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Seattle

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Renton, Wa

• Managed software development teams in multiple engineering organizations.• Launched the SOA implementation of Wizards’ Customer Engagement Systems and Organized Play services.• Launched “Leagues” functionality for Magic The Gathering Online which engaged thousands of new players in casual, competitive play for draft and constructed events.• Incorporated Agile/Scrum methodologies across multiple newly formed engineering teams, establishing Agile best practices.• Established and led Community of Practice and Engineering Excellence teams for Software Development, Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, and Training.• Led “WotC-University” classes on Leadership (21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership), Software Project Management (Software Project Survival Guide), and Software Estimation (Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art)• Organized two successful organization-wide Hackathon events with over 100 participants for each event• Passionate about coaching and working with engineers to help them to attain their personal development and career goals

Greater Seattle Area

• Assisted Browsium’s key enterprise clients with migration of legacy web applications to modern browser platforms• Key contributor to design and implementation for Browsium’s “Ion” software, which allows seamless integration of Windows XP legacy ActiveX and Java applications into recent versions of Internet Explorer

Greater Seattle Area

• Worked closely with external partners at GSK and Infosys to insure seamless integration with the Fabric platform throughout all phases of the release cycle.• Architected SAML/SSO login solution for external partner access. This provided our customers the ability to access the Fabric platform services using their internal enterprise login credentials.• Architected and deployed the application framework for Fabric’s Audience Intelligence web application suite using Java and Spring MVC on an Apache/Tomcat service stack (initial release 12/2011, version 2.0 platform release 11/2012).• Designed cloud-based deployment for the initial rollout of the Fabric Audience Intelligence services in AWS (Amazon Web Services).• Performed full OWASP security threat analysis for each release of the Fabric application.

(3-month contract) Technical Project Manager for design and development of the next generation of Panopto's recording and content management system.• Streamlined engineering planning and level-set resource allocation to insure development efforts were aligned with business priorities and that the engineering team was utilized to its maximum potential.• Facilitated all sprint planning and scrum meetings.• Instituted daily ticket triage to insure support requests did not interrupt engineering team members.• Organized all bugs, tasks, and stories in Panopto’s backlog to insure that all items were clearly prioritized.• Instituted best-practices for acceptance-criteria driven planning.

• Designed and implemented the fulfillment subsystem for a multimedia retail kiosk application which delivers movies and music to SD media cards, USB thumb drives, MP3 players and MTP devices.• Implemented a USB “lockdown” system to enforce security on a retail kiosk to prevent unauthorized users gaining access to the kiosk by inserting Human Interface Devices (such as keyboards and mice) into any USB slot.• Architected and led development of a system tray application to monitor for the insertion of “Greenplay” compatible media for playback.

• Instrumental in all releases of Rhapsody desktop client.• Led engineering/QA planning and scrums for maintenance releases of Rhapsody 4.0.• Designed and implemented support for downloads of purchased and subscription content, and population of channel content for portable devices.• Designed and implemented MP3 music-store client interactions in Rhapsody desktop application• Quickly responded to requests from external business partners (e.g. Best Buy, Cox, Yahoo, Verizon VCast, and HP) for new functionality for cobranded versions of Rhapsody, providing significant new revenue opportunities.• Insured all reported defects were evaluated, assigned and tracked working directly with QA.

• Instrumental in all releases of the Zinio Reader software.• Primary architect and developer for the client-side Zinio Delivery Manager (C++/ATL/MFC).• Identified and resolved rendering bottlenecks in the Zinio Reader, which provided a 20% performance increase in page display and animation speeds.• Ported Zinio Delivery Manager to Mac OS-X 10.x as a Carbon-based CFM application.• Designed and implemented components handling all file downloads, including partial download recovery, and transactions through proxies and firewalls.

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