Kris Bruland Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Seattle, Wa

Principal solutions architect and technical lead with direct experience guiding many large client software projects.Currently focused on innovation, voice and conversational technologies such as Alexa, AI, and Internet of Things (IOT) projects involving various device endpoints, specialized hardware, big data collection and analysis, cloud services, serverless, and more. Full spectrum SDLC experience, from working with customers to assess needs and establish requirements through design, implementation, delivery, and support.Recent Project Examples:• Alexa Smart Home 3.0 implementation for a Fortune-500 consumer electronics company to voice enable mask market consumer devices.• Multiple AI projects involving custom image analysis, facial recognition, sentiment analysis, and more. • Large-scale IOT solution with mobile, web, data, and services hardware for Fortune-500 company producing Bluetooth low energy (BLE) scientific instrumentation and monitoring devices.• Serverless architecture for REST services to power media discovery and delivery for a Fortune-100 company.• IOT project for a startup company producing a new health and fitness device, includes mobile, web, data, services, and custom hardware.• API analysis and design for a startup company working with Bluetooth low energy beacons.• Mobile applications for sharing remote cloud computing environments for a Fortune-100 cloud services provider.

Software engineering lead for a team which successfully implemented mobile caller ID for multiple Tier I providers and OEMs including Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T.Designed and developed business applications and data infrastructure to track and manage big data associated with mobile devices. Performed mobile application development in a variety of platforms, especially Android.

Solutions architect and senior software engineer for over 30 complex .Net and other technology projects. Demonstrated full SDLC experience as an individual developer and team lead. Facilitated high customer satisfaction, significant and sustainable company revenue growth over three years.

Solutions design, architecture, implementation, and oversight for web and business systems development. Reduced costs by helping to transition a large portion of traditional channel sales to the web and promoting online foreign sales to facilitate growth and improve margins. Logos is an electronic publisher.

Designed data and software architecture and implemented a web-based employee time tracking and task management system, enabling significantly enhanced company productivity. Reduced costs and increased on time deliveries by enabling better time tracking, analysis, and forecasting.

Summary and Accomplishments: Designed and implemented LANs and WANs serving 22 departments across multiple physical locations where no networks had previously existed. Implemented multiple online education efforts facilitated by this network, enabling the college to begin online educational delivery.

Developed major portions of a multimedia authoring system under contract for IBM, including routines for video, audio, image processing, and device drivers. Implemented numerous customer educational projects using this system on a consulting basis.