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Store Manager / Technical Manager @ S.W.A.T.T Vehicle Outfitters Primarily responsible for all technical related matters including POS Systems, website development and maintenance and technical research for advanced vehicle installations. Secondary responsibilities include purchase decisions, promotions and store management. From March 2004 to February 2005 (1 year) San Jose, CAWebsite Administrator / Promotions Manager / Sales Assistant...

Store Manager / Technical Manager @ S.W.A.T.T Vehicle Outfitters Primarily responsible for all technical related matters including POS Systems, website development and maintenance and technical research for advanced vehicle installations. Secondary responsibilities include purchase decisions, promotions and store management. From March 2004 to February 2005 (1 year) San Jose, CAWebsite Administrator / Promotions Manager / Sales Assistant @ Car Audio & Sport Odyssey, Inc In addition to store management, responsible for creating and administering e-commerce website complete with product selection and credit card transactions. Set-up various promotional events at colleges and public events. Created promotional and store use material (sales receipts, store signs, flyers). From November 2000 to February 2004 (3 years 4 months) Redwood City, CAComputer Services Co-Worker @ Kinko’s Assisted customers in logging in and using provided computers. Helped other co-workers performed technically difficult tasks in order to meet customer expectation. Found ways to utilize previously unknown features of hardware. Performed document creation of various types (business cards, brochures, calendars, etc.) using applications such as Microsoft Office applications, CorelDraw, Adobe PageMaker, and Adobe Illustrator. Responsible for installing and maintaining all computers and peripherals in branch. From June 2001 to January 2002 (8 months) Menlo Park, CaSenior Engineer @ Hero Digital, LLC Worked hand and hand with PMs and developer staff to complete primarily project-based executions on both medium and large -scale initiatives. Provided technical leadership and oversight of project goals and milestones. Worked with clients to understand technical challenges and recommend solutions often playing a major role in hands-on implementation as well as reviews of the work product by other team members.Created a multilingual registration and login portal for Dolby Technologies' asset management system migrated from on-premise to cloud; built on ASP.Net core. Initially brought in to just build the website and registration form. I ended architecting their SSO solution as neither their service provider nor Dolby (or previous members from Hero) had done the diligence to ensure that the two parties could work w/ Dolby's unique situation. It was thought that SAML solution would be suitable, however, Dolby had two identity stores split between internal employees and external customers and reasonably the third-party could not authenticate against two identity stores. After reviewing the problem; exploring several options I proposed and implemented the site to also serve as a SAML to OpenID proxy that would automatically authenticate against the appropriate identity store.Re-skinning Stream (https://mystream.com/, mobile & energy re-seller) for a transition to the Sitecore platform. Retooled enrollment flow with considerable changes to front-end and back-end to expanded service territories from an initial two states to eight; each with unique requirements and considerations.Technical designed new customer portal for Sunnova built on Sitecore with deep integration with Salesforce and pilot Angular 2 front-end for our company on this platform. Worked closely with the client to utilize existing infrastructure investments in AWS for hosting (Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, MongoDB Atlas) and Atlassian for version control (Bitbucket), builds & deploys (Bamboo). From October 2014 to April 2018 (3 years 7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaTechnical Lead (Senior Account Executive) @ Edelman Service the technical needs for all of Edelman Digital on the west coast in both consultation, project executions & on-going management. Coordination between internal & external stakeholders and third party vendors. Notable clients include Adobe, Microsoft, PayPal, Starbucks & Sunkist. Notable projects include:The build-out and maintenance a number of Facebook app photo submission contest for several Adobe divisions.Integral helping to define, manage & build out official Xbox news blog - Xbox Wire (http://news.xbox.com).Responsible for defining the back-end, managing and building a look book platform for Microsoft used to deliver Microsoft's 2012 Look book (http://www.microsoftlookbook.com/). From September 2012 to November 2014 (2 years 3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Software Engineer @ SolutionSet Worked primarily as .Net developer doing ASP.Net based web development. Work experience has encompassed a broad skill set utilizing myriad combination tools, technologies & integrating with 3rd party systems such as a variety of CMSs (Sitecore, Umbraco, WordPress, Sitefinity & Ektron), SAP, Salesforce, & Twitter. Responsible for work with the front- and back-ends of several prominent websites, and dozens of smaller ones. Tackled numerous technical hurdles to address client’s needs; researching technology & approach to tailor each solution to fit client expectations. Managed or assisted both Jr. backend and frontend engineers. Past clients have included TiVo, Visa, eBay, Chevron, Google, TXU Energy, California Lottery, & CBS. From March 2006 to August 2012 (6 years 6 months) Palo Alto, CATechnical Support Representative @ Cybersmith Provided face-to-face customer support to ensure an exciting and trouble free experience for Cybersmith clients. Responsibilities included assisting customers with logging on, explaining available features, and resolving any hardware or software support issues on systems, which provided general Internet access, as well as local and networked PC based applications. Supported system upgrades by installing new PC hardware as required. In addition, some selling of PC related items were performed.Other relevant experienceBuilt and set up numerous computers with extensive configurations. Deep understanding of technology and its founding concepts and ideals. From March 1998 to February 1999 (1 year) Palo Alto, CAIndependent Contractor @ Stuart Foundation Post departure from SolutionSet I was tapped to continue a direct relationship with Stuart Foundation for ongoing support. Originally built out the majority of their site on the Sitefinity CMS platform. Implemented a grants search feature on top of their GIFTS grant management product (configured to run on Microsoft Access). Devised a sync solution with SQL Server which was better equipped for leverage by a website. Over the course of my contract worked with their team to address ongoing site maintenance and upgrades cumulating in transition support to migrate their backend to SalesForce based solution and their CMS platform to WordPress. From January 2013 to March 2016 (3 years 3 months) Palo Alto, California, United StatesSenior Lead Engineer @ Ingenio Lead engineer for the "advisers vertical". Headed up a number of initiatives primarily focused on increasing the satisfaction, empowerment, engagement and ultimately revenue of our advisers on the Keen and Psychic Center platforms. Charged leading engineers under my purview in feature delivery and providing input vision, definition, initial planning, discovery, architecture design as well as post delivery duties such as performance tracking.More broadly worked to enhance the legacy platform and promote technologies and strategies to unlock 20 yrs of tech. debt including a GraphQL API platform that allowed some decoupling and shielding of the mostly undocumented and inconsistent platform choices built up over many years. From April 2018 to April 2020 (2 years 1 month) San Francisco, California, United StatesIndependent Contractor @ Edelman Contracted post departure to continue working on projects I oversaw during my tenure at Edelman Digital. This included updates for Starbuck's Stories (Umbraco CMS on Azure) and support for Microsoft's Xbox Wire on (Sitecore on Azure) until platform migration. From November 2014 to April 2016 (1 year 6 months) San Francisco, California, United StatesJr. IS Technician @ CNET Cataloged new hardware into database. Built, set-up, and delivered laptop and desktop systems for users. Assisted employees with computer related problems. From July 1999 to July 1999 (1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaAssociate Partner @ iTeh Inc Development & strategic support for iTeh Standards Store (https://standards.iteh.ai/). Build and release pipelines (Azure DevOps). Backend jobs including Sitemaps XML generation, Google & Bing indexing (APIs), Google Merchant product submission, email notifications (SendGrid), as well as CMS setup and integration (Strapi). Migration to Goolge App Engine Senior Software Engineer @ SVB Financial Group IT tech. lead for data and analytics under marketing IT. Santa Clara County, California, United States