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💼 Past Experience

Director of Research and Development, Research and Development at Google, Research ExperienceScott Holmes is currently a Sr. Research Manager at Google from February 2009 to February 2011 (1 year). Manage and lead the research and development of new technologies, applications, and products. Develop new algorithms, products, and strategies for Google, striving to solve the world’s largest problems. Research in a number of areas including computer vision, natural language processing,MapReduce, big data, artificial intelligence, and automotive. Develop products and services that solve the world’s largest problems. Lead the Development Experience (DevX) engineering organization at Google from February 2007 to February 2009 (1 year). Work directly with senior management and architects across Google to define requirements and manage Google property on-boarding to platforms. Sr. Research Manager, Research and Development, Research and Development at Yahoo! from March 2010 to March 2011 (1 year 1 month). Manage and lead the research and development of new technologies, applications, and products. Develop new algorithms, products, and strategies for Yahoo! from July 2005 to May 2007 (1 year 11 months). Work directly with senior management and architects across Yahoo! to define requirements and manage Yahoo property on-boarding to platforms. Research Coordinator, Data Science at Google from August 2013 to November 2013 (2 years 2 months). Coordinate and manage research projects in the areas of data science, machine learning, and natural language processing. Develop and lead a research team that investigate data science techniques and applications to solve problems at Google.Manage the development of search engine marketing (SERPs), website design, user experience, and performance technologies for Google search engine results pages.developed speaker treatment software for the Googletchannel,a channel that airs videos related to Google searches.Work on a language parity tool that compares the results of Bing, Yahoo!, and AOL translate results into multiple languages. Developed and manage a machine learning platform that mine the data from a number of search engines to produce models for various search results. Developed software for predicting likely results for a search string. Work on a language parity tool that compares the results of Bing, Yahoo!, and AOL translate results into multiple languages.

🎓 Education

Scott Holmes has a degree in Computer Science from California State University-Chico and previous experience in Management Consulting from Santa Clara University. Mr. Holmes has experience in Business Administration from Santa Clara University from 1999-2002 and in Computer Science from 1991-1996. He is currently studying for his MBA from Santa Clara University. Scott Holmes is fluent in English and Spanish.Mr. Holmes is currently working as a Consultant for an American Firm based in Spain. He is in the process of being interviewed for a new position with the American firm. He is very ready for his next step and is looking forward to eventually obtaining his candidacy and starting his own business.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

SDL (Software Development Landscape) Platform at LinkedIn. Manage the development of mobile apps for LinkedIn and its Symbian, Palm Pre and Windows Phone platforms, as well as devices using the SDL platform (such as tablets, smart devices, and VR headsets). Work on a variety of mobile app development projects encompassing both base, royalty-free and open-source software. Have experience building development tools such as Appveyor, App shortage, and SonarQube. Have experience with both open source and Android development. Director Software Engineering, Development Experience at LinkedIn in Sunnyvale, California, United States. Manage the Development Experience (DevX) engineering organization that drives to improve productivity and happiness of LinkedIn's ~5000 developers. The areas of ownership and focus for this team include LinkedIn's software build systems, dependency management and engineering, development authoring tools, development collaboration tools (including code review), test frameworks, continuous integration (CI) systems, resource ownership and discovery, and the development workflow and interfaces. The efforts of this team have led to the ability to build, test and deploy quality code to the production LinkedIn site hundreds of times per day. Director Software Engineering,LinkedIn Platform and Cloud Services at LinkedIn from August 2014 to November 2019 (5 years 4 months) in Mountain View, CA. Manage the LinkedIn Platform as a Service (LPS) engineering group that is driving and implementing a massive rework of LinkedIn's development infrastructure to improve the speed of innovation, optimize the efficiency and utilization of compute resources, increase the productivity of developers, and improve the engineering culture at LinkedIn. The efforts of this team have led to the ability to deploy code to the production LinkedIn site multiple times per day; previously deployments took two weeks or more. This enables developers to get source code from commit, through automated testing and into to production within 24 hours. The infrastructure tools team develops systems that make these improvements possible: an automated deployment system, a scheduler for resource allocation and job execution, a hierarchical service configuration system, a mature python development foundation and framework common for all tools and python-based applications at LinkedIn, and a web-based control center application that provides development and operation engineers a comprehensive view of and control over the current state of code branches, automated tests, and automated deployments to pre-production and production environments.