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Foster City, California, Us

I'm leading the Rider Interfaces group at Zoox, building the mobile apps and in-vehicle software experience for our riders.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

As a Director in the Product Application Infrastructure organization, I had the privilege of leading a group of fifty engineers across five teams focused on shaping LinkedIn's next generation application infrastructure for frontend API, mobile and web platforms.Highlights:- Spearheaded a modernization initiative that transformed our Web infrastructure to accommodate GraphQL, React and TypeScript, positioning LinkedIn for future growth.- Led the final phases rearchitecting the Flagship API monolith into an ecosystem of loosely-coupled services, reducing build time by 75% and CI time by 90%, while the codebase grew by 359%.- Launched dark mode, Immersive Reader and UX sounds across all consumer mobile and web clients; created the infrastructure that enabled a groundbreaking "Grade A" a11y experience at LinkedIn.- Sponsored three strategic initiatives to (1) reduce inefficiencies to speed up product prototyping threefold, (2) build common infrastructure to reduce the cost to onboard and maintain product platforms to near zero, and (3) reduce the cost of migrations by 70% through automation and process enhancements.- Propelled NSAT from 109 to 123 in just 3 quarters as Interim Head of Flagship Infra & Productivity.- Nurtured technical leadership talent; elevating two managers to senior manager, five staff engineers to senior staff and eight senior engineers to staff; mentored five managers and three senior managers.- Actively supported and contributed to Women In Technology; hosted a fireside chat with a Ph.D. expert on her dissertation on Male Allyship from the perspective of Women In Technology.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I had the privilege of leading a team of twenty engineers spanning three teams empowering ~400 API engineers and ~250 Web engineers with an efficient, reliable and high quality developer experience.Highlights:- Propelled net satisfaction with the Web development ecosystem by 40 points to 99, simultaneously maintaining an NSAT of 115 for API.- Led initiatives to increase velocity on Web, reducing build time by 30%, CI time by 22% and increasing CI reliability from 76% to 89%. Similar initiatives for API reduced build time by 30% and CI time by 24%.- Managed development of an open source JavaScript toolchain manager, Volta, which led to a substantial 43% improvement to satisfaction with the local development environment.- Collaborated on initiatives to elevate VS Code as a first-class IDE and establish automated visual regression testing capabilities.- Rebuilt the API Productivity Engineering team from a single engineer to a full team of seven.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

As the Manager of the Notification Experience team at LinkedIn, I led a cross-platform team responsible for in-app and push notifications for the LinkedIn Flagship mobile and Web apps.Highlights- Pioneered LinkedIn's first full stack platform, reducing the cost to onboard a new notification from twelve weeks across four different engineering specialties to one week of a single engineer. This platform was foundational to a company-wide initiative that onboarded over 70 new notifications and increased member engagement by 11% in just two quarters.- Launched PROPs (Professional Relationship OPportunities) as notifications on the Flagship mobile and web apps, increasing member engagement by 5.5%.- Streamlined the Flagship organization’s oncall process, improving participant satisfaction by 44%.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Thanks to a reorganization when I joined LinkedIn, I served a brief tour slinging code for the Commerce team. I wrote some JavaScript, learned some Scala and rewrote the payments page for LinkedIn Premium and LinkedIn Learning.

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I founded and led the product engineering team that integrated Magento’s disruptive webstore with eBay Enterprise’s omni-channel capabilities to create an end-to-end e-commerce solution for merchants with annual online revenue between $15 million and $200 million.

I led an organization of twenty-five software developers across three offices, managing e-commerce development for major brands like Levi’s and American Airlines. I founded a new practice building solutions for large wholesale brands first forays into direct-to-consumer e-commerce.

I led the application development team, managing ten web developers and three interactive project managers. We developed e-commerce solutions for major brands like Levi’s, GNC and Haggar.

As lead web developer for the Small Projects team, I provided technical leadership to a team of five developers, hosted training sessions and set development standards. I helped maintain over 90 e-commerce websites for major brands like Kate Spade, PetSmart and Zales.

As a web developer on the Small Projects team, I helped maintain over 90 partner sites for TrueAction and GSI Commerce. I developed new products including a mobile webstore prototype and integration of social networking widgets.

I designed and developed attractive, engaging websites built on clean, elegant code. I specialized in social media development with the occasional foray into small business e-commerce.

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I published a column on Newsvine that focused on sports and entertainment with the occasional foray into politics and current events. In September of 2008, I was chosen to cover the Republican National Convention and Ron Paul's Rally for the Republic as a citizen journalist.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I developed and maintained the websites for the daily web video shows moblogic.tv and wallstrip.com. I created various WordPress plug-ins to add social and community functionality.

Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Us

I wore multiple hats–product manager, project manager, market researcher, user experience designer–when I helped coordinate the development of the industry leading recruitment software, LawCruitWeb and its companion application, Executive Query.

Clinton, N.Y., Us

I provided in-room and walk-in technical support for students, faculty and staff by troubleshooting a wide variety of software and hardware problems. For my internship, I led a task force of fellow interns to develop methodology to better instruct students on computer security. From the results of that task force I then developed an orientation program and award winning guide for new students.