Experience

Unity

• United States
• Online Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Engineering Manager

  • Jul 2023 - Present

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Rivian

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Engineering Manager

  • Oct 2021 - Apr 2023

  * Managed two engineering teams focused on customer service internal applications and facilities project management applications. * Oversee a team responsible for the account management solution providing a 360-degree view of customer status, interactions, work orders, etc.; application used to look up account information for customer inquiries, including reporting issues. * Calibrated and executed agile development processes to determine the team's capacity based on non-sprint responsibilities accurately, increasing the team’s velocity and predictability. * Led a team of 15 contractors and full-time engineers working on a facilities management product managing all aspects of physical facilities projects, budgets, and timelines. * Identified and addressed issues summarized by lack of trust between product/business and engineering, ambiguous requirements, unvetted project estimations, lack of focus on testing, unvetted unreasonable timelines, and engineering not being involved in the requirements process. * Improved ambiguous team processes in agile development practices, including product-> engineering handoff, confident task estimations, and reducing feature creep, which was a norm. * Eliminated manual testing in favor of unit/integration/etc. testing by engineering following CI/CD. * Built trust with product and business teams through alignment on the product -> development process, communication massively improved between engineering and product, and most importantly, delivered high-quality features on time. Show less



Amazon

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Development Manager at Amazon Music - Artist and Label Services

  • Feb 2020 - May 2021

  * Hired and managed a team responsible for delivering Amazon Music features focusing on enhancing artist-to-fan engagement. * During COVID, Implemented backend services that enable artists to stream live content from their Twitch accounts to Amazon Music subscribers. This project’s purpose was to continue artist to fan engagement when all live events were cancelled. * In March of 2021, delivered an in-app merchandise feature to over 38 million US customers. This feature allows artists to curate and sell special merchandise to customers in the Amazon Music application. Press Release: https://press.aboutamazon.com/2021/3/amazon-music-launches-new-shopping-experience-making-it-easier-for-fans-to-find-merch-from-their-favorite-artists Show less



Prime Video & Amazon Studios

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Development Manager

  • Aug 2018 - Feb 2020

  * Managed an engineering team that was responsible for integrating and managing communication between workflow services (internal and third-party) to ensure the management solution is synchronized and is the source of truth for the content creation workflow process and status. * Managed support engineers for operations, DevOps, and customer service for the management solution. * Managed an engineering team that was responsible for integrating and managing communication between workflow services (internal and third-party) to ensure the management solution is synchronized and is the source of truth for the content creation workflow process and status. * Managed support engineers for operations, DevOps, and customer service for the management solution.



Amazon

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Development Manager

  • Oct 2017 - Aug 2018

  * Managed a team that was responsible for managing and maintaining Prime Video licensed content rights and pricing. * Responsible for all operations and enhancements for legacy content rights services. * Implemented and delivered a new scalable content rights management solution that adhered to industry standards and provided validation and troubleshooting support for the operator. This resulted in significantly reducing burden on the internal operators responsible for entering and managing rights. * Built web-based operator tooling for managing content rights. Show less



Stealth Startup

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Jun 2017 - Oct 2017

  Photo Procurement Ecosystem Working on a stealth project leveraging both AWS and the Cloud Platform. On a high level, the solution will allow users to take or upload photos with their mobile device and view details on the image including facial and landmark detection leveraging the Amazon Rekognition API the Google Vision API. Next steps is to incorporate AI to programmatically determine best phographs and use AI to adjust the evaluation of a photograph based on user feedback. End goal is for the photo curation solution to have integration to all major cloud storage providers and social networks to access and process all photographs. Technical Landscape: AMZN Alexa/Rekognition API, Google Vision API, Google/Facebook oauth integration, React Native, AWS Lambda/DynamoDB/Machine Learning/Reshift, OneSignal, BuddyBuild, NodeJS, HTTML5/CSS/JavaScript/EcmaScript 6 Show less



Western Digital

• United States
• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Hands-on Senior Engineering Manager

  • May 2015 - Jun 2017

  * As in individual contributor, guided and mentored the engineers and project managers on Agile, mobile development, and services development. * Designed and implemented a push notification service used by the ecosystem to send iOS and Android push notifications for new media and sharing alerts. * Championed the leveraging of hybrid mobile frameworks to build applications that reduced development timelines and the dependency on iOS and Android resources. Upon approval, created and managed the team that developed the mobile application using React Native. * Managed the implementation of the network-attached storage (NAS) device REST APIs. * Managed web client development using ReactJS. Show less



Reach150

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Engineering

  • Dec 2012 - Apr 2015

  * Headed engineering in a three-person startup that created a referral management system realtors could use to grow their business and sphere of influence. * Developed, maintained, and provided all customer support for the referral software as a service (SaaS) solution fully hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS). * Integrated with Google AdWords to allow customers to enable and manage ad banner advertising. This integration was fully automated via the application. The integration dynamically generates ad banners leveraging existing profile information and provides analytic reporting on metrics such as impression and click through rates. This resulted in the company getting funding, growing, and eventually acquired by SmartZip. Show less



Amazon Lab126

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Nov 2009 - Dec 2012

  * Hired and managed a team responsible for building the next generation e-Ink Kindle content renderer to support complex formatting features required by some of the large publishers. * Leveraged the rich formatting capabilities of WebKit as the renderer framework . * Collaborated with Amazon teams in Paris, India, and Seattle to design, architect, and implement services. This included integrating with existing Kindle services as well as operational tooling to ingest, format, and deliver content to the renderer. * Championed and managed a web-based Kindle client that supports the same formatting capabilities as the new e-Ink renderer. Show less



Panasonic Automotive North America

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Software Development

  • May 2009 - Nov 2009

  * Hired and managed an engineering team that developed a hand-held gaming device from the ground up. * Architected the cloud services responsible for gaming and social features. I was a key decision maker in selecting the vendor chipsets and operating systems used by our device. * Collaborated with business, product, and executive stakeholders to define product vision and requirements while a marketing team was being hired. * Hired and managed an engineering team that developed a hand-held gaming device from the ground up. * Architected the cloud services responsible for gaming and social features. I was a key decision maker in selecting the vendor chipsets and operating systems used by our device. * Collaborated with business, product, and executive stakeholders to define product vision and requirements while a marketing team was being hired.



Move Networks

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, Advertising Systems Architecture

  • Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

  * Collaborated with Move Network’s chief strategy officer (CSO) to define an advertising software solution that provided an end-to-end publishing and monetization service for premium content providers. * Evaluated third-party original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners to accelerate the tight integration of advertising services to the Move Networks solution. * Provided thought leadership for advertising services to professional services, marketing, and engineering. * Collaborated with Move Network’s chief strategy officer (CSO) to define an advertising software solution that provided an end-to-end publishing and monetization service for premium content providers. * Evaluated third-party original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners to accelerate the tight integration of advertising services to the Move Networks solution. * Provided thought leadership for advertising services to professional services, marketing, and engineering.



Cadent

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Hands-on Director, Software Development

  • Sep 2004 - Dec 2008

  * Collaborated with the chief technology officer (CTO) and founder to define product requirements, architect the solution, and build a team from the ground up. I was the second engineer hired at BlackArrow. * Audited the end-to-end broadcast advertising processes through onsite employee interviews at Starcom Mediavest and GM Planworks. * Led a dynamic advertising field trial with Disney in Burbank, California. The trial lasted two months with 200 households using a peer-to-peer content distribution methodology with Intel hardware over a fiber optic network. * Led further field trials with Turner Networks and integrations with Cisco Systems, RGB Networks, Tandberg TV, Flash Media Player, and Move Networks. * Successfully led the deployment of two dynamic advertising broadband customer trials (including PlumTV) in New York. * Actively participated in developing the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Digital Video Subcommittee (DVS) 629 standards. * Managed development of the DVS 629 interface. In addition, managed the integration of that interface with strategic partners (including Cisco Systems, Inc). Show less



BrightTeam

• Los Gatos, California, United States

• CTO

  • Jun 2002 - Aug 2004

  Architected and managed the implementation of an SOA-based J2EE-based collaboration solution providing features such as application sharing, audited instant messaging, remote file access, and white boarding capabilities. Support both web-based and wireless clients (J2ME, BlackBerry). Architected and managed the implementation of an SOA-based J2EE-based collaboration solution providing features such as application sharing, audited instant messaging, remote file access, and white boarding capabilities. Support both web-based and wireless clients (J2ME, BlackBerry).



Lumenare Networks

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Marketing Engineer

  • Jun 2001 - Jun 2002

  Technical lead for solutions architecture and implementation with Fortune 500 customers such as British Telecom, Sprint and Hitachi Data Systems. Responsibilities included product gap analysis, requirements gathering, return on investment (ROI) analysis and onsite customization specifications and customer issue resolution. Technical lead for solutions architecture and implementation with Fortune 500 customers such as British Telecom, Sprint and Hitachi Data Systems. Responsibilities included product gap analysis, requirements gathering, return on investment (ROI) analysis and onsite customization specifications and customer issue resolution.



Propel, Inc

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Engineer

  • Sep 1999 - Jun 2001

  E-Commerce Software Startup * Worked with the CTO to design and implement platform services to develop a complete e-commerce application foundation including a generic XML-based application framework to provide a robust and scalable solution to provide integration with 3rd party solutions. * Managed a four person team in the integration of Propel’s e-commerce software with Oracle ERP using SeeBeyond’s e*Gate product, an enterprise application integration (EAI) solution. E-Commerce Software Startup * Worked with the CTO to design and implement platform services to develop a complete e-commerce application foundation including a generic XML-based application framework to provide a robust and scalable solution to provide integration with 3rd party solutions. * Managed a four person team in the integration of Propel’s e-commerce software with Oracle ERP using SeeBeyond’s e*Gate product, an enterprise application integration (EAI) solution.



Cisco

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 1995 - Sep 1999

  Key engineer on involved in the architecture and development of CiscoWorks 2000, a ground up web-based replacement for the Solaris Motif based CiscoWorks solution Major contributor to 4 approved patents directly related to the CiscoWorks 2000 solution Designed and implemented an SNMP-based inventory collection engine designed to maintain inventory information and detect changes in the network based on the SNMP data Designed and led the implemented a real time reporting system for the IP-based interactive voice response (IP IVR) product. The reports are used to improve the systems call routing workflow Show less