Experience

Kiavi

• United States
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Software Engineering Manager

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  - Developed and implemented a team on-call rotation to decrease cognitive whiplash and increase engineering focus time. Other teams adopted the program. - Consolidated team meetings, groups, and communication channels to simplify operational day-to-day work - Reduced teamwork in progress to increase focus time and synergy - Lead Tiger Team to focus on chronic slow and flaky test environment - Ran a 1% better program, where Engineers would spend as little as 24 minutes a week reducing tech debt and improving the development environment. Show less



Adobe

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • 2021 - 2022

  - Hired and lead a team responsible for integrating Workfront into the Adobe ecosystem. - Coordinated cross-department efforts and communications for project planning and architecture. - Hired and lead a team responsible for integrating Workfront into the Adobe ecosystem. - Coordinated cross-department efforts and communications for project planning and architecture.



Bluehost

• United States
• Internet Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Engineering Manager

  • 2016 - 2021

  - The mastermind, organizer, and lead departmental python migration and adoption efforts; set up and ran governing body with interactional rules, coding/architectural standards - Train teams on best practices and manage exploratory efforts - Lead several teams of engineers (5-12 per team) of varying experience levels in SWe, SRe, SeT, DevOps, and InfoSec processes - Manage over 20 engineers in both matrix and team management structures; mentoring many others - Trained and helped several engineers move into leadership roles - Architected/orchestrated the execution of various projects among cross-functional teams - Conduct peer reviews, interviews, and provide counseling for conflicts and career guidance - Implemented agile scrum at the team and department level - Active part of Engineering department leadership staff - Developed the peer-review process, facilitating in-depth quantification of proficiencies - Created a Peer Review/Goal cycle to help managers better use the Peer Review process - Influenced vision in key areas of organization and technology Show less



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Web Application Developer (Contract)

  • 2014 - 2016

  - Acted as Developer, Product Manager, Quality/Risk analysis Engineer, Deployment Manager, SeT, SRe, and data analyst as I optimized, modernized, and performed extensive performance analysis for one of the largest App Engine apps in the world.- Converted a huge legacy single threaded app to take advantage of concurrency.

• Application Support Engineer (Contract)

  • Jun 2012 - 2014

  Improving and developing the automated mass data pipeline for Google Maps.- Developed pipelines for Google Maps which spanned tool for flight planning, to processing acquired imagery and geospatial data preparations for publication.- Streamlined data pipelines. Updated functionality to better handle edge cases and run more efficiently. Developed appropriate unit tests and deployed the modified products into a production environment. E.g. Optimized a critical early pipeline process over 16 times faster, allowing the script to run more often.- Built and implemented a mock database python test module for unit testing MySQL queries.- Liaison between technical and operations staffs. Participated in operations meetings and provided a technical perspective on pertinent issues. Daily face time with operations staff.- Constructed frameworks for rapid/automated deployment of corporate pipeline packages.- Focused on documentation, knowledge sharing, creating visualizations of complex pipelines to increase intragroup common knowledge and to help in the on-boarding of new hires. Show less



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Analyst and Lab Technician (Contract)

  • 2012 - 2012

  - Automate data mining processes for hardware reliability log files and test suits. - Develop new presentation schemas to aid in the visualization of large data sets. - Set up test environments. - Automate data mining processes for hardware reliability log files and test suits. - Develop new presentation schemas to aid in the visualization of large data sets. - Set up test environments.



EPRI

• United States
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical/Research Assistant

  • 2007 - 2011

  - Streamlined work flow by developing scripts which reduced hours spent on tasks. - Established data structures, aggregated and analyzed results for databases which were incorporated into customer products, boosting revenues hundreds of thousands of dollars. - Managed product databases, updating records, comparing and analyzing data and preparing reports and coordinating with staff to keep products delivery on track. - Developed and maintained data repositories for client and staff reference. - Automated formatting standards for reports for consistent research presentation quality. - Coordinated with publication department ensuring timely products available for customers. - Impromptu troubleshooter to reduce wait time for resolution and load on the help desk. Show less



CSK Auto Corporation

• Retail
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Sales Assistant

  • 2002 - 2003

  - Sold automotive parts, up and cross-selling when possible. - Register work. - Trusted to count out other employee drawers. - Managed all store stock and store cleanliness. - Sold automotive parts, up and cross-selling when possible. - Register work. - Trusted to count out other employee drawers. - Managed all store stock and store cleanliness.