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Sunnyvale, CA, US

Aurora works closely with entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to life, offering high touch development, product management, and virtual CTO services.

Arlington, Virginia, US

Lead new efforts in developing native reading and contributing tools for mobile devices. Oversight of both staff and contract developers, focused on building and maintaining iOS and Android applications. Manage cross-functional teams and coordinate efforts with affected business units like Marketing, Editorial, and Audience Development. Combine strategic.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Assumed roles of both CTO and VP Product during a 6-month executive transition.
• Created the first-ever product roadmap, introduced OKRs and launched a Product Council forestablishing objective-based alignment across key stakeholders.
• Addressed internal collaboration issues with the introduction of deep-vertical, cross-functional crews (on path to Spotify squad model) – combined with the adoption of agile methodologies.
• Advanced cross-functional collaboration with the creation of strategy groups composed of key reps from across the business to attack problems by leveraging the breadth of the organization.
• Negotiated deals and managed relationships with multiple external dev, design, QA and strategy groups to help address short term resource deficiencies.
• Grew team by 30% across data, platform, product and frontend. Engineered and executed $0 acquihire.

New York, US

iOS iPad and macOS desktop app development of E-learning software. Led development of and co-architected immersive, slide-based iPad authoring tool that transforms multimedia, annotations, narration, text and gestures into informal training videos. Crafted algorithms for patentable vector erase technology and optimistic background video rendering. Led.

Toronto, ON, CA

iOS, Android and web service system architecture, feature implementation and development oversight (with heavy participation in UX design) for all Professional division award-winning mobile and tablet apps: Mobile CS, NetClient CS and myPay Solutions. Through fast-paced self-study, became proficient in all of the languages, tools and patterns necessary to.

Toronto, ON, CA

Created a proprietary reporting layout designer (essentially Visio for accounting reports) for Accounting CS. This involved architecting a proprietary object model that allowed for high-quality, flicker-free rendering, advanced drawing features, virtually unlimited object manipulation capabilities (size, movement, deletion, orientation, rotation.

Toronto, ON, CA

Co-created and solely maintained ToolBox CS. This N-Tiered, smart-client, database-driven,.NET application features a full line of interactive tax and financial planning tools. Deeply involved in all aspects of product development including platform development, interface design, database architecture, business logic, content creation, print engine design.

Toronto, ON, CA

In a self-initiated skunkworks project, invented a "Return Analysis" add-on for Planner CS. Through COM Interop to the existing Delphi-based app, this.NET tool would be used to create data-driven tax planning strategies. The application extracted data from the user's 1040 and cross-referenced changes, amounts and line-specific return information against.

Toronto, ON, CA

Programmed in C/C++ on the 1040 Federal Development team for the UltraTax product line. Developed code for new products and modified existing code for tax law changes and discovered issues. Developed in-house utilities. Worked with tax and accounting analysts daily to translate tax law to code. Prior to releases, performed quality assurance testing. Used.

Developed a point of sale, inventory and automotive management system for D&S Auto Repair. This SQL Server-backed.NET desktop application handled invoicing, customer management, employee management, vehicle tracking, parts inventory management, sales and accounting reports, and an automated backup solution. Performed all analysis and design based on many.

Developed, maintained and hosted Mensam.com. This web front for a local accounting firm featured Outlook-integrated appointment scheduling, web questionnaire submission, and an administrative back-end. Built and maintained several Debian Linux servers for web, database, and email hosting. Developed custom framework for module loading and database access..

Subcontractor for Joe Stump, doing web and database development on several high-profile e-commerce sites. Use of Apache, MySQL and PHP and a proprietary development framework (JAX) in a Linux environment (LAMP stack).

Sault Sainte Marie, MI, US

Led a three-person team that designed and developed a transformer inventory system for the Edison Sault Electric Company. The client/server application manages transformer inventory, PCB content tracking, and transformer property tax records. Performed needs analysis, wrote project proposal, met weekly with company management, designed and normalized.

Developed and modified Delphi/SQL-driven database applications. Performed testing and quality assurance for all in-house development. Developed custom Crystal Reports for existing Delphi systems and R & R Reports for Solomon IV Accounting System. Provided accounting system support and developed custom screens for Solomon IV. Responsible for IT policy and.

Website design, development, and maintenance for Jamadots ISP as well as design and development for corporate clients (use of HTML, Javascript and Adobe Photoshop). Completely redesigned and recoded ISP's homepage. Worked closely with Ameritech, Atlas, and Lucent to setup Sault dial-up connection. Network maintenance and troubleshooting, ISP Internet.

Small network design, phone system troubleshooting, Category V network cabling and termination.

Started as an information systems intern, later promoted to support staff. Network cabling technologies, network administration in an NT environment, workstation cloning.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Internet/Network Technology

High School Diploma