Experience

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  Terra Kaffe

  • Chief Technology Officer

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  Terra Kaffe

  • Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Chief Technology Officer

    • Jan 2022 - Present
    • Seattle, Washington, United States

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  Amazon

  • Sr. Solutions Architect, Alexa Smart Properties - Residential

    • Apr 2021 - Jan 2022

    Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time. Node.js, SQL, Java. Managed installation, upgrade, and deployment projects and provided on-site direction for engineers. Averaged integration times 35% shorter than my colleagues. Directed and deployed fleets of 1,000+ devices regularly (over 30 deployments). Provided OKR's and User Stories for product roadmap and Operational Planning execution. Participated in software development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation. Defined enterprise processes and best practices and tailored enterprise scale and fleet management.

  • Sr. Product Manager - Tech at Amazon Fresh

    • Aug 2020 - Apr 2021

    Sr. Product Manager responsible for Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market online grocery shopping Personalizaiton Machine Learning and Repeat Shopping product offering. Ensuring customers have next level grocery shopping experiences from discovering new products, to basket building, to checking out.

  • Sr. Product Manager - Tech, Alexa Video

    • May 2019 - Aug 2020

    Reduced overall time for developers to deploy an Alexa Video skill by 85% through automation of interoperability protocols, SLU, Alexa Speech SLU lexicon, and dialogue enhancement. Owned end-to-end experience (front end/back end) of developer.amazon.com/alexa for video skills. Oversaw internal product team employees and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partners. Enabled the launch of over 70 Alexa Video Skills and Fire TV upgrades including Prime Video, Netflix, and Hulu. Evangelized for managed products at various trade shows and industry events, communicating effectively with potential clients. Compiled product and customer data to generate informed profit projections.

  • Sr. Solutions Architect Manager

    • Aug 2017 - May 2019

    Maintained a current and in-depth understanding of business processes, needs, and objectives. Hired the best. Analyzed VUI solutions proposed to meet diverse business requirements. Developed application architecture strategy to specifically align with employer business goals. Developed programs enabling the maintenance of over 35 experiences including Jeopardy, Apple Music, and Food Network Recipes. Mentored team, sharing skills and expertise and encouraged each member to bring forward ideas and suggestions for improvement. Designed architecture strategies for large-scale system-wide application deployments.

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  Vectorform

  • United States
  • Software Development
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Director Of Technology

    • Mar 2017 - Sep 2017

    I've spent the better part of the last 20 years advising companies in their efforts to invent, innovate, and improve. Using my diverse cross-platform skill set, I lead teams to create new ways of interacting with technology, define natural user experiences, and illustrate next generation human/machine interaction. Machine Learning? Embedded systems? AR/VR/MR? IoT? Mobile? Web? All in my wheel house.Most importantly - my team never fails.

  • Group Director, Mobile and Emerging Technology

    • Sep 2015 - Sep 2017

    Vito codes with and leads a cross platform team of visionaries. Using a diverse set of tools and platforms such as Unity, WinRT/C#, Azure, AML, Java, Objective-C, Swift, HTML5, WPF, Azure, R and Python, his team makes technology accessible to the general public in engaging and exciting ways. Vito has played a major role in reinventing and crafting content for some of the most visible digital user experiences available today.From a leadership and execution standpoint, Vito has taken on the challenge of helping define how the Vectorform multi-discipline Engineering team delivers a product end to end. This task is being accomplished by analyzing POC, project, and product delivery, identifying quantifiable measurements of success and failure, and using those measurements to define and refine delivery life cycle in an ever changing technology landscape.

  • Director of Execution

    • Mar 2012 - Sep 2015

    -Analyzing delivery procedure and identifying quantifiable measurements of success and failure.-Creating delivery life cycle policy, procedure, and associated documents based off of sound metrics, data analysis, and individual department needs.-Continually analyzing and revisiting delivery lifecycle policies for efficiency as business and industry changes occur.-Analyzing internal systems and driving adoption and/or creation of internal tools that maximize internal delivery and development efficiency at all levels.-Working with other Directors by providing analytic, metric, and internal systems support that can aid in the definition or adoption of department goals. Helping define how Vectorform delivers a product from start to finish (from the moment we say “hi” to the moment we say “thank you, come again”) and making sure the policy, procedure and tools are in place for every department to perform their roles efficiently.

  • Sr. Application Architect/Team Lead

    • Nov 2010 - Mar 2012

    Client facing development lead and as pre sales tech support for West Coast operations.Communications support.Quality Assurance process and procedure support.Project scoping and architecture development.General engineering liaison to West Coast based clients.Research and Development "evangelist" for new, emerging, and pre-released west coast software initiatives.

  • Sr. Rich Media Achitect

    • Oct 2008 - Nov 2010

    Architect Rich Media Applications

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  ePrize

  • Rich Internet Application Architect

    • Sep 2006 - Sep 2008

    Architect Rich Internet Applications

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  Asset Health

  • United States

  • Sr. Developer

    • Sep 2004 - Sep 2006
    • United States

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  Self Employed

  • United States

  • Frelance Web Design

    • Sep 2002 - Sep 2004
    • United States

    Freelance Web Design

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  Remex Corporation

  • Systems Engineer

    • Sep 1998 - Sep 2002

    Engineer Hardware Systems, Senior Network Engineer (HP, Compaq, IBM, Cisco)