Colorado State University

University of Phoenix

Principle Software Engineer at The Nerdery

Partnered with clients to translate complex business needs into actionable technology solutions, leveraging expertise in design thinking, technical architecture, and project management to mitigate risks, optimize resources, and deliver high-quality results.

Tour Genius (Aug 2023 - present) - Research and prototype a user-friendly app that uses AI algorithms to create custom travel itineraries that immerse travelers in local culture with unique experiences.
Developed an application prototype with a web front-end using HTML, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, Flask and SQL. 
     - Developed robust Python web services to expose a generative AI powered itinerary engine, employing iterative refinement of prompts and optimization for specific language models to ensure accurate and relevant recommendations.

Through diverse contract experience I have successfully designed and developed user interfaces, architected scalable applications, implemented secure media streaming solutions, and integrated custom BLE hardware for clients such as CNN & Jetblue (through Possible Mobile), ClearToken, Medical Memory, AisleFire, and FutureBrands.

Able Android

Software Solution Architect & Consultant

Recognized by Google as having exemplary expertise in software and technology. I have established strong relationships in this global network of experienced and esteemed developer professionals.

Simplified complex topics into something accessible to everyone by creating content, including blog posts, videos and presentations. 
  - Topic content included: Android Developer tools, Android Architecture and Foundations, User Interface and Design (including Material, Animations, Dark Mode and more), Effective Remote Teamwork, Generative AI, Human Centered Machine Learning and Software Product Management.

Mentored corporate partners, startup founders (via Startup Launchpad) and students (via Google Student Groups) to help them create excellent products that serve the user in a positive and unique way. 
  - Activities included design sprints, product management discussions, technical problem solving, and business strategy reviews.

User Group Organizer: Phoenix AI Developers Meetup, Phoenix Android/GDG Meetup, IoTDevFest Conferences, Phoenix Kotlin Everywhere Conference

Google Design Sprint Certified | May 2016

Google Developer Experts

Google Developer Expert

Contributed to the successful production launch of Premiere Express Web video editor supporting 43M Creative Cloud subscribers. Demonstrated agility in transitioning from mobile to web development and contributing to successful final push to production.
  - Leveraged the LIT framework, TypeScript, Chrome dev tools, event-driven architectures, and CSS, highlighting a comprehensive web development skill set.
  - Initiated an 'Engineering Show and Tell' forum to facilitate knowledge sharing, driving collaboration and boosting technical proficiency across the team.

Architected and developed an all new native Android video editing platform. Collaborated with a team of 3 to establish a modular architecture and clear project structure, demonstrating strong organizational skills.
  - Served as the Agile Lead, facilitating sprints, retrospectives, and daily standups to foster a collaborative and efficient team.
  - Played a key role in the creation and refinement of user stories and Agile artifacts, ensuring a structured and transparent development process.
  - Used Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Room Database, Material3 theme, and an MVI event driven architecture to build a robust, scalable, and modern Android platform.

Partnered with Adobe's Spectrum design system team to integrate Android Material Design 3, ensuring a cohesive and visually appealing user experience for our app, and a library that could be used by all projects in the company.

Adobe

Lead Android Developer

Lead development for the all new Driver Mobile (DM) app designed to serve internal customers in logistics department. Worked with project management, stakeholders, designers and users to refine project Epics and define User stories.
 - Attended multiple on-site user research studies

Defined engineering strategy for DM. Proposal was to use Kotlin Multiplatform(KMM) as a multi-platform solution. The strategy proposed writing native iOS and Android clients, and using KMM for a shared library exposing network, database and business logic.
  - Created document outlining key research, and justification for decision.
  - Socialized proposal then presented decision to company architecture board, where final approval was granted.
  - Delivered Proof of Concept analytics library using KMM.

Mentor team of Android developers to improve community and define specifications around code standards, architecture, CI practices, code review strategies and other aspects of software development.

Without Warning, Carvana Lays Off 2,500 in Phoenix.

Carvana

Principal Software Engineer

Architected an all-new March Madness Live streaming platform, ensuring a seamless experience across 18 client platforms and 20M+ concurrent video streams, and over 10M viewers in a single day. This is the official media platform for the tournament and the NCAA which brings in approximately $1B annually in revenue.

Defined a future-focused architecture utilizing unidirectional data flow principles for optimal performance and scalability.
  - Leveraged unidirectional data flow concepts inspired by React to create an architecture featuring a single source of truth, immutable state, and well-defined actions for updating state.
  - Utilized GraphQL to manage state in near-real time across the entire platform, resulting in reliable and timely application updates.

Collaborated with stakeholders to author architectural specifications, demonstrating a comprehensive platform vision. This provided direction and clarity across the project.
  - I was primary author for following specifications: Design, Display Ads, Monitoring, Settings, and Telemetry(Analytics)

Co-led a 10-person Android team, delivering a cutting-edge app aligned with Modern Android Development (MAD) standards.
  - Maintained high-quality standards, using automated testing and CI/CD to ensure team is using them consistently.

Made core contributions to the Android codebase, directly impacting application quality and functionality. Application surpassed 5M downloads and achieved a 4.6-star rating (increased from 3.9) on the Google Play store.

Partnered with the UI/UX team to create a unified Design System, ensuring a consistent and engaging user experience across diverse platforms including Amazon, Android, Apple, Chromecast, PlayStation, Roku, and XBOX devices.
  - Fostered seamless collaboration between developers and designers, resulting in improved efficiency and a cohesive user interface that maintained brand integrity across all platforms.

Turner Sports

Software Architect

Software development and leadership for various projects, including a delivery app for Hy-Vee Grocery, and a video player for Mayo Clinic. 

Mentored remote projects and WFH engineers. 

Upgraded legacy apps to modern standards (using Kotlin, LiveData, Room, MVVM, Coroutines)

Nerdery

Create video content to help people learn how to develop better Android applications.  Concentrating on design related concepts, and implementing beautiful user interfaces.

Caster.IO

Video Instructor

Led team of 5 cross-platform developers creating secure messaging platform. App provides secure, standards compliant communication targeting physicians. Team included variety of external resources located across the country and India. App completed successful Alpha launch in Oct 2013.

Architected and developed Android app from scratch. App was designed to incorporate modern design patterns (ActionBar, View Pagers, and side navigation controls), and framework components (Fragments, Service Bus, and Asynchronous communication). App was developed as collection of re-useable libraries, which were incorporated back into legacy apps.

Redesigned their Android Application to update it to modern UI language. Worked with 1 designer to "re-skin" our existing Android Application. During the process we completely reworked the entire visual language of the app, without effecting functionality. Made extensive use of Android styling and theming mechanisms to create extensible UI framework.

Created architecture design documents from business requirements. Oversaw the development, code quality, and security of the application throughout the project lifecycle. Implemented coding standards, and Agile development methodologies to increase quality, reduce maintenance costs and minimize schedule impact.

athenahealth

Participated in final development push of flagship “Cardio” app. This is a native Android app designed to enable physicians to remotely monitor EKG data, including monitoring measurements, patient history, and confirming diagnoses. Shipped first quarter of 2013.

Guided graphic design team to redesign existing app to match Android design standards.

Provided architecture guidance for new ‘Airstrip One’ Electronic Medical Record product.

AirStrip Technologies

Senior Software Engineer

Developed, architected and maintained consumer facing Android Mobile Application. Designed application to ensure it runs well across variety of devices, countries, and languages.

Provided leadership and guidance to variety of people (including designers, testers, management, and developers) relating to mobile standards, as well as software best practices, core pattern utilization, and effective use of the Java language.

Android application utilized variety of technologies including: Fragments, Custom Map Overlays, WebViews, Location services, and custom view components. App interfaced with a RESTful Web Service using JSON.

Member of small team (3 people) responsible for architecting and developing new Reservation Management System. This application replaced 20 year-old legacy system, and was mission critical platform integrating variety of existing systems. Product was foundation for enterprise integration project utilizing SOA technologies (Oracle).

Implemented Continuous Integration, and automated testing strategies (utilizing Jenkins, Maven, Robotium, and other tools) to insure product quality. Created build environments for both JEE and Android projects.

Created and ran “Geek and Eat” training program. Event encouraged employee technical development, improved cross-departmental relationships, and reinforced corporate culture of “continuous learning”.

Support redesign, and development of Reservation Management System.

Choice Hotels International

Senior Software Engineer - Android\Java

Developed software for classified project for National Geospatial Inteligence Agency.  Main technologies utilized included Java, and J2EE.  Most of work was implemented on BEA WebLogic platform.

Lockheed Martin IS&S

Provided remediation for Y2K issues on large mainframe systems.  Provided consultancy services to organizations to ensure smooth transition.

Saga Software

Software Engineer

Installed, and maintained train system at Denver International Airport during construction phase, and through opening of the airport.

Mike Wolfson