Summary
10+ years professional experience in software engineering & product development.
Experience
CTO
ally / Door2Door GmbH
Berlin, Germany
Ally builds a global platform for urban transportation, impacting citizens around the world.
Sr. Manager, Software Development
ebay / mobile.de GmbH
Berlin, Germany
Led software engineering teams that built world-class mobile applications and more for a growing B2C marketplace. Delivered products on front-end web, Android, iOS & back-end services, altogether powering 50% of consumer demand for this business. Hired, coached, and developed talent in junior through experienced senior roles.
Director of Engineering / CTO
Twago
Berlin, Germany
Hired, managed, and scaled teams for software development, site reliability and technical operations, quality assurance, and on-site IT. Collaborated closely with product management, marketing, finance, operations, and executive leadership. Worked hands-on to improve agile processes and technical delivery for this international, early-stage, VC-backed start-up business.
Lead Software Engineer
HERE, a Nokia company
Berlin, Germany
Led software development during major transitions in product scope, staff, and technologies. Delivered a web application targeted at retail business owners. Developed early, prototype code for the HERE Maps on Android mobile app.
Consultant
Slalom Consulting
Seattle, WA
Senior Software Engineer
Various organizations
Seattle, WA
Software Test Engineer Intern
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
Technical Intern
Intel Corporation
Seattle, WA & Portland, OR
Education
Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.)
Seattle University
Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
University of Washington - Seattle
Technical Communication, Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
University of Washington - Seattle
Organizations
Elected Officer
Rotaract Club of Seattle, Rotary International
Seattle, WA
Elected leader within an international service organization for young professionals. Responsible for event planning and execution, recruitment, member retention, marketing, and all aspects of the public web site.
Areas of Expertise
Software engineering * Product development * Agile software development
People management * Recruiting * Retention * Performance management
Coaching * Leading * Mentoring * Collaboration * Communication
Technical delivery * Outsourcing * Insourcing * Distributed teams
Software architecture * Requirements analysis * Resource planning
Business strategy * Process improvement * Public speaking
Marketplaces * B2B * B2C * C2C * Scrum * Kanban
Technical Expertise
Web applications * Mobile applications * Cloud computing * SaaS
Microservices * APIs * Service-oriented architecture * Automated testing
Quality assurance * Site reliability * Technical operations * Performance
Relational data modeling * Object-oriented design * Version control * git
HTTP * REST * HTML * CSS * XML * JSON * SQL * NoSQL
Amazon Web Services / AWS * Google App Engine * DigitalOcean
Java * JavaScript * PHP * Groovy * Scala * Go language
Android * iOS * Linux * Mac OS X * FreeBSD * Windows