Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Folkestone, England, United Kingdom · On-site

• Lead Organizer for SwiftCraft, the UK's premier coastal conference for iOS and Swift developers. Having worked with the founding team since the inaugural 2024 event, I assumed primary leadership and operational control following the 2025 conference to drive the vision for SwiftCraft 2026 and beyond.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Executive Leadership: directing all aspects of the conference lifecycle, from financial planning and venue management to marketing strategy.
• Strategic Growth: Pivoting the event to serve as a bridge between the UK and European developer communities, targeting 100+ Senior Engineers and Leads.
• Sponsorship: Spearheading partnerships with international tech leaders to ensure the event remains sustainable and accessible.
• Production: Overseeing the on-site experience at the Leas Cliff Hall (Folkestone), ensuring a high "Craft" standard for workshops, talks, and networking.

Mar 2008 – Mar 2017 · 9 yrs · Phoenix, AZ

• Key Tasks & Accomplishments:
• Relied upon to perform continuous development of financial modeling software written in C++ using MFC and Rogue Wave Stringray Libraries.
• Delivered multiple cost saving initiatives such as refactored legacy C/C++ code that resulted in a 100% improvement in performance and stability.
• Implemented new standards, processes and built a development framework.
• Implemented several high value new features using C++/11 and STL including custom data import, derivatives types, static balance sheet analysis and reporting.
• Researched and implemented stochastic modeling with AMP and GPGPU. The resulting code improvement allowed me to leverage multi-threaded technology, which is over 250% faster than previous.
• Successfully developed key documentation that allowed stakeholders to quickly access key information.
• Multiple project successes including building custom analysis NCUA 5300 data in a web base PHP/MySQL platform whose reports are used by 25% of credit unions over 100 million in asset size.

Apr 2005 – Mar 2008 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Jose, CR

• During my time at L.T. Baroda S.A I was responsible for the following tasks and contributed to the key accomplishments outlined below.
• Key Tasks and Accomplishments:
• Lead a team of five developers providing ongoing coaching and mentoring.
• Responsible for contributing to the design, implementation and deployment of a high availability email marketing system.
• Developed multi-threaded SMTP client in C++ for Linux platform leading to a 3x speed up in mail delivery.
• Key team member that implemented database connectivity in email client tied to MySQL server. increasing the closing rate by 20%.
• Provided custom client user interface in C#.
• Managed and was accountable for the performance and stability of the corporate marketing platform across multiple data centers ensuring high availability

Jan 2004 – Feb 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo · Phoenix, AZ

• During my time at The Rsmart Group I was responsible for the following tasks and contributed to the key accomplishments outlined below.
• Key Tasks and Accomplishments:
• Key technical contact that was responsible for installing, developing, completing customizations and supporting Sakai and OSP applications.
• Provided proactive quality assurance for the OSP 2.1 products.
• Developed documentation including instructions and an extensive knowledge base for customers.