EDUCATION B. Environmental Design Texas A&M University
INTERESTS - Mentoring
- Building High Performing Teams
- Relational Databases
- Process Improvements
PUBLIC SPEAKING From Engineer to Manager - March of the Droids - Reading, UK (March 2017)
Intro to Android Studio
- BABBQ Code Kitchen -
Seattle, WA (August 2016)
Offline Data in Android
- SeaDroid - Seattle, WA (December 2015)
- BABBQ - Amsterdam, NL (November 2015)
VOLUNTEER First Lego League Coaching Bainbridge Island (2018-2020)
Seattle Android Developer Group Organizer (2015-2020)
IDEAA.IO Volunteer (2013-2016)
Dallas Android Developer User Group Organizer (2010-2014) | SUMMARY
Highly experienced and hands-on technical servant-leader with a proven record of delivering high-performing mobile app solutions. Skilled in leading and growing distributed teams of engineers while prioritizing exceptional customer experiences. Experienced from startups to Fortune 50 companies. Consistently recognized by leadership for executive vision, leadership, transparency, and quality.
EXPERIENCE
LOLAY | Android Consultant April 2023 - Present | Remote - Developed a greenfield reseller event ticket app for a client, leveraging Kotlin, gRPC, auth0, Compose, RoomDB in a single Activity Application.
COFFEE MEETS BAGEL | Sr. Mobile Engineering Manager
August 2021 - April 2023 | Remote - Expanded a team of two engineers and a QA engineer to a total of six engineers within two months of accepting my role
- Coordinated a team offsite to establish strong team dynamics among fully remote members, leading to a highly performing team.
- Developed an execution plan to address inconsistencies in architecture, improving crash-free rate from 98% to 99.8%.
- Cultivated a culture of transparency and timely feedback, empowering colleagues to be autonomous in their decision-making.
BRIGHTLOOM | Sr. Engineering Manager Jan 2020 - August 2021 | Remote - Led a full-stack team of 5 engineers building out the web application for Brightloom’s Customer Growth Platform.
- Drove collaboration between product, executives, and backend stakeholders for features and architecture.
CLIMATE CORP | Sr. Engineering Manager March 2015 - Jan 2020 | Seattle, WA - Managed and mentored a team of 8 engineers and a manager across four global locations.
- Collaboratively oversaw and actively participated in the overall architecture and development (performance/stability/offline) of the Climate FieldView Application. Improving crash free rate from 94% to 99.9% crash free.
- Led the team towards CICD of the Android app, becoming the first fully CICD application at Climate.
WALT DISNEY PARKS & RESORTS | Sr. Android Engineer
February 2014 - March 2015 | Seattle, WA
CISCO SYSTEMS | Android Software Engineer IV July 2010 - April 2014 | Richardson, TX |