SUMMARY

EXPERIENCE

Westlake Village, CA— 2019-present

Guide teams’ technical directions and architectures
Guide teams’ release planning
Manage teams
Manage technical operations-, security-, and audit-related interactions with parent organizations
Cloud strategy
Engineer training and career development
Department standards
Candidate selection, offers, and assignment

Westlake Village, CA— 2015-2019

Lead development of financial technology projects including functional currency enhancements, VAT computations, payment gateways, and order lifecycle
Early specifications and lead development for GDPR and ITP make-goods
Lead development of practice and systems to redress SOX significant deficiency and to meet ongoing audit needs
Lead development of systems to streamline software deployments
Introduce and champion cloud-based infrastructure and cloud-native architectures in AWS
Establish and lead AWS Working Group to assist teams with cloud-native designs
Lead development of the CJ engineering onboarding program
Establish onboarding team and oversee first 12 engineers through the program
Develop and run experimental “code school” recovering software developers post-interview
Lead development of platform-wide OAuth authentication
Lead development of developer portal
Develop prototype platform-wide authorization service
Operate meetups and attend conferences, hackathons, and school events for engineering recruiting and branding
Introduce Haskell and guide it to “accepted” status in department technologies

Woodland Hills, CA— 2008-2015

Design and implement software and architecture for aggressively parallel media processing pipelines
Design and implement software and architecture for worldwide digital ingest, watermark, transcode, and delivery services
Establish continuous delivery processes and infrastructure
Establish agile practices to manage risk
Establish test-driven software development
Design and implement asset relationship software to eliminate storage and transmission redundancy in media applications
Design and implement asset reservation, pooling, and distribution system for high-performance media transfer
Design and develop watermarking SDK
Contribute watermark payload format to RIAA standard
Design and implement system to distribute and protect secrets in field applications

Global Industry Consortium, CA — 2002-2004

Lead development of technical interoperability standards for media content distribution, attribution, and commerce.

Thousand Oaks, CA — 2001-2008

Clients include Universal Music, Bertelsmann, and Baker Capital.

Develop standards for digital media rights and value-chain management
Develop standards to express contract relationships, constraints, and obligations for machine interpretation
Design and implement proof-of-concept player and server software to manage value-chain rules and accreditation in both peer-to-peer and channel media distribution
Design and implement proof-of-concept system for commercial radio “Buy” button
Design system for social media “Buy” button
Design and implement project management and approval workflow system for business development
Embedded software lead at Universal Music--new features for music fan-base CRM; modernize code and architecture, introduce agile software development
Technical audit of Musicnet operations and software for investors for Baker Capital
Napster commercial distribution network infrastructure
Integrate Intertrust DRM with media distribution systems

Santa Monica, CA — 2000

Hollywood, CA — 1994-2000

Van Nuys, CA — 1991-1994

Create IT Department from scratch
Develop high-volume call records processing and data warehouse
Develop automated remote pay telephone monitoring and control system
Establish multi-campus WAN
Develop efficient manual data entry applications
Develop methods to analyze tariffs and charges for fraud detection, vendor error, and vendor liability
Integrate operator services for billing non-incumbent interexchange telephony
Capture billing records from 9-track in PC LAN setting
Introduce and implement email and other group communication technologies
Migrate enterprise from DOS to Windows
Migrate enterprise from Novell Netware to Windows NT
Introduce and implement Linux and MKS

BS Mathematics, Minor Computer Science — 1998

Agile software development
Scaling product teams
Service-oriented system composition
Continuous delivery
Cloud-native applications
Information Security
Audit/RFP response
Functional Programming
Object-oriented Programming
Numerous programming languages including Java, Scala, Haskell, Javascript, Rust, and C++
Test-driven development
Pair programming
Technical operations
System security
Complex, high-volume parallel processing
API design
Relational and non-relational database design and programming
Event-driven and reactive systems
Event sourcing
Software-defined architecture
AWS application architecture and development
Linux OSs
Distributed source control