Development Engineering
Resume:
David Phillips
Issaquah, Washington
abotsw@r.postjobfree.com
Technology leader, architect and strategist with more than twenty years in design,
specification, development and production throughout the engineering lifecycle. Wide range
of experience in developing practical, scalable solutions in enterprise, web and mobile
contexts.
Solutions-oriented, effective communicator. Experienced in collaboration with creative
teams, ideation and concept development.
Proven ability to develop client relationships, leveraging the technical knowledge, user
experience understanding, business strategy, client empathy and gravitas required to
successfully establish credibility.
Experienced in delivering results across departments, studios and geographic locations.
Experience
Technology Director
frog (2012 - present)
Seattle, Washington
Design Technology lead for the studio. Responsibilities include team management and cross-
studio utilization, business development, concept generation, technology assessment and
strategy, client relationship management. Accountable for delivery of creative and
engineering results across projects of all sizes and scopes.
Associate Technology Director
frog (2010 - 2012)
Seattle, Washington
Led technology efforts in the studio and for cross-studio/international projects.
Provided guidance and support to projects involving enterprise and mainframe environments,
mobile applications and convergent platforms. Close collaboration with the creative group
during concept development, client alignment and ideation. Integral to client
relationships, business development, scoping and feasibility assessment. Responsible for
ensuring that deliverables meet established requirements.
Technical Architect
frog design (2008 - 2010)
Seattle, Washington
Technology strategist and problem solver. Responsible for software application
architecture, use case discovery and the recommendation of appropriate technology
platforms/tools/practices. Evaluated deliverables to ensure that they met established
requirements. Authored systems design documents, database/schema models, software
requirements specifications and software architecture documents.
Developer/Architect
SymonTek (2008)
Seattle, Washington
Led development team, designed architecture, authored project specifications, managed
client relationships, installed and field-tested solutions.
Director of Engineering/Chief ArchitectAll Star Directories (2004 - 2007)
Fremont, Washington
Built out a start-up team using object-based methodology and best practices. Managed
across departmental lines to influence positive changes in architecture, cooperation and
results while revenue increased more than 50% year over year. Primary advocate and driver
of the company's migration to scalable frameworks, achieving nearly 80% reduction in code
while increasing flexibility and dramatically improving the ability of the engineering
team to respond to business requirements.
Chief Technical OfficerImprev, Inc. (2001)
Bellevue, Washington
Established a structured development methodology, reformed the architecture of the
company's service offering, and led the development team. In less than 120 days, turned
around the offering the company had been trying to launch for nearly a year, and released
a product that was significantly more capable than had been originally envisioned.
Technology ConsultantImminent (2000 - 2004)
Issqauah, Washington
Provided guidance, design, development and best practices advice to emerging small
businesses based on Open Source technologies.
Principal ConsultantRSA Security, Inc. (2000)
San Mateo, California
Designed RSA-centric security solutions for clients based on their requirements. Authored
formal security assessments, and evaluated new security product offerings being considered
by the company.
Senior Security ArchitectAventail Corporation (1999 - 2000)
Seattle, Washington
Designed the production architecture, community management workflows, web content and NOC
infrastructure virtually the entire service offering for the company's 'Aventail.Net'
initiative.
Director of OperationsComputer Human Interactions LLC (Formerly Lembersky Chi, Inc.) (1995 - 1999)
Tukwila, Washington
Led the development, QA and distribution teams. Planned release content for the company's
product and managed client expectations. Directed the architecture and successfully
shipped several releases, including a port of the company's product from Solaris to
Windows.
Product Systems EngineerATT Wireless (Aircraft Communications Division) (1995)
Seattle, Washington
Provided systems administration for inflight call billing infrastructure and developed
long-term archival methods.
Systems EngineerSPRY (1994 - 1995)
Seattle, Washington
Developed server-side infrastructure supporting a pioneer automated ISP account setup
application suite.
Senior Systems EngineerMonowave Corporation (1993 - 1994)
Seattle, Washington
Developed hardware-based neural networks for continuous, realtime, speaker-independent
speech recognition. Authored analysis and machine learning software, and developed a
graphical speech data analysis application.
Senior Software EngineerSeafloor Surveys International (1990 - 1992)
Seattle, Washington
Designed, developed and field-tested a mission-critical suite of applications for
realtime sonar data acquisition. Maintained in-field networks and supported seagoing
operations for deep-ocean surveys.
Systems EngineerScience Applications International Corporation (1989 - 1990)
Seattle, Washington
Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC) at Kaneohe MCAS, Hawaii.
Education
University of Hawaii
Manoa, Hawaii
Ph.D. Candidate - Cognitive Psychology/AI
Major: Dolphin Language/Cognition
University of Colorado
Denver, Colorado
B.S., M.S. - Electrical Engineering
Majors: Biomedical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence
Updated 10 Sep 2011
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