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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Architected and led development of FitOrbit 1.0

From 2 engineers, a pile of spaghetti code and no process, I built teams of exceptional software, QA, data warehouse and systems engineers that operate as a well-oiled machine. My teams consistently juggle long term development projects, extremely challenging research initiatives, weekly milestone sprints and production maintenance while maintaining an extremely high level of quality.My teams' hard work and creativity has led to significant intellectual property for Perfect Market. I led the patent application process for 4 inventions and personally invented the core technology that saved the company over a quarter million dollars and paved the way for our Series B round of venture capital funding. I also conceived of, designed and implemented the related articles content exchange advertising network that is the foundation of the company's business today. This network enables quick prototypes of yield ranking user interfaces and business models.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

As a trusted software engineering and management consultant, I provide my customers with solid leadership through challenging circumstances. One customer, a security software vendor, brought me in to save a struggling project that was 6 weeks behind schedule and rapidly approaching its release date. I clarified the business requirements, simplified the code and got the project back on schedule.Another customer, a major entertainment conglomerate, was having trouble with personalities on their development staff. My ostensible task was to build a test-driven development framework, but my biggest contribution was to mend the rift between management and the engineers. Other projects included: * Consumer-grade website development for Idealab. Delivered soup to nuts in 6 weeks * Internal tools and test automation development for Idealab and operating companies * Design, architecture and development of search engine for Norwegian venture group

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When Omnilux needed to redevelop its product for standards compliance, they turned to me to make it all come together. I managed a complex team including product managers, software engineers and off-shore consultants and coordinated schedules of hardware, networking, manufacturing and quality assurance teams to make it happen without a hitch.To assure my engineers always had the clearest possible direction, I worked closely with business teams to make sure that requirements were clear and concise, even writing several product requirements documents. I translated each PRD into engineering specifications that made design, development and integration painless. * Successfully groomed promising engineer into a team leader * Continued hands-on development while taking on project & software management

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Designed and developed network management software for free space optics (wireless) meshed network; C

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West Hollywood, Ca, Us

Search algorithm design, development and optimization; mod_perl development

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

As a senior software engineer at PETsMART.com, I worked assiduously to rid the system of the bugs and performance problems that had become accepted as the normal price of doing business. I fixed connection leaks, deadlocks and database queries, integrated a new application server and implemented apache modules to bring performance up to my standards. In the process, I reduced the time it took to check out from 30 seconds to 3. * Led engineering effort on system re-architecture project to abstract our system to support multiple brands, which we completed in 5 weeks. This enabled us to bring another brand, a multi-million dollar asset, onto a modern, user friendly platform, essentially salvaging it. * Developed high-speed content management, rendering and recommendation system. Saved over half a million dollars * Developed package management and release system in 1 week. Saved hundreds of hours of mistake-prone work for engineering team

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At Free-PC, later purchased by eMachines, I developed a distributed system for analyzing large volumes of data. Using that system, I performed analytics that gave the business early warning on fundamental flaws in the business model, buying time to make urgently needed changes.

Assigned to a project in crisis as an auxiliary resource, I used my spare time at North Communications to analyze and solve a pervasive architectural flaw in the way we were developing HTML applications. I invented a library analogous to today's Prototype javascript library and created a way to develop procedurally in what previously had been a strictly sequential development environment. This breakthrough, along with my initiative, catapulted me to a team lead position on a complete rewrite of the product, which we finished in 6 months to version 1.0's 18 months. We received our first customer sign off before version 1.0. * Identified and solved security flaw that would have enabled janitors to remove cash from ATM machines * Led team of software engineers, HTML authors and web producers to implement automated teller machine

Computer Science

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