Bellevue, Washington, United States
In elementary school I was getting suspended because I refused to stop selling sour balls on the play ground during recess. When I was in 6th grade I built side scrollers on my TI-82 calculator during english. By 8th grade I tried building MechWarrior in Visual Basic (it ran slow). Building things is my passions, and I feel lucky to get to play full time. I'm currently working on building a new payment / redemption model for how people buy things. Specialties: bringing projects from 0 to 1, generalist who can focus, understanding the business and how to ship scalable high impact systems, and being a multiplier for my team.
I run a team building supplemental content for Kindle - generation and CX. We most recently launched [Series Summaries](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/books-and-authors/kindle-recaps-feature-ebook-series-refreshers) which has thankfully been getting some positive press, but we have several things still baking. We also own Xray, popular notes/highlights, in books search across all platforms, etc.
I manage an engineering team which has built a few products for businesses to buy books (and some other things) in bulk, with new products in the pipeline along with scaling the products launched so far. * Your Company Bookshelf * Amazon Business Giving
Senior engineer, launched project from inception to the ongoing scaling phase. Driving team productivity * run sprint planning and daily standups to adjust plans driving execution in the short run * proposed milestones and estimation as a part of annual planning for the or * shepherding launches * reporting progress to partners and leadership Raise technical bar * designing reviews, designing critical systems, work in implementing those systems, and work to reduce any operational issues while continuously increasing system reliability Increasing team's impact * coordinating with partner teams to increase team's reach * coordinating with cross functional partners to integrate the voice of the customer with ongoing work and address any uncovered quality issues Launched: https://www.amazon.com/ab/shelf More products have built on my team's platform, including more recently https://business.amazon.com/en/find-solutions/business-giving
I worked on many things: * started in social, helped build new vertical search products * started doing some TL work in ads (Doubleclick bid manager, including launching a new Optimization lens which integrated model generated suggestions to improve running ad campaigns) * built new tools for M&A to make due diligence easier by combining ML with collaboration * ran a small team for the software enabling administrators to managing the Customer Support and Sales contractors and CRM integrations
Creating a game company which used location as a core part of game mechanics for mobile devices. Went through inaugural Techstars class in Seattle. Launched games like GPS Assassins and GPS Missiles which allowed people to interact with game versions of the people near (and sometimes farther) from them.
I have been involved in projects from design through development on small teams. I recently co-developed an online adventure game for our popular brand Bella Sara. My several projects at the company include tools for content localization used by international partners, UI revamps, security analysis, database design and maintenance, webservice development, client UI development, and development of a build system. I’ve additionally helped build a Game Developer Kit which third parties used to build games and integrated their games into our systems.
* UI Platform (Scenic)–building a UI platform for Windows to allow better graphics and animations in Windows. Allow easier implement of UI which adheres to standards and facilitate better developer-designer workflow. Delivered several different pluggable components to partner teams. Built prototypes for comparison purposes and gathered requirements from designers to ensure the UI could enable the features desired. * Card-based UI in C#–throwing out old metaphors for computer interaction, I took part in a project building a simpler, more intuitive UI model for computer interaction. * Search Center (Casino) – Building highly scalable and componentized searching system to be used by arbitrary search feeds and presenting results efficiently.