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California, United States

Company leader responsible for jump starting start-up leaders through training and development. * Provide services for over 40+ clients - SaaS, FinTech, Medical, Real Estate, and E-commerce* Drive company strategy leading to over 1MM ARR* Manage +30 developers on over 40 different projects* Implement process changes that lead to 300% increase in sales* Implement standard practices decreasing defects by 70%

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Provide strategic insight and technical guidance.

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Provide strategic insight and technical guidance.

Provide strategic insight and technical guidance.

Provides full-service off-shore development pipeline for Start-ups.* Development teams and project management* Process training and development* Success training in running projects and hiring talent.

Company leader responsible for engineering organization, technical direction, innovation and fundraising* Present goals and objectives to board for review and approval.* Present to investors to secure funding.* Lead technical direction for the company.* Manage other Software Engineers and Engineering managers.* Identify technical needs and plan budgets.* Identify and hire qualified team members and 3rd party resource augmentation groups.* Understand resource needs and scale to meet proposed deadlines.* Ensure engineering meets short-term and long-term objectives.* Create job specs and hire new talent.* Develop a pitch deck and provide feedback on the business plan.* Architect cloud based/microservices platform.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Responsible for architecture, design for Social Media frontend and backend website. * Lead technology discussions, make critical architecture and design decisions and advise design team on technical implications* Translate requirements into milestones and deliverables.* Design database model and implement query libraries.* Implement frontend (react), API, and backend (node) software.* Develop features and manage the delivery schedule.* Create and manage engineering procedures.* Monitor code changes through code reviews and ensure code quality.* Configure and maintain AWS instances, Docker configuration, and deployment.

San Mateo, California, Us

Oakland, California, Us

Promoted to manage team of engineers to eliminate tech debt and optimize client-side api for proprietary ad exchange the purpose of sustained industry growth beyond billions of requests per day● Manage quarterly budget and uncovered $500k/year of unnecessary expenditures● Drive design and integration of visualization and reporting tools for production to decrease detection of issues from hours to seconds● Architect and manage team to create a new version of web client api, decreasing load times to under tenths of a second● Configure and create deployment process for Node.JS OpenRTB Exchange allowing it to scale to 10k requests per node● Designed and implemented new Private Marketplace (PMP) features for OpenRTB Exchange allowing additional $8 per request increase in auction prices● Implement and Lead team to add new reporting features to PHP/Laravel OpenRTB Exchange dashboard increasing workflow efficiency by 30%● Lead team in development and configuration of services on OpenRTB Exchange for real-time monitoring and alerting of performance and issuesStreamlined Quality Assurance (QA) process and procedures in order to increase quality and efficiency● Lead strategy and process changes for QA department optimizing communication, testing reliability and reducing lead-time for new releases by 25%● Develop and present yearly KPIs (key performance indicators) to meet process improvement goals● Hire new overseas QA personnel to meet yearly hiring goals and reduce testing cycle by 30%● Provide strategy and technical direction for the successful completion of QA automation project, reducing testing time by 50%

Oakland, California, Us

Promoted to spearhead team of developers in the continued operation of critical proprietary ad exchange which handles billions of connections per month● Drive architecture for new system to reduce tech-debt and decrease development time by 60%● Hire and manage contractors to the successful upgrade of reporting database with 0 impact to revenue● Architect of plug-in system reducing cost for the addition of new features by 25%● Architect and provide technical direction to contractors for the successful upgrade of reporting pipeline, increasing uptime to 100%● Engineer new features and upgrade to support digital advertising front and backend service oriented architecture allowing system to scaled to 300m requests per day

Oakland, California, Us

Drove strategy for quarterly and yearly goalsDeveloped team of engineers to the completion of a competitive and robust ad delivery platformLeading the effort to build a reliable and maintainable infrastructure for monetizing free to play games. Handling over 200M impressions per day.

Oakland, California, Us

Chosen to revitalize failing ad exchange technology stack and paramount in support of backend tools.Able to bring life back into company by adding new support for videos that took the company from $8k/day to over $200k/day. Designed a testing harness to increase testing coverage and reliability by 90%. Drove recovery effort for split brain database issue to save the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in customer refunds. Pushed redesign of backend database systems to increase reliability and detection of issues by 90%. Provided direction and implemented automated backup systems for critical company data that resulted in saving the company $2M in possible revenue losses due to system failure.

Oakland, California, Us

Engineered back end tools such as deployment software, reporting software, general handyman, configured linux machines, vertica, scribe, mongo, couchdb, elasticsearch, mysql, perform database maintenance, and configuration of replication

Built desktop games using crytex engine.

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Control all design decisions and software implementation. Have final say on product integration with external devices. Control MySQL product database including interface application and data management. Manage several build machines using Gentoo or Fedora op system. Use and provide technical support for using BDI-2000 and NICE j-tag devices. Work with 'make' build system and 'buildroot' cross-compile build system. Added SPI support to u-boot 1.1.6. Understand and created mkimage compilation of kernel and rootfile system for initial operating system boot. Provide support for QA along with assisting in feedback for creating cleaner, more understandable, and repeatable test cases. Handle writing and signoff of relevant documentation. Provide localization support for project as well. Company liaison for providing a technical interface with external device manufactures and developers.

Assisted with management of building in-house editor. This included scheduling and directing a team of 8 engineers.Tools support role on titles such as 'Need For Speed' and 'PGA Golf'

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Worked on systems such as PS, PS2, XBOX, and Game Cube. Shipped three titles Warjetz PS, Warjetz PS2, and Dragon Rage. Assisted with movie player integration for 'Army Men:Green Rogue' and additional work for 'Jacked'. Responsibilities ranged from HUD and User Interface programming, animation, collision detection, engine state machine design, and build engineer.

Liberal Arts

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Associate'S Degree, General Studies