Wayne B. Landry II, PhD

Experience

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  VITO LLC, TAIR-EDEM LLC

  Mar 2000 - Jul 2002

  Webmaster

  • Fully developed and coded nearly forty ASP pages using Visual Interdev 6.0.• Created high-end object-oriented customizable Web site menu in JavaScript.• Developed a web-based e-mail client utilizing ASP technology, JavaScript, and VBScript.• Helped develop a Web site and assisted in maintaining and supporting the Web site to assist its 3,000 active members and 6,000 regular customers.

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  American Star

  Nov 2002 - Jun 2005

  Software Application Developer

  Projects:1. Credit Card Processing: .NET 1.1, ASP.NET, VB.NET, SQL 2000. A checkout piece on the web that allowed purchases of products via credit and debit cards.2. Virtual Internet Office: .NET 1.0, rest of technologies same as above. A major business information portal and shopping center. Close to one hundred database tables, hundreds of web pages, shopping cart, order management, inventory management, customer and identity management, e-mail newsletter services. Migrated many pages from previous version, written in ASP, to .NET.3. Credit Card Processing 2: same technologies as above. Similar to original credit card processing component, but for a different client and interfaced with a different gateway.4. Business Portal: .NET 1.0 / 1.1, VB .NET, MS Access, .NET Remoting. This Windows application used .NET remoting to collaborate work of many people using it. This was a smart client that served as a part of a larger distributed information system. Show less

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  Metron North America

  Jun 2005 - Sept 2005

  Senior Programmer / Analyst

  Developed Content Management System for XM Radio's online store. Managed full software development lifecycle (FDLC) of the CMS, developed half of the business and data access layers, employed best patterns and practices such as Model-Controller-View pattern. Used Generics in .NET 2.0 Beta 2, wrote partial classes, utilized Nullable types when interfacing with SQL 2005.

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  In10sity Interactive

  Oct 2005 - Mar 2008

  Web Software Consultant, .NET

  Project "Telguard Online" - collected requirements, co-designed, and co-architected a web portal used by thousands of dealers nationwide to manage wireless security devices and subscribers to those devices; serve in both developer and project manager capacities (FDLC, ASP.NET 2.0, SQL 2005, AJAX). Project "Personal Computer Systems, Inc." - co-developed a complete e-commerce web site for state's largest computer manufacturer from scratch (FDLC, ASP.NET 1.1, SQL 2000).

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  UL Solutions

  Mar 2007 - Mar 2008

  Software Consultant and Business Analyst

  Project HYDRA: documenting and advising on high-level architecture, low-level feature design, and business requirements. Last four months I was working on a full-scale import-export module able to process data from four file formats (Excel, fixed-length, CSV, and XML) and accept theoretically any variation of file structures without recompilation of the software (including hierarchical structures). The module would simulate comprehensive data validation, including business rules, even if rows within a file had internal dependencies on each other. Lead team of four people and worked on project management side of this piece by developing a Work Breakdown Structure and a Project Network Diagram. Technologies: .NET Framework 3.5, Visual Studio 2008, C# 3.0, SQL database replication, staging. Show less

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  Modis Deutschland

  Mar 2008 - Jun 2011

  Senior .NET Developer

  Project: Analysis of Manufacturing Data: VB.NET 1.1/2.0/3.5, SQL ’00/05, business layer, interfaces, performance optimization, advanced algorithms, Scrum. Analysis automatically finds and reports anomalies in various carpet manufacturing-related processes via XHTML and scientific graphs posted to intranet web. I've designed and implemented a common architecture for future projects to re-use and wrote comprehensive knowledge base articles for users and developers.

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  FIS

  Mar 2010 - Oct 2012

  Senior/Occasional Lead C# Developer

  Participated in as well as led development of a business-critical and customer-facing online credit card payment system. Also built (in a team) internal tools needed to support the system using C#, ASP.NET MVC 3 with Razor (and MVC 2), Visual Studio 2010, Fluent nHibernate, StructureMap, log4net, nUnit, MSBuild, TeamCity, Castle Validation, MS Fabric Cache, and AutoMapper.Helped the company adopt agile principles, SCRUM.

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  Self Employed

  Oct 2012 - Dec 2013

  Independent iOS Developer

  I started doing iOS development in 2011 and I quit my job in Oct 2012 to pursue iOS dev full-time. I build a few small apps for learning purposes, started on an iPad app for education space, but eventually abandoned that for the sake of a photo journaling/weight recording app Progress. See my iOS Portfolio page for more info.

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  Substantial

  Jan 2014 - Jul 2014

  Developer

  Developed Choosy (open-source), an iOS library that lets devs support external apps effortlessly.Co-developed an HTML5 mobile app using Ember JS framework.

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  Life360

  Jul 2014 - Nov 2014

  IOS Developer

  Worked on crucial features of Life360's location app that helps families and friends follow each other's location, send alerts (including emergency), and communicate. Agile/scrum environment. Designed, architected, implemented, and maintained features using Objective C.

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  Gankstars Esports

  Jan 2015 - now

  Senior Vice President

  - Was privileged to hire, manage, and mentor some of the best talent in esports. I found this to be my key strength. At our peak, we had 35 professional players and ~20 staff (some paid, some volunteer).- 8 of 10 esports teams we fielded performed at the top 4 level globally.- Qualified for 4 World Championships, won 3 of them.- Wore many hats, from sponsor acquisition to social media and website management to marketing to accounting.- Oversaw most of content production (scripting, filming, and production), and branding direction.- Founded the company with no cash, secured a 6-figure sponsorship, raised $150K in funding, and grew revenue to ~$400K during our best year.- Spoke at multiple esports conventions in front of as many as 100 people at once, and presented in front of many potential investors.- Negotiated deals, reviewed contracts, tracked KPIs.- Managed financials, bank accounts, debt/loans, all staff and player payments, and generally all cash flow.- Spent months fundraising a larger seed round (and ultimately failed at it).Strengths: hiring, driving results, understanding the big picture, being detail-oriented, branding.Working on: empathy, kindness, delegation, not chasing perfection too much. Show less

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  Intel Corporation

  Apr 2015 - Dec 2016

  Sr iOS Engineer at New Devices Group (NDG)

  Helped develop and maintain major features of a smartwatch's companion iOS app. Lead developer of local data cache implementation and conflict resolution between local and server states.

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  Verizon Ventures

  Aug 2017 - Nov 2017

  Verizon MediaTech Venture Studio with R/GA

  - Developed new branding, voice, and messaging via R/GA.- Worked with Verizon business departments on esports market entry points, strategy.- Learned from various leaders about business operations.Press: http://www.verizonventures.com/blog/2017/11/verizon-media-tech-venture-studio-wraps-up/