- Drove continuous enhancements to unprioritized areas, including new features and technology. Consistently improved codebase with every project. Some changes were featured by Wirecutter.- Fostered a culture of continuous improvement on product with 30M active users by leading directly and through example. Emphasized the importance of code reviews, unit testing, and ongoing learning.- Learned SwiftUI and initiated team workshops to upskill the team. Spearheaded SwiftUI architecture research.- Researched and planned adoption of clean architecture, successfully convincing the team of its benefits. Executed the adoption in phases with the whole team, which deepened the team's understanding of project configuration.- Pioneered migration to GitHub Actions CI. Strategized using software principles after the initial approach failed. Migrated iteratively while keeping the team informed.- Introduced key developer experience improvements, making it a team priority. Proactively addressed pain points.- Promoted breaking projects into vertically-integrated slices just in time to reduce front-loaded planning. Advocated for early integration with mocked data to reduce end-project risks and facilitate frequent functional demos.

Team Lead: ShurePlus Play- Designed and implemented customer-facing features- Developed and integrated an extensible framework for BLE device control- Drove integration with consumer Bluetooth headphone product, with outside FW team- Led highly functional multinational app team to AppStore release, coordinated with hardware launch- Converted Objective-C to Swift and managed boundary with remaining code- Rapidly learned Swift and Objective-C from self-service resources- Pushed team culture of software disciplines: SOLID principles and unit testing- Successfully led adoption of agile, including sprint planning, demos, estimation, releases

- Developed application features to support primary product requirements- Wrote hardware drivers for integration of LED, capsense, etc using UART, SPI, I2C, interrupts, GPIOs- Integrated with DSP, FPGA teams and their components- Contributed design and implementation to software platform including drivers, file system, network- Pushed code sharing discipline for common elements- Participated in schematic reviews to support software interests in hardware design

- Led SQA efforts for the the Shure QLX-D wireless microphone product during the entire product cycle.- Took over as System Engineer for QLX-D, managing requirements and liaising between the marketing and software teams.- Developed UI concepts as part of a team for QLX-D.

QA Team Lead (software), System Architect, Elektrobit/Ford Sync ProjectManaged software QA team on-site at Elektrobit for Ford’s European version of Sync software, innovated and designed adaptable testing strategy, compiled team knowledge, coordinated with dev team in Germany.-Achieved final target launch date and intermediate drop dates; set and executed productivity targets-Designed efficient and comprehensive test cases from Ford’s product requirements-Independently managed on-site team of 4 engineers through 20 month software release cycle-Assessed individual performance and implemented corrective action plans where required-Developed and maintained team reporting and testing tools with VBA/Excel macros

Network Engineer, General Motors (GM) ProjectConfigured firewalls, load balancers, switches, routers per customer requirements, supported and maintained GM’s large production, pre-production and development environments, allocated IP addresses.-Configured Checkpoint firewalls, F5 Big IP and Cisco CSS load balancers, and Cisco switches and routers-Independently upgraded hardware and software of entire clustered development firewall system-Administered quality team (QMS) to help the network engineering group adhere to quality standards