Senior Director of Software Engineering Resume

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Director of Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

Provide full ownership and accountability for all engineering applications, systems, services and teams that deliver the end - to-end customer experiences across all Octane5 web and mobile platforms. Responsible for hiring, retaining and mentoring talent leading to no turnover across managed teams. Lead agile transformation across all teams (XP, Scrum, Kaizen) with continuous integration, automated tests and predictive performance analytics.

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Director of Development

Responsibilities:

Accountable for building and delivering high quality consumer and business applications for both web and mobile. Recruited, coached, trained, and motivated a highly effective team of developers. Implement and lead agile processes, continuous integration, automated testing, and continual improvement practices across the organization. Zero turnover across team

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Application Architect

Responsibilities:

Accountable for the technical implementation and quality of the online advertising assets used by every property of Confidential . Hired and led the development teams responsible for multiple revenue-critical applications. We delivered every project on budget and ahead of schedule with continuous integration, automated tests, a disciplined communication heavy deploy process, and service APIs. Created the Turner wide javascript library that enables ad display across desktop, tablet and mobile platforms millions of times per day.

Technologies: Python, Bottle, gEvent, CouchDB, Erlang, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, XML/XSLT, JSON, Chef, Mongo, DFP, Twisted.

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Lead Web Developer

Responsibilities:

Accountable for the technical implementation and quality of the online advertising assets used by every property of Confidential . Provide technical leadership to the Turner AMPT DMI team for all issues concerning the development and deployment of web, video, and flash assets and their associated testing frameworks. Created Turtle: automation application using Python and a Firefox extension that saves 60 man hours per week for the technical management team.

Technologies: Unix, Python, XML/XLST, jQuery, CouchDB, CSS, Javascript, CGI, Subversion, Selenium + Grid, Kapow, Ant, Eclipse, PHP, and Spotify.

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Syndicated Services Developer

Responsibilities:

Accountable for the management and support of software services designed to syndicate both video and XML content for Confidential, including; MLB, Nascar, PGA, PGA Tour, NBA, NCAA. Designed, developed, integrated and maintained the automation of Nascar.com weekly race provisioning. Developed CharlesBarkley.com with Twitter/Facebook integration.

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Manager, Information Strategy and Security

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Confidential strategic innovation through the conception, planning, hands-on development, staffing, and project leadership of multiple initiatives with a focus on machine learning, statistical analysis, information security, cloud computing, and the application and integration of new technologies to the business purposes of Confidential . Expert in productivity analytics, with teams increasing output by 22% on average with a drop in defect rates.

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Development Team Lead

Responsibilities:

Advocated, designed and coded a complete re-architecture of the Financial View product. Final technologies chosen were JSP and Sitemesh, with the Spring framework using the Commons Validator. Trained in Six Sigma to Green Belt.

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Senior Interrogation Specialist/Linguist

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the direct interaction and manipulation of enemy prisoners of war, subversives, defectors, black marketers, and criminals. Training includes; FBI, CIA, DIA, N-7, US Army, SERE, Reid, SCAN, and British SAS interrogation training. Academically or professionally familiar with Viet Kong, Pathet Lao, Shining Path, Hamas, IRA, Islamic Jihad, classic Maoist theory and cell based insurrection. Trained in the equipment, tactics and methodology associated with modern subversive groups. Consistently first-in-class/top soldier. Rated in top 2% of the Army. Promoted ahead of peers to become Senior Instructor at the US Army Interrogation School (USAICS).
Advanced training/certifications include: MOUT (Urban Combat), US and foreign combat tactics, mountaineering, multiple foreign languages, psychological operations, advanced land navigation, tactical small-unit combat operations, radio and satellite communications, tactical weaponry, EMT (Emergency Medical Technician), polygraphy and combat leadership.
Won Top Soldier in 2nd Infantry Division out of a pool of over 16,000 soldiers.
Frequently called upon by television and print reporters to provide information as a subject matter expert in strategic and tactical interrogation, terrorism and the Geneva Conventions.
Largest television audience: 2.3 million (Hannity & Colmes).