Employment History:
Solution Integration Engineer – Issuu
January 2021 to October 2021
- Responsible for design and implementation of integrations between the Issuu publishing platform and third party tools like those from Adobe and Canva.
- Helped marketing team define priorities and product features.
- As the sole software engineer in the United States, worked closely with overseas development teams in Denmark, Germany, and Portugal.
Project Manager, Senior Software Engineer – Pando (pandopooling.com)
September 2019 to September 2020
- Helped create a web platform that allows people to contractually pool their income as protection against financial instability.
- Managed overseas development team, Agile software development, and product features.
Software Systems Architect, Senior Software Engineer (multiple contracts)
March 2018 to September 2019
Consultant, Multiple Clients.
Projects Highlights:
- SAAS licensing server application for an established online cloud storage company.
- Application for tracking geographic location and density of feral animal colonies, including trap/neuter/release programs.
- Consulted on livestock husbandry project for a ranching industry startup.
Software Systems Architect, Engineering Team Lead (contract) - Sapient
October 2017 to March 2018
- Lead systems architect for financial services portal designs.
- Led five person engineering architecture team during project design phase.
- Full stack design, including Angular front end, PostgreSQL and Java back end.
- Single sign on integration with third party financial data providers, including Yodlee and Albridge.
- IAM integration (OpenIAM), distributed OLTP, and API layers. Magento as CMS.
- Tiered design, containerized using Docker and Rancher.
Software Systems Architect, Senior Software Engineer (multiple contracts)
June 2017 to October 2017
Consultant, Multiple Clients.
Projects Highlights:
- CIAM project consultant for Persistent Systems,
a global technology services company.
- Consulted on mesh networked sensor devices project for a stealth startup.
- Designed software for remote Internet enabled GPS sensor
network to track agricultural resources and equipment in the
field. Used for resource real-time accounting and anti-theft for a stealth startup.
- Prototyped decentralized blockchain application for secure
energy trading within ad hoc network of local energy producers and
consumers for a stealth startup.
Lead Technical Consultant, Professional Services - Gigya
August 2014 to June 2017
Full time Position. Professional Services Consultant on multiple CIAM projects for multiple clients.
- Consulted directly with internal and external customer
engineering teams to design and implement large scale CIAM
(Customer Identity and Access Management) projects.
- Gigya’s first professional services hire (lead technical
projects consultant). Helped to build out department, create
documentation and procedures, and train new engineers.
- Customer projects include those for Turner, General
Electric, Sony, iRobot, Campbell Soup Company, KPMG, Time Warner,
Fox, Marriott, NCAA, PGA, NBA, NFL, TBS, TNT, TCM, CNN, Adult
Swim, American Heart Association, Hallmark, AGL Energy, News Life
Media, American Kennel Club, Universal Music Group, Wacom, and
others.
- Oversaw integrations between CIAM systems, Advertising and
Data Management Platforms, CMS, CRM, ESP, and Data Exchange Services
(Adobe, Salesforce, Magento, Drupal, Krux, Constant Contact,
MailChimp, Marketo, Silverpop, Epsilon).
Senior Projects Engineer (startup) - BeyondCore
April 2014 to August 2014
- Independent projects, reporting directly to CTO.
- Designed and authored system security and admin tools, and
secure release procedures.
- Developed interfaces for external data sources including
both SQL and NoSQL.
Director of Software Engineering (contract, startup) -
Treofab
September 2013 to March 2014
- Managed remote engineering teams and coordinated software
development for 3d Printing and custom manufacturing projects.
- Coauthored patent “3 Dimensional Manufactured Object
Application Builder”, 2013 Treofab
- Designed and implemented high volume REST API services
running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3, EC2, and RDS.
- Software to calculate in real-time how much it costs to 3d
print an object from CAD/STL files based on size, calculated
volume, surface area, and target materials.
- Web and mobile graphical 3d object editors written in
JavaScript, webGL, HTML5, and Unity
- Custom shopping cart, checkout and payments systems that
show calculated product prices in real time based on user
selection of object scale, materials, custom options, and target
manufacturing company.
- eCommerce accounting systems that include flexible contract royalty calculations and international currency conversion.
- API integrations with the ordering and pricing systems at
external 3d manufacturing partners including Shapeways, 3DPrintUK,
and i.materialise.
- Partner Portal where 3d Printing Service Bureaus can
access their printing queues and orders.
API Projects Manager, Senior Software Engineer - Tocata /
Revel Touch
March 2012 to September 2013
- App Developer of “Design Within Reach” - Webby Awards 2013
Nominee in Mobile Shopping Apps category
- Responsible for high volume REST API services consumed by
iOS, Android, and HTML5 apps.
- Consulted directly with Fortune 1000 merchandisers to
integrate their product data, shopping cart, and web services with
Tocata apps.
Senior Software Engineer - iWin
August 2011 to March 2012
- Helped brand a casual game site in partnership with Pogo
and Electronic Arts.
Monetization Systems and API Design - Adknowledge
February 2010 to August 2011
- Responsible for creating monetization, payment processing,
and advertising systems for social game apps.
Social Game Design and Monetization - SGN
October 2008 to February 2010
- Developed Facebook and Myspace social games.
- Designed new content, promotions, and virtual goods, including mechanics of in-game virtual economies and currencies.
- Integrated 3rd party advertising and payment processing
systems.
- Programmed social network authentication and viral
messaging.
Senior Software Engineer - Tinyprints
July 2007 to September 2008
- 3rd engineering hire instrumental in defining company
engineering best practices, repeatable release processes, software
documentation, and coding standards.
- Authored eCommerce systems, shopping cart and order
processing, coupon promotions and gift certificate systems.
Senior Software Engineer (contract) - Yahoo Autos
October 2006 to July 2007
- The Green Center and International Auto Show sites set new
Yahoo Autos record at more than 1.5 million page views per day at
peak.
- Pioneered the use of content management systems at Yahoo Autos, and responsible for Autos RSS feeds displayed on Yahoo front page.