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San Mateo, Ca, Us

Minato City, Tokyo , Jp

Leading the execution of software implementation for digital acceleration within JSR Corp, a multi-billion dollar manufacturing conglomerate in the semiconductor materials, pharmaceutical development and plastics domains.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Heading up the Engineering function for a very slick product in the manufacturing intelligence domain.

Working with very early to reasonably early phase start ups in a variety of capacities, ranging from business planning to product management to solutions design and development to hands on software engineering. Anything that allows me to leverage my experience while solving interesting and challenging problems is game.Some current examples:MTest Design: as COO, I handle the back office, finances and accounting, IT, the web presence, and so forth for a self-proprietorship home based Residential Design Business. My purpose is enable my wife to do what she's best at, which is Design and Project Management. Sparkl Reusables: as Consultant for Product Management and Development Advisor, I am helping to define and codify the Product Roadmap, define and plot the implementation phases, and overseeing outsourced development and hardware integration coordination for a cloud based reusable food container start-up.llamasfeas.com: as Profe Llama/Technical Advisor/Business Consultant, I provide technical and business strategy to help get a progressive ecommerce business off the ground and thriving. Also, helping to reinforce the youthful vision that makes llamas mas feas.

New York, New York, Us

Joined as an Executive Team member, heading up an Engineering Organization spanning Development, Quality, Data Science and Design. The initial team consisted of 24 fairly junior members, split across New York City and San Francisco. Helped to lead the company to consecutive year over year revenue doubling, explosive customer growth, tripling of the employee count and capped off with a successful, well above market value, acquisition in 2018.Over the course of 2.5 years, achievements included:- rebuilt the recruiting and hiring function to grow the the team to 70, while up leveling key in place roles to increase seniority- added a major development center in Gdansk, Poland- completely revamped the entire Product Division's Agile Methodology- restructured the Engineering Org with a new titling, leveling and pay scale system- grew a bench of junior management candidates into independent and autonomous team leaders- incorporated a disjoint Data Science team into a smoothly operating production ready unit- complete overhaul of the build, test and release apporach to move from manual, all night, bug filled pushes to CI/CD based fast, repeatable, quality driven, automated releases- delivered a full featured release of an end-to-end new product line in a matter of months, utilizing progressive technologies: microservices, Kubernetes, streaming- brought Guinness on tap to the office

Design consultation and engineering for rapidly growing, web based social media and networking site focused on increasing awareness and connections between local food producers and consumers. The service was a phenomenal small company success, peaking out at #113 in most trafficked web sites in the US. And then Facebook cut off feeds ...

San Ramon, California, Us

Building and managing teams doing some very cool big data work for the "Industrial Internet", working at a scale that can make a measurable difference in the world. As an early leader in this software start up within a mass corporation, have shifted role multiple times to meet the areas of high demandAccomplishments include:- Built out the initial Predix software team for the Wind Renewables business and lead the charge to shift the thought process and approach to an Agile model- Spawned software teams to serve other Power & Water division areas focused on building software to enhance productivity and services in the spaces of industrial power generation, nuclear energy, and distributed gas engines.- Created leadership position to define software driven models to transform LED light fixtures into data collection machines. Built and lead team that created the solutions for successful Smart City pilots with San Diego and Jacksonville that were key foundational pieces for the newly formed Current business.- Built the External Engineering software team that produced GE Digital's first large Predix based commercial success for Pitney Bowes. Followed with several more solutions built for a variety of external customers.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

To lead and grow the San Francisco based engineering team responsible for a wide range of features across the massive Wikia ecosystem. The role spanned management of both Front and Back End Engineering, QA, and Project Management staff. Responsibilities include Agile implementations, technical leadership, off shore engineering team collaboration, budget management, and facilitating external engineering partnerships. Functional areas owned included platform, video, analytics, search, social, and performance.

Austin, Texas, Us

Mission: To build the Jive Apps Cloud Layers. Own the engineering effort and work closely with product management to derive the roadmap for multiple SaaS components that support Jive's OpenSocial App ecosystem. Systems include Apps Marketplace along with 3rd party billing integration, Apps Developer infrastructure, secure communication gateway, app runtime support systems, and operational infrastructure for the various services. Other charters included consulting and evangelizing across the engineering org around modern practices such as an effective agile approach, decoupling components within the ecosystem, and implementing enhanced and efficient developer testing and CI systems.

San Francisco, California, Us

Lead the Quality Assurance effort for various aspects of the Salesforce.com and Force.com platforms.Areas of QA responsibility included managing teams for Recommendation Systems, Similarity Engines, Enterprise Social Networking (Chatter), Enterprise Search technologies, and Analytics / BI / Reporting. Served as Technical Product Manager for the Systems Service Level Diagnostics and Troubleshooting team.Drove or co-drive division wide efforts for recruiting and hiring, enhancing test automation frameworks and approaches, and agile practices.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Built and lead the Silicon Valley Development team for the Santa Barbara based AdECN team. Focus is on designing and implementing a large scaled advertising exchange system, bringing a real time arbitrage model to the online advertising world.Defined, recruited, hired and managed a high skilled team to design, implement and support both core infrastructure and various sub-systems in ground up development. As one of the earliest senior management in the organization my roles spanned product management, architecture, developer and test infrastructure, and agile process implementation. Also served as the 'As Appropriate' interview panelist for most hires in the organization crossing all business and engineering functions, owning the final fit and hire-ability call for Microsoft standards.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Built and managed the 40+ member QA team responsible for the platform portion of the massively scaled Hotmail service. Responsibilities covered defining the charter and team structure, recruiting and hiring, process definition, tools and frameworks architecture and implementation, management of a mufti-million dollar annual budget, test lab ecosystem, engineering metrics, and 2nd/3rd line people management for both local and offshore engineers.Lead cross-team Windows Live management team to consolidate test frameworks and best practices across several hundred engineer division.Systems owned spanned some 18,000 servers across functions for email delivery and receipt, anti-spam, anti-abuse detection, storage clustering, client API services, internal routing, newsletter delivery, system monitoring and metrics collection, and disaster recovery all at massive scale.

Design and implementation of various white box test frameworks and techniques within the TMS product for the Sierra line of Non-Stop systems.

Livermore, Ca, Us

System administration and application programming for high availability Tandem systems that manage the lab fire and safety alarm tracking and reporting.

Server side programming and database development for electronic bill payment systems.

Software development for Voice Response Unit applications and Tandem back end services.

Houston, Texas, Us

Process automation for release engineering and systems management group.

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