United States

Full stack

Architectural Engineering

Security Engineering

Tim Spaulding

Senior Director II, Architect

Public Speaking

Product strategy

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Analytical skills

Affiliate marketing

Conversational AI

Cloud computing

Database management

Design systems

Email marketing

Information architecture

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Product roadmap

Workday

Mural

Node.js

Kafka

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Redis

MongoDB

REST API

gRPC

Canva

ChatGPT

CircleCI

Confluence

D3.js

Docker

Figma

GitHub

GitLab

HTML

Java

JavaScript

Jenkins

Jira

Lucidchart

Python

React

Ruby

Swift

Tableau

WordPress

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Helps the organization set technical direction of our products and infrastructure.  Interacts with Product Management, Engineering, and Technology Operations to make sure that the design, delivery, and support of our product line is done with technology that fits our organizational goals, can adapt to business changes, and fosters innovation. Works with all functional areas of the company to make sure we are consistently applying technology in the right places and in the right ways while not slowing down our ability to respond to client demands or new market opportunities.  Helps foster innovation by prototyping new processes, tools, and products as well as defining an innovation process in which others in the organization can participate.

Defining and leading the architecture of the new Enterprise Integration Services (EIS) for Intuit's Ecosystem Platform.  EIS is using leading web service technologies (Mule, CXF, REST, and SOAP) to deliver services that allow products to interact directly with Intuit's Enterprise Infrastructure from within Intuit's products.  EIS is an orchestration-level platform that orchestrates between system like identity/profile systems and customer account/asset management systems taking system integration complexity out of individual products.

Defining and leading the architecture of the Quickbooks Network (QBN).  QBN includes such services as user authentication, user profile, billing and subscription, identity-based content delivery, and in-product telemetry.

Regardless of the platforms worked on, I have championed the adoption of leading development tools that promote agility. This agility allows teams to rapidly make changes and adjust to changes in business direction while maintaining control of the quality of the code. Examples of these tools are Maven, Ant, Perforce, Git, Subversion, Nexus, TestNG, JMeter, Clover, Rally, TeamTrack, Hudson, Jenkins, CruiseControl, Eclipse, and IntelliJ although that is not an exhaustive list.

Availant, a division of Lakeview Technology, designs, develops, and deploys high-availability and diaster tolerant solutions on open systems.  We also co-develop availability products like HACMP for IBM's AIX operating system.

Battle Road Consulting is a boutique consultancy specializing in the strategy and design of composition-based web products and services.  As the principal in this company, I work with clients to make sure they understand how to deploy the latest technologies in ways that position their products and services to take advantage of the network effort.

As the CTO of BuyerZone.com, I was focused on optimizing the technology organization for profitability as well as preparing our product for acquisition as a potential outcome for our company.  Our goal was either to become profitable or to sell the company.  Due to the high caliber and focus of our executive team as well as the execution of the technology organization, we had both options on the table towards the end of my tenure.  I left BuyerZone.com with a technology organization that helped the company turn a profit within two months after my departure.

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