Atlanta, Georgia, United States
You dream it, I code it, we build it. Experienced software engineer, architect, and leader. Currently busy changing the world one great product at a time!
Created and led the Vehicle Applications and Services team. Was responsible for all applications and voice communication on GM vehicles. Was comprised of roughly a thousand people (300+ full-time and 600+ contractors) across Mountain View, Austin, Atlanta, Toronto, and Israel.
Was part of the Studio engineering organization supporting the creation, fulfillment, quality, storage, and marketing of all assets. Examples of an "asset" include artwork, videos, trailers, subtitles, dubs, synopsis, ratings, billboards, etc.
Was head of LinkedIn Messenger (http://www.linkedin.com/messaging) and LinkedIn Groups (http://www.linkedin.com/groups). Prior to that, was general manager of LinkedIn’s office in Los Angeles and head of engineering for Lynda.com. Also managed the mobile team, iPad team, homepage team, inbox team, and Ember/Play (“Pemberly”) team at LinkedIn.
Member of team responsible for delivering a Mac OS desktop application written in C++ and Qt (led by Craig Kolb). Took over as team lead to deliver the Windows version of the desktop application.
(Joined HP as part of the Palm acquisition.) Managed multiple development teams building applications for webOS. Also managed e-mail team responsible for all synchronization frameworks, infrastructure, and protocols. Member of the original "skunk works" team tasked to build Palm's next-generation operating system known as webOS (originally led by Kiran Prasad, then led by Andy Grignon). Built lots of applications and services in Java and C++.