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Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Responsibilities:
• Lead the teams responsible for API engineering, data systems, QA and DevOps to support consumer-facing web, mobile, and e-commerce applications.
• Work closely with the product and marketing teams to define the strategy and technical requirements for new features and follow through on project planning, execution, deployment, & operations.
• Work with senior engineers to establish software engineering best practices and observability standards, using those to mentor and guide less experienced team members.
• Take a leading role in recruiting to ensure the platform team has the members and skills to achieve our product roadmap. Achievements:
• Directed the implementation of a data and services infrastructure that is cloud native and nearly 100% serverless, allowing us to minimize AWS spend while maintaining flexible scalability and meeting all service level.

Irvine, California, US

• Responsibilities:
• Integrate new external bidders into our internal auction system that is OpenRTB compliant.
• Integrate with external exchanges to place bids for ad placements increasing the reach ofour advertising product.Achievements:
• Implemented dynamic bidding within the RTB system, lowering inventory costs by over 20%by reducing the bid amount to the lowest possible while ensuring delivery targets are met.
• Refactored RTS auction process to improve maintainability and metrics for monitoring.
• Completed RTS integrations with two external partners to increase video impressions soldon Myspace.

Beverly Hills, CA, US

• Responsibilities:
• Architect and principal developer of search and indexing infrastructure for multiple search verticals encompassing multimedia content and profiles as well as internal spam and abuse searches of comments and messaging.
• Design and performance analysis of index schemas and query strategies to attain maximum performance of a high capacity system.
• Maintain up-to-date domain knowledge of information retrieval to ensure the Myspace search product remains competitive in the social networking space.
• Work closely with product development teams to determine search system functionality required and refine requirements.
• Lead development on key projects, being responsible for development planning estimates, hardware capacity analysis, and ensuring team deliverables meet performance requirements.Achievements:

Charlotte, NC, US

Managed a team of programmers responsible for web services for credit card processing and customer data retrieval, and intranet sites for a variety of internal customers. Architect and developer responsible for development and maintenance of corporate portal (http://my.countrywide.com) utilizing ASP.NET (C# and VB.NET) and XSL transforms to aggregate and.

Universal City, California, US

Converted mission-critical command line utility to a multi-threaded application configured and monitored via a web interface using C# in order to increase operational efficiency.Developed prototypes of existing web application on the Java and C#/ASP.NET platforms for the purpose of evaluating development strategies and performance comparison.Team leader.

Created dynamic, database driven web content using PHP w/MySQL. Set up and installation of Linux-based web and database servers. Performed database administration on MySQL, and Apache web server administration on Linux servers.

San Diego, California, US

Managed operations of the Southern California region, including scheduling service calls, providing bids and price quotes, provided support for field technicians. Organized and lead cleanroom certification projects.

Performed a variety of analyses on soil and water samples for wide selection of parameters using EPA procedures and protocol.

Washington, DC, US

Responsible for maintaining proper chemistry controls of a naval nuclear reactor as well as performing contamination and radiation surveys in engineering spaces.