Resume

Summary

• Over 10 years experience in web related development

• Experienced in Software Architecture and Software Design Patterns

• Skilled in building Rich Internet Applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

• Adept at Data Mining, Manipulation, Analysis and Visualization

• Strong belief in User-Centered Design

• Well versed in a variety of technologies, platforms and development tools

Career Focus

• Data Visualization and Data Science

• Software Architecture

• Enterprise Web Applications

• User Experience and Human Computer Interaction

Experience

Senior Data Science Software Engineer

MassMutual Financial Group

• Constructed a custom web visualization library, built on D3.js

• Formed a data visualization pipeline that guides the acquisition of requirements and domain knowledge from stakeholders, explores and analyzes the data, leverages user experience techniques to optimize the design, and applies good software architecture and caching to enhance maintainability and performance

• Built a performance application which enables insights into agency advisor progress towards commission goals

• Lead the development of a model monitoring pipeline and dashboard which visualizes the feature distributions of data science models

• Conducted the rebuild of a General Investment Account Portfolio application used by management to support investment decisions

• Built a visualization to aid in the interpretability of a mortality model

• Built planning calculators and an advisor concentration map on MassMutual.com

• Technologies:  HTML, CSS, SASS, Gulp, Webpack, Javascript, TypeScript, React/Redux, D3.js, WebGL, Webpack, R, R Shiny, Python, Numpy, Pandas, Flask, Django, REST, JSON, XML, SQL, PyCharm, Tableau, Sketch, Axure, AWS, Vertica, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Redis, Okta, Jira, Git, Git-Flow

Director of Software Architecture

Showtime Networks

• Architected the server-side infrastructure of Showtime’s website: http://www.sho.com/

• Architected the server-side infrastructure of Smithsonian Channel's website: http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/

• Built a data analysis pipeline which aggregates, analyzes and visualizes Showtime’s large store of user data. I also built interactive charts using which visualizes real-time data. The visualizations produced from this pipeline efficiently communicates complex analysis and correlations, which enables management to make informed marketing decisions.

• Designed, implemented and usability tested several internal tools which enables the editorial team to maintain precise control over the marketing content on Sho.com.

• Lead the development of data feeds that power Showtime’s mobile applications and interactive TV initiatives.

• Sole developer of a Cast Tool which allows a user to associate actor, director and writer information with Showtime's shows. The cast information entered into this tool will be used throughout Showtime's site and within Showtime's TV Everywhere project.

• As a director, I lead the development efforts of other engineers by making architectural design decisions as well as conducting code reviews and collaborative training sessions.

• Technologies: HTML, CSS, SASS, Javascript, JQuery, D3.js, Grunt, JSON, XML, REST, Java, JAXB, Tiles, Struts, Spring, Spring MVC, Wicket, Hibernate, Ant, Maven, RabbitMQ, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle, Tableau, Eclipse, DbVisualizer, R, Git, Git-Flow

Programmer/Analyst Middleware Infrastructure

UCLA (University of California Los Angeles)

• Acquired sole responsibility for the Enterprise Directory Webservice. This webservice facilitated applications on the UCLA campus with the ability to provide real-time updates to UCLA's identity management directory.

• Managed a team in the construction of an application intended to manage groups and group privileges in order to provision users with access privileges to sensitive resources and secure applications. Particular attention was paid to user experience, accessibility and design aesthetics. The UI was built with a clear separation of semantic markup, css visual styling, and object-oriented Javascript. Also, the development of the AJAX based UI utilized the best practices of progressive enhancement through unobtrusive JavaScript.

• Engineered an automated profile data feed process which encrypted and distributed sensitive identity information as part of University of California's Traveler Profile Service.

• Technologies: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Dojo, AJAX, Java, Tiles, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Webflow, Hibernate, Axis, SOAP, SOA

Education

M.S., Human Computer Interaction

December 2015 at Iowa State University

B.S., Computer Science

May 2004 at University of Utah

B.S., Computer Engineering

May 2004 at University of Utah

Certificates

Data Visualization 

December 2014 at New York University

Applied Data Science with Python

October 2018 at University of Michigan on Coursera

Business Intelligence Concepts, Tools, and Applications

May 2016 at University of Colorado System on Coursera

Data Warehouse Concepts, Design, and Data Integration

March 2016 at University of Colorado System on Coursera