Resume

Director of Business Operations

Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival / Seattle, Washington, United States

Founder and Principal

Factory Belt Productions / Seattle, WA

Websites, custom software, content systems, and practical tools for businesses, artists, and organizations.

Senior Technical Program Manager

Paxos / Remote

Director of Platform

ToneStone / Seattle, Washington, United States

Director of Product

LoudSwell / Seattle, Washington, United States

As co-founder I partnered with the founder to envision, define and build the platform and user facing product.

Senior Software Engineer

Substantial / Seattle

Process: Agile and TDD Core technologies used: Ruby/Rails, Sass, Spine MVC, Haml/Hamlbars, Socket IO, CoffeeScript, Git, JQuery. Products: Savage Lovecast, Teaching Channel, Drink Distiller Also: SEO strategy and client engagement support.

Director - Online

KEXP.org / Seattle, WA

I ensured the achievement of public service impact, product development design and execution, and the effective business execution and economic vitality of the KEXP Online Service. Further, I continued to have an active and hand-on role, in our technology and software development.

Program Manager

Microsoft

Managed design, implementation and release of new Desktop Search “Start/Search” Pane for Windows XP. Worked with Design, Usability, and Developers to ship on time and per design. Localized for 32 languages. Managed design and implementation of Semantic Language based “Smart Search”. Owned security and privacy aspects of Desktop Search as well as other cross team/company features. Drove full lifecycle development of new Windows Media Player feature that allows different downloadable music providers (MSN, Napster, etc) to integrate their service into the player. Included back end development design, front end UI, secure data management tool and cross team integration. Developed Media Search for Windows Media Player 9 and windowsmedia.com. Worked with designers, management, 3rd party vendors, and internal business partners to develop and release this new feature with the player. Responsible for release and management of the music shopping experience across a variety of different windowsmedia.com and Windows XP and related properties. Managed the development and release of our internal tracking and reporting system supporting windowsmedia.com and other related web properties.

Director of Technology

Rollingstone.com / Emusic.com

Managed the Site Engineering and Sales Support Teams.

Transparent search query processing

US 7,685,116 / US20070174350A1 / Microsoft

Metadata retrieval protocols and namespace identifiers

US20040019658A1 / Microsoft

Illinois State University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics

Vice-President

The Recording Academy - Pacific Northwest Chapter / Arts and Culture

Governor Member

The Recording Academy - Pacific Northwest Chapter / Arts and Culture