SUMMARY

Expertise

Technology and product development
Agile software development strategy and practice
Scalable, multi-team software development
Cloud-native development and software-defined architectures
Technical operations
Mentor and manager
Audit, compliance, continuity, and security

Industries

Media and Entertainment
Telecommunications and Internet
Digital Advertising

EXPERIENCE

Director of Software Engineering, CJ Affiliate

Westlake Village, CA— 2019-present

Responsibilities

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

Highlights

Double size of engineering department
Open engineering locations in India, Central America, and South America
Establish first domain for engineering internal stakeholders
Oversee internal product releases for continuous delivery, audit, access control, access control review integration

Principal Software Engineer, CJ Affiliate

Westlake Village, CA— 2015-2019

Responsibilities

Set technical direction for financial technology domain
Success-in-market of financial technology products
Engineer training and career development
Establish department standards and practice for technical operations
Team progress toward meeting department standards
Guide technical vision for department
Candidate interviews

Highlights

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
Develop first release of code audit tooling to mitigate segregation of duties issues for agile domains
Develop first release of deployment audit tooling to mitigate segregation of duties issues for agile domains
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

VP Technology and Services, Media Science International

Woodland Hills, CA— 2008-2015

Responsibilities

Oversee all technical initiatives
Manage inside and outside developers
Translate business vision into technical plans
Propose and specify products

Highlights

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

Chair, Content Reference Working Group, Content Reference Forum

Global Industry Consortium, CA — 2002-2004

Highlights

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

Consultant, Banjo Creek

Thousand Oaks, CA — 2001-2008

Clients include Universal Music, Bertelsmann, and Baker Capital.

Highlights

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

Director Software Development, Massive Media Group

Santa Monica, CA — 2000

Highlights

Integrate Intertrust DRM for billing and asset distribution
Implement message-oriented software backbone

Founder, The Loop Internet Switch Co

Hollywood, CA — 1994-2000

Highlights

Implement one of the first IP-based Internet access providers in Los Angeles
Pioneer all-you-can-eat flat-rate Internet access
Pioneer no-disk customer signup, provisioning, and configuration
Develop Internet access kit for Windows
Develop subscription billing and customer management software
Implement customer support call center

IT Manager, Payphone Services Inc and Hospitality Communications Corp

Van Nuys, CA — 1991-1994

Highlights

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

EDUCATION

California State University Northridge

BS Mathematics, Minor Computer Science — 1998

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Solutions Architect

SKILLS

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