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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

* iOS * Android * HTML5 Help partners developer amazing Google Cast applications for Chromecast. Notable AccomplishmentsLaunched several key partner applications with Google Cast integration Partner onsite visits to answer key questions Holding code labs with partners to kickstart app development of Google Cast appsDeveloped iOS Sample application on GitHubCreated Youtube video to help iOS developers with Cast integration

Managed a 12 person engineering organization. Started the engineering organization as the first hired engineer and build 4 teams from the ground up. just.me started in the Google Ventures Startup lab. The just.me app has been featured in both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. just.me is in the mobile social space with an additional focus on messaging. Kevin acts as a manager, but spends more than half his time coding.Notable AccomplishmentsLead all of engineering, consisting of 4 teams: iPhone, Android, HTML5, and Server.Built engineering from the ground up.Apple App Store Featuring in Social Networking, New & Noteworthy, Chinese.Google Play Store Featuring.Personally built early server prototypes used to get funding and prototype ideas.Personally build Android DAO layer, service layer, offline caching and offline retry.Personally build AWS Cloud infrastructure & personally ran operations.Personally build dashboards for operational monitoring and outage notifications.Personally build business metrics dashboards.Personally setup build automation and for all platforms.Personally setup all necessary infrastructure and tools to start a company (Github, Jira, AWS, EC2, Jenkins, Testlink,Google Play, …).

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Managed a 10 person team of onshore and offshore developers in architecture team that developed frameworks used by all teams at E*Trade. Hired as an individual contributor (Principal Architect) and after proving skills and value was promoted to Senior Manager and began managing people and leading projects. Notable AccomplishmentsManaged 10 developers and lead 3 teams (HTML5 Web Frameworks, Real-time Messaging, Offshore Web Framework) Created first team in Architecture that focused on HTML5 & Web DevelopmentBuild HTML5 Portal Framework used for site rewrite to create E*Trade 360Streaming Quotes & Portfolio using Cometd.Framework level lazy loading of pages.Named Dojo advocate in Ajax Framework selection Committee.Prepared and Delivered Eclipse training course to new hires.Prepared and Delivered Cross-site Scripting (XSS) training course.Unit testing through JUnit.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Teaching Computer and Information Science Courses such as * CIS 682 - Open Source Frameworks (Spring & Hibernate) * CIS 388 - Eclipse * CIS 681 - J2EE Web Services * CIS 382 - Java Programming Language II * CIS 381 - Java Programming Language I * CIS 150 - Networks and Data Communication * CIS 125 - Introduction to Visual Basic .NET

New York, New York, Us

Developing large scale common components, front end and back end components for 4,000+ user applications to help Chemists and Biologist around the world in their daily research. Add great flexibility to the team due to my classification as "Jack-of-all trades" by upper management.Notable AccomplishmentsTeam liaison to Pfizer Common Engineering Group for all Middle Tier, WebLogic, EJB, JMS, and Unix server configuration and troubleshooting.Developed applications using BEA Weblogic 8.1 using Java, J2EE, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Servlet, EJB, and Unix.Stateless Session Beans for providing chemical compound information (molecular weight, molecular structure, molecular formula,...) to be used by Applet and Servlet clients.Stateless Session Bean to combine 2 lists of compounds via union, intersection & difference.WebServices to calculate detailed chemical compound information using WSDL.Track new and updated compound information using JMS.Sole design and development of both Swing version and website version of system to register newly discovered chemical compounds.DAO design pattern used to add flexibility when connecting to Corba Services and Oracle.Swing based compound plate reformatting application enhancements using AspectJ.Swing based Forms system to display research information AspectJ.Struts & Spring based web applications to help in managing compound plates with barcodes.JSTL & Custom Taglibs used to develop several advanced web applications.Developed administration module to restrict use of certain areas of the application.Delivered many 30+ minute presentations to 20 people group to explain architecture and design of components.Unit testing through JUnit.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Lead Java J2EE developer for GTN 21 (Global Transportation Network) website. Mentored 4 developers in J2EE technology. GTN 21 is a $333 million full software life-cycle development project following the Rational Unified Process (RUP). My team was responsible for all aspects of users working through the website portal we designed to obtain reports about transportation assets in the military. I was the only member of the team with any prior J2EE development experience.Notable AccomplishmentsArchitected a common framework to be used by all increments of the project.Developed under BEA Weblogic Workshop Portal 8.1 - Java, JSP, Servlet, EJB, and Unix.Many presentations given to government customers to explain Architecture/Design, report status, and walk-through of system.Sole design and development of Stateless Session Beans for advanced server side validation.Developed input forms to run reports with dynamically populate drop down options from data stored in Teradata. Input forms use DHTML to change which of the drop downs is available depending of users selection. Value objects used to cache data in Singletons.Designed & developed component to store what criteria was selected and typed in for the last run query by each user. The component will pre-populate all data in forms with last run query parameters. Custom reports designed in WebFOCUS that utilize DHTML to provide zoom-in capabilities on different sections of reports. Each report is passed an input parameter of the skin in which the user has selected for the portal. Web front-end developed using JSTL & Custom Taglibs.Data manipulation classes for WebFOCUS.Designed strategy to use distributed Singleton design pattern for effective caching and updating of database values under clustered/load-balancing environment.Developed with UML Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Class Diagrams.Unit Testing through JUnit and Cactus.Ant build scripts written to pull source out of Clear Case, compile, and jar.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Co-Lead Java J2EE developer for SBC Online Metrics Team. My team was responsible for gathering and reporting information about traffic on SBC websites. I was one of only two members of the team with any prior J2EE developmentexperience.Notable AccomplishmentsIn charge of all WebSphere WSAD issues for the team, such as deployment of new applications and setting up connection pools.Lead Developer Web Shopping Cart reporting tool EJB, Entity and Session Bean, Oracle.Sole Oracle Database Design and Java programming for page view reporting tool in JSP.Wrote Java application to parse web logs using java.util.regex in Unix.Wrote webspider to retrieve URL-title pairs using Java HTML parser and stores to Oracle.Create reports on web shopping cart metrics using JSP, JavaBeans, JDBC, & Oracle.Wrote Java application to send Email & FTP in Unix.Wrote Java application to reproduce SQL Loader - removing bad lines before insertion.

Washington, D.C., Us

Notable AccomplishmentsOracle Database Design for THSS also using Visual Basic, COM+, and ASP.Website development for Day-Turn Update using ASP, Oracle, and ADO.Website Testing Tool sole design/development using Visual Basic and MS Access.Enhancements to SAMS Alaska using Oracle Stored Procedures.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science