Director Of Software Engineering
CurrentWe are laser-focused on improving the amount of interactive talk babies experience in the first three years of life. Our solutions combine patented technology to measure talk in the everyday environment, plus curricula directed toward a child’s chief conversational partners: parents and teachers. LENA Start reaches parents and primary caregivers through a sequence of group meetings, and LENA Grow reaches early childhood teachers through a professional development sequence. LENA solutions are currently operating in more than 100 communities in the US, leveraging libraries, school districts, hospitals, family resource centers, and ECE support organizations that launch and run the initiatives.• Initiated and directed multiple Generative-AI projects, including specialized models in Microsoft Copilot Studio for research data analysis and Amazon Bedrock for virtual coaching, while pioneering new AI-based ASR technologies.• Streamlined agile-scrum methodologies, integrating an outsourced firmware development and DevOps team into the primary product development cycle.• Established rigorous quality assurance protocols, instituting checkpoints in the release cycle to achieve a zero-defect standard.• Completed the development of advanced product firmware, supporting new media protocols and audio compression CODECs for energy-efficient DSP recorders.• Collaborated with a top-tier UI/UX agency to conceptualize a modern single-page interface for our client portal.• Led the engineering of a new portal, incorporating a fresh tech stack for LENA (Node.js, Vue, Java EE).• Implemented Microsoft Power BI and Power Apps, phasing out various outdated applications.• Deployed cutting-edge voice recognition and language processing technologies, capable of operating at large scale.• Upheld stringent software development and testing standards to ensure compliance with security protocols.