentored top engineering talent to form a high performance team → Java, Eclipse, SVN, Bugzilla, etc.
• Filed and obtained multiple patents: 6,879,332, 6,888,554, 7,036,093, 7,290,223, etc.
• Developed an initial prototype in Java to help close a $3M+ Series A investment
• Developed the client side of the actual product, Grokker Pro

• Developed a zooming space user interface for a revolutionary knowledge mapping tool
• Developed graphic utility libraries then not available in Java, e.g. spline rendering, etc.
• Filed a patent application for a graph’s multilevel link aggregation and multiselection→ Java, Eclipse, CVS, Bugzilla, etc.The company was acquired by Interwoven for $150M.

• Invented innovative chat features, e.g. the ability to send animated effects in the chat
• Developed the client and client-server protocol for a multimedia chat system in Java
• Developed the macOS installer for a complete line of enhanced music CDs→ Java, Eclipse, CVS, Bugzilla, etc.

US

• Improved the MapBlast! website based on an internal, proprietary scripting language
• Developed a dynamic mapping applet, introducing Java technology in the company
• Embedded store location technology on many customer sites: FedEx, Marriott, etc.
• Proposed and successfully implemented a plan to increase traffic to 1M+ hits/day
• Received the 1996 WAAA Award for Best Web Site of the Year→ HTML, Perl, proprietary scripting language, Java, etc.The company was acquired by Microsoft for $800M.

• Developed applications with innovative user interfaces for various clients
• a visual assistant, Logicaa, to simplify procedural programming for Ordimega
• a visual merchandising tool for the French subsidiary of Mars
• a disk management utility with a bubble dialog user interface for MacTel Europe → C, Megamax, Lightspeed, CodeWarrior, MPW, etc.
• Developed websites for many clients, e.g. hip hop radio station KKBT “The Beat” 92.3 → HTML, cgi scripts, etc.

• Developed the bestselling antivirus Rival as an extension and control panel for macOS
• Updated the product frequently, i.e. vaccines, drag and drop vaccine installation, etc.
• Designed and wrote the user documentation in French, then translated it to English
• Received excellent reviews with highest ratings in Macworld and MacUser magazines→ C, Objective C, Lightspeed, CodeWarrior, MPW, etc.The company was acquired by Intego.