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Provo, Ut, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Localytics is the leading marketing and analytics platform for mobile apps. Localytics works with some of the world's most well-known brands such as eBay, HBO, ESPN, Salesforce, and The New York Times. We help our clients create great experiences for their users and maximize profitability, engagement, lifetime value, and loyalty. Our systems store, process and analyze over 5 billion data points per day on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS).As an Engineering Director, I lead the front end team, building our React/Redux web app, which our customers use to access powerful analytics about who is using what in their mobile apps. They use that insight to send targeted and personalized push messages and in-app notifications to further engage their users.Specific accomplishments:- Align efforts with a long-term vision for product and technology roadmaps- Collaborate with a leadership team (VP of Engineering, VP of Product) to align with the company mission- Measure and iterate team operations according to a quarterly OKRs process- Mentor and facilitate career growth for direct reports- Hire, grow and manage large team of Ruby and JavaScript engineers to develop modern web app in React/Redux- Implemented 360 review process for engineering team- Designed, led and developed Scala project to provide fault-tolerant reliability to ingestion pipeline responsible for 5+ billion data points daily.** Check out our engineering blog - http://eng.localytics.com/

Austin, Tx, Us

Work together with the COO on coordinating the delivery of each solution, owning the oversight oftechnical strategy and technical aspects of the engagement. Ensure the technical viability of thesolution being proposed, and that the technical assets of the company are properly being leveraged. Develop and optimize technical strategy for delivering customer solutions.

Boston, Ma, Us

Played a key role in the creation of intellectual property and its continued evolution. Created technology strategy and vision, driving innovation into the products. Helped transform the business from no substantial revenue to a high growth analytic company exceeding $25M in revenue. Ensured product is used to its full potential, and guided future product direction by directly engaging customers and partners through onsite visits, webinars and user conference presentations. Acted as a passionate customer advocate, who listened to how business analysts and IT professionals use their software and brought their needs front and center into the engineering decisions of the business.Specific Accomplishments:• Created Lavastorm’s flagship Analytic Engine product’s technology strategy to drive the roadmap in the areas of Ease of Use and Visualization, Big Data Analytics and the Marketplace Model.• Reimagined release and delivery process of key components, allowing faster time to market for new functionality. • Engaged Telstra, PwC, tw telecom, and other customers and partners, ensuring the product is being used to its full potential, and to inform and guide future product direction.• Worked with technology analyst firms (Gartner, Forrester) to identify opportunities and market needs, and help position Lavastorm best in the market.• Delivered user group addresses, webinars, and training sessions on market advantages and differentiators, specific product use, and future roadmap; remote and on site in America, Europe and Australia.• Established and nurtured thriving community of 1000+ users of software and many thousands of posts in company online forum.

Boston, Ma, Us

Conceived and designed architecture and key components for multi-tiered enterprise platform for business assurance. Created and designed key aspects of 5G visual language that performs highly configurable data transformation and analytics used to rapidly capture flexible business rules to identify discrepancies in a disparate, heterogeneous environment. Specific Accomplishments:• Defined and co-created the BRAINscript language, an easy to use configuration language for the visual 5G modeling tool.• Led redesign of GUI, core components and the advanced OO behavior and interactions of 5G components.• Conducted training sessions enabling partners to use Lavastorm’s applications within their customer engagements.• Worked onsite in Europe, Australia, and the US with various customers to ensure best and proper use and guidelines of software.

Boston, Ma, Us

Managed the platform engineering group. Created early versions of Lavastorm’s flagship Analytical Engine to be used as an application platform. Led teams to build portions of platform and developed portions myself. Delivered prototype applications and platform to early adopters, worked with customers to implement solutions using product. Brought customer needs back into future product versions. Supported sales efforts and customer implementations. Product involves UNIX and Windows, using C++, Python, Java, JSP, Oracle.Specific Accomplishments:• Implemented a product prototype in a collaborative effort with the customer resulting in multi-million dollar savings. Performed in all aspects of project: pre-sales, sales, architecture, development, deployment, client-side training and final handoff.• Developed, in real-time, a customer solution using Lavastorm’s product, resulting in initial savings of 20 million dollars.• Led the platform engineering group, responsible for developing internal technologies that enabled rapid development and deployment of new applications. • Managed team of 10 (developers, testers, technical writer, IT).

Boston, Ma, Us

Conceived and designed architectures for complex multi-tiered web solutions with large scale database backends and high volume transactions requiring performance and scalability considerations. Technically responsible for teams of engineers to develop and deliver these systems, while participating as engineer to implement portions concurrently. Solutions involved UNIX and Windows platforms, using C++, Oracle, IIS and other third party software. Specific Accomplishments:• Managed team of 9 for multi-million dollar web application delivering personalized news and quotes to the end user in real time. Responsible for all technical aspects of the project from design to delivery. The end application was a C++ app on the PC, and communicated through web servers to Oracle.• Created a dynamic reloadable framework to allow greater uptime while performing maintenance. Designed a distributed real-time stock price data system, using a self-created middleware multi-cast distribution model, avoiding database and network congestion. • Rescued imperiled project as replacement Technical Lead for team of 7. Managed QA, delivery, and customer expectations in project deployment. Succeeded in a project turn-around to a technically viable solution and a pleased client.

Consulted with corporate pharmacy support IT, assisted in roll out of major upgrade to all pharmacy back end systems for pharmacist support.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Developed cross department enterprise collaboration and document workflow process, captured and enabled with LiveLink software.Specific Accomplishments:• Performed systems level development for workflow software, using UNIX and NT systems and the LiveLink enterprise solution.• Mapped current business workflow for an Air Force division, and redesigned for better efficiency and electronic augmentation.

Lowell, Ma, Us

Planned and instructed courses in Computer Science.Specific Accomplishments:• Organization of Programming Languages, graduate level• Operating Systems• Computer Architecture• Introduction to Computer Science

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Conceived, designed, developed & implemented object oriented data communications & systems level coordinating software, incorporating TCP/IP over ATM. Managed Communication and Coordination Subsystem team of 4 engineers. Used C++ on UNIX platforms. Design methodologies included use cases, object model (Rational Rose), real time embedded, multitasking, multi threading, polymorphism, daemons, proxies, and process spawning.Specific Accomplishments:• Designed, coded & implemented a portable, lightweight object request broker (LORB) for systems level coordination & communications, including initialization & setup. The LORB used TCP/IP over ATM. The LORB included its own API, a data encoding scheme (floating point, fixed point), packed buffer storage, and capability to serialize objects.Ported the LORB to Windows 95, VxWorks, Solaris, and IRIX.• Designed, coded & implemented a LORB handler framework to standardize ways of addressing data handling, ports, & connections to other subsystems. Various LORB handlers were spawned by daemons, reachable at recognized proxies, and capable of spawning objects. Implemented a handler for animation and graphics station.• Managed entire subsystem (technical and personnel) of multi-million dollar naval contract.

Worked on a real-time distributed financial news database system, with front-ends on both the PC and UNIX platforms. Coded in C.Specific Accomplishments:• Created and maintained real-time line handlers to retrieve data for database storage; designed to be fault-tolerant, with redundancies and fail-safes to avoid data loss or duplication.• Engineered distributed server applications based on TCP/IP and IPC protocols for profiling stories real-time.• Worked at client sites with customers to solve operational problems.Clients included NASDAQ and NYSE.

Bs/Ms, Computer Science

Hs, College Prep