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Hired by founder and investor Scott Yara of Greenplum and Pivotal Labs. Led engineering; responsibilities included technical roadmap, architecture and hiring.Sped up development times by replacing the back-end with a lightweight NodeJS codebase that was appropriate for prototyping and much more accessible to the front-end engineers. Also championed the use of JS to build "hybrid" mobile applications, which allowed us to create cross-platform, native-like mobile experiences.

* Turned around a struggling performance testing effort: led development of a skunkworks load generation and monitoring rig capable of simulating thousands of “realistic” concurrent web users and pinpointing performance problems.* Designed a layered architecture for a content management system and established patterns and practices for a team of 12 engineers.* Rebooted a stalled data integration project by engaging stakeholders, modeling their workflows, and getting consensus on workable constraints.

Served as manager and chief architect for the mobile and web application development team. Responsible for architecture across dozens of commercial releases while managing and recruiting a team of engineers that I grew from 8 to 25. Reported to the Chief Product Officer.

Pinch hit as a producer to lead and launch our flagship product, mCLASS:DIBELS. Managed the project through its first 3 major releases. Led requirements gathering, directed interface design, conducted usability studies and customer research, interfaced with industry experts, guided technical architecture, travelled with sales, spoke at conferences, planned releases, and managed a team of designers, engineers, QA testers and content experts.

As the seventh employee, led development of our Palm OS applications. Grew team from 1 (myself) to 5, oversaw several commercial releases, and determined and executed a platform strategy for rapidly building out a suite of handheld applications. Reported to CTO.

Promoted to a leadership position and guided web app development for a team of 5