Pocket Sized Giraffe

March 2011 to Present - Project Lead, Entrepreneur - www.tumbleonapp.com

• Pocket Sized Giraffe created TumbleOn, an easy-to-use tumblr client for the iPad.
• Came up with product concept.
• Led product roadmap, development architecture, and implementation.
• Designed & developed application with cooperation of two peers.
• Formed LLC, and continues LLC activities such as book keeping.
• Other responsibilities include testing, promotion, and support.
• Technologies: Objective-C, various third party libraries, XCode IDE

Coder Cowboy

December 2010 to Present - Entrepreneur - www.codercowboy.com

• Coder Cowboy creates iPhone applications. Products include Runner's Interval Timer, a simple-to-use fully featured interval timer application for runners; and Music Roulette, which makes choosing a random music album for listening easy and fun.
• Responsibilities similar to Pocket Sized Giraffe work. However, Coder Cowboy is only Jason.
• Website features articles, tips, links, and other resources for fellow developers
• Runner's Interval Timer favorably reviewed by MacLife, a popular magazine.
• Technologies: Objective-C, various IOS third party libraries, XCode IDE

MomentumSI

January 2011 to October 2011, 10 months - Senior Software Engineer

Undisclosed cloud project for Fortune 100 Company   (January 2011 to October 2011, 10 months)

• Product simplifies cloud management and automates physical/virtual OS installation.
• Responsibilities: leadership, design, implementation, code reviews, bug fixing.
• Primary development focus was backend rest/soap services and integration between various lower-level products.
• Recognized by a principal architect as the "example" for how MomentumSI employees should be, due to proactive, friendly, and enthusiastic attitude, and ability to execute beyond expectations.
• Recognized by other principal level developers and peers as one of the all-stars on the product.
• Co-Designed and implemented key functionality such as automated unix OS installations, and server grouping functionality.
• Mentored several other developers on proper implementation and design patterns.
• Simplified several confusing/error-prone development patterns into cohesive pre-packaged easy-to-use utility packages.
• Independently developed productivity automation scripts that simplified development processes.
• Worked with, encouraged, documented, and promoted other productivity tooling efforts made by peer developers.
• Fostered and encouraged cross-team collaboration across several organizational boundaries, resulting in higher QA and downstream product issue resolution efficiency.
• Documented many aspects of using and debugging the product on a shared wiki.
• Encouraged adoption of industry standard design patterns, and better encapsulation.
• Participated in many design and roadmap discussions with principal architects and developers.
• Technologies: Java 1.6, Spring, ServiceMix, Camel, ActiveMQ, Web services (REST & SOAP), Eclipse IDE, Maven, Scrum, Bash, DOS Batch, MVC, RedHat, Suse, CentOS, VMWare products

PayPal

March 2007 to December 2011, 3.5 years - Senior Software Engineer

Paypal Apps    (July 2010 - Dec 2011, 6 months)

• Product allows third party developers to make small applications that are hosted on PayPal's website.
• Development focus was end-to-end integration, with development in front end framework, and soap-based services layer.
• Responsibilities included requirements gathering, design, implementation, and collaborative leadership.
• Designed key integration with proprietary internal products.
• Handled many product life cycle interactions with application security, network operations, and sys admin groups.
• Fixed and enhanced documentation.
• Developed a one-step deploy script for an internal development framework many developers rely upon.
• Implemented custom multi-endpoint webservice SSL client support module.
• Implemented several minor struts work flow enhancements.
• Assisted in test environment setup.
• Challenges included remote collaboration; quick rampup on a product with a tight development schedule; and choosing the right functional sacrifices for the initial release of the product.
• Technologies: Java 1.6, Spring, Struts 2, Eclipse IDE, J2EE, C++, FTL, HTML, Javascript, CSS, Maven, WSDL, XSD, Scrum, Bash, DOS Batch, MVC

Localization Integration Framework    (November 2009 - June 2010, 7 months)

• Product was a proof-of-concept implementation that decoupled external content frameworks from the localization team's work flow, and defined flexible interfaces for system integration through a pluggable architecture.
• Co-designed and led implementation.
• Java 1.6, Spring, Eclipse IDE, J2EE, Maven, REST, MVC

Web Page Rendering Service    (April 2007 - June 2010, 3 years)

• Product renders nearly 100% of PayPal's web pages.
• Product replaced legacy proprietary cgi-based c++ product with a long-lived java service.
• Led multi-year collaboration efforts with internal end-users including localization, i18n, and web development groups.
• Recognized as an all-star developer with great vision by many members of external teams and direct management.
• Promoted to Senior Software Engineer as a result of exemplary efforts.
• Emphasized the need for proper support and maintenance of proprietary internal products.
• Encouraged end-users to dream big and demand more from the internal proprietary products and tooling they relied upon.
• Led implementation of mission critical functionality implemented by a small team of remote colleagues.
• Heavily involved in requirements gathering through discussion and reverse engineering; design; implementation; documentation; and support for the legacy product.
• Ported, enhanced, and added most of the subsystems and tooling features in the product.
• Co-designed and implemented various scalability solutions. Scalability was improved through the long-lived nature of the service, a highly optimized multithreaded request pipeline, and multi-level asset caching.
• Co-designed and implemented various system optimization solutions. Results were reduced content build times, deployment times, and deployment sizes.
• Dynamic nature of the new product allowed for on-demand debug tooling not possible with the legacy product.
• Designed and implemented in-browser debug tooling included highlighting for content source and i18n debugging, and a flexible framework for content metric collection and analysis.
• Designed, developed, and supported several iterations of QA tooling frameworks which enabled robust side by side result comparison testing against the legacy product.
• Designed and implemented simplified flexible multithreaded framework used in primary rendering pipeline, build metric analysis tool, and qa diff frameworks.
• Designed and implemented a "killer feature" which enabled request playback for web content debugging. This feature reduced bug reproduction effort from hours to minutes.
• Challenges included supporting the legacy product while developing the new product; reverse engineering and cleaning up a largely undocumented legacy product; solving scalability issues; developing the product with a very small team; and product integration with many internal proprietary technologies such as SOA frameworks, build systems, and legacy cgi-based applications.
• Technologies: Java 1.4 - 1.6, Spring, Apache Commons Utilities, JSON, Tomcat, Eclipse IDE, J2EE, JSP, C++, Perl, Bash, XSLT, XML, Saxon, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Maven, Ant, REST, MVC

Visa

January 2005 - March 2007, 2 years - Software Engineer

Internal Customer Service Tool    (January 2007 - March 2007, 3 months)

• Product replaced customized Siebel call center applications and others.
• Helped with design and implementation of jBPM framework for dynamic customer service worfklow support.
• Responsibilities were web service and database layer implementation using Hibernate.
• Technologies: Java 1.4, Spring, Hibernate, IntelliJ IDE

Prepaid Web Applications   (January 2005 - December 2006, 1 year)

• Product is a customizable web application software suite used by many major banks to manage and support Visa branded prepaid cards.
• Involved in the front-end web application flow development for several versions of the product.
• Small team experience provided fast-paced learning and understanding of many core concepts of software development.
• Concepts learned included requirements gathering, design patterns such as MVC, session management, n-tiered architecture, and bug fixing processes.
• Product was rewritten from scratch rather than branched/configurable from release version to version (at management insistance..), which provided opportunity to write, learn from, and rewrite key pieces of applications as new versions were built
• Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, MVC