Rick Osborne
Cloud & Mobile Engineering Force Multiplier
Web software professional since 1995. Leadership, Education, Architecture, Development, Exploration, Research.
Education
Education Media Design & Technology
20112011M.S.Full Sail University4.0Information Systems Technology
20072009B.S.University of Central FloridaEmployment
Senior Principal Software Architect II
Aug 2015Jul 2022Roche Sequencing SolutionsCloud Software Medical DevicesSF Bay Area, CA, USMulti-product and multi-program architecture, team leadership, and prototype development for cloud software medical devices and related clinical biomarker applications.
- Leadership: Senior-most software engineer and technical lead on multiple projects and teams.
- Education: Evangelist for engineering iteration, including slide decks, reference docs, deep dive videos, etc.
- Architecture: Primary source of software engineering vision, and collaborative source for execution, across several cloud software products, projects, and programs.
- Development: Pre-alpha prototyping of emerging technologies, primarily Java- and AWS-based; proof-of-concept implementations of disruptive singularities; heavy-lift spikes.
Rocket Scientist (Front-End Engineering Manager)
Aug 2013Aug 2015Rocket Fuel, Inc.Ad TechSF Bay Area, CA, USCo-manager over a team of ~40 front-end software engineers working on internal tools for ad tech management.
- Leadership: Senior software engineer over a team split between new-grad junior engineers and senior-level international contractors.
- Education: Source of arcane technical Web, browser, and data ethics knowledge for ~20 new-grad junior engineers.
- Architecture: One of a handful of senior engineers collaborating without a dedicated architect to provide application roadmaps and execution plans.
- Development: Ongoing code contributor on a sprawling internal tools codebase on a Ruby on Rails tech stack and custom continuous delivery pipeline.
Program Manager
Jul 2009Jul 2013Full Sail UniversityEducationOrlando, FL, USDesigned and ran the Web Design & Development degree programs, both campus and online, and co-designed and co-ran the Mobile Development degree programs.
- Leadership: Managed two integrated teams totaling ~40 faculty, including major instructional design overhauls of the two degrees and their programs.
- Education: Started as a teacher in back-end Web courses, got my M.S., and presented at a number of workshops to disseminate that knowledge to my faculty peers.
- Architecture: Rewrote an aging Flash-based Web degree to a modern cloud stack, and built out the Mobile degrees, including instructional design, lesson planning, and assignment generation for many courses across both programs.
- Development: Single-handed-ly built out the university's first student data analytics Web visualization platform, to help educators gain insights into student and course performance and issues.
Web Development Lead
Jun 2005Jul 2009Dixon TiconderogaArt & Writing Supplies, ManufacturingSole Web developer for this 200-year-old writing and art supplies manufacturing company, primarily focused on mainframe integration, budget planning, and sales analytics visualization.
Lead Web Programmer
20032005Creative Data ConceptsInternet Service Provider & Web DevelopmentSole in-house Developer, Database Administrator, and Network Administrator for several systems.
Lead Web Programmer
20002002Mojo InteractiveWeb DevelopmentSenior Web Developer
19982000Phoenix InternationalInternet Banking SoftwareWeb Developer
19961998Northrop-Grumman Corp.US Government ContractingContact
URL
rickosborne.orgLocation
Profiles
Projects
Should I Create A Ticket?
should-i-create-a-ticket.teamSnarky one-page site you can link to in group chat whenever someone asks the inevitable question.
words.supply
words.supplyGeek-oriented wordlist, dictionary, and identifier generator web app, intended for projects which need URL- and human-safe random word generators.
ricko.is Bounce
github.com/rickosborne/bounceBare bones link shortener I created for myself to use, but which has gone through a number of tech stack iterations over the years.
Skills
Team Leadership
advanced- vision
- communication
- mentorship
- guidance
Front-End Web
master- html
- css
- javascript
- typescript
- ux
Cloud Engineering
advanced- aws
- java
- typescript
- data modeling
Mobile Engineering
intermediate- android
- java
Interests
tabletop RPGs
- gaming
- social
- creativity
- collaboration
- empathy
board games
- gaming
- strategy
- tactics
- social
- instruction
- cooperation
console gaming, open-world RPGs
- gaming
- strategy
- tactics
- problem solving
programming
- web
- mobile
- gaming
- data
writing
- fiction
- creativity
- research
- perspective