Jul 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Sacramento, California, United States

Aug 2019 – Jun 2020 · 10 mos · Sacramento, California, United States

Jan 2016 – Aug 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Greater Sacramento

Oct 2015 – May 2016 · 7 mos · Greater Sacramento

• Hopscotch (GoHopscotch.com) is a leader in mobile-platform technology. We power mobile apps for sports teams and live events — helping our customers get closer to their fans than ever before.
• Leverage experience to collaborate effectively with business clients.
• Oversee estimation and execution of project work plans. Direct revisions as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Drive software development across multiple teams and phases to ensure that engineering solutions are aligned with business objectives.
• Minimize schedule and technical risk by foreseeing and addressing obstacles proactively and aggressively.

Apr 2015 – Oct 2015 · 6 mos · Sacramento, California

• Developed new products, systems, services and websites; improve existing products, systems, services and websites.
• Lead the project management and development of large projects; including search and data projects.
• Maintained highly complex systems with the support of the Infrastructure group.
• Created technical specifications, object models, database design, and test plans.
• Lead other engineers, providing guidance and feedback.
• Worked with partners on the technical implementation of products.
• Solved Problems, provided alternate solutions and guidance to team, to meet the needs of projects and customers.

Oct 2014 – Mar 2015 · 5 mos

• Leverage experience to collaborate effectively with business clients.
• Oversee estimation and execution of project work plans. Direct revisions as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Drive software development across multiple teams and phases to ensure that engineering solutions are aligned with business objectives.
• Minimize schedule and technical risk by foreseeing and addressing obstacles proactively and aggressively.

Jan 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Wilshire Axon is a digital product and design firm; exclusively dedicated to helping our clients win in this rapidly changing world. Our Digital Blueprint is based on 13 years of research into digital product planning and design. In fact, over the past 6 years alone our clients have realized over $1.5b of new revenue from digital products created by the Blueprint.
• Projects:
• Synergy (Fan Engagement Platform):
• Title: Chief Architect (Platform)
• SYNERGY™ - the sports industry’s most advanced revenue generating mobile engagement platform. Our unparalleled technology is optimized for mobile to keep the message consistent across all of your social outlets and websites. Synergy’s comprised of four key components: Next-Generation Mobile Apps, Sports Content Management System, Integrated Partnerships and Multi Sourced Aggregated Data. Synergy provide team admins to create promos, rewards and native advertisements.
• MuveMusic
• Title: Chief Architect (Platform)
• MuveMusic is 2nd largest music subscription service for mobile phones with 1.5+ million subscribers
• Architected, developed and managed cloud platform, which is currently deployed on 140 servers and handles over 20 million transactions per day without issues or high resource usage; system is capable of handling 10 times more traffic than at peak time.
• Implemented Muve Music using FatCloud as the core platform for cloud computing, FatDB as NoSQL database for live database and FatSuggest as a search engine.
• Conduct performance bottleneck identification and tuning to ensure environment can handle calls during peak period.
• Created scripts for deploying services on all servers at the same time (for deployment with outage) or rolling deployment (without outage).
• Instrumental to high volume customer flow for increased profitability by ensuring availability of system and near zero downtime to allow teams to focus on new features; subscriber base reached 800,000 the first year (surpassing expectation of 250,000).

Oct 2006 – Dec 2010 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Projects:
• FatCloud
• Collaborated with Chief Architect in initial design, development and implementation of FatCloud, written in .Net and using WCF for communication.
• Participated in module development including FatDB (distributed key value store and only native .Net No SQL database integrating a Map reduce work queue), FatSuggest (search engine) and FatFMS (distributed File Management System).
• Increased number of servers in Muve Music without outage by using FatCloud, an easy to scale system that is deployed in cheap commodity servers for reduced deployment costs.
• CBS Radio
• Handled server side development including a search engine capable of holding over two million records and depended on by the entire system to maintain efficiency; used double metaphone algorithm to get same sounding words and word distance to get relevance of the result.
• Designed a Data Imports system that downloads and imports data from sources such as AMG, iTunes, and TicketMaster and utilizes SSIS package to transform and import data to SQL server.
• Delivered an Image Analyzer that locates best fit in sense of color and aspect ratio, performed stored procedure, triggers and database tuning and automated the import of DBF and xml files using DTS and C#.

Aug 2006 – Oct 2006 · 2 mos

• Developed backend systems including web form, web services and window applications using VB.net, C#, SQL Server, XML, XSL, AJAX.
• Created databases, stored procedures and triggers
• Optimized stored procedures and indexes.

Mar 2004 – Aug 2006 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Brought on to develop backend systems and create databases for this offshore software development company as a server side team member for Virgin Digital Player project. Used VB.net, C#, SQL Server, XML, XSL and AJAX to develop web form, web services and window applications. Automated DB processes using DTS, optimized stored procedures and indexes and set the transactional replication between SQL servers.
• Merged different databases and allowed distribution of data to the search engine, which held data in memory and returned relevant data for different types of searches for processing and storage in hash tables.
• Quickly learned algorithms to write code for search engine, a major component of the player depended on for efficiency and speed and capable of holding over two million records.
• Collaborated with a peer to provide a customized CMS system to help content team with programming music pages.
• Developed a Publisher system that pre-published XML files and prepared system for browsing; system could publish 100’s of XMLS per minute, typically a very complex and time-consuming process.
• Enabled Virgin Digital to build product in a shorter period of time than expected while also expanding team size for RSystems.
• Designed a Distributed Publishing (Replicator) application the replicated published files (including images and binaries) to multiple servers in load balancing.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs

• Led development of RAKnet, an Intranet application that allowed single location deployment on 200+ systems for dramatically increased efficiency while boosting productivity by introducing report sharing.
• Designed RAKnet to aggregate and present data by establishing connections to multiple servers and databases like SQL Server, Equation (AS400) and Informix.
• Created a Loan System to manage all retail loans and connect with multiple databases and various modules as a comprehensive system for the entire bank and all branches.
• Delivered a Collections Systems that allowed collection activities to be performed based on cross product exposure of customer.
• Facilitated 40% improvement in recovery by developing a Predictive Dialer application that leveraged IVR to act as predictive dialer for automation of calls related to collections.
• Instrumental to development of several related applications including RAKnet Security, High Net Worth Individuals, Short Messaging System (SMS) Banking and Card Application Processing System (CAPS).

Jun 1999 – Apr 2000 · 10 mos

• Worked on research project "Automation of Floorshop" for Bharti Telcom