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San Francisco Bay Area

Execution of Google PSO engagements including Cloud and Hybrid Cloud architecture design and implementation, Data discovery with pipeline or migration implementations, and script development to facilitate better quality of life or client requirements.Currently working outside of Google PSO on an AWS Data engagement. Assorted technologies: GKE, Docker, Kubernetes, BigQuery, Envoy Proxy, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Vault, Dataflow, DataFusion, Pubsub, IAM, Networking, Python, Java, and a dash of Go.

San Francisco Bay Area

Provide support for external Google Cloud Platform users and internal teams through a combination of expertise in software development, systems administration, and big data. The role include technical advising, troubleshooting, reproduction of issues, and work across multiple customer-facing teams.Support includes assistance with the Google Cloud SDK in Java, Go, Python, and NodeJS.

Oakland, Ca

Developing tools to assist with Digital and Retail arbitrage opportunities. Web crawling, data collection and cleaning, and profit estimation including estimation of resell times from historic data and current seller rank.Transitioned onsite custom tax software to a hybrid cloud solution with high availability.

Oakland, Ca

Developed a financial payment bridge for digital currencies supporting the Ripple protocol. Development uses a modified MEAN stack choosing to substitute a relational database. My work is fullstack featuring Angular, SASS on the frontend; Node, Express, Rippled, Ripple-rest, and MySQL on the backend; EC2, SQS, RDS and Terraform.

Palo Alto, California

Developed custom stereo panoramic video player for use with virtual reality headsets including the Oculus Rift. Added support for positional audio through implementation of OpenAL framework. Provided fall back from proprietary GPU video decoding solution that expanded potential user base and allowed lower end computers to handle nonoptimal playback. Rapid development of prototype stereo panoramic video player using C# and Unity3D for proof of concept. Used to asses the viability of concept, and early identification and benchmarking of potential bottlenecks in multi-video processing solution.Produced iOS application for Glenfiddich Whisky brand. Creating a novel advertising portal though highly sensitive motion controls to produce the illusion of looking through a window into another reality. Users experienced a tour of the Glenfiddich distillery with a visceral sense of actually “being there” – complete with narration, immersive 180 degree video, maps, and photo galleries.Enhanced Condition One's existing iOS application through changes to application navigation and intuitive page transitions. Implemented solution for large file acquisition on unstable internet connections.

College Station, Tx

Developed an application to produce visual stimulus for biology experiments using a custom animation system. Application provided a methodology to produce variants of multiple fish species, animate through previous live motion capture and blended keyframing tools, then playback a realtime physical simulation of the fish or render to video. The video was then played for live fish to determine effects of fish body size and coloring on mate selection.

College Station, Tx

Extended a 2d platformer educational game running on Flixel to include dynamic projectiles, analytics, physical simulation, and student evaluation tools. Additional work was done refactoring and documenting the inherited code base.

Primary developer of award winning educational game engine used to create several modules to teach students Genetics, Chemistry, Geology, and Ecosystems. Gameplay featured interactive panoramas that contained overlayed flash interfaces and video, similar to the MYST series.Creation of art assets, texturing/shading, lighting, rendering and render optimizations. Applications were deployed to Bryan ISD and Dallas ISD.

Teaching Assistant for semesterly class of 250 students. Conducted classes, graded assignments, handled students personal issues and intermediated conflicts during group projects.

Developed skinnable data driven components built over a custom Content Management System(CMS), allowing company to quickly customize look of component based sites. Created complex full Flash websites, site navigation menus, and advertisements.