“Doug is a creative, hard working boss. He created interesting, unique demos and was supportive for projects and initiatives I worked on for our team. While working for Doug, I was asked to learn a lot of new things and I appreciated the opportunity to do this. I produced content several times a week and it was fun working to figure out how to optimize our site and content performance. He's a great manager and you would be lucky to work for someone who is as driven and talented as he is.”
About
Doug is a leader in Developer Relations. Having successfully led and grown developer…
Experience
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Education
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Activities and Societies: University of Wisconsin Symphony (3 years)
Studied the mechanisms and kinetics of polypropylene polymerization with zirconocene catalysts. Developed novel use of VT NMR to understand the kinetics of a complex polymerization pathway. Used stopped flow kinetics and gas pressure measurements to corroborate low temperature experiments. Designed, built and wrote software for sensitive analytic instrumentation. Synthesis of air sensitive materials.
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Activities and Societies: Principal viola - Wooster Symphony Orchestra
Publications
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High Performance Android Apps
O'Reilly
See publicationUnique and clever ideas are important when building a hot-selling Android app, but the real drivers for success are speed, efficiency, and power management. With this practical guide, you’ll learn the major performance issues confronting Android app developers, and the tools you need to diagnose problems early.
Customers are finally realizing that apps have a major role in the performance of their Android devices. Author Doug Sillars not only shows you how to use Android-specific testing…Unique and clever ideas are important when building a hot-selling Android app, but the real drivers for success are speed, efficiency, and power management. With this practical guide, you’ll learn the major performance issues confronting Android app developers, and the tools you need to diagnose problems early.
Customers are finally realizing that apps have a major role in the performance of their Android devices. Author Doug Sillars not only shows you how to use Android-specific testing tools from companies including Google, Qualcomm, and AT&T, but also helps you explore potential remedies. You’ll discover ways to build apps that run well on all 19,000 Android device types in use.
Understand how performance issues affect app sales and retention
Build an Android device lab to maximize UI, functional, and performance testing
Improve the way your app interacts with device hardware
Optimize your UI for fast rendering, scrolling, and animations
Track down memory leaks and CPU issues that affect performance
Upgrade communications with the server, and learn how your app performs on slower networks
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Developer Man: Saving the Grid
AT&T Developer Program
Comic book on why developers should optimize their mobile applications.
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Projects
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a.video
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See projecta grouping of web demos using video.
Moderate.a.video
upload.a.video
livestream.a.video
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Stream or Not
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See projectHow well will your video play back on different browsers? AT different networks speeds? StreamOrNot measures video startup time and the number of stalls your video might encounter. Full documentation on GitHub, and integrated with WebPageTest for testing multiple pages.
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Mobile Application Optimization
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AT&T Labs discovered that even 'best in class' mobile application are inefficient on mobile handsets, and that simple design changes would allow application to use less battery, appear to run faster, and use the network more efficiently. They built a prototype tool to help investigate these issues. They teamed up with the AT&T Developer Program to "spread the word." The AT&T Developer Program took this prototype and built it into a commercial product for all developers to use. We also took…
AT&T Labs discovered that even 'best in class' mobile application are inefficient on mobile handsets, and that simple design changes would allow application to use less battery, appear to run faster, and use the network more efficiently. They built a prototype tool to help investigate these issues. They teamed up with the AT&T Developer Program to "spread the word." The AT&T Developer Program took this prototype and built it into a commercial product for all developers to use. We also took our findings from using the tool to create a series of best practices for mobile development. The Application Resource Optimizer (ARO) tool launched at the AT&T Developer Summit on January 9, 2012, and will be available as open source later this year. If you have any questions about how to make your mobile application run efficiently, feel free to contact me..
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Honors & Awards
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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch
Rigor
https://rigor.com/blog/worlds-web-performance-leaders-to-watch
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2016 AT&T Technology Development President's Award
AT&T
The Technology Development President's Award is the highest achievement award in the department. It is awarded for employees who go above and beyond their assigned job duties to make a truly significant contribution to the department.
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First Prize: 2nd annual Pumpkin Carving Contest
Kalakala Mercantile, Langle WA
I wish I could post photos in my awards - because this was a rocking pumpkin - an owl on a branch in the full moon.
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2013 GSMA Global Mobile Award "Smartphone Application Challenge"
GSMA
The Application Resource Optimizer was picked as the best mobile tool for monitoring mobile applications and data in 2013.
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2013 Most Creative Knitted Craft
Whidbey Island Area Fair
I knit a pirate. It is awesome. It won an award. His name is the Dred Pirate Westley
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