• Technical vision/strategy and product owner for a suite of 9+ educational mobile, desktop and web-based applications/games.• Team of 60+ with multiple Director and Sr. Management level reports.• All aspects of resource management with a focus on diversity and inclusion. Established a culture committee with a focus on recognition and improving company culture and job satisfaction. Evaluated employee performance and issued awards, increases, constructive feedback/mentorship, promotions, and terminations when necessary.• Introduced modern, industry standard processes and SDLC to engineering, product, and QA teams, resulting in the ability to accurately estimate and deliver against deadlines and schedules while identifying gaps in resources and ownership.• Established teams in a distributed environment supporting a 24-hour work cycle across the US, Brazil, and India with a focus on remote and hybrid work.• Hands-on product and technology owner for stealth project with a strong focus on AI/ML/DL, NLP and ChatGPT. Leveraging both Azure and AWS cognitive services with voice signature detection and a Flutter/Dart front-end.• Lead architecture, design and implementation of proprietary data lake/warehouse leveraging AWS data architecture services. Managed Data Science and BI teams with a strong focus on proprietary adaptive algorithms, analytics, machine learning and A/B Testing.• Presented technical strategy and product roadmap to board, investors, and strategic partners. • Led major efforts focused on crash and ANR reduction, as well as API performance, data anonymization and pseudonymization including, architectural re-design/re-factor of legacy mobile client codebase with a focus on modularity, defensive programming, and code-reuse, resulting in performance and load time reductions of up to 30% and overall product stability and ANR rate improvements up to 40%, as well as a significant increase in team velocity.• Acting Chief Security Officer, COPPA, FERPA, GDPR

• Technical strategy owner for #1 Top Grossing App in the iOS and Google Play App Stores for the Education and Kids categories, ABCmouse.• Recruited, trained, managed, and lead teams of over 50 Engineers (front and backend), Technical Artists, QA, UI/UX, management, and DevOps resources, located onsite and overseas across ~8 teams.• Evaluated employees’ performance and issued awards, increases, constructive feedback, promotions and terminations when necessary.• Lead technical migration from legacy native iOS, Android and Web code bases to a single Unity 3D code base for all products.• Created and rolled out training and hiring and interview plans for all engineering roles• Responsible for setting up and incubating new products/teams while preparing them for production and handoff. Some projects included a AAA MMO, digital reader application for kids, and a video and movie streaming application. • Regularly presented/spoke at conferences on technical subjects and company culture• Built/lead offshore teams (in-house and vendors) consisting of more than 20 developers across Brazil, Ukraine, Denmark, India, and Canada. • Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of all technology.• Acted as company representative while liaising with partners and vendors traveling and meeting regularly to establish and maintain positive relationship goals, promotions, and technical product roadmaps (Apple, Google, Samsung, and Amazon).• Established company wide standards, conventions, and best practices for Unity and C#• Built DevOps team and lead the implementation and roll out of our Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline.• Tech stack consists of C#, C++, Objective C, Java, Cloud Computing (AWS and Azure), Unity, Photon, PHP, MySQL, Python, MSSQL, Jenkins, Flutter, Dart, Appium, Selenium.

• Developed and executed strategic plans to establish the company as a leader in mobile social gaming experiences and to promote revenue, profitability, and growth as an organization.• Identified technology trends and evolving social behaviors that may support or impede the success of the business.• Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of all technology.• Communicated the company’s technology strategy to investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders.• Selected and managed company staff and outsourced vendors who assisted in the implementation of the application and services.• Lead architecture and development of mobile gaming and application framework using Unity3D.• Hands-on architect and developer for Cloud based Backened as a Service (BaaS) designed to integrate with mobile gaming framework. RESTFUL Web API design and development.Unity 4.x, 5.x, C#, WCF REST, WebApi 2, MS SQL Server, Azure.

• Lead architecture for telecommunications SaaS that inserts audible actionable messages before call is connected. SS7 protocol development. Managed offshore and on-site developer and IT resources. Reported directly to CEO.• Principal Architect, Designer, and Developer for ASP.NET MVC enterprise web solution connecting independent musicians with a means of promoting and marketing their music, custom eCommerce solution and reporting. Integration with major social media API’s. MSSQL Server 2008, .NET 4.5• Performed complete technical audit and gap analysis for cloud based content aggregation and distribution platform for audio and audio-visual media content for Australian based company Regency Media. Provided extensive documentation on current system as well as proposed improvements, optimizations, and other updates. Reported directly to CEO, 6 weeks spent on-site in Melbourne, Australia.• Established process, best practices, as well as coding and design standards for Amsterdam based AMX Engamesment. Managed team of 9+ mobile development and creative resources• Principal Architect and UI Developer for OSX Cocoa audio source separation application with cloud based backend (TRAX) for Audionamix, Inc., spent 3 weeks on-site in Paris, France. Software named Best in Show at NAAM 2014. Objective C, XCode 5, and QT

• Principal architect, designer, and developer behind Technicolor's MediaEcho mobile iOS based second screen platform. Platform has been successfully used in the creation of multiple iOS apps including, The King’s Speech and The Sons of Anarchy iPad apps.• Sole developer working with Objective C and XCode 3.x/4 to build a robust, re-useable component based architecture that would enable junior development resources to create unique, media rich, iOS apps within a short period of time. Feature set included: dynamic content streaming, dynamic application configuration and updates (w/o the need to re-submit to apple), full shopping cart customization and integration, one tap purchase ability, major social network integration, online and offline support modes, custom animated interface, user based profile management, customized application settings integration, and more• Principal architect and sole developer behind BSD socket based API responsible for handling the communication between Wi-Fi enabled BD players and iOS enabled devices. Major entertainment companies have requested to license the source code and was named on pending patent for design and implementation• Lead all architecture and design efforts for proprietary BDLive authoring framework designed to compete with RDBC. The framework would allow developers to easily use the component, based architecture to build custom BD applications combining any combination of the extensive feature set with a 2-4 week turn around.• Traveled to India multiple times to work directly with offshore development team. Managed offshore development team remotely from Burbank during project life-cycle. Upon successful project completion time to ship BDLive applications had been reduced by over 45% and overall product quality had increased by over 35%

• Lead/Managed Development, QA, and Design teams consisting of 5 SDE’s, 1.5 STE’s, 6 Designers, and 1 Development Manager• Lead roll-out and implementation of an enterprise class CMS solution providing a central content management solution for over 130 editors spanning over 37 B2B and B2C websites. The solution aggregated content and functionality from over 12 separate custom CMS applications. Average monthly traffic to all websites is over 3 million unique hits• Maintained CMS solution by providing customizations, enhancements, support, defect resolution, and documentation for all users• Architected and lead implementation of custom build and deployment pipeline for CMS solution as well as the 30+ websites. Pipeline was built using a custom web based control panel, allowing full automation of deployment and testing across QA, UAT, and BETA environments before reaching production. Initiatives lead to an approximate 73% improvement in the discovery of post release bugs, and an 86% reduction in deployment costs and time• Lead the successful re-architecting and implementation of a previously failed custom proprietary Lead Collection System saving over 140K in potential contractor fees. Technologies used included C#, .NET 3.5, LINQ, CSS, and JavaScript• Maintained strong client facing presence with focus on building solid, positive individual and group relationships• SCRUM / Agile software development methodologies used throughout SDLC• Consistently identified, recruited, and hired exceptional talent. Ensured that appropriate development and career plans were in place for every team member

• Lead team in the successful design, development, and deployment of an enterprise level test automation framework using C#, WCF, Art of Test, .NET 3.5, SQL Server 05, Team Foundation Server, and Visual Studio Team System 08 in a Windows Server 2008 environment • Enhanced existing application lifecycle to include test automation framework using PowerShell, MSBuild, MSTest, and TFSDeployer. Efforts lead to a 60% increase in code coverage, 40% improvement to code quality and 70% improvement in test design and development. • Reduced time to release by ⅓ and required release resources by ½ while improving release quality by over 35%• Lead design and development efforts for a series of tools used across teams to assist in the provisioning of new environments and CMS deployment verification• Successfully built and grew team while improving relationships and communication between groups • Incorporated Art of Test into development environment leading to an improvement in web test maintenance by over 55% and an improvement in web test value and quality by over 35%• Lead analysis, design, and implementation of custom PERF environment, test suite, and metrics collecting mechanism using VSTS, C# coded web tests, PERFMON, SQL Server 2005. Configurable DEV hooks were added to solution source allowing request/response times to be measured and saved at service, database, and method levels. Metrics could then be queried from SQL Server 2005 using SSRS.• Hosted monthly presentations to Executive Management increasing team visibility and responsibility by over 45%• Introduced a Test Development Life Cycle which has allowed for tests to be developed in parallel with development code thus decreasing time required to complete testing by over 20%• SCRUM / Agile software development methodologies used throughout lifecycle

• On site vendor for Minecode LLC • Member of the Windows Live Mobile Team • Managed team of 4+ SDET’s• Provided several different teams with detailed weekly stress trends analysis and live site comparisons• Responsible for time tracking, approval, and reporting for team of SDET’s• Performed daily stress and performance related tests on several server clusters. Monitored test results and recorded in detail any bugs or anomalies with the test tools or test scenarios being run• Used Microsoft proprietary tools Tool Shed and MSP Tool in conjunction with Performance Monitor, Netmon, and Windows Debugger to complete analysis on a daily basis.• From concept to completion, designed and developed extensive log parsing and analysis tool using Visual Studio 2005, C#, and XML• Using VSTT regularly performed and monitored SQL Server 2005 related stress scenarios as well as several other stress scenarios for a variety of Windows Mobile protocols

• Using C#, ASP.NET, Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005 as well as SQL Server 2000/2005 provided 24/7 support for several Bell Canada enterprise web applications, web services, and Windows services used for the administration and provisioning of VoIP customers in a CMMi level 3 environment• Analyzed and updated source code for performance enhancement, bug fixes, and additional functionality • Responsible for coordinating deployments of all web applications and services during maintenance windows and sanity testing these applications• Source control applications CCC Harvest and Vault used to manage all source code. Workflow tools AR Remedy and Remedy Volt used to manage and track all incidents• Regularly traveled for training and to interface with client sometimes for up to six weeks at a time• Responsible for interviewing and selection of potential new employees• Trained new and existing employees on all aspects of applications and deployments