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Mountain View, CA, US

At Google I led the Irvine Analytics, Insights, and Measurements EngProd team to directly improve the productivity and performance of hundreds of Google engineers. Google is a data company, so by using existing metrics (and introducing novel ones) we measure and improve developer productivity and satisfaction by determining how and where to establish newly.

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Responsible for assigning resources, driving innovation and best practices at all levels of the engineering processes, I contribute to designs and implementations while directing the overall strategy of the engineering group to ensure customer satisfaction and shareholder value.

Seattle, WA, US

Created enterprise micro-applications built on top of a dynamic platform for companies such as Morgan Stanley and eBay as well as local and federal government agencies. Drove innovation at the application layer down into the platform for shared reuse, reducing application development time for others working on the platform.

Seattle, WA, US

At Real, I was hired on to assist a team of three other developers maintain and improve the order process-ing web-application. Since my inception into the team, I have had an integral part in the redesign of the visitor-tracking framework and assisted in the design and implementation of an error logging system (us-ing Log4J and AOP.)Using Spring Webflow.

IN

Originally hired as a UI Designer, I quickly changed roles to a full-time software developer primarily using Java. Since then I have been responsible for the design of the user interface for multiple products, as well as Database interaction and other infrastructure code. I met with end-customers to determine their requirements and enhance the existing.

I was responsible for the design and development of the website and web-application interfaces, including design proposals and reviews with end-customers. The products were developed using PHP (with Smarty used as a templating engine) and interfaced with merchant services for credit card payments.I regularly interacted with end-users and customers. I.

Seattle, WA, US

A group of local businesses (including a chiropractic office and a home based child-care business) needed to have a Customer relationship application to track various attributes about their customers.I developed a flexible application which stored various information about their customers in a MySQL database. The application had to store different.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Embedded Systems And Robotics

Associate Degree; High School Diploma, General Studies