SUMMARY:

• Results - oriented and business savvy software design and development engineer with extensive experience in IT strategy and innovation, custom solutions development and operational streamlining.
• Career history of formulating and executing strategic business and technology initiatives and spearheading complex projects to completion.
• Strong record of propelling businesses to profitability via creative and surgical utilization of cutting edge technology.
• Empowering team leader skilled in development of cohesive, cross-functional, teams capable of performing needs assessment, optimizing improvement tools and realizing deliverables. Industry innovator leading employers into unexplored territory toward revenue-generating opportunities and cost-saving automation.
• IT Strategy, Management & Innovation Software Engineering & Implementation Mobile Development
• Custom Software Solutions Development Continuous Process Improvement Operational Streamlining
• Cost Containment Business Automation Product Lifecycle Management Testing & Measurement
• Co-creator of TheMaven Network’s iOS native app.
• At The Maven, iOS client support for user-uploaded videos and photos.
• Sole developer of The Maven’s video backend technology.
• Key contributor to Scout’s iOS mobile app, implementing the notifications subscription UI, so customers can be notified in realtime as new stories break, the forums photo upload code and UI, including backend server technology, and numerous other features that drive customer satisfaction, using the app.
• Architected, designed, and implemented Scout’s RESTful Server framework from the ground up when existing C# solutions in the open source community proved inadequate to the company’s needs.
• Instrumental in configuration of complete technology stack for 5to1 gallery, scalable publisher-focused platform for managing premium advertising supply side inventory. Innovative efforts enabled alliance to offer advertisers 100% premium inventory at scale for first time ever and aided firm’s attraction to eventual acquiring entity, Confidential .
• Designed and implemented C# based Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) platform for Confidential, successfully integrating 1.3M+ real estate listings from over 40 different data sources. Engine vastly improved productivity by enabling international base of developers to implement physically and logically distinct feed integrations that would continually reload and refresh in operations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Platforms: OSX, Linux, Windows

Networking: VPN, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, UDP, WINS, TELNET, FTP, DHCP, DNS and SAN

Languages: C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, C#, SQL, XML, HTML, Java, and XSLT

Databases: MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server

Other: Xcode, .NET and Mono, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, ElasticSearch, Redis, Apache Solr Search Server, Monodevelop and RabbitMQ

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Senior iOS Software Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Currently working on The Maven’s iOS app.
• Key pieces I developed were the conversation UI, User and Message Moderation UI, Networking support, and a plethora of smaller-scale UI and programmatic features in the app.
• Wrote the entire backend for our user-uploaded video services, using Amazon’s AWS S3, ElasticTranscoder, Simple Notification Service, and Simple Queueing Service. Used The Maven’s backend service pieces, including Apache Kafka and Elasticsearch, to interact with the AWS services to manage the transcoded video state machines.
• Maintenance and enhancement of our RESTful services framework (SID), as needed.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Senior Software Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Completely rewrote Scout’s RESTful API service layer on Mono/Linux.
• Architected a platform for onboarding nearly four million new users and club subscriptions to Scout from club users from the North American Membership Group, more than doubling Scout’s users and subscriptions.
• Leveraged the platform to achieve integration of numerous external sites to the Scout Platform.
• Acted in a leadership capacity in the effort to use external contractors to migrate story content from external sites, successfully surmounting all barriers, providing a low-friction way for stories to be brought from external sites into Scout.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Senior Software Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Successfully designed and implemented high-speed low latency pipeline workflow for Confidential to publish video content for 2014 Olympics to Microsoft Azure Media Services platform.
• Implemented new transfer protocols on RMP for Aspera 3.0, Aspera On Demand over Azure, Amazon S3, and others, making it possible for clients to manage large multi-gigabyte video file processing workflows in a timely way.
• Designed and implemented new manifest file management code support, providing an architecture for RMP to support future disparate manifest file formats, as well as current ones like Confidential (an internal Comcast standard).

Confidential

Senior Software Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Successfully integrated the 5to1 Gallery Application using Confidential s internal technology stack and server infrastructure.
• Took a leadership role on agile team for project Lanai, implementing publisher facing features on Apt advertiser server, bringing Right Media Non - Guaranteed supply into the Apt server, to enable publishers to better manage their brand, and enhance the user experience for premium publisher sites.
• Delivered innovative configuration management features on the Configuration Server internal facing project, unifying disparate sources of configuration data for public facing Confidential applications into a single source of configuration truth, enabling Operations engineers to configure and deploy applications with greater confidence. This strategic inernal product helps Confidential to deliver greater scalability and new features to customers with greater speed and confidence, reducing time to market speeds, and improving quality.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Senior Software Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented search and faceting features in 5to1 gallery, creating dynamic and fast tool for end users and heightening value of product.
• Served as principal developer for Solr integration with 5to1 platform, streamlining integration process via utilization of project management skills.
• Recognized subject matter expert for interface, entrusted to provide first hand assistance to external ad partners on system functionality and enhancements.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Software Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Crafted image processing services capable of resizing and distributing images associated with 1.3M listings into content management system, speeding productivity and enhancing value of tool.
• Created email lead generation system, main deliverable product for websites LandWatch.com and ResortScape.com, aiding facilitation of new pipeline sales.
• Authored and integrated numerous programs, processes and tools including newsletter generation engine and ancillary tools for downloading images, preprocessing feeds and more. Innovation propelled business forward, garnering new clientele and securing firm’s niche in marketplace.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Software Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led design and delivery of cutting-edge gateway service, Mortgage ATM, real time home loan processing for Microsoft’s HomeAdvisor, enabling users to process applications with Freddie Mac Foundation in mere minutes.
• Successfully shipped premier version of MSN Investor, groundbreaking real time stock market quote engine, setting new precedent for innovation in online investing.
• Authored MediaView OLE Control, earning adoption as foundation technology for many Microsoft educational tools to come such as Mastering Microsoft Access.
• Earned significant recognition and praise for co-development of MSN Program Viewer which established completely new look and feel on Microsoft Internet Explorer and enabled MSN to deliver consumer-focused user experiences housing MSN Shows for MSN 2.0 and 2.5. Success far surpassed company expectations.