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Atlanta, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Founding member of the Podcast team helping deliver the Podcast experience in Amazon Music. Lead a full stack engineering team across iOS, Android, Web, and AWS. After the initial launch, lead the Podcast Growth Experience Team responsible for user acquisition.• Expanded Podcast experience to over 10 countries• Launched the Podcast web experience (desktop and mobile) including full SEO and OpenGraph support.• Launched Social Sharing (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) on iOS, Android, and web experience.

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Responsible for leading and managing the iOS, Android, and Mobile API engineering teams Software Development Process • Implemented a CI / CD system to provide consistent builds from a single source • Implemented a branching strategy to provide consistent commits and branching • Implemented a consistent release cycle of weekly releases• Reduced the release regression cycle through improved unit tests and UI automation tests.Quality • Improved crash free quality rate to 99.9% on both iOS and Android apps • Improved the security quality of the apps through additional security testing • Implemented a Third-Party SDK Evaluation process to ensure quality in any SDKs included in the apps • Improved code coverage of the unit tests • Drove the implementation of UI Automated Testing for the apps • Improved quality by introducing testing on feature branches through improved unit tests and UI automation tests with each commit. Hiring • Improved the quality of the hiring process with HackerRank tests designed for mobile software engineers • Implemented an on-boarding process for new mobile engineers Tech: Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin, Perl

Responsible for leading the iOS, Android, Web, Platform, and QA engineering teams. • Led the recruiting and growth of the engineering team • Improved the maturity level of the development team and processes• Improved the quality and processes of the software development team through test plans, test cases, test automation, and release checklist.Tech: Java, Objective-C, Swift, React, ReactNative, AWS, GoLang, Appium

Beverly Hills, California, Us

Responsible for leading and managing the iOS, Android, and QA engineering teams for Ticketmaster and Live Nation mobile applications. Software Development Process• Implemented a CI / CD system to provide consistent builds from a single source• Implemented a branching strategy to provide consistent commits and branching• Increased the releases to weekly releases• Reduced the release regression cycleApp Quality• Improved crash free quality rate • Drove the implementation of UI Automated Testing• Improved quality by introducing testing on feature branches through improved unit tests and UI automation tests. Projects• Led the design, development and architecture of the Purchase SDK which allowed artists, sports, teams, and venues to allow purchasing of tickets of events inside of their iOS and Android apps.• Led the development of the interactive seat map across across both iOS and Android apps which let to a significant increase in the purchase conversion rateTech: Objective-C, Swift, Java, ReactNative, Appium, XCUITest, GraphQL

Santa Monica, California, Us

Lead the iOS, Android, and quality assurance teams for the TigerText mobile products. Introduced development processes that provide consistent release cycles while improving the product quality, reliability, and code consistency.TigerText is an app for secure messaging of business information that is compliant with industry regulations such as HIPAA, FINRA, and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). * Improved the maturity level of the mobile development team and processes* Improved the quality of the product by reducing the open defects to zero defects. Maintained a zero defect per release through improved test cases, unit tests, automated UI tests, and code reviews.* Improved the security of the mobile apps* Improved the consistency of releases to a monthly release schedule through a new branching plan and improved quality controlsTech: Objective-C, Swift, Java, Appium

Built the mobile engineering team from the ground up to a team of 10 engineers that was responsible for delivering creative and innovative apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, FireTV, and Android TV apps. These include the FOX Sports TV Everywhere (TVE) app FOX Sports GO, the streaming radio/podcast app FOX Sports Listen, and FOX Sports Mobile.Tech: Java, Objective-C, Android, iOS

A consultant and developer on a number of iOS and Android apps including FrontFlip, Krispy Kreme Donuts, Sporting KC (Kansas City’s Major League Soccer team) in-venue app, Trivia with Pals (iOS), Yellowbook inside sales app, Sprint, EPIQ, Atlantic Magazine, Ebony Magazine, a la Mode, and Copia.

Responsible for designing and developing products that have generated over $100 million in sales. Some of the products that I have been lead developer / architect include:* WebNow – a web-based client for Perceptive Software’s enterprise content management system ImageNow using Java Swing in an Applet that communicated with Java Servlets. * WebNow was key to the growth of Perceptive Software by providing a zero-install client that can be used remotely.* ImageNow Email Agent – a Windows service that would import incoming emails into ImageNow using Java and JavaMail. Using web server scripts, ImageNow Email Agent is able to capture web form data. This product was the first expansion to capturing data beyond images and files.* ImageNow Server Administration – a Windows application to administer and configure ImageNow using Java and Swing. This product was key to the maturity of the ImageNow Server by providing a graphical user interface to easily administer the ImageNow Server. This reduced the knowledge level needed to manage an ImageNow Server.* ImageNow Mobile – an Android app using Java and an iPhone/iPad app using Objective-C that communicate with a Java servlet. This product is key to the future growth of Perceptive Software by providing a client that allows users to view and approve documents from anywhere.Provided usability and user interface design services to the development team which included creating UI design standards and performing usability tests.

Designed and developed games and productivity applications for PDAs and mobile phones including Blackberry, Sony Ericsson P800/P900, Nokia Communicator, Pocket PC, Palm, and Sharp Zaurus. Managed partner relations including licensing agreements and contract negotiations.

Developed a Java-based client for the analytic server JSheet using Java, Applet, Swing, and CORBA. Designed and implemented JSP custom tags to access data from the JSheet analytic server.

Designed and developed a web based client for the Digital Archaeology analytic server using Java, Servlets, HTML, and JavaScript.

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Designed and developed user interface standards for all Informix products. Performed usability tests on Informix products. Team lead and designer for the Informix Enterprise Command Center. Designed and developed Informix-4GL Form Designer for Windows and Informix-4GL Debugger for Windows using C++.