Tom Brice Email & Phone Number

Northfield, Mn, Us

Woodbury, Mn, Us

Company name changed in November 2024 from Self Esteem Brands to Purpose Brands

San Francisco, California, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Manager for the API Services team - a DevOps, remote-first squad of product developers. The team's primary API product delivers all content to Gannett's web and mobile audiences (> 200 sites and 1B requests per day.)• Worked within the Product organization to establish and deliver the product road-map. Ensured the translation of business initiatives into biweekly sprints enabling the team to deliver our solutions iteratively using a modern CI/CD pipeline.• Reviewed code across the team's portfolio and facilitated full design review processes where all team members participated in design of solutions.• Contributed directly to the codebase to increase team velocity, focusing outside of the critical path to allow for space for the developers to lead.• Worked with developers on the team to help them progress in their careers. Helped mentor 3 Developers (direct reports) to be promoted to senior.• Provided regular 1:1 meetings with direct reports to ensure a tight feedback loop and healthy personal interaction.• As hiring manager, selected and interviewed for a diverse and high-performing team. Worked with recruiters to maintain the talent pipeline. Onboarded new team members.• Supported developers in 24/7 on-call responsibilities as a manager as well as a member of the rotation.

New York, Ny, Us

Member of the API Services team creating software using Golang and deploying solutionscontinuously via Kubernetes.• Led the implementation of a scalable and configurable replacement for an existing syndication system serving business partners like Apple News, Facebook, MSN, and Yahoo.• Reduced time and effort to onboard new partners from days, requiring the intervention of a developer, to hours. Implemented a design that allows the required rights management configuration to be performed by a product manager.• Encouraged a commitment to software quality by championing testable designs and incremental enhancements within the software development lifecycle.• Coordinated sprint demos for the team and other stakeholders.• Part of the team that launched a new content API to deliver data at scale into production, across an increasing number of use cases and data types.

Northfield, Mn, Us

Technical lead in transitioning a large in-house content management system to WordPress. Responsible for assessing technical requirements and evaluating alternative platforms. Work primarily in PHP. Focus on modernizing data integration across the organization.

Partnered to create a service to provide Android emulators running in web browsers to make testing mobile applications on a variety of device classes easier.Integrated and maintained e-commerce features in the app so it could produce subscription revenue.Provided front-line technical support to users.Worked with Google engineers to produce an early Android Studio plugin to facilitate testing applications in the IDE using Manymo emulators. Invited to Google I/O 2013 for the launch of Android Studio.

Responsible for building and managing a system to accept image data as input to produce results derived from visual recognition tools and processes.• Built as a collection of services consisting of solutions written in Ruby, Go, Python, PHP, and Javascript (Angular) and leveraged Elasticsearch for event logging.• Delivered results via an API that communicated via WebSockets primarily but also had an HTTP (RESTful) interface. This API was wrapped with an SDK that was integrated into native mobile and web applications to provide visual search functionality to our customers. • Deployed and managed the platform using a combination of Docker and Ansible to AWS.• Managed 6 developers, most remote, that produced software in iterations. I managed all releases and deployments.* Collaborated with senior leadership on product direction and feature planning to enhance the service and win new clients.

Founding partner in a development and software engineering consultancy building tools and products to power mobile, web, and social applications for businesses at every stage of their journey, from startups to established corporations. Our focus: Solutions for iPhone, iPad, Android, Facebook, and web applications on contract.Slyce, Inc acquired Drivetrain in Oct 2014.

As a solo consultant with the team at Redstamp on the new version of redstamp.com, a Ruby on Rails project integrating MongoDB, Redis, and utilizing SVG to dynamically generate custom cards and printed materials while showing a WYSIWYG representation to the customer on the website. Implemented the integration with Authorize.net for e-commerce (including secure storage using Authorize.net CIM) Launched as beta.redstamp.com

Built and enhanced WorkSimple: a next generation Talent Management service focusing on the employee. Created and extended a scalable web architecture (Ruby on Rails), release management, business integration (REST and SOAP), system administration.WorkSimple was formerly know as HeadMix, Inc.

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Lead Ruby on Rails developer, creating public facing applications to link citizens with their government.Specialization in development and deployment of Rails-based web applications, including deployment using JRuby

Des Plaines, Illinois, Us

Professional Services developer. Technical analyst. Web developer (Ruby, PHP.) Self directed one-person team that created business solutions to increase organizational efficiency and enhance high-value client accounts.

Des Plaines, Illinois, Us

Color correction and retouching to digital images. Complex image assembly for packaging and advertising. Primary tool: Adobe Photoshop

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