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Woodinville, WA, US

Redwood City, CA, US

Building sub meter positioning solutions.

• Agile coach and software development process consulting to firms including Telxon, Trimble, and Palm.
• Provided AWS infrastructure setup and SoH monitoring for Bay Area startup.
• Provide mobile platform product development for firms including Mary Kay and Exxon.
• Currently providing software development and project management consulting.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led team development of a large-scale network management and deployment software enabling scalable network rollouts and maintenance for all Amazon Fresh stores.
• Managed hardware validation for network switches and access points reducing network costs by 40% with higher MTBF within the manufacturing change-over time allocation.
• Developed Business Intelligence framework integrate various corporate databases with AWS Glue ETL, Python Lambdas with data published to Neptune for consumption by Sagemaker ML and Quicksight reporting increasing data.

San Francisco, California, US

• Initial “Moonlight” consulting contract for a startup in the vacation rental space and developed product integration with large property management companies.
• Built and led an offshore development team of 12 producing an IoS “Top Charts” application in six months for vacation rental consumers based on React Native.
• Developed modular integration framework for external property management systems which enabled Whimstay to have the largest property inventory of any vacation rental company.
• Developed and guided remote team in constructing full stack SOA application for managing display, billing, marketing telemetry, etc. for discount vacation rental system.
• Provided Agile / Lean mentoring on two-week Sprints with 8-week releases with a new team of remote subcontractors from various locals.
• Implement a CI/CD framework for automating mobile and server releases allowing one engineer (me) to continue development and application deployment after COVID impacted funding and dried up staff.

• Led the program to supply Microsoft Threat Intelligence to internal and external partners.
• Led development of an approach to automate Sec Ops application of attack surface reduction rules using UEBA.
• Developed an internal process for controlled “beta” software release.
• Led effort to enable Defender to perform network packet analysis for post breach detection.
• Led effort to rearchitect the Defender ML Cloud analysis with a sustained reduction of over 38% (multi-$/month).
• Obtained approval and filing for two unsupervised learning algorithms for Sec Ops workflow.

San Jose, California, US

• Ran McAfee Network Threat Response (NTR) team of 15 developers and QA globally distributed.
• Maintained two-week Agile Sprints and quarterly releases.
• Interfaced with government agencies and telcos on product roadmap.
• Team developed four “on-the-wire” detection algorithms that are integrated into multiple McAfee products.
• Enforced test-driven development methodology―increased unit test code coverage to 80%.
• Introduced build automation system to run unit tests, static analysis, integration tests, publishing to RPM Repo.

St Paul, MN, US

• Supervised team of over 25+ developers and researchers developing government integration solutions and SOA machine control applications.
• Led team implementing encryption algorithms for SmartCards based on ICAO standards winning the UK National ID award in 2008.
• 3M SPSL Oldham facility was closed by 3M in 2010 when it lost UK ePassport contract.

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Managed staff of 25+ engineers designing, building, deploying, and support of XATA’s products enabling transition to SaaS based platform for fleet management customers.
• Built offshore software competency center allowing a 24x7 development and engineering support capability.
• Designed, built and launched hardware/software SaaS platform (XATANet) from old client server model (OpCenter) creating a re-occurring revenue model for XATA.
• Left XATA to join 3M when company was acquired by Trimble.

US

• Managed team of 25+ engineers in designing, building, and deploying SaaS and wireless products.
• Led team through Dot Com implosion and restructuring.
• Designed and developed series of mobile applications for Homeland Security and logistics management.
• Left MobileAria for larger role at XATA.

Detroit, Michigan, US

• Developed hardware and software for GM/Delphi’s Advanced Development Team.
• Went up through EDS’s ESE “Phase” training program.
• Built EDS “Embedded Systems” core competency team which grew to over 100 engineers.
• Provided technical due diligence to Delphi’s M&A team on technology startups.
• Sent by Delphi to run product development team at MobileAria.

Mba, International Business

Msee, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Industrial Engineering

Mandarin Chinese Language