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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Building the future of navigation in Google Maps.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Leading the team responsible for driving, walking, and biking features in Google Maps for iOS.* Responsible for managing priorities and project selection for team of 6.* Expanded portfolio of team to include CarPlay.* Included direct management of 3 individual contributors.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Designed and implemented driving, walking, and biking features for Google Maps on iOS.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Developing top-rated applications for iPhone and iPad.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Led a team of junior engineers developing website features to assist customers with selection of item variants (colors, sizes, etc). (1 year)Then, I worked on automated merchandising website features helping customers find the right products and accessories for those products. Won internal hack day contest and developed the result into a project worth $150MM in incremental revenue annually. (2 years)

Cupertino, California, Us

Developed new website features: fully configurable address layouts, gift messaging and packaging. Improved existing website features: configure-to-order, ratings & reviews. Developed backend services including shipping methods & catalog supplements. (work performed remotely from Seattle)

Founding member of small start-up company building next-generation data preservation software. See www.tanagra.com for more info on the product. Involved development in C#/.NET for Windows. Pitched product to potential partners, assisted with product positioning, and basically had my hands is almost everything, as you'd expect with a small start-up.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Manage & mentor a team of 5 software engineers, manage all aspects of projects from business case through deployment, responsible for software and systems doing real-time personalization and product recommendations at massive scale. See www.amazon.com/recommendations

Seattle, Wa, Us

The 30th software engineer hired at the company, I've worked on most major parts of the website:* co-invented a proprietary template system and web authoring language before any standards existed in support of selling multiple product types (music, video, etc.)* rewrote gift certificate issuing, redemption, expiration, and accounting software* added ordering support for international payment methods* designed and implemented feedback system for amazon.com auctions* co-designed and implemented accounting software for amazon.com auctions* designed and implemented many community features: customer review voting, purchase circles, shared purchases, wish lists* designed and implemented numerous personalization features, managed major projects, including migration of all personalization features to target.com, managed operational systems, achieving uptime in excess of 99.9%.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Development Lead for Encarta Encyclopedia for Macintosh and Microsoft Bookshelf for Macintosh. Directed 2 contractors and worked with Windows development team to ensure cross-platform functionality for our shared code base. Shipped all of our products within 1 week of original targets.

Cupertino, California, Us

First member of Netware for PowerPC team. Performed technology evaluation, developed key components of the hardware abstraction layer, including drivers for video, serial, and application loader.