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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.
• 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.

US

• 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

• 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

US

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++.