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Palo Alto

• Designed and built REST/HATEOAS integration API's for our cloud management microservices platform. Successfully adopted with minimal effort by customers, partners, and internal users.
• Introduced lifecycle management into database schema allowing for fully automated upgrades.
• Built a REST client (based on spring/shell) for command-line based integration with our cloud management platform.
• Enabled successful integrations with our cloud management platform, for a number of clients.
• Contributed several items to the VMWare api standards committee, helping to standardize interfaces across VMware products and ease client adoption.

San Jose, California

• Designed and built a new Content Management, Delivery, and Entitlement platform with multi-lingual, multi-screen, and multi-tenant capabilities to replace earlier Sezmi systems and become the company’s flagship.
• Designed systems to scale effectively, including out of the box support for all RFC 2616 caching mechanisms. Squid reverse proxy caching of all content queries.
• Designed and built entitlement system to support purchase, rental, tiered subscription, and free content, integration with 3rd party payment / billing systems.
• Built an integration solution with Tribune Media Systems content feeds.
• Designed integration solutions for TotalMovie for multiple ratings authorities and Sony BIVL.
• Enabled third parties developing SmartTV, and STB clients for our platform.

• Developed, and manage product requirements advertising management and provisioning applications working closely with cross-functional teams.
• Devised systems to substantially reduce error rates and increase productivity, in the advertising provisioning related processes.
• Providee management tools including dashboard visibility into daily operations as well as historical activities.
• Produced functional specifications
• Managed offshore development and delivery
• Ensured timely, tested, high quality deliverables.

San Francisco Bay Area

- Developed requirements (for TiVo), and design solutions Java/Tomcat/Mysql based solutions for their advertising related content management and delivery systems. Improved end-user productivity through use of workflow design and process automation.- Reduced human error rates to near zero. Improving goodwill with TiVo’s accounts and profitability. - Led.

Santa Clara, CA

- Managed the development team responsible for building a turnkey management application and api's for the companies DSL copper loop diagnostic equipment.- Enabled fully automated installations and field upgrades, eliminating the need to involve personnel, reducing costs to near zero, and drastically improved customer goodwill.- Created a proxy based.