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Chesterfield, Missouri, Us

Managing an international team experimenting with the most promising emerging technology, including GenAI models and tools, and the Industrial Metaverse. With internal partners we scale successful, value-adding efforts to a massive global Agribusiness leader.

University City, Missouri, Us

Entirely and solely responsible for the strategy, planning, and roadmap for the following products: * Guided Conversations, a low-code way of constructing and deploying NLP-driven chatbots and exchanges* CapacityDB, a database-as-a-service offering, positioned as instantly queryable with natural language* LiveDB, a client-side agent application run by customers to expose on-premise data to the larger platformTrain Capacity’s Sales and Marketing teams on new and upcoming features, and present at customer pitches.Work with Customer Service to capture the voice of the customer, build demo applications, and find champions.Coordinate engineering efforts with the technical leads, through agile sprint planning.

Leuven, Be

Control entirely the budget, team, and roadmap for four digital products:M360, a feature-rich native sales tool iPad application. Used heavily by thousands of Sales personnel, staffed with a full product team of 15, operating in agile sprints to deliver App Store builds every 14 days. The app’s usage at points of ordering results in sales lift and provides a platform for growth.ABIQ, a sales intelligence mobile app, with a team of five, written in Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android, leveraging custom machine learning algorithms. The app was rebuilt from the ground up and launched on schedule, in time for cascading annual sales targets.Telesales, a Salesforce application that assists beer distributors when selling over the phone.Utilize modern development tools and techniques: source code is stored in Github, tasks are tracked in Jira, and Azure DevOps is used for CI/CD.Leverage third-party tools to meet KPIs, and ensure software quality. Analyzing usage with MixPanel, app quality with Cisco AppDynamics, NPS with Usabilla, and more.Oversee a data engineering team moving from Teradata and R scripts to Snowflake and Azure Data Factory.Mentor interns, trainees, and junior architects in their day-to-day activities, and interview technical candidates.

Leuven, Be

Created and managed an onshore, cross-functional team that provided technical design for 20+ new IT projects/year, within a $70 million/yr envelope.Managed six FTEs and two contractors spread across Sales, Logistics, People, Finance, Marketing, and Data.Participant in the People Cycle, providing capabilities assessments, conducting peer reviews, delivering performance reviews, and drafting recovery plans.Created and distributed a full set of comprehensive technical diagrams of rapidly-evolving systems.Conducted several dozen in-depth architecture design reviews on cloud, application, integration, data, and mobile technologies. Adhered to principles, and captured all aspects of product and project architecture.Evangelized the responsible and compliant usage of key strategic platforms, such as Azure, Salesforce, and Mulesoft.

Leuven, Be

Oversaw the mobile and digital strategy for North America IT, including reviewing platforms.Owned the three-tier API strategy and microservices blueprint, with changes to people, process, and technology.Championed a new centralized, custom asset management platform using Azure and an associated REST API.Implemented a CIAM solution to manage both internal and external users across the enterprise with Azure B2C.Managed the Architecture Review Board, studying and scoring every IT project in North America for three stage gates - over 100 in 2018 and 80 in 2019.Improved enterprise maturity by providing technical guidance on ML, RPA, chatbots, blockchain, VR/AR, and Martech.

Purchase, Ny, Us

Developed three native iOS apps for Simplify Commerce, featuring mobile transactions, fraud, and e-commerce.Consulted with project managers, designers, other developers, security, and deployment teams before shipping apps.Disclosed six inventions for patent applications, covering mobile, IoT, language processing and machine learning.Organized and led a team of engineers in DP&L’s Ideabox, eventually finishing first out of over 600 submissions. Smartalk, the resulting product, incorporates analytics, speech, chatbots, language processing, and machine learning.With a team, won Take Initiative in St. Louis with a budget-assisting virtual assistant that analyzes card expenses.Participated in Masters of Code competition, demoing POCs for the Philips Hue, Apple Watch and Apple TV.Analyzed Masterpass campaign data during the inaugural Mastercard Datathon making actionable recommendations using Adobe Analytics/Omniture.

New York, New York, Us

Designed, coded, and distributed dozens of native enterprise and public iOS apps for internal business partners.Managed offshore teams, partnered with international creative agencies, and delivered for clients around the world.Provided consultation for, and bug fixed, legacy Pfizer and agency-developed apps, both domestic and international.Employed modern third-party tools such as GitHub, Cocoapods, Google Analytics, TestFlight, Parse, and PubNub.Created comprehensive documents educating developers and stakeholders on mobile analytics and game design.Promoted, demoed and sold mobile capabilities to executives and business units company-wide.Sample products designed and developed from scratch:Video Service iPhone AppA video-sharing app through which users can browse, search download and upload videos.Interacts with several web service methods asynchronously to provide a seamless, fluid experience.Technologies used include Core Data, NSURLConnection, AFNetworking, and NSJSONSerialization.Pfizer OrgChartAn app containing information on, and relationships between, over 100,000 Pfizer workers.Installed on over 20,000+ Pfizer devices, receiving an average internal rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars.Utilized a SQLite database, UIActivity/UIActivityViewController, NSURLConnection, and AFNetworking.Planogram/Shelf-builderAllowed users to drag and drop thousands of consumer products into place to show optimal placement.Estimated to save the company $1,000,000 by providing software otherwise unavailable on the market.Used UIGestureRecognizer, Core Data, Grand Central Dispatch, NSXMLParser, and NSJSONSerialization.Chapstick Flavor RushImmersive, fully-3D game where users face several timing and gesture-based tasks over 80 levels.Developed the majority of code, employing OpenGL ES, GLKit, and MapKit.

Assisted on patent cases involving inventive material in iPhone development, nuclear energy, and LED technology and handled trademark matters for international clients.

Collaborated with a small team to encourage debate and inform the public about both the benefits and the drawbacks of the proposed Google Books settlement.

Advised a small intellectual property and corporate firm on how to best integrate technology to streamline client interaction

Refurbished computers for use by individuals cleared after wrongful convictions.

Designed, programmed, and maintained the law firm's Flash website.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Worked in a neuroanatomy lab that researched the function of the parvocellular red nucleus during gaze-reach calibration. Used LabVIEW to program touchscreen software for use by non-human primates, implemented algorithms to interpret eye positions and compare electrical activity, and coded several VBA/Excel macros to streamline data processing and analysis. Also, purchased and maintained computer hardware and aided in design of new equipment.

Juris Doctor, Intellectual Property

Bachelor Of Science, Biological/Biomedical Engineering