Experience

Veea Inc.

• United States
• Computer Networking Products
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Engineering Manager

  • Jan 2021 - Jun 2023

  Full-time remote at Veea, which is working to simplify the management of large IoT deployments. Hired as Principal Software Engineer January 2021, promoted to Senior Engineering Manager September 2021. Full-time remote at Veea, which is working to simplify the management of large IoT deployments. Hired as Principal Software Engineer January 2021, promoted to Senior Engineering Manager September 2021.



Various Companies

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineering Contractor

  • Jul 2019 - Jan 2021

  Contract programming in Ruby, Node.js with Postgres, Vue.js, Lua. Contract programming in Ruby, Node.js with Postgres, Vue.js, Lua.


Drivetime
• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee
• Director Of Engineering

  • Aug 2018 - Jun 2019


Leeo

• Farming

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Sep 2017 - Aug 2018

  Leveraging technology to help family and friends live more comfortably, safely and independently. Leveraging technology to help family and friends live more comfortably, safely and independently.



(various)

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineering Contractor

  • Apr 2016 - Aug 2017

  Contracting projects for various companies. In the last year: Node.js with MongoDB, Ruby on Rails with MySQL and Redis, Java/Spring with Cassandra and AWS scalability. Hiring, team and project management. Contracting projects for various companies. In the last year: Node.js with MongoDB, Ruby on Rails with MySQL and Redis, Java/Spring with Cassandra and AWS scalability. Hiring, team and project management.



UpCurrent

• Software Development

• CTO, Co-Founder

  • Jul 2016 - Jan 2017

  Building engineering team and product at a startup focusing on enterprise communications. Building engineering team and product at a startup focusing on enterprise communications.



Zynga

• United States
• Computer Games
• 700 & Above Employee

• Architect, Studio CTO

  • Feb 2015 - Mar 2016

  Technical leadership of team working on prototypes in the New IP group. Our team created and launched the game Mountain Goat Mountain for iOS, Android and tvOS. Most recently worked on prototypes in the VR group.

• Principal Software Engineer

  • May 2013 - Feb 2015

  Zynga Poker security team. (central) Game Services team. New IP team.



LoveIt, LLC

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Software Engineering Consultant

  • Nov 2011 - Jul 2012

  Hands-on coding, architecture and project management at a start-up building an image-centric social networking site. Drove the design and implementation of a REST-based service oriented architecture and promoted Agile development methodologies. Hands-on coding, architecture and project management at a start-up building an image-centric social networking site. Drove the design and implementation of a REST-based service oriented architecture and promoted Agile development methodologies.



X1 Technologies

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Director

  • Jan 2011 - Nov 2011

  Multiple responsibilities including web marketing (drip email campaigns, editing the newsletter, getting the product into Amazon and download channels, setting up affiliate programs), running online operations, directing the launch of the new website and its integration with myriad third-party systems, and work on web-facing pieces of our new products. Multiple responsibilities including web marketing (drip email campaigns, editing the newsletter, getting the product into Amazon and download channels, setting up affiliate programs), running online operations, directing the launch of the new website and its integration with myriad third-party systems, and work on web-facing pieces of our new products.



OpenX

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Dec 2009 - Dec 2010

  Designed and developed REST-based web application which functions as the API and user interface of OpenX 3.0, the company's new Software as a Service platform for display advertising and revenue serving. Designed and developed REST-based web application which functions as the API and user interface of OpenX 3.0, the company's new Software as a Service platform for display advertising and revenue serving.



Idealab

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

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Oct 2007 - Mar 2009

  Prototyping ideas for potential new companies, testing and evaluating the technical feasibility of new internet-software-centered business ideas, attached to New Ventures group. Prototyping ideas for potential new companies, testing and evaluating the technical feasibility of new internet-software-centered business ideas, attached to New Ventures group.

• Web Developer

  • Dec 2004 - Mar 2007

  Redesigned, built and maintained the company's ecommerce website from scratch - with complete unit testing suite - in record time. Could not have done it without a team of (onshore and offshore) programmers, a great project manager, and dedicated HTML coders. Integrated extensively with Salesforce and many other external systems. Redesigned, built and maintained the company's ecommerce website from scratch - with complete unit testing suite - in record time. Could not have done it without a team of (onshore and offshore) programmers, a great project manager, and dedicated HTML coders. Integrated extensively with Salesforce and many other external systems.



CategoryWEB

• United States

• Founder

  • Sep 2002 - Dec 2004

  Created and managed web properties, including CategoryWEB site directory with paid inclusion. Directed contractors and part-time employees in furtherance of same. Created and managed web properties, including CategoryWEB site directory with paid inclusion. Directed contractors and part-time employees in furtherance of same.



XAO, Inc.

• Co-Founder

  • Jun 2001 - Sep 2004

  Determine overall strategy, identify new revenue sources, imagine, design, and build new products and services. Determine overall strategy, identify new revenue sources, imagine, design, and build new products and services.



Brave New Worlds

• United States
• Software Development

• CTO, Founder

  • Oct 1996 - Nov 2000

  Co-Founder and CTO of Brave New Worlds, a company that built and hosted customized e-commerce websites. Designed, built and maintained our Open Source e-commerce solution, Symphero, and managed a team of programmers, graphic artists and sysadmins who customized and deployed Symphero for our customers. Our company was purchased by VA Linux in 2000. Co-Founder and CTO of Brave New Worlds, a company that built and hosted customized e-commerce websites. Designed, built and maintained our Open Source e-commerce solution, Symphero, and managed a team of programmers, graphic artists and sysadmins who customized and deployed Symphero for our customers. Our company was purchased by VA Linux in 2000.



Caltech

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Programmer

  • Sep 1995 - May 1996

  Created web-based proposal review system for astrophysicists at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center. Created web-based proposal review system for astrophysicists at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center.



The Dreamers Guild, Inc.

• Lead Programmer

  • 1995 - 1995

  Built the back-end of a virtual reality game. Designed and built the world including an RPG, NPCs, and the protocol for interacting with the graphical client over what we would now call laughably slow internet connections. Built the back-end of a virtual reality game. Designed and built the world including an RPG, NPCs, and the protocol for interacting with the graphical client over what we would now call laughably slow internet connections.