Dec 2018 – Feb 2024 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

• Facet is a next-generation technical recruiting company. We use software to target the right people and science to vet them. So you hire better people, faster. I started Facet because I was unhappy with the recruiting agencies I'd worked with in the past as a founder and engineering manager.
• Learn more about Facet at https://www.facet.net

Jun 2014 – Feb 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

• Built and scaled company from $0 to $2.5M in ARR and 1 to 40 employees
• Raised over $16M in VC funding from top firms: Insight Partners, Draper Ventures, and Epic Ventures
• Led the product design and engineering through idea, launch, and multiple releases
• What was the product? Numetric was self-serve reporting and data analysis for business users. We built a clean and intuitive UI layer on stop of Elasticsearch, and data connectors to easily centralize your business data
• Developed AI/ML modes to predict dangerous sections of road and automatically recommend improvements to departments of transportation

Sep 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Founder and CEO of Attack Pattern, an engineering focused software development agency.

Apr 2011 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I made Netflix automatically play the next episode of the show you are watching. Sorry?
• Lead developer on web player and the Netflix app on Xbox, Windows, and Windows Phone
• Partnered with Microsoft on the development of the Xbox One and Windows 8 app SDKs as a premier launch partner
• Created the feature that had the largest impact in company history on customer retention and hours watched: automatically play next episode
• This led to a world-wide change in how video is consumed across all streaming platforms
• Built and A/B tested multiple variants of every new feature we shipped

May 2004 – Apr 2011 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Worked on the Windows Operating System and Xbox.
• Xbox
• Engineering manager for Xbox web marketplace and account management. Manager of team of 5 developers. Scrum master of team of 14.
• Lead relaunch of xbox.com built on ASP.NET MVC. Completely staffed a brand new team of 5 developers. Upgraded legacy ASP.NET WebForms site to MVC.
• Reduced page load time by 90% on marketplace using output caching.
• Increased signup completions from 20% to 80%.
• Reduced operating costs by designing and building a completely automated deployment process used for all Xbox web properties.
• Built authentication system, signup, purchasing, marketplace and subscription management front end.
• Product group expert on MVC, performance/scalability, website deployment, CSS, IIS and SEO.
• Drove adoption of agile/lean best practices across product group (TDD, CI/CD)
• Lead a small team to quickly build and launch a Steam competitor (Games for Windows Store) which later became the Microsoft Store
• Windows Operating System
• Designed, costed, built, shipped and serviced multiple platform features in Windows Vista in C++ using Win32, COM and ATL.
• Features owned in Windows: File and Folder Sharing, Zip Folders, Address Bar, Profile Folder, PC to PC Sync.
• Received Windows Excellence award for customer advocacy by participating in customer communities, providing support and incorporating customer feedback into the product.
• Conducted performance analysis and re-architected thread synchronization and caching of Windows Zip Folders. Result: folders unzip 20x faster, saving billions of users countless hours.
• Expert in debugging, writing design documents and making accurate time estimates. Consistently delivered work on time.