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San Mateo (San Francisco Bay Area), Ca, Us

I manage two teams that provide the rich dashboards and analytics to empower teachers using IXL to educate 1 in 5 of the K-12 students in the United States.With a staff of 10 engineers, including managers, I recruit and develop top talent• Oversee iterative process improvement to provide estimates we can deliver against• Work with Product Management to create impactful product roadmaps that best serve thousands of teachers educating millions of students worldwide• Design fun and educational training programs rolled out across the engineering org

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I oversaw software engineering at Burning Man, including the engineering teams responsible for the applications that support operations within Black Rock City and serve Burners throughout the year. The systems that my staff of 12 engineers built and maintained generate $50M in annual revenue.• Rewrote and relaunched Burner Profiles with a Responsive UI based on React and Yii Framework.• Worked closely with our ticketing vendor to integrate Burner Profiles with their platform• Implemented agile methodology across the engineering organization• Defined best-practices architecture for integration with Salesforce and other software systems• Introduced monitoring, telemetry, and a web application firewall to harden Burning Man’s public-facing applications• Established and cultivated vendor relationships that resulted in significantly reduced licensing costs• Conducted code reviews to promote design and development best practices• Worked closely with stakeholders throughout the organization and in the broader community of volunteers to co-create impactful product roadmaps• Organized Burning Man’s large technology community around open source software and open APIs

Culver City, Ca, Us

I managed 2 teams of 7 engineers responsible for the Content Management and Discovery Service, which stores and serves an extensive catalog of video assets from Crunchyroll’s content partners.• Built the Ellation Technology Platform (ETP) for on-demand video delivery from the ground up using RESTful microservices implemented in Golang.• Scaled the ETP platform to serve millions of users viewing our content on Xbox, PlayStation, Chromecast, iPhone/iPad, Android, Fire TV, Apple TV, Roku, and the web• Launched a React-based single page application (SPA) for content management• Refactored ETP’s cloud-based ingestion system to catalog and transcode over 100,000 video assets • Recruited talented engineers, building a high performing teams from the ground up

My organization of analysts and engineering teams at grokDigital helped entrepreneurs turn their product visions into scalable cloud-based applications. Our core competency was client- and server-side JavaScript-based solutions leveraging Node.js and emergent HTML5 technologies.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Led the Advanced Technology Group, which is responsible for Zend Framework and PHP cloud technologies research and development. I expanded our large open source community ten-fold, while presenting at conferences on developments in the fields of open source software and cloud computing.

Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nl

Oversaw product development for Market Tool’s flagship SaaS survey solution. My organization was made up of three on-site teams and a large offshore team in India using primarily Java/JEE technologies.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Managed a team of 10 developers implementing endless.com, Amazon's first boutique-branded e-commerce experience and pure Java/JSP web application platform.

Austin, Texas, Us

Served as architect and contributor on the analytics engine powering Oracle's portfolio of Business Intelligence applications built on a Java/JEE stack.

San Mateo, California, Us

Implemented I-Many’s analytics engine, reporting dashboard, and SOAP API for ContractSphere, a Java-based solution for contract compliance management.

Contributed to backend services for fulfillment and inventory management using Java.