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El Segundo, California, Us

Led Mobile and Connected Devices application development for the world’s largest automotive media company that offers a seamless streaming experience, providing automotive enthusiasts with access to video content (SVOD, AVOD, FAST), digital articles, and magazines on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, and Fire TV platforms.• Built multiple high performing teams who used the latest development practices and technologies in mobile and tv application development to deliver highly rated products (4.8+ stars).• Drove strategic direction for technical evolution of products, launched digital magazine service and FAST TV offering across all platforms increasing both the overall revenue for the business and the number of subscribers.• Initiated and organized MotorTrend’s first Hackathon, with over a third of the company participating and focused on driving innovation with the latest generative AI technologies.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

(2017 - 2021)Led two mobile development teams that developed the core consumer T-Mobile applications on iOS and Android platforms which are used by over 25 million customers to manage their accounts, shop for the latest devices or upgrades, pay their bills or connect with customer care.• Launched a complete rewrite of the application leveraging a new backend server infrastructure to provide personalized and streamlined user experience and position the application to support key future company initiatives in customer self-service.(2015 - 2017)Managed the retail mobility development team, responsible for mobile sales applications used in all North American retail stores. • Defined and prioritized roadmap, developing and validating features to be released to improve sales experience in stores as they transitioned to 100% mobile adoption (from 3% adoption in 2015).• Created mobile ecosystem of native and hybrid iOS applications, REST services and web applications to support sales activities in retail stores.• Transitioned team to Dev-Ops model as initial pilot for T-Mobile’s UnCarrier Delivery development process transformation.• Formed Mobility Center of Excellence for T-Mobile as a governing body for strategic direction and standards for mobile retail solution.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Managed the Server and Android client development teams, responsible for the Locality product which provides mobile network performance management tools, gathering data to troubleshoot and fix critical connectivity issues for mobile field workers.• Delivered “Locality Cloud” the first SaaS hosted offering for the company, running on AWS.• Launched first Android client for the company (expanding from a purely Windows platform).• Increased scalability and performance of server by 10x on equivalent hardware, refactoring database, reporting system and platform infrastructure.• Improved agile development practices within the team, leveraging the Scrum development methodology to track and manage projects improving both execution, prioritization, and predictability.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Managed two development teams responsible for Listing Applications used by over 1.9 million sellers on Amazon’s 3rd party marketplaces who are collectively responsible for about 1/3 of all items ordered worldwide on Amazon.Volume Listing Applications Team• Defined and executed against product roadmap including the core platform architecture, international expansions and operational improvements to product performance and availability. • Built applications to support selling in 37 new business categories within Amazon marketplaces e.g. Music, Video and DVD, Sports, Musical Instruments, which were used by all large volume sellers to upload and manage their inventory on Amazon which increased sales by millions in 2009 and 2010. • Launched listings applications to expand 3rd party selling business in China and Canada for sellers.• Developed and grew team to support growing demands of business. Expanded Seattle team from 5 FTEs to 9 FTEs and 5 contractors in 2010 and recruited and set up a 7-person team in Hyderabad, India.• Drove operational excellence for mission critical systems, reducing operational load on team through root cause investigations and resolution, lowering high severity ticket inflow rate by 50% and ticket backlog from over 500 tickets to 0 tickets.Interactive Listing Applications Team• Completed a major internal initiative to deprecate a legacy platform and move millions of sellers to the current platform without any impact to their business.• Drove and delivered key initiatives including, integrating “Fulfillment by Amazon” within our listing web applications, adding support for “Offer specific images,” media category support for all professional sellers, expedited shipping options, and interactive tools for fixing listing defects.• Improved performance of interactive web applications, reducing latency at the 99th percentile by 50% and fatals by 40% while the volume of requests increased by 150% (millions of requests per day).

Generated requirements, technical strategy and architecture for feasibility study for media distribution platform for mobile commerce.

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Managed team of 20 engineers who developed the server solution for SCREEN3, an application for zero click content access on mobile devices. Implemented a highly scalable (8 million users) J2EE system running on WebLogic clusters and Oracle RAC database for delivery of content to mobile devices.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Created Java applications to test the Java Language Conversion Assistant for Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005, a tool for converting J2EE applications to the .NET environment.

Functioned as the lead at research institute and software development companies in Ireland and the US. Designed and implemented web content recommendation system and information extraction tools, web-based management and optimization tool for ad delivery on e-commerce sites, workflow management tool for the electronics industry and a distributed virtual community for schools leveraging J2EE and web services.

Led the team for commercial and residential building projects throughout Ireland and East Africa.

Higher Diploma In Computer Science, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Architecture - Barch, Architecture