Experience

Feed Media Group (FMG)

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Engineering

  • Aug 2023 - Present



Slack

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Software Engineering

  • Oct 2021 - Mar 2023

• Senior Engineering Manager

  • Sep 2019 - Oct 2021

• Engineering Manager

  • Sep 2017 - Sep 2019



Pandora

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineering Manager

  • May 2015 - Aug 2017



Guidewire Software

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Jul 2013 - May 2015

  • Manage team of engineers with weekly one-on-ones, and biannual written reviews• Lead manager for the application-engineer interview committee which handles interview structure, interviewer training, and evaluation of prospective candidates to Gudewire development.• Led effort to codify expectations for the software engineer and senior software engineer title so managers could be more specific and transparent about the two titles for existing developers and new hires.• Assist the lead engineering manager with project tracking, resource allocation, and personal issues• Technical advisor on a number of internal projects including company conversion from Perforce to Git, re-architecture investigation, customer project inception, and general product performance. Show less

• Senior Software Engineer / Performance Lead

  • Jan 2010 - Apr 2015

  • Scaled upperformance team to focus on rapidly scaling BillingCenter for large insurance carriers. This resulted in us being able to scale the product 5-10x larger than before.• Rewrote and redesigned BillingCenter's data generation framework for performance testing • Gave developer talks on various product frameworks including how to handle writing upgrade, understanding how SQL works, and how to read performance instrumentation.• Worked on feature development for versions 3, 7, 8, and 9 of BillingCenter• Handled complex customer escalations from technical support Show less



Sensage

• San Fransico

• Lead Engineer

  • Feb 2007 - Jan 2010

  • Awarded the SenSage Engineering Star award twice • Designed and helped build the SenSage-McAfee integration effort, leading SenSage to win McAfee’s 2008 Most Innovative Partner Award. (Spring, XML-RPC, Java) • Led engineering effort to productize SenSage ETL and reporting offerings, successfully delivering analytics content with each SenSage product releases. (Java, SQL, Python, Perl) • Awarded the SenSage Engineering Star award twice • Designed and helped build the SenSage-McAfee integration effort, leading SenSage to win McAfee’s 2008 Most Innovative Partner Award. (Spring, XML-RPC, Java) • Led engineering effort to productize SenSage ETL and reporting offerings, successfully delivering analytics content with each SenSage product releases. (Java, SQL, Python, Perl)



Groxis

• San Francisco Bay Area

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2005 - Mar 2005

  • Built a reporting application for a federated search engine that handled collection and storage of statistical data, analysis of data, and generation of graphical reports (Ant, Java, MySQL, JReports) • Built a reporting application for a federated search engine that handled collection and storage of statistical data, analysis of data, and generation of graphical reports (Ant, Java, MySQL, JReports)



Wily Technology

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• User Interface Engineer

  • Jun 2004 - Sep 2004

  • Developed an integrated help system for Wily’s next generation server/network monitoring system (JavaHelp, Isomorphic JavaScript framework, Webworks) • Developed an integrated help system for Wily’s next generation server/network monitoring system (JavaHelp, Isomorphic JavaScript framework, Webworks)



Digital Government Online

• Greater Los Angeles Area

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

  • Developed architecture for converting previous code base from Cold Fusion to Java (J2EE) utilizing Struts framework and JSTL • Redesigned and migrated existing database (SQL 7 to MySQL) for more versatility, speed, and capturing of site statistics • Responsible for server installation, configuration and support (Resin/MySQL) • Developed architecture for converting previous code base from Cold Fusion to Java (J2EE) utilizing Struts framework and JSTL • Redesigned and migrated existing database (SQL 7 to MySQL) for more versatility, speed, and capturing of site statistics • Responsible for server installation, configuration and support (Resin/MySQL)



Cox Interactive Media

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  • Lead engineer on weather/forecast application (integrated with Accuweather), national lottery information system, and real time airport information for Los Angeles International Airport (J2EE Servlet, EJB, JSTL, XSLT, and C) • Assisted hybridization and conversion of Perl code base to Java/J2EE environment • Lead engineer on weather/forecast application (integrated with Accuweather), national lottery information system, and real time airport information for Los Angeles International Airport (J2EE Servlet, EJB, JSTL, XSLT, and C) • Assisted hybridization and conversion of Perl code base to Java/J2EE environment



Onair.com

• Los An

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  • Developed user interface for music and e-commerce applications (JSP and DHTML) • Integrated presentation tier (Servlet/JSP) with business logic (EJB) • Developed an automated application for managing advertising clients (Perl) • Developed user interface for music and e-commerce applications (JSP and DHTML) • Integrated presentation tier (Servlet/JSP) with business logic (EJB) • Developed an automated application for managing advertising clients (Perl)