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Develop complete Linux computer solutions for professionals.* Develop product vision documents. Manage 8 departments with up to 5 direct reports.* Implement SOX-compliant controls for all departments. Repos include DynaOrg, Google Workplace, GitHub, SuiteCRM, and Google Groups.* Coordinate suppliers, software development, QA, assembly, and support for 12 unique products with 19 primary configurations.* Direct and create promotional material, including photos, solid models, renderings, videos, web pages, marketing copy.* Identify and write integration systems for superior product features. Highlights include FocusRx, hardware config, one-touch disk rollback, power management, and libs for per-model app support.* Create and package Kubuntu Focus Tools to improve customer happiness and minimize support costs. Highlights include the power widget and welcome wizard.* Implement TDD to ensure continuing quality for all systems and apps.* Write Node.js CMS for marketing site. Train other for use. Features include asset compression, temples, auto-cache-bust, visual deploy, Git integration.* Create searchable Guided Solutions (HOWTOs) to maximize customer satisfaction and minimize support costs.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Design and develop client user tools for AI-powered customer service management.* Mentor team of 4 to develop scalable and responsive AI chat clients, including WebChat, Slack, MS-Teams, Email, SalesForce, ServiceNow, and Facebook.* Design and implement responsive, high-volume clients using Node.js, HTML5, SVG, CSS3, hi_score, VueJS, and React.* Write and package the WebChat app to deliver all logic, content, images, and styling in one small, highly compressed client executable. * Implement TDD with near-100% coverage to prevent regressions. Add Git commit hook to block check-in until all regression, coverage, and lint tests pass. * Conceive, style, code, and present intelligent chat integrations for large clients, including Bank of America, Walmart, and McAfee using ServiceNow and Salesforce.

Creating designs, processes, techniques, and feedback systems to ensure optimal full-life-cycle development of products. Key goals include rationalizing tool sets, minimizing cycle times, ensuring living documents across the organization and compliance with PCI, SOX, ISO requirements. Emphasis is on web application products and Linux-based embedded systems.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

On 2015-03-23 I started collaborating on a next-generation product.

I worked on rationalizing JavaScript libraries and enhancing knowledge and techniques. Zoosk laid off 15% of their staff in mid-January 2015 in response to increasing competition, and I asked to be included in this first round.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Fascinating development of a SAAS serving 100m+ users per day using SPA, Mobile, and HP/HA technologies.I was hired to architect and write a mobile browser client. The client is seen by perhaps 100 million end-users every day. At that time, it only worked on desktop browsers and Qualaroo wanted to exceed the competition. Here are the objectives we set and acheived during my tenure:1. Architect and implement a mobile browser implementation of Qualaroo's non-obtrusive overlays and surveys.2. Unify the mobile and desktop clients so that all phones, tablets, and desktops used the same code that adjusted to the form factor. This reduced maintenance cost and improved quality.3. Improve the reliability of our solution by implementing best practice such as TDD, coding conventions, regression tests, lint tests, commit hooks, code review, injection debugging techniques, and staged deployment.4. "Code smart" by preparing the client for new features we expected to need at no or little additional cost.5. Use a client test and build system that had minimal overhead with maximum relevance to code we released.6. Protect ourselves from blatant code plagerism that we were seeing from our competitors. I tackled that by using a "superpack" algorithm I had previously developed. This decreased code size and made reverse engineering much more expensive.7. Improve the "footprint" of our code. Our SAAS product makes only a single HTTP request for a file that delivers everything to the end user - the data, the logic, all presentation assets - in a package about the size of a medium-size JPEG image. The CSS techniques rely on a new architecture that provides maximum flexibility and performance.8. Leave a clean, maintainable, well documented code base that can be managed and extended by one good developer.I feel good about the work I accomplished, and that Qualaroo is poised for continued success in the SAAS market.

Currently doing a little consulting before moving to a new company.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Select technologies and lead the development of the next generation UI for the interconnection of web services. Technologies include JavaScript, AJAX, SVG, HTML5, CSS3.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Responsible for client design and implementation of a highly interactive, cross-browser, web application using JavaScript, jQuery, HTML 5, CSS 3, AJAX, BOSH, XMPP. Responsibility includes coordinating requirements for application interaction with stakeholders, developing multiple wireframe alternatives, leading design reviews, and implementation of design selections.

Miami, Florida, Us

PurePhoto is a premium online photo site targeted for the pro-sumer market.Responsibilies include setting goals to meet business objectives, distilling this into architecture, defining and managing well-scoped (SMART) tasks with our distributed team, testing, and deploying the resulting software.PurePhoto uses many novel techniques and cutting-edge technologies to provide an interactive experience approaching that of a desktop application.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

* Oversaw Development and Maintenance with up to 5 direct reports of high-volume, high availability E-Commerce Apache mod_perl application written in Object Oriented Perl 5.6.1 using DBI, Mason, HTML4.01, CSS* Total Volume of 2 clusters Europe and US was approximately 1.6 Billion Transactions per Week over 74 servers, with 8 MySQL servers* Consolidated and Prioritized requirements of 4 business groups through liaison and regular meetings* Oversaw full software data center migration in EU from London to Stockholm with no down time. Wrote migration plan with input from systems.* Reduced Release Preparation time by a factor of 10** Automated testing, speeding deployment and improving quality** Developed well-scoped specifications with business** Defined SCMS and maintenance systems** Established collaborative documentation process* Specified and Coded Performance Advanced Features for the platform such as Custom parameter tracking and E-Commerce syndication, including wheretobuy.AMD.com* Designed Structured Training and Mentored Developers** Interviewed and Assessed dozens of developers for our team and others* Introduced Unified Management Controls** Issue tracking and performance metrics** Detailed project reporting and analysis, automated daily reports** Secure search of knowledge base documents** Distributed project management, dynamic ticket wizard** Structured applicant interviewing, assessment, and tracking** Product life cycle wizard, detailed code standards** Source Control Management Integration

Various system maintenance scripts, including automation for XML-base rcp-style file duplication. Also created a modified Gnoppix Linux boot CD to rapidly install and configure WebSphere controllers. It copied raw partition images and then the install script prompted for instance-specific details. Worked like a charm - One boot, done.

Managed a team of 8. The company had two intersecting missions:* Provide IT services to a consortium of related companies* Develop internet-based enterprise management softwareWe were working to commercialize the software we had developed to manage my prior start-up which I had just sold. The software had great promise, and was well ahead of its time. However, funding ran short after the economic hardship following 9/11. I still miss the very talented team we had assembled.

Co-Founder and primary initial investor in Tier 1 engineering and design services firm. Grew the company to 25 individuals with 8 departmental reports before sale to a competitor.Designed and implemented web-based management controls and procedures for all aspects of the business, including accounting, human resources, IT, operations, and sales and marketing.Developed top-ranked, on-line portal, which provided 50% of our sales leads and facilitated communications with our customers.Mentored employees on variational solid modelling, numerical analysis, SEO, software development, and other areas associated with vehicle and general product design and manufacture.

* Led consulting on pilot to develop first production body panel using next-generation 3D parametric solid modeling methods * Created 300 pages of quality web pages in 1997. Much content was later adopted by a major automotive client. This was approximately 1/3 of the content of our 200 person office intranet* Developed software requirements and concepts documents. * Recognized for prolific creation and high quality, winning both the All-Star award and Most Valuable Player* Earned opportunity to lead consulting team in Hiroshima, Japan for Mazda group

Bse, Industrial Design

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