Co-founded Squeaky Dog Studios to innovate in mobile and wearable tech. Led the successful implementation and deployment of the PhotoWear Classic mobile companion app and watch face for Wear OS. Achieved remarkable success with over 3 million downloads and an average rating of 4.4 in the Google Play Store.Led the modernization of the PhotoWear mobile companion app, using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Jetpack Navigation, and MVVM architecture. Contracted with a user experience designer to improve the usability of the PhotoWear app and implemented UI improvements using Jetpack Compose, Google’s modern toolkit for building native UIs on Android. Developed cloud services on GCP and AWS for app authentication, data backup, and weather data buffering, utilizing Docker for seamless service deployment.

Promoted to lead the Android team, overseeing hiring, mentoring, agile processes, and hands-on development. Delivered high-quality, on-time app updates while balancing leadership and technical contributions.Led the team in delivering on-time app releases aligned with customer milestones, ensuring essential contract content. Blended effective personnel management with technical expertise to deliver high-quality results.

Developed an app that enabled operators to control AI-enabled quadcopters with high-level commandslike “explore this building,” reducing the need for direct flight instructions to each UAV . Collaborated with UX designers to create an innovative interface that minimized cognitive overload, allowing operators to seamlessly manage teams of 3-5 autonomous UAVs.Pioneered the use of Jetpack Compose to simplify the development and maintenance of a complex system of menus for selecting and commanding quadcopters. Worked with my team to design a solution that rendered real-time floorplan data and key markers on an integrated Google Maps Satellite View.

Served as Staff Technical Program Manager and Certified Scrum Product Owner in a Scaled Agile Framework environment for software development teams working to enhance the Sony PlayStation Network Platform.Drove business and engineering efforts through planning, execution, and delivery. Created schedules, tracked work, monitored status, facilitated demos, and ran team retrospectives. Was responsible for quality feature delivery to enhance the customer experience.Contributed to large cross-team initiatives such as 2-Step Verification, Unified ID, expansion of PlayStation Family Account functionality, and the migration from the legacy monolithic platform to a modern microservices architecture.

Successfully managed the delivery of a software system for a large unmanned air vehicle, ensuring adherence to budget and strict timelines.Led a team of 20 software developers and testers across multiple scrum teams, overseeing individual goal-setting, performance evaluations, and fostering continuous improvement.

Designed and implemented a Java Enterprise (JEE) web service that exposed API endpoints for a large image processing system on a WebLogic cluster. Reduced startup time and initial memory footprint by analyzing memory usage, load, and garbage collection metrics.