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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

As one of 3 members of the iOS team at Flipboard I worked closely with all departments on bringing new features and designs to the 10+yr old application. Along with maintaining the existing app and adding features a portion of my time was spent modernizing the legacy Obj-C code base. Bringing in Swift and updating to current standards was a daily part of my job.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Worked on various teams within Walmart as they took on the audacious task of re-writing their existing online and in-store apps into a single cohesive whole. I eventually landed as the Team Lead for the iOS Cart development team. Since we are a shopping app Cart was an integral part and I divided my time between coding, mentoring, and interfacing with external teams that utilized our offering.

Mountain View, California, Us

Promoted into the role of team lead providing direction and mentorship to the team. Spent my time implementing new features while helping to re-design the code base to be better situated for the future direction of TurboTax.Mentored many junior developers as well as Interns and Co-ops helping them learn how to work at an actual company as well as to advance their skills.Worked on cross functional teams to keep back and front end teams coordinated and working towards the same eventual goals.

Mountain View, California, Us

Rejoined the TurboTax Universal team that I previously contracted with. Tackling the 2016 Tax Year product and working on strategy for 2017 and the future growth of the product.

Mountain View, California, Us

Joined the TurboTax Universal team to help support shipping the 2015 Tax Year product. I jumped right in helping the team to close out bugs and implement features. Worked closely with the team sharing my knowledge and even helped mentor some interns and co-ops.Worked diligently with the team to shrink out a list of 90+ bugs when I started down to 6 by the time I left.Took it on myself to redesign the layout engine for displaying tax forms on iPad devices to be more robust and easily understood. Help spearhead the efforts to remove warnings from the code base and cleaning up unit tests for a more robust code base.

San Diego, California, Us

Took ownership of the application interface to Brain Corporations flagship product BrainOS. I am responsible for designing and developing the application that roboticist's will use to interface and train their BrainOS enabled robots. Worked with a small team to identify the weaknesses in current Robotic Operating Systems (ROS) and design and build a more robust and developer friendly replacement. Worked to cross-compile and embed a C++ application into iOS devices making them a 1st class citizen in the distributed robotic environment that is BrainOS.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Led a small team of developers to take a skunkworks project from idea to reality in 6 months. That project was to develop a set of mobile applications to allow students to access their online classroom from anywhere at anytime, those applications now serve a student body of over 80,000 students.

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Internal tools to help keep a large scale web site up and running, utilizing LAMP technologies.

Build custom web applications using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) technologies. Build dynamic functionality using AJAX.

Built and maintained web based application for the facilitation of moving vehicles across country.

Owned and Operated a local Irish Pub. Handled all of the day to day operations including marketing, employee management, purchasing, inventory and everything else needed to keep a small business running.

Designed and built custom software applications to allow for enterprise management of retail store data gathering and customer service devices built by our company.

Mountain View, California, Us

Took ownership of mission critical applications used to guarantee the on-time release of Turbo Tax. Worked to migrate these applications to a more secure and robust RMDBS and to design a better frontend application/interface to this data.