I lead a team that builds core services and common UI in support of our many internally focused applications.

I manage the engineering team of iOS, Android, Platform and QA engineers that is responsible for both the Vivint Assist product and the core app experience. The Vivint.SmartHome app is rated at 4.5 stars in the Google Play store and the Apple App store.* I led other Engineering, QA, and Product leadership to move from a monthly app release cycle to a two-week app release cycle which greatly improved the predictability of our release train and has resulted in zero hotfixes over the last 6 releases.* I provide technical input and guidance to Project Management and UX for new product initiatives and when responding to customer concerns* I worked closely with Google to integrate Vivint functionality into the Google Assistant* I empower my engineers to make their own architectural decisions. I maintain a process and environment for them to excel and love their job.* I started as the sole Android developer and grew the team to 7 engineers. I promoted one of those to be the team’s architect and several others have gone on to fill senior roles in the company’s other engineering teams.* I oversaw our transition to Kotlin, as well as mentoring the team’s architect to refactor the app’s business logic to increase stability and maintainability.

I was responsible for mentoring new engineers, driving the architecture of the app, and making sure we were keeping up-to-date with current trends in Android development.* I wrote the code for the Doorbell camera experience in the app. This screen eventually served as the video experience for all of the cameras that Vivint sells. Customers watch live video more than any other experience in the app.* I developed the video player for live video, and also integrated work done by another team to control the DVR experience. The DVR experience in the app was a major initiative for the company in 2016.* During a reskin/rewrite of the app, I helped identify an area of the app that, when refactored, became much more modular and easy to change. This refactor alone has allowed the app to display its many settings screens in a way that is easily tunable by UX with very little development eort.

I was the lead engineer for our ArcGIS codebase. This product helped route first responders and emergency personnel as they responded to incidents and emergencies.At one point the company stopped the release train because a bug was found during testing that was affecting all builds. All developers, regardless of their area of focus, were tasked with finding and fixing this problem. After a few hours of debugging, I discovered the problem in a build script which caused signed chars to be unsigned. After an easy fix, the company was able to resume its release train.

I developed the next generation tool to compile source imagery into our proprietary renderable format for our EP2 Image Generator. I achieved a 15x performance increase versus the previous generation compiler.I also helped develop the company’s next generation Environment Creation Tool (ECT2). This tool provided customers a graphical interface to customize airport environments and blend them into surrounding terrain.

I worked on front-end menu systems, audio engines, gameplay, and multiple internal tools. Those tools ranged from helping with our data pipeline to being the central tool used by designers to develop gameplay and scripting for levels. I developed games for the Nintendo DS, PSP, Xbox 360, PC, and PS2.