Julius Smith is a results-driven Director of Operations with 17 years of leadership across restaurant operations, retail consulting, and customer-facing roles, currently based in Wilmington, NC. He combines hands-on people management and operational rigor—hiring, training, scheduling, and P&L control—with data-informed decision making and client relationship management. His background ranges from frontline customer service at Verizon to multi-unit restaurant leadership at Chick-fil-A and Bojangles’, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for scalable processes and frontline realities. Outside operations, he contributes technical audio-processing work to an open-source project (JackTrip), demonstrating a curiosity for DSP and software tooling that’s unusual for an operations executive. Julius leverages communication and administrative strengths to increase workforce effectiveness and drive consistent service quality. He seeks roles where organizational discipline, cross-functional coordination, and a penchant for practical innovation intersect.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Cinematography and Film/Video Production at Los Angeles Film School
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science and Government, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science and Government at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
JackTrip: multi-machine audio network performance over the Internet.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:31 reviews, 359 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Julius focused on audio processing and effects implementation within the JackTrip project. Their contributions included adding a limiter to the client-side audio processing, incorporating Faust-based digital signal processing (DSP) for compression, and modifying the reverb effects. They also worked on porting to JUCE and added features related to audio delay examination.
Contributions:73 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
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