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Senior Director of Software Engineering

Vibes Media, of Chicago, has been creating mobile marketing programs since 1998. The company has developed proprietary interactive software and promotional programs that enable marketers to communicate with, motivate and retain their customers in ways they never could before. Vibes is uniquely positioned in the industry to provide marketing and promotional programs including end-to-end services, strategy development, communications, execution and post-program ROI analysis. Vibes can offer off-the-shelf programs or work with marketers to create a custom program designed for a particular business or marketing situation. The company has launched more than 7,500 mobile media programs and generated more than 135 million messages in the United States, partnering with wireless carriers, entertainment enterprises, musical acts, sports teams and leagues, and a wide variety of consumer brands.

Accomplished senior technology leader at top mobile marketing technology company with 18 years of professional experience building highly scalable software, recruiting agile teams, establishing engineering processes and crafting technology solutions. Responsibilities include the inception, growth and operations of software products and solutions. An experienced practitioner of agile software development methods and engineering practices with a pragmatic and business value-focused approach to complex problems. Passionately focused on cultivating passionate, high performance teams and group culture and using Technology to solve real business problems. When not in front of a white board mapping out a solution, Steven enjoys teaching and mentoring others at various meetup groups, development academies or simply discussing the latest ideas and methods on becoming a better Software Craftsman. Specialties: Mobile Technologies, High Volume Transactional Processing, Operational Automation and System Integration. Software engineering, Software architecture, Agile software development methodologies.