SUMMARY:

• 30 years of experience, 14 in cable telecommunications, 12 years in mobile communications.
• Cross - functional development coordinating with numerous teams and standards organizations.Securing intellectual property and aligning products with company initiatives.
• Managing product development with teams both foreign and domestic.
• Deploying products to millions of customers.
• Most recently, working with Google Cloud Platform to deploy RESTful web service for order tracking and application communications.
• Working to deploy cloud Confidential system utilizing RESTful web services.
• Significant experience utilizing MySQL, Oracle and MSSQLServer developing an asset tracking platform for transit authorities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Relevant Skills: Java (J2ME and J2EE), REST, Python, SQL (PL SQL, MS SQL, SQL 99), NoSQL, JSON, Google Cloud Platform

Additional Skills: OCAP/MHP, Android, OSGi, Git, AWK, HTML5, Angular, Java Media Framework (JMF), Java Security Architecture, Javascript/ECMAScript, Swift (iOS), UPnP, DLNA, Linux, Windows, Posix, JSP, CSS, C/C++, Assembly, RMI,, GIS (ESRI, MapPoint), OrCad, AutoCad, SolidWorks, UML, UP, Agile, Ant, HTTP, OpenWRT/DD-WRT/Tomato (BusyBox), 0Auth, XHR, Jira, Perforce, JUnit, Mockito, bash.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

CTO

Responsibilities:

• Slashed investment costs and time-to-market by creating an architecture that exploits similarities between Tomato, OpenWRT and DD-WRT router firmware.
• Increased company profit margins by specifying products from Linksys, Asus, Buffalo, Netgear and TP-link for company promotional offers.
• Preserved staggeringly low budget, under $65K, by architecting a Hybrid application using HTML+Ionic Framework and running on iOS and Android platforms.
• Facilitated explosive product growth, while minimizing development cost and time-to-market, by utilizing Google Cloud Platform (J2EE) and leading a team of developers in Prague.
• Re-aligned development to launch to Confidential, Google Play and Apple App Store in less than 3 months
• Worked with Android, iOS Swift, J2EE, Google Cloud Platform, AWK, Python, BASH, Linux (BusyBox), Javascript, Angular, HTML, CSS, Ionic Framework.

Confidential, Broomfield, CO

Principal Engineer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Increased company’s product offering and revenue by driving the development of the product; implementing features, analyzing requirements and developing industry specifications.
• Expanded company’s offering by developing the Multi-Room Confidential (MR- Confidential ) product; specifying standards, analyzing requirements and developing features.
• Changed the industry by developing standards such as OCAP- Confidential, OCAP-HN and OCAP-HNEXT with Confidential .
• Lead the Digital Navigator product team, providing technical guidance and mentoring.
• Slashed development and test time by rescoping the entire Digital Navigator product to use OSGi principals.
• Invigorated innovation by introducing NoSQL, HTML, JSP, CSS, J2ME, UPnP, Cloud Confidential, HLS, 0Auth and other technologies into the Digital Navigator product.
• Dramatically improved maintenance and deployment by reducing the Digital Navigator product from a system of 4 applications, to 2 (and eventually 1).
• Increased Digital Navigator group’s productivity by providing tools, development practices and technical guidance
• Secured key intellectual property for the company and consulted with legal department in its defense.
• Utilized OCAP/MHP, Java PBP 1.1, REST, 0Auth, SQL(H2DB), J2EE servlet (Jetty/Tomcat), UPnP, DLNA, HTML5, JSP/Velocity, Apache, Java Security Architecture (JSA), Java Media Framework (JMF), NoSQL (OrientDB, Custom and MongoDB), SQL/PLSQL, UML, HLS.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Software Architect

Responsibilities:

• Enabled markets by extending and maintaining the company’s MS C++/MS SQL Server based software.
• Expanded the company's product offering to include a cross platform Java solution deployed standalone or via the web.
• Increased product capabilities by integrating PLSQL, MS SQL, MapPoint and ESRI products
• Secured company’s contract with the Regional Transportation District (RTD), Denver. Gathered and analyzed product, integrated solution and delivered product successfully.
• Fulfilled company’s contract with Mountain Metro Transit Colorado Springs; integrating vehicle remote monitoring and route stop announcement.
• Worked in Java, C/C++, Windows, Solaris, Linux (SUSE), Palm os, BREW, SQL (Oracle 8i,9i,10g windows and solaris; MySQL and MS SQL Server, sqlite), JSP, Servlet, EJB, WSDL, SOAP, J2ME MIDP, UML.

Confidential, Centennial, CO

Principal Engineer/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Laid the foundation for the company’s next generation guidance product by implementing a Java virtual machine (JVM) and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) engine in cable set top boxes.
• Shaped the specification of the OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP).
• Lead a team of engineers, Radnor PA and local, to define and develop the next generation guidance product.
• Worked with VxWorks/VRTX, C/C++, Java, JSP, WSDL, UML, HTML, SVG Tiny.

Confidential, Idaho Springs, CO

Director of Product Development

Responsibilities:

• Launched the company by defining products, manufacturing and supply chain.
• Protected company investments by authoring and securing intellectual property.
• Advanced company products by design and fabrication of embedded controllers, integration of vendor equipment, developing low-cost product platform, generating mechanical specifications and producing code.
• Worked in Assembly, C/C++, Linux, HTML, AutoCad, OrCad, SolidWorks

Confidential, Littleton, CO

Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Defined the Video-on-demand (VOD) product by architecting a solution to integrate vendors on cable set top boxes.
• Streamlined development, leading a group of engineers in the production and integration of VOD software.
• Enabled company’s product growth by innovating a serial adapter for analytics capturing and audience measurement.
• Worked in embedded C/C++, Motorola ISV (Codewarrior/Microtek, Promice).

Confidential, Englewood, CO

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Increased market penetration by producing image processing software capable of massive throughput via the company’s high-speed photographic printer.
• Built the foundation for the company’s software development group by establishing test and technical writing groups.
• Worked in C/C++, Windows NT

Confidential, Boulder, CO

Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Pioneered mobile wireless equipment product family, implementing a custom TCP/IP stack and HTTP server for CDPD wireless networks.
• Worked in C/C++ for SMX RTOS, Windows, Linux, HTML, CGI

Confidential, Englewood, CO

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Fulfilled customer contracts developing Graphical User Interface (GUI) for distributed telephone switch acquisition and control system (Bell-South).
• Worked in UIMX (X-Motif), HP/UX, Java, C/C++

Confidential, Aurora, CO

MTS Associate

Responsibilities:

• Enabled real-time signal monitoring and analysis of commercial satellite base stations (Superbird-C).
• Worked in TCP/IP, HP/UX, UIMX (X-Motif), PV-Wave, SQL (esqlc, Postgress), C/C++

Confidential, Longmont, CO

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Dramatically improved tape drive performance by implementing TCP and multicast TCP protocols for tape drive subsystem support unit (SSU).
• Worked in C, Assembly, VRTX OS, Sun Solaris

Confidential, Lakewood, CO

Computer Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Grew equipment sales and secured contracts by developing interface systems for touch terminals.
• Worked in Linux, BSD (OpenBSD), Windows 3.1, Synario VHDL/Verilog, PCB Maker, Cadkey, Borland tools (Pascal, C/C++, basic), Assembly.