San Francisco Bay Area
VP of Engineering and Innovation with 10+ years designing and developing enterprise software. Moonlights as an Ultimate Frisbee coach for the semi-professional level. Manages a small music production studio from Minneapolis, Loonatic Productions: www.loonaticproductions.com
- Define the long-term technical vision and innovation strategy in alignment with business goals - Identify emerging technologies (LLMs, predictive analytics, etc.) that can be leveraged to create a competitive advantage - Maintain oversight of the system architecture to ensure scalability, security, and reliability - Foster an environment for developers to collaborate and learn; lead seminars on usage of new technology to enhance internal workflow and inspire new products
- Synthesize client feature requests and industry/technology trends into a proposed Platform innovation strategy - Lead Web Platform Engineering / Development
- Manage agile team of developers - Manage projects and design timeline for product delivery - Work with product owner to define the requirements and scope of project - Administer code reviews for pull-request workflow - Mentor developers and provide a path to expand skill sets - Organize and schedule weekly sprints - Develop and maintain full scale of web applications (tools and skills include Angular 6+, Django API, Docker containers, Continuous Integration testing platform, Linux Administration)
Audio production from composition, mixing and mastering. Video production from digital art to music videos.
Coached the freshman team for the Berkeley High School Ultimate Program.
- Maintained and developed Ruby on Rails (4+) internal web applications for Apple Retail - Migrated and updated older Rails applications from MacOS and Ubuntu based servers to CentOS and MySQL to Postgres - Designed relational database models for novel Rails applications. Implemented API-based applications for other front-end systems - Helped institute continuous integration and testing-based workflows across the Retail Tech department - Managed multiple projects across several departments.
- Developed and maintained central and team sites for Major League Ultimate - Used PHP, wordpress and Apache stack