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Herndon, Virginia, US

• [Because of the nature of our work with the Government, the descriptions below are intentionally vague.]
• Forming Common Platform Team (CPT) from scratch.
• CPT provides a Linux common platform and services to all engineering teams for my boss' boss.
• Includes coordination across multiple organizations, such as DevOps to drive initiatives.
• Coordinator for Internship Program serving engineering at 3 sites in Eastern US.
• Responsible for FTE and intern recruiting process for positions at the Champaign site.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Site Manager until 2021 when local staff members were transitioned to remote work.
• Built, from ground up, Turn’s first remote Engineering office.
• Oversight of all site activities: engineering, logistics, university engagements & recruiting, etc.
• Managed globally-distributed software development team.
• Oversight of Amobee's Data Management Platform (Feb 2022–present)
• 50% reduction projected in cost of storage and processing.

San Francisco, California, US

• 67% reduction of major product release cycle from 18 to 6 months as part of a management team leading the worldwide engineering organization in a transition from Waterfall to Agile.
• 7% reduction in number of issues escaping to the field by refocusing the team’s testing effort on areas most likely to uncover defects.
• Release manager and feature owner, requiring coordination between multiple groups and individuals across the country, including development and QA, PM, senior management, documentation team, and others.
• Manager for a team responsible for qualifying critical and high profile application layer protocol features, including HTTP, SSL/TLS, video, and other Internet, VDI, cryptographic, email protocols.

San Francisco, California, US

• Primary QA engineer for SSL protocol testing at Riverbed.
• Responsible for all SSL test plan development and maintenance.
• Responsible for development and maintenance of manual and automated tests.
• Coordination with remote SSL development team in California.

• Coordinated with U of I Research Park, U of I Office of Corporate Relations, and Champaign Country Economic Development Corporation to attract companies and technical professions to the area.
• Worked with local technical organizations to identify needs of the technical community and identify individuals/organizations to fulfill those needs.

• Community Arts Resource is dedicated to promoting the musical arts in Champaign County.
• Oversaw all organization activities including a community band, community chorus, community jazz band, and various events.
• Planned and coordinated performances with artists and venues.
• Developed relationships with area artists, arts organizations, schools, businesses, venues, churches, etc.
• Maintained the organization’s website.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Yahoo!’s Grid Management System (GMS) is a turnkey user-extensible solution including Service Level Agreement tracking of jobs, alert management, and monitoring of Hadoop clusters and services. This function is.
• Developed, as part of a small technical team, web applications and web services for GMS.
• Refactored architecture resulting in a more than 10X performance improvement in SLA UI functionality.
• Collaborated with the product owner, user experience designer, and visual designer to understand requirements and interpret them in to plausible, functional, and visually-appealing web UI pages.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Yahoo!’s Categorization Platform is a vision that provides functionality over the complete lifecycle of a classifier and object data. Classification is at the core of most user-facing applications at Yahoo!. It is used.
• Part of a highly technical group of engineers responsible for development of a map/reduce based platform for training, evaluating, and scoring machine learned models. This platform was integrated into a larger content.
• Primary frontend web service and web UI developer for the Categorization and Entity Extraction services, used for many years to support content optimization, research experiments, and suggestions for manual labeling.
• Primary frontend web service developer for the Central Object Repository web service, providing a scalable extensible object store exposed through a RESTful web service.
• Responsible for release management, coordination with QA release testing team, and planning release activities into Scrum sprint schedules.
• Established a solid track record for delivering on time per our schedule.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Added new phone features by augmenting code throughout phone software stack, from low-level protocols through phone UI.
• Coordinated development work as project lead for new phone software features with teams around world.
• Oversaw development of new phone software features throughout software development lifecycle.
• Active member of Bluetooth SIG’s Audio/Video Working Group, world wide organization composed of representatives from many companies. Created white paper for interactions between AVRCP, A2DP, and HFP profiles.
• Developed (with team) root cause analysis process used throughout Motorola Mobile Devices Software.
• Developed inspection process used by multinational team of 100+ developers.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Project lead, architect, and primary developer for internal open source software project designed to simplify phone software test automation.
• Chaired Testing Process Improvement Team (PIT) which doubled as CCB for process CRs.
• Interfaced with customers and other development groups around the world on enhancement, development, and support issues for phone UI test automation software.
• Trained teams across Mobile Devices in Rational ClearCase, in the usage and architecture of phone UI test automation tools.
• Coordinated phone software testing efforts for subteam.
• Mentored interns & new hires.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Liaison between HR, Universities, and local team.
• Authored and assisted in writing of group’s QS9000 level 3 documentation.
• Interacted closely with designer and layout engineers during entire design integration process.
• Shared system administration responsibilities (UNIX) and representative between local team and sector IT.
• Principle developer of various coding standards, point utilities, chip verification decks (DRC/LVS) for verification tools.
• Developed and maintained group’s web site.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Participated in Process Architecture Team responsible for overall architecture and communication between all subprojects of 7-day CSIC project. Project involved 100+ engineers and 14 large subprojects over two years.
• Authored, reviewed, and maintained code and documentation for large integrated software projects for world-wide design community.
• Directed data management of IC design blocks and created associated utilities for automation and cycle-time reduction.
• Assisted in the start-up of the CSIC Data Bank project based on Oracle.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Developed a Cadence environment control GUI for CSIC world-wide design groups.
• Aided in building infrastructure for a new Sector software development group; included development and review of code, procedures, and documentation.
• Tested software used by external customers to emulate various Motorola microcontrollers.
• Worked in chip fabrication unit (MOS 8) process engineering to characterize metal deposition machinery and write a report which was circulated world-wide.

• Office assistance in charge of invoicing and job tracking.
• Responsible for data entry and layout of surveys, plots, and related land surveying artifacts.
• Worked in field to collect survey data.
• This position allowed me to pay 100% of my college expenses.

West Lafayette, IN, US

• Tutored and answered questions about various software course topics, etc.
• Graded software programming & related assignments and answer student’s questions about grading.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Developed an expert system for statistical data analysis to project failures in Space Shuttle systems.
• Tested, debugged, and documented code for an Ada reusable-code retrieval system.
• Worked as part of a team and independently on software design and development.
• DOD clearance (debriefed 1989).

Bs, Math

Bs, Computer Science