Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Member of the Strategic Advisory board for NC State, helping provide industry and engineering recommendations for the Computer Science Department, College of Engineering for North Carolina State University.
• https://www.csc.ncsu.edu/directories/sab/bio.php?id=126

Jul 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Raleigh, NC

• Leadership position in software engineering for the ShareFile Business unit of Cloud Software Group (previously Citrix). Leading the underlying platform (cloud, data & security), engineering for Podio (low-code/no code business solutions), and vertical solutions.

Oct 2021 – Jul 2022 · 9 mos

• Head of newly formed Cloud Services organization, part of the CTO office at Deutsche Bank. Responsible for Engineering (Platform, Core, Cloud) and Reliability for our Cloud Engineering efforts.

Jun 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Sep 2019 – Jun 2020 · 9 mos

• Leading Platform Engineering efforts for on premise and cloud solutions for the Corporate Bank Data Solutions team.

Dec 2018 – Sep 2019 · 9 mos

• Working in engineering for digital team inside Global Transaction Banking. Trying to look at problems for the bank in new ways.

Sep 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Helping drive direction and progress in the public/private cloud for Nuance Mobile division. Responsible for public cloud migrations, containerization efforts, shared service architecture, and automation efforts.

Oct 2011 – Sep 2016 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Architected and operated n-tier system to handle mobile to server communication to support global device launches
• Lead Swype for iOS initiative, demo was shown in Apple Keynote. Product was released into App Store
• Architected, Lead and assisted in Engineering efforts for SDK solutions for multiple mobile platforms delivered to major mobile OEMs
• Lead Keyboard development efforts for OEM (B2B) and DTC (B2C) deliveries. OEM’s include all major Android manufacturers worldwide
• Designed Swype’s first tablet keyboard
• Managed upwards of 15 developers working on multiple projects
• Wrote two issued patents on keyboard language updates

Oct 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Worked with leadership team to build out Engineering team in North Carolina to supplement core Engineering team in Seattle
• Architected n-tier system to handle mobile to server communication to handle the first connected keyboard solution in the industry
• Ran operations for Connected keyboard solutions with small DevOps style team (first connected keyboard)
• Designed Swype’s first tablet keyboard
• Managed multiple daily builds to the top Android OEM customers
• Managed upwards of 10 developers working on multiple project
• Architected and developed SDK solutions for multiple mobile platforms
• Involved in acquisition activities with Nuance before and after announcement.

Sep 2008 – Sep 2010 · 2 yrs

• Developed, researched, and reviewed Intellectual Property, focused on the areas of video, mobile and LBS.
• Developed internal tools, services, and libraries to improve the quality and speed of prototyping using Ruby, ActionScript (AIR/Flex), Objective-C, and C.
• Designed, developed and released multiple prototypes for internal proof of concepts. These prototypes focused on above IP focus areas, developed using Ruby, ActionScript, Objective-C, and C.
• Involved in patent and IP review processes with both internal stakeholders and outside legal council

Jul 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Architected a service-oriented system known as Red Pill for managing newspaper content. Designed to scale for managing content of over 200 websites using small reusable services.
• Architected and developed a Flex-based application to manage content in the Red Pill architecture, managed four developers working on the framework I developed. The system had a desktop-like feel, and allowed users to manage the content of all the newspaper systems.
• Managed a small team of developers including administering reviews and providing developer training. Mentored junior developers and provided guidance senior level developers.
• Architected and developed a JavaScript toolkit so developers could quickly write ‘widgets’ using JQuery to talk to the Red Pill architecture
• Wrote a system to generally handle any data that the newspaper wished to manage, called Tabula. Wrote a Flex interface that was spreadsheet like and worked with developers using Ruby to manage content.
• Responsible for code reviews as well as system architecture reviews.

Mar 2007 – Jul 2007 · 4 mos

• Lead efforts in automated maintenance, backups and tuning of over 20 production MySQL machines, 10 web-servers and 30 other assorted development & production machines
• Evangelized, managed and verified the upgrade from MySQL 4 to 5.
• Wrote numerous scripts (Perl, Bash, PHP) to automate manual processes.
• Worked with both the technology group (Systems Administrators, DBA’s) and the support team (web developers, support developers and client developers) for training.
• Worked on a Perl-based system (Site Manager) which managed over 100 websites. I focused on the Apache configuration manager.
• Audited code written by multiple newspaper development teams, assuring quality code was released to the systems. Handled security related issues as well as performance issues both in reviews and production.

Mar 2006 – Mar 2007 · 1 yr

Mar 2004 – Mar 2006 · 2 yrs

Apr 2003 – Feb 2004 · 10 mos

Mar 2001 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr 10 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Mar 2000 – Apr 2001 · 1 yr 1 mo · Columbus, Ohio Area