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Lead Agile teams of software engineers to build internal web tools for content analysis and management, system configurations, advertising policies, metadata syndication, and others for video streaming in Warner Brothers Discovery's mobile apps (Max, Discovery+, and TV Everywhere). Create technical designs, perform code reviews, and manage code, builds, and releases as well as developing code. Bridge technical gaps between product and design team, business analysts, QA, and developers. Systems in Angular, React, Go Lang, PHP, Laravel, TypeScript, JavaScript. Managed and recruited local, remote, and international developers and QA engineers. Drive software deliveries and improvements to systems with corporate and department goals as guides. Work with other teams to provide them with clear, easy to use, feature full user interfaces for their systems.

Developed inter-system processes and web services using PHP/Zend2/Slim and unit testing with Phpunit. Led highly productive team in developing software for the websites of Discovery Communications channels. Previously developed software and services in Spring MVC framework using Java/SQL/Spring/Velocity/XML to collect written, graphical, and video content from producers and make available on the websites and mobile devices. Integrated third party systems to add functionality. This was done in an Agile Scrum development environment with project managers and a QA team. Provided 24/7 production support, problem analysis, and resolution for the live sites. Development done with IBM's RAD/Eclipse for IBM WebSphere application servers.As Discovery's Online Software Release Manager I scheduled, planned, and executed the releases of our website software updates on a regular sprint cycle of 3 weeks, plus any urgent updates that came up. I ran follow-up meetings to review any issues that arose during the release. Automated parts of the IBM WebSphere release process.

Gathered and negotiated requirements with business partners, created J2EE software designs, led team in implementing and integrating software, extending IBM WebSphere Commerce application (J2EE, Javascript, SOAP, web serivice, AJAX, JSP, SQL), deployed software updates to the live site, supported the live site with WebSphere and Oracle database. Integrated PayPal, BillMeLater, and other third party software into our online store. Highlight was creating a single page checkout ahead of most other online shopping websites, and presenting at an IBM conference.

Consultant to Discovery Communications

Contract work for NASA.C and Perl based website tool for search and ordering of Earth observation scientific data.Scientific data processing software for analysis. COBE, EOSDIS, LBA projectsMy work on COBE helped prove the Big Bang Theory and the project principal scientists won a Nobel Prize in physics.

Computational simulations of high energy devices.Wrote Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposals and project reports.Unix system administration.

Computational models of lasers and other devices.