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San Francisco, California, US

Supporting mission-driven companies and startups on technical strategy, architecture, development processes, leadership, and team culture. I collaborate closely with company founders/executives, team leaders, engineers, and product owners on building happy and high-performing technical teams, designing and improving technology architectures, optimizing.

New York, NY, US

Led and scaled the remote-first Engineering & Data Science teams at Knock on its mission to make homebuying more accessible to all. As Knock's senior technology leader, I grew and mentored a team of strong engineering leaders, identified and tackled critical architectural priorities, set & tracked goals and performance metrics, and supported business.

Seattle, WA, US

Led technology innovation and emerging technology efforts for Starbucks as part of its global digital transformation. Built and grew a team that worked across the business to identify, prototype, and fund cutting-edge technologies to create breakthrough innovations in the Starbucks customer and partner experiences, and focused on promoting a culture of.

Seattle, WA, US

Led the engineering teams and technical strategy for the Starbucks mobile & web apps, supporting tens of millions of happy morning coffee drinkers and driving >20% of global transactions. Worked across multiple business and technology units including Loyalty, Marketing, Retail Technology, Operations, etc to deliver on a massive bold digital strategy, built.

Seattle, WA, US

• Designed and developed Dunno, a mobile and desktop app built to help humans discover, research, and retain knowledge beyond the browser
• Built the iOS mobile and Mac desktop apps for Dunno, including a shared networking & database library used between both products. Objective-C and Swift with heavy use of Core Data, Core Location, asynchronous.
• Built a custom Node.js + Mongo + Rails backend supporting real-time search, synchronization, data aggregation and analytics, push notifications and image processing, and instant data synchronization across clients
• Developed a growing user base of 75,000+ users with high retention rates
• Constantly evaluating user feedback and analytics data to intelligently find trends and adapt theproduct to them.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Co-founder and advisor for Inkstone's incredible mobile development team, with a strong focus on iOS apps connected to smart devices, social networks, and cloud services.
• Identified a major market need and started Inkstone to fill it—combining mobile development, cloud & server development, and end-to-end mobile strategy into one firm
• Primary mobile architect and engineer on numerous iOS client projects, with extensive use of Objective-C, Swift, and all Apple frameworks, as well as integration of third-party libraries
• Built and integrated backend solutions to enable data storage, synchronization, and communication across mobile devices, using Rails, Node.js, MongoDB, MySQL, and more
• Lead our engineering team’s hiring, technology strategy, and project management, scaling successfully from 3 to 10 developers
• Designed and built integrations to numerous third party APIs and proprietary tech stacks

• Left Apple's engineering team to start an industry-leading iPhone & iPad software development firm. There I managed, designed, and developed several award-winning mobile apps and built a portfolio of incredible clients.
• Designed and built Rev, the first-ever iOS app to do real-time hardware-connected automotive diagnostics and performance monitoring
• Rev won SEMA Best of Show 2009 and Popular Mechanics Editor's Choice 2009, and was featured on the App Store by Apple
• One of the first major developers to integrate connected accessories into the mobile app experiences, starting with Wi-Fi (the only tech available at the time) and later moving into Bluetooth and BLE
• Recommended by Apple to third-party companies seeking developers; we built numerous mobile applications for a variety of clients

Cupertino, California, US

• Hired to solve problems and bottlenecks within an extensive internal toolchain. Improved the code-sensing integrated documentation experience inside Xcode. Burned the midnight oil to help develop, test, and launch the.
• Part of the small team that built and launched the iPhone SDK in 2008
• Developed and managed many projects critical to multiple iOS and Mac OS X releases, including updates to Xcode’s API symbol indexing (Objective-C, C), new apps for iOS (Objective-C), and backend systems to analyze and.
• Worked tightly across the Mac OS X, iOS, and Xcode teams to integrate products and fix issues
• Built numerous internal tools to optimize software builds and search internal code repositories more effectively and efficiently

Cupertino, California, US

• Responsible for the creation of technical content, including conceptual and reference documentation covering the Mac OS X and WebKit platforms. Created great applications to illustrate new technology and design concepts.
• Developed numerous internal tools for Mac (Cocoa/Objective-C) and the web (PHP and object-oriented Perl) to streamline operations at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference series
• Planned and produced reference and conceptual documentation for Apple technologies including the Objective-C runtime, WebKit, and other fundamental Apple libraries
• Developed numerous sample apps to demonstrate core Apple technologies on Mac OS X
• Participated in API reviews and code auditing for major new OS X releases

Cupertino, California, US

• Sales and marketing for Apple on the University of Colorado campus. Expanded existing sales and developed new leads in both student and faculty populations. Developed first regional portal to consolidate online.
• Designed and developed a region-wide sales/marketing portal site in PHP & MySQL, boosting regional sales by a significant percentage
• Helped build inroads for science/technology developers and applications on the Apple platform
• Built and maintained customer relationships for Apple across the Boulder and Denver campuses
• Provided Apple technical & product support for students, faculty, and university departments