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Austin, Texas, Us

Englewood, Co, Us

Developed an application for collecting over-the-air advertising data from embedded devices over UDP, utilizing AWS EC2, Lambda, and S3 storage, that increased ad revenue by $1M by replacing OTA ads with more lucrative targeted adsCreated load balancing rules and network configuration changes that allowed external access while preserving security featuresDefined and implemented an observability pipeline using New Relic and FluentBitContributed to coding in C/C++, Python and gawk, testing in gtest, gmock, and pyTestUtilized Jira for task management and GitLab for source control

Englewood, Co, Us

Led a team of software engineers in multiple locations in the development of video playback libraries for Apple, Android, and Roku platforms, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business objectives.Hired and trained multiple new employees and contractors, recruiting online and at job fairs, including visa and right-to-work documentsManaged a major refactor of SlingTV using ReactNative and collaborated closely with product management to define roadmap priorities and drive product enhancements.Managed the Apple Client team and Apple product releasesConducted regular 1-1 interviews with all team members, providing feedback, career growth advice, and performance appraisalsCoding in C++, Objective-C, Java, Swift

Englewood, Co, Us

Video playback engineer using ffmpeg for video/audio decoding and demuxing on a proprietary playerHelped in transition from proprietary players to platform playersCoding in C++, Lua, Java, Objective-C, code repository in GitReceived a patent for algorithms used in bandwidth detection and selectionCreated utilities for Content Delivery Network monitoring to hold CDN providers accountable for SLAs

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Orem, Utah, Us

Contributed File System and Network monitoring and remediation code for Forensic Toolkit (FTK) used by law enforcement departmentsDeveloped a Web application with an Oracle backend using ASP.Net and C#

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Managed and mentored a team of 3 engineers.Designed and implemented an automated build systemUsed C# and .NET to implement a client/server application for automotive dealerships.

Provo, Ut, Us

Created and presented multiple Brainshare sessions to customers on configuring and deploying a Branch Office appliance, resulting in excellent reviews and increased interest.Over 4 years of Java experience designing and implementing an AJAX interface over SOAP with Java application backend and Java applets/Javascript client on the Branch Office and Network Attached Storage products.Successfully mentored new engineers on the project team, leading to increased productivity and greater job satisfaction.Over 2 years of SuSE Linux experience replatforming Branch Office to Linux/OpenWBEM using C++ and bash shell scripting on the Eclipse development platform. Used Ant with JUnit for testing, and CVS for source repository.Designed and implemented a Java debugging facility for Branch Office that increased the ability to pinpoint problems and rapidly correct them.

Coded communication modules for a home automation system using C++ on Windows NT.Familiar with Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE) for software patterns.Produced designs using Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD.)

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Effectively managed a team consisting of engineers, contractors, and project managers to successfully complete CorelCENTRAL, a Personal Information Manager, on time and within budget, reducing conflicts and rewarding top performers.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Designed and implemented ActiveX controls on Windows for file and network services used by all Corel Suite products using MFC, allowing for improved upgrades.

Provo, Ut, Us

File and Network Services on the Shared Code and PerfectFit teams, producing shared DLLs for all WordPerfect applications.

Designed and implemented document management services and QuickFinder index searching on VAX/VMS/Unix/Windows using RMS and FLAIM databases.