Zach Medeck Email & Phone Number

Bellevue

Greater Seattle Area

Bellevue, Washington

• Responsible for defining and overseeing the end to end design, development, and assurance of quality and best practices for the voice application layer across 40+ voice domains in 20+ languages. • Successfully led and delivered multiple high-profile projects ahead of schedule for major companies like: ∟ Bixby Voice Assistant: shipped on 100M+ phones, supporting 5,000+ unique voice commands across 30+ domains. ∟ Toyota Entune/Lexus Enform: shipped on 10M+ cars, supporting 1500+ voice commands across 25 domains in 5 languages.• Coordinated efforts between Dev, NLP, Localization and Client teams, ensuring successful hand-off and integration between cross-functional teams. • Spearheaded efforts to enhance disambiguation, contextual resolution and cross-domain support in order to deliver an improved and more personalized customer experience. • Managed team of 8 Devs and 2 Testers, providing technical direction, training and issue support.• Sought out and eliminated dev waste throughout company in order to optimize usage of developers’ time and skills. ∟ Reduced dev build times from ~90 minutes down to ~10, leading to faster turn-around time on issues and less down-time. ∟ Automated all data entry aspects in the Application Development process, which had previously accounted for ~70% of start-up time spent developing Voice Applications. ∟ Designed new method of automated unit testing to pin-point problem models, reducing turnaround time of bug resolution by 80%.

Bellevue, Washington

Responsible for the support and enhancement of 15+ engineering applications spread across 3 major domains relating to the design and build cycle of semi-truck Frame Rails. • Came up with automated solution long-standing issue that would detect and fix corrupted Frame Rail blueprints. In first year prevented delay of 1800 truck orders, resulting in an annual savings of ~$1.8 million • Lead Dev on major agile project to upgrade Java based Frame Design codebase and its corresponding Database Sybase database to SQL. o Resulted in performance upgrades of ~86%, reducing average processing time per chassis to 20 seconds (from 150 seconds) with annual savings of over $300,000/yr.

Lead web developer responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining multiple websites using HTML, JavaScript and PHP. As well as coordinating projects and events between multiple offices and departments on campus.

Business Administration, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science