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John Bucy
Building and Leading Teams to Produce First Class, Commercial Software
Qualifications
Leadership roles at VoiceBox Technologies, The FeedRoom Inc., TeamDirection, TierTwo Systems, Curo Technology
20+ years experience in the delivery of successful commercial applications
Built and managed numerous development teams and offices that deployed software to millions
Built a number of commercial software applications from the ground up.
Significant experience in the voice, mobile, online video and doc management domains
Years of experience with agile development methods such as Scrum and all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle
Professional Experience
VoiceBox Technologies www.voicebox.com
Senior Manager, Client Development Nov 2012 - Present
Led The Mobile Team and The Embedded Client Team - I built two teams and two products from scratch
A custom “Echo-like” device, including:
oCustom application and integration of firmware for the device
oMobile companion applications for both iOS and Android
oNumerous test applications for testing the device
A ‘Personal Assistant’ application for Android phones, tablets, wearables. Significant hands-on with this product and it’s three “flavors”
oA voice-enabled mobile client
oA mobile client for ‘Smart’ TV and IoT devices
oAn automotive dashboard simulated on tablets
Managed the development of an Android SDK for voice integration
Worked closely with VP stakeholders
Worked closely with the QA team, Product and UX teams
Worked closely with the Cloud team that developed cloud services using Java Microservices sited in Docker containers and hosted on EC2 instances
Established a professional development environment using Android Studio, Xcode, Gradle, Cocoa Pods, Maven, Git, Review Board, Jenkins (for CI) and Google Test for automated testing
Used Jira, Confluence and the agile Scrum method for project management.
John Bucy Professional Experience (continued)
nbtDevelopment www.nbtdevelopment.com
Co-Founder Jan 2010 – Oct 2012
Consulting on Rich Internet Applications (RIA) projects for customers of IdeaBlade
Mobile application prototyping
The FeedRoom, Inc, NY, NY (Acquired by KIT Digital http://kitd.com/)
Vice President of Engineering Oct 2007 – Dec 2009
The FeedRoom was a pioneer in the online video industry
Managed a workforce of 22 developers, contractors and QA personnel in development offices located in Manhattan, Toronto and Bellevue
The FeedRoom’s online media systems were accessed by millions of users and integrated into customer web sites. Customers included New York Times, ESPN, Conde Naste
The applications and tier1 sites were responsible for ingest, management, deploying and display of customer online video assets, video libraries and video players
Led the teams in the development of “The FeedRoom Studio” from the ground up.
Coordinated with executive staff, sales, support, product management and operations
Implemented disciplines such as Scrum, continuous integration and automated testing
TeamDirection Incorporated www.teamdirection.com
Co-Founder and Director of UI Development 2002 - 2006
Lead the development of the UI of two commercial .NET applications - TeamDirection Project and TeamDirection Project for SharePoint
Open Text Corporation www.opentext.com
Senior System Architect Jun 1999 - Nov 2001
Managed the UI Development Team for the Livelink Desktop product.
TierTwo Systems (Redmond, WA)
Co-Founder Jan 1996 - Jun 1999
Lead the development team for the ActiveLibrarian product and API.
TierTwo was acquired by Open Text Corporation
Frame Technology / Adobe Systems (Bellevue office) www.adobe.com
Senior System Architect Jun 1993 - Jan 1996
Developed for Frame “Viking” Project
Curo Corporation
Co-Founder Apr 1990 - Jun 1993
Chief Architect and lead developer for the Curo Document Management application
Curo was acquired by Frame Technology.
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration
University of Washington, School of Business
Seattle, Washington