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New York, Ny, Us

Paradise is a software development company that specializes in mobile and web applications. Our clients range from large local non-profits to venture-backed early-stage Silicon Valley startups.Paradise offered the first mobile development bootcamps on iOS and Android in Puerto Rico, and raised funds from the Puerto Rico Science Trust to provide scholarships for college students.

Helping and supporting tech founders grow from Puerto Rico; on anything the founders need but usually on Crowdfunding, Bluetooth, and Customer Development.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Led and mentored a team of five iOS engineers distributed across multiple time zones in the US.• Lead engineer for two iOS apps – ReceiptHog and Shoparoo – with millions of customers.• Guided and contributed to major UX re-designs, re-factoring and overall modernization.• Resolved all major technical debt identified and achieved over 50% conversion to Swift.• Improved CI to streamlined production deployment.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Principal engineer for two iOS apps – ReceiptHog and Shoparoo – with millions of customers.• Major UI overhaul to support safe area layout (i.e. iPhone X and later notch-esque devices). • Localized all apps to French-Canadian to support Canadian-based customers.• Identified, documented and created a plan to address technical debt.• Revamped CI to automate deployment of QA builds and testing.

• IoT startup that launched one of the first Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) DIY development boards in the market. • The BLEduino was crowdfunded on Kickstarter, raised over $75K, and was distributed in over 60 countries. • Techstars (2013) and Alphalab Gear (2013).

Greater New York City Area

Stography is a storytelling mobile platform that allows people to create stories together.

Developed a prototype Windows 7 Phone application for mobile access to Rock Solid's Citizens Services Platform - Respond© Designed and completed usability inspections tests for STAFF-M©.Created customized financial reports for Microsoft Dynamics GP platform.

Greater Boston Area

Created a Universal Web Service Ontology based on OWL-S. This ontology supports SOAP and RESTful interfaces. Furthermore, created a Semantic Actor for the Kepler Environment capable of handling the universal ontology.

Greater Boston Area

Researched existing technologies on semantic markup for web services and proposed candidate architecture for a semantic service registry. Built an OWL-S infrastructure to register web services and search semantically, a richer and more descriptive service registry.

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Migrated all of SCA FP components to provide remote execution and allow functionality on Moonstone automation framework and zOS. Fixed and improved ATOMs automation framework, and enabled LGT framework.

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Increased the efficiency of automated testing in WebSphere SOA Feature Pack, using ATOMs.Fixed and improved WAS and SOA FP source code, performed manual testing to verify functionality.Lead small teams in charge of SOA FP various components to complete and report our daily regression tests.