Ken Joyner Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, California, Us

Principal Software Engineer on Mint.com, leading and developing the Mint Sync Service along with enhancing the underlying Mint platform. The sync service provides REST APIs for synchronizing financial data between Mint.com and Quicken & Mint native (iOS/Android/Metro) client applications. Multiple client applications can work offline and when connected synchronize data between the client and server with the service resolving any conflicts. Architected and designed the sync service (how it works, how to prevent data loss and/or duplication, how to support a single account being accessed from multiple devices which may not always be connected, etc.). Developed all reconciliation logic and code for handling conflicts between multiple clients and the server. Developed APIs for FIs, Accounts, Categories, Tags & Transactions.The major technologies I use at Mint are: Java, Spring, Hibernate, SQL, JAXB, Jersey, AWS, and Splunk.

Mountain View, California, Us

Engineering Manager of Product Development and Engineering for Quicken Windows, On the mint.com executive staff when Mint was a separate division. Responsibilities include Quicken Windows, Quicken Mobile, Mint platform APIs for Quicken, synchronization technology between Mint and Quicken. Created vision and strategy for Quicken Mobile and integration with the Mint platform. Released Quicken's first mobile companion product on iOS and Android. The mobile release increased Quickens business performance 15 million dollars over historical trends. See http://quicken.intuit.com/personal-finance-software/quicken-mobile-app.jps.Drove multiple major Quicken releases with dozens of innovative features. Examples include: Mobile, Mint synchronization, receipt-capture, annualized budgets, budget rollover and rollups, cash flow & bill pay features within the register, running budgets on mobile, connectivity wizards, complete loan refactoring, hidden/closed accounts, live search, and OAuth-2 support. Worked closely with the central organization of Intuit to make migration of our data aggregation services (which support 15,000+ FIs with Quicken) successful. Quicken was the first offering to migrate and paved the road for other products within Intuit to be successful on their migration. Also created the vision and worked with the central organization to support a different connection methodology for Quicken Mobile and millions of customer accounts. Created the vision and drove the requirements and implementation to improve connectivity with FIs. Within four months, decreased connectivity errors by 50% (a magnitude of millions of errors per week) resulting in a decrease of 15% in customer support calls.

Published application for iOS written in Objective-C. Uses front or back camera to record/capture mirrored images and overlay affirmation on top of image. Can pause and adjust image, crop image, reposition affirmation, and optionally save to photos or share through Facebook or Email. Also allows rating and editing affirmations. See http://kjoyner.com/mirrormirror. Created re-usable components and frameworks in Objective-C such as a popover control, ratings control, custom expandable segment control, dynamically resizable text view, a multi-threaded CoreData handler, and a data-driven table view based settings controller. See http://github.com/KJoyner/SeaGlass.Developed social networking application for iOS in Objective-C. Add friends through phone-to-phone networking or importing from Facebook or the address book. Application is location aware using both Google Maps API for reverse geocoding and Facebook Graph API for place names. Can quickly locate people by keyword searching or location lookup.

Aliso Viejo, Ca, Us

Managed development and maintenance of Microsemi's FPGA IDE, dozens of applications, all graphical user interfaces (GUIs), re-usable frameworks, web applications and web services from inception to market, as well as the day-to-day management of the Applications, Framework and Infrastructure group (AFI). Developed and directed strategic and tactical plans for commercial software products, internal development tools, and integration build and staging tools. Defined, designed, and advocated strategies for software processes, software tools, and all third-party libraries.Created and promoted vision for software products leading to industry awarded tools such as Libero IDE, SmartDesign, Designer, and MultiView Navigator. See http://actel.com/products/software/libero. Envisioned and led the development of the Core Web Repository System. Provided a web application and service for core publishing and delivery written in Ruby on Rails and deployed using the EC2, S3 and CloudFront services. The desktop software was developed in C++ utilizing STL, Boost, OpenSSL, Curl, Qt. A SOAP API conforming to the IP-XACT standard was also developed to integrate configurators and generators into the desktop tool flows. This system became instrumental in the SmartFusion Design Flow, the premier and award-winning product today at Actel.Implemented and re-factored dozens of other programs and web applications and services using C++, Java, Ruby on Rails, REST, SOAP and XML. Deployed numerous web applications and services using EC2, S3, and CloudFront. Decreased average build times by 10-20x, significantly increased number of change-sets processed from 5-10 a day to more than 30 a day using continuous-integration, and eliminated broken builds on release branches all leading to significant productivity gains.Authored and presented “Demystifying C++ Exceptions - 10 Tips to Effectively Design Exception Safe Code” at BoostCON 2010.

Handled full P&L accountability for annual operating budget of six million dollars for U.S. and Europe software engineering operations.Led the rapid development of our next generation software written in both C++ and Java running on Windows and Linux to accomplish goal of first software product released ahead of silicon leading to millions of dollars in revenue increases. Built first international office for software development in Grenoble, France.Designed innovative user interfaces, such as Visual Configurators used to specify configuration of complex silicon features; collapsing into one intuitive screen what used to take 10+ page dialogs to set.

Directed creation of a replacement Integrated Development Environment (IDE) product from inception to market in under a year after the loss of an IDE we previously obtained through an OEM agreement. Evaluated and decided on build versus buy decisions for additional products needed as part of the replacement IDE and negotiated numerous million-dollar OEM and purchase deals.Defined, architected and led implementation of many re-usable frameworks, GUIs, graphical applications, in both C++ and Java, and underlying infrastructure, change-set and configuration management processes and tools, many which are still utilized in present day.

Defined and developed the GUI for all our products and our first graphical chip editor.Ported all commercial software products from Unix to Windows beating the competition to market and achieving revenue goals.Envisioned, defined, architected and developed a cross-platform GUI toolkit running on Windows and X-11/Motif writing in C++.Advocated and charted adoption of C++ as the programming language of choice. Piloted proof of concept process that demonstrated improved efficiencies, enlisted other software developers to give it a try and persuaded upper-management to allow the change.Drove adoption of numerous development tools, including ClearCase for Configuration Management and Purify, PureCoverage, and Quantify products for improved productivity and software quality.

Addressed all CAD related activity for Design Engineering.Designed and developed a program that read a customer fuse file and generated a via mask for creating a hardened FPGA. Developed technology rule packages (DRC, ERC, LVS, etc.) for all silicon products.Provided hands-on support for all Design Engineers and Mask Designers.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Developed a chip generator that was used for generating different size silicon chips in a given FPGA family saving many man-years of effort by automating the creation of different size family members.Created programs used by Design Engineers and Mask Designers to increase productivity.Developed technology rule packages for FPGA and memory products.

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