Morgan Strong

Work History

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  Engineering Manager

  Redfin

  February 2023 - Present

  Frisco, Texas, United States · Hybrid
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  Engineering Team Lead

  Redfin

  May 2021 - February 2023

  Frisco, Texas, United States

  Leading the Appointment Scheduling Team!
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  Senior Software Developer

  Redfin

  August 2019 - May 2021

  Frisco, TX

  Full-Stack development for both internal and external facing features using Java, JavaScript, React, Spring, Hibernate, and PostgreSQL.
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  Senior Software Engineer

  Collins Aerospace

  September 2018 - August 2019

  Serve as Certified Scrum Master / Team Lead for a new cross-functional team of 8-10 people while still actively engaged in all full-stack software engineering activities (design, implementation, code review, testing). Work with other teams, Project Managers, and Product Owners to balance backlogs and ensure on-time customer deliveries. Provide initial Git/Bitbucket training to 20+ engineers and assist in zero-downtime transition of source code. Interview software engineering candidates as needed to augment engineering capacity.
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  Software Engineer

  Collins Aerospace

  February 2017 - September 2018

  Develop and support proprietary C, C#, and C++ applications for the Critical Infrastructure group. Provide expertise and develop transition plan from legacy version control system to Git and Atlassian products (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence). Redesign and implement core data replication mechanism of the legacy system after multiple client failures occurred. Develop highly-available WCF services and client-side DLL to provide a secure, modern client-facing API on top of the legacy system. Provide customer support and high-priority analysis of system anomalies and outages.
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  Department Technical Director

  DreamWorks Animation

  April 2014 - January 2015

  Redwood City, CA

  Support feature film production and develop tools for the Image Finaling (Compositing) Department. Developed "Production Tracker" - Single-Page Web App (ExtJS), Asynchronous Python Server (Tornado), and MongoDB.

  

  

  
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  Software Engineering Resident

  Pixar

  September 2013 - April 2014

  Working on the Universal Scene Description (USD) Project featured here: https://graphics.pixar.com/usd
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  Production Engineering Intern

  Blue Sky Studios

  June 2013 - August 2013

  Greenwich, CT

  Feature film production support using Python, Maya, Shotgun, proprietary packages and package-management. Created pipeline tools used for QC and debugging. Work includes:
  Detecting differences between Production Level Maya files (assets, rigs, animations, etc.)
  Custom commands for searching Blue Sky’s extensive tool set.

  
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  Research Assistant / Student

  Brigham Young University

  January 2012 - April 2013

  Provo, Utah Area

  Work for Seth Holladay on research to increase the efficiency and realism of Granule Simulations.
  
  Responsibilities for 2013 BYU Animated Short - "Chasm"
  • Producer - Manage project timeline, resources, and pick up any slack!
  • FX Lead - Ensure quality visual effects and help solve any technical issues in doing so.
  • Technical Director - Solve or delegate any problem that is critical to meeting deadlines and finishing the film.
  
  Undergraduate studies focused on:
  • Visual Effects, including the simulation of fluids, rigid bodies, volumes and particles.
  • Shading and Rendering with quality and efficiency.
  • Pipeline and Tool development.