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Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Us

I pride myself on bringing a unique perspective to a founding team. Are you still framing your MVP? Or maybe you are ready to scale. I can help you bridge these gaps by bringing business and technology together. Maybe, you need an outside perspective on your current solution/direction or help to figure out how to get started. I have successfully worn many hats for startups and can temporarily wear some for you. Think of me as a CTO/Head of Engineering on retainer.

Durham, Nc, Us

Our product fully automates sales tax for small businesses. We move the tax funds out of their bank account, so they don’t spend them and remit them to the taxing agencies. Set it and forget it. Upon joining the DAVO executive team, rebuilt, modernized, and scaled the entire platform. Built-out new engineering team. Since the Avalara acquisition in 2022, grew the to 7 geographically dispersed members, overseeing all engineering; including full stack software development, DevOps, infrastructure, security, data, and quality assurance. Serves as a team buffer for integration conversations.· Contributed 1,100% revenue growth since start date.· Boosted annual recurring revenue by 17x since 2019.· Spearheaded the engineering efforts leading to being pre-installed on all Clover POS devices.· Drove savings and scale through workforce automation, achieving full automation of 70% of filings with state taxing agencies and cutting the time per manual filing in half.

Durham, Nc, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Pleasanton, California, Us

The market leader powering the e-gift card platform serving 300+ large merchants, such as Starbucks, Home Depot, Nordstrom, Walmart, IKEA, Uber, etc with a SaaS platform handling B2C, B2B, Incentive, and Appeasement.Managed three geographically dispersed locations spanning disparate time zones (Maine, Pittsburgh, and Ukraine). Doubled team to 120, leading nimble Agile initiatives in Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, DevOps, Security, Site Reliability, and Architecture. Served as key contact for PCI, DSS, ISO 27001, SOX2 certifications and vendor audits.

Built or re-architected existing solutions. Primarily focused on fintech and e-commerce custom use cases.

Portland, Maine, Us

Blackhawk Network acquired CashStar for $175 million.Formed a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team to best position the entity for future growth, leading a switch to 70 micro-services and establishing load testing benchmarks allowing the platform to meet holiday rush and service massive promotions by companies like IKEA and The Cheese Cake Factory. Scaled to 40 Software Engineers (60 associates total) across Engineering. Led technical diligence for acquisition; also led the technical diligence of a company we were about to acquire at the same time.

Portland, Maine, Us

Upon accepting the role quickly showcased past comprehensive expertise by wearing any hat needed. Scaled entity to 25 hand-picked Software Engineers, 35 associates in total, across engineering, responsible for handling first-line screenings. Championed the hiring of Interns, Junior and Intermediate Engineers, resulting in our teams having tremendous bench strength and producing some amazing ICs and Managers. Focused on architecture, infrastructure, and SRE to deliver at scale for massive brands.· Employed an innovative and effective product-oriented delivery (POD) management style, a method focused on building small cross-functional teams that own specific project tasks.· Led transformation from PCI DSS certification Level 3 to Level 1.· Powered fulfillment of 1.5M Starbucks e-gift cards in one day for Living Social leading similar deals with Groupon, Amazon and Google Offers.· Handled security assessments from AMEX, Walmart, etc or designated firm companies. · Moved to the cloud (AWS), from co-lo, first utilizing Rackspace Mixed Cloud, then to 100% Amazon Web Services.· Drove continuous improvement to the continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery/deployment (CD) process.

Portland, Maine, Us

Portsmouth, Nh, Us

Re-architected a legacy web app, and executed a massive data migration, resulting in sunsetting the infrastructure of an acquired company.

New York, Ny, Us

Lead a small team rebuilding and scaling a workforce/workflow automation web app. The app was used by the Navy’s Supervisors of Shipbuilding to track tasks related to the build and maintenance of ships. We scaled the app from being used at a single shipyard to all the Navy’s shipyards, including nuclear facilities which required immense security considerations.

Privately acquired.The focus was the acquisition of insurance data across mobile, desktop, and web. Using this treasure trove of data, we used a rules-based system to make risk-related recommendations. Most companies barely had any data digitized at this time.

Portland, Me, Us

My services were contracted out to departments of the university. I built web apps, handling all facets of the design, build, support, DevOps, db admin, and whatever was needed.Full-time while working toward my degrees.

Portland, Me, Us

Berkeley Executive Leadership (Bexl)

Masters, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

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