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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Member of the mobile infrastructure team in the Connected Living organization for the Xfinity Home app which is a mobile app written in Swift. I am focused on new feature development as well as providing iOS mobile application infrastructure that allows for other teams to contribute new features via a library based extensibility model.

Cupertino, California, Us

New York, New York, Us

Senior member of the iOS engineering team for the MLB App, formally known as AtBat where I have architected and implemented a new streamlined MLB watchOS companion app achieving the goal of reduced footprint and significant improvements in user responsiveness over the previous version. In addition to contributing to various feature enhancements to the MLB App, I am collaborating on a brand new enhanced video playback subsystem which is to be retrofitted throughout the existing MLB App. Using this new video playback subsystem I am currently developing new features related to video streaming using Apple’s SwiftUI framework and integrating them into the MLB app which has a large codebase consisting of both Swift and Objective-C.

Watson Cloud Computing GroupSugar.IQ Release - Senior member of the mobile team for Sugar.IQ which brings together IBM’s cognitive computing and mobile application development expertise with Medtronic's expertise in diabetes management. The system provides real-time personalized insights for diabetic patients, uncovers blood glucose impacting behaviors, allows users to inquire about food impacts that influence glucose levels, and sends appropriate alerts to users. The mobile application for iOS is implemented almost completely in Swift and makes use extensive of Core Data, Auto Layout, UIKit, and REST communication services. Aside from implementing various portions of the user interface on which I worked closely with user interface designers, I was also responsible for developing a proposal for and implementing the collection of many categories of HealthKit, Location, and Motion data in the mobile app. This additional data allows the cloud based analytic system to more accurately analyze the patient’s condition when generating insightful information for the patient. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sugar-iq-diabetes-assistant/id1145539101?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D2https://www.medtronicdiabetes.com/products/sugar.iq-diabetes-assistant

Cognitive Computing Department - (12/2012 - 9/2016)Future States - Led the architecture workgroup for a novel imagined future timeline projection system which was initiated as a project for an IBM client. Worked closely with the customer to understand their use cases and requirements which informed the high-level system architecture proposal that was presented back to the customer for approval. The system supports a pluggable architecture that allows for putting together workflows of projection engines. Technologies leveraged in the implementation include Node-RED, Titan Graph DB along with custom built components implemented in Java and Python.

Safer Planet - Filled a dual role as both an architect and developer overseeing the architecture as well as participating in the development of a big data analytics application platform called Safer Planet. The key features of the system are automatic deployment, cluster resource scheduling, a user extensible automated guidance and control subsystem, an extensible data analytics repository service which holds a catalog of stock analytic implementations that the developer can use in their application, and a knowledge repository that captures and persists application defined information flows. Analytics applications in the domains of health care, cybersecurity, and social networking analysis have been developed and deployed on this platform. Safer Planet runs on Linux clusters and leverages both proprietary and open source technologies. Data analytics portions are executed via IBM InfoSphere Streams, Hadoop, & Spark. Guidance and control interfaces are implemented using REST Services. Pub/Sub messaging is used for data communications between components.X-Flex - Responsible for the architecture and implementation of new cross platform cluster resource scheduler based upon new scheduling models developed by IBM Research Mathematicians to more effectively provide for the use and sharing of cluster resources across concurrent applications. Hadoop, IBM Streams and Spark are all examples of platforms that can be scheduled. Tenants of the scheduler are flexible resource sharing options, long-term fairness, and both online & offline cluster node packing. Experiments show that X-Flex significantly outperforms its main competitor (DRF) across all key performance metrics. The scheduler is implemented as a plugin to the Apache YARN Resource Manager and is written in Java. Cluster utilization visualizations are written in JavaScript, HTML, and Node.js. X-Flex is used for scheduling all the data analytic deployments on clusters for the SP Platform described above.

Forefront Online Mail Hygiene Cloud ServiceTechnical Lead on the mail message tracking and reporting databases for the Forefront Online Mail Hygiene Cloud Service (FFO), a large scale Internet based mail hygiene service, that provides a virtual mail edge service in order to prevent spam, viruses and other undesirable content in a subscribing customer’s mail stream from either being delivered to or sent from their corporate mail systems. The message-tracking database contains an audit trail of the processing, flow through various server roles, and disposition of each mail message as it was processed by the service. The database is implemented on partitioned multi-master SQL Server using T-SQL in order to handle the large scale of messages being processed by the service. My responsibilities are driving the architecture & schema design, object model abstractions (C#), project scheduling, managing the engineers, and personally implementing portions of the project.

Technical Lead / Architect for Forefront Information Protection Security Server (FIPS). FIPS is a generic content and hygiene scanning server that applies sets of content inspection technologies (e.g. anti-virus, filter type filters, keyword filters, spam, …) to content supplied in a scan request. Core to the design of FIPS is its extensibility model around content parsing and inspection. Its capabilities can be readily extended to meet new requirements and respond to new threats through its plug-in based architecture. FIPS is designed to scale from desktop to server deployments to allow virtually any software product that requires security-scanning capabilities to leverage it. It is integrated with various Microsoft software products and services such as Bing and Office 365. I drove the architectural vision of the project from the concept and prototyping phases through actual product development. In addition to implementing core components my responsibilities included working with the leads in Program Management, Quality Assurance and other potential consumers of FIPS in Microsoft to gather requirements, define the feature set roadmap, project schedules, and test plans. FIPS is implemented using a variety of technologies including C/C++, .NET, WCF and COM.

Forefront Security Server Product Suite:A suite of products that provides hygiene and security protection services for Microsoft Exchange Server, Share Point and Office Communication Server. As an architect I looked for tactical improvements to the existing product suite in order to improve overall scalability and reliability while at the same time I developed a multi-release re-architecture roadmap for Forefront Server in order to meet large enterprise and hosting center installations of the application servers Forefront protects. This requires handling dramatically increased throughput per server, the ability to scale out to add additional capacity, centralized failure tolerant configuration / data management, and automation for deployment, failure detection and recovery.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Distributed Messaging GroupDeveloped a proposal for how IBM’s new Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Messaging technology being developed by the Hursley Message Queue group should integrate with the Microsoft’s .NET platform. Defined the .NET variant of IBM’s XMS (Cross Platform Message Specification) interfaces which are modeled on Java Message Service.Designed & implemented the .NET ESB communications stack component in C#. The ESB stack consists of a number of subcomponents: XMS API implementation, Core SPI, Message Formats and Parsing, and Communications. The ESB Server is written in Java, which presented interoperability challenges. The software was transferred to IBM’s Software Group and shipped in the Q3 of 2005.Re-designed the I/O subsystem of the publish/subscribe portion IBM’s Event Broker for Windows to overcome performance issues. The pub/sub server is written completely in Java but the I/O subsystem for Windows is written in C++ The I/O subsystem interfaces with the rest of the system using JNI. The new I/O manager sustains rates of 12,000+ msgs/sec, a 4X increase over the original.Server Systems Performance Group : A lead on IBM’s Memory eXpansion Technology (MXT) that provides for high-speed main memory compression in hardware. It doubles the amount of physical memory in the system. Since only half the amount of memory reported to Windows is actually present, compressed memory management control software is required to ensure that the system doesn't fail when physical memory is exhausted. The software works with the Windows NT virtual memory manager to guarantee reliability of the system. The software consists of a device driver for the main memory controller and exposes new hardware features and services to higher-level software components. A service contains the new memory management functionality which interacts with the driver and the O/S’s virtual memory manager. Awarded an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award by IBM for this work.

San Jose, California, Us

1) I was involved in all phases of product development (including customer research, requirements, functional specification, design, implementation, usability, documentation, and testing) for pcANYWHERE and pcTelecommute products. I was also responsible for managing Symantec’s Melville Software Engineering department. This included managing multiple levels of Development Managers, creating and reviewing project plans, to ensure on time delivery of software products.2) Development manager for pcANYWHERE32 v7.02: Invented new technology for capturing video data in real time on the host server computer for transmission to the remote user’s computer. Designed the host server side architecture for both Windows 95/NT. Implemented new algorithms that reduced the amount of video data that is sent to the remote user’s computer to give the user the feel of local response time of keyboard input, updating graphical display data, & mouse cursor data. Personally implemented Windows NT user mode and kernel mode device drivers and video device filter drivers, which utilized memory mapped files (NT 3.51) and section objects to communicate with the pcANYWHERE32 host service. All development was done in C++ & C.3) Drove the design and the architecture of pcANYWHERE’s multithreaded host server for Windows NT/95. I personally implemented the pcANYWHERE Windows NT Service and the custom GINA (Graphical Identification and Authentication) DLL (dynamic link library) filter that plugs into MS Windows NT Winlogon process to provide for pcANYWHERE32’s complete integration with MS Windows NT security system. This allows users with the ability to login into, logout of, and lock their MS Windows NT system via a PCANYWHERE32 remote control session.

San Jose, California, Us

Lead engineer on the development of the new user interface using C++, WIN32, & MFC for pcANYWHERE32. Prototyped, and designed the interface which has MS Windows 95 explorer look and feel as it permits the user to manipulate all of pcANYWHERE32’s connection configurations in an object based manner. Implemented the underlying C++ class framework and managed two engineers who were working with me. The new user interface was implemented with the goal of supporting MS Windows 95 and Windows NT from a single code base. Manipulation of pcANYWHERE32 connection objects is also provided for in the MS Windows 95 shell via COM explorer shell extensions DLLs. Since its release, the user interface of pcANYWHERE32 has received much praise by the computer trade press for its intuitiveness and simplicity.

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San Jose, California, Us