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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

• Responsible for delivering the RadioCentral cloud platform in Azure for our next generation radios with APX Next• Leading effort to transform our organization into DevOps culture with a focus on team culture, quality, and delivering value to our customers at a high velocity

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for delivering iOS & Android public safety applications including Wave 7000 Push to talk mobile application. These applications were successfully delivered to multiple customers meeting contractual requirements on time with quality. Crash-free rate increased from 70% to 99% over the user base.Drove effort to increase developer velocity through overhauled CI / CD, git mono repository, and reduction of required effort to create a developer environment.Led initiative to bring telemetry across all mobile applications (Android & iOS) to help drive business decisions.

Chicago, Il, Us

Led team responsible for delivering Team Communication & Workflow Applications. This included the following Android and iOS applications. 1. PSX Home (Android home application replacement bringing relevant/situational information to public safety users)2. PSX Messenger (Android & iOS public safety text messaging application)3. P1HH (Android & iOS PremierOne Handheld - bringing incident information to the handheld)4. PSX Stream (Android video streaming application for public safety)5. PSX Capture (Android & iOS Evidence-Grade camera application)Tasked with building the team from the ground up. Drove culture of being data driven in the solutions we deliver (data usage analysis & battery usage analysis). Adopted best practices for improved CI / CD within our team to increase team velocity.

Chicago, Il, Us

Led development of AME 2000 (Assured Mobile Environment) platform in Android devices to provide customers secure classified communications.Modernized the tool stack being used:* Switched from SVN to GIT* Enabled CI / CD with Jenkins on-premise integration* Switched from CQCM to JIRAArchitected & developed security solutions into the Android software stack. This included learning & developing within SE Android (Security-Enhanced Linux for Android (by NSA)).Led and delivered our next generation VoIP application utilizing a modern VoIP stack with custom integration of Motorola Solution's CRYPTR micro (FIPS 140-2 Level 3 and NSA Suite B voice and data encryption in a microSD™ form factor).Delivered integration of REDWALL Technologies integration for additional security & multi-persona support.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Android Camera application lead tasked with developing the next generation camera application. This application was required to auto-detect the device capabilities and determine feature set of the camera application to be shown dynamically to the user.Led and delivered Motorola's fist Hybrid Cloud solution - Motocast on both Smartphones and tablets. This was a key differentiator for Motorola at the time and one of the few Motorola applications that could be upgraded over the Android marketplace.Integrated 3rd party solutions for Panorama, Face Detection, and improved image decoding.Led and delivered improved KPI's & user experience for Motorola's camera & gallery applications which included a complete rewrite of the camera application in a short amount of time. Gallery application improvements were CEO mandated and had to be delivered in a short amount of time with high quality (to pass carrier approvals).After the Google acquisition, selected to work with a small team to redefine experiences on Motorola devices. Drove (with Google user trialing the prototypes) first gesture recognition solution for instant launching camera ('never miss a moment').

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Tasked with turning manual test suite into a fully automated test framework. Converted 3,000+ manual tests into scripts. Developed test framework to run tests and auto generate reports of the results.Worked on voice recognition / voice annotation & audio on the original Motorla V3 RAZR.Development lead for next generation voice recognition integration of Voice Signal Technology (purchased by Nuance).Camera driver lead for first 4MP camera.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

4 year intern with Multimedia group working on P2K phones:1. Time tracking tool2. Bug fixes for production code (voice recorder, voice recognition, mp3 playback)