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Lead the Long Term Contracts Team which manages data ingestion, simulation, and pricing Convoys contracted shipping volume.

Lead 8 teams responsible for providing the most accurate property, listings, and geospatial information possible.Implemented OKR’s across all teams resulting in improved cross-team coordination, team focus, and execution of commitmentCreated and executed on a strategic vision to address fundamental quality issues with Zillow’s property data resulting in the formation of a new product team and the reduction of duplicate systemsDrove restructuring in department interview process to reduce unconscious and implicit bias and promoted diversity and inclusion at the hiring levelCrafted and evangelized a company-wide technology vision enabling Zillow to scale its engineering departmentSuccessfully integrated three remote teams into the centralized engineering org with all reporting higher morale and improved velocity

Manage the Search and Maps team and acted as PM since that position was vacantPrioritized refactoring Search page to responsive, react pages reducing code paths from 4 to 1 Led multi-brand migration from Bing to Google maps, improving customer satisfaction and onboarding of Street View functionalityAddressed low-sign in rates by creating an auto sign-in on email click through resulting in 228% increase in signed in mobile users and a 91% increase in desktop users

Engineering manager and first employee for Zillow Digs, a “start-up” within Zillow that developed a home improvement photo inspiration product to compete with Pinterest and HouzzHired a team of 8 to create compelling features, successful SEO strategies, and personalized email that grew audience from 0 to 1M monthly UU’s Architected Digs platform using AI, Python, MongoDB, React, RabbitMQ, Elasticache, and ElasticSearch while leveraging existing Zillow services in a decoupled fashion, accelerating releases 8x more frequently than legacy ZillowResolved scalability issues caused by user growth, highly effective email campaigns, and Google web crawler by leveraging Elasticache, optimizing ElasticSearch indexes, and using code profilersKey contributor to development of Zillow’s national college recruiting program, including representing Zillow at multiple campus recruiting events per year, building out Zillow’s talent pipeline, and putting best practices in place to mentor new employees

Working on the Mortgage Market Place Solution using Java, Spring, & Tapestry.

• Created Blackberry application that allows professionals to track work performed on the go for purposes of billing clients, including automatically tracking and categorizing phone calls and email conversations• Manage customer relations and incorporated additional features based on customer feedback• Created web presence to market application, including down loadable demo versions• Perform all day-to-day operations including finances, protection of intellectual property, and marketing

• Improved client search performance by 2 orders of magnitude • Opened up new business market by creating interface to Bloomberg console data• Addressed scalability issues in in-house ETL tool by optimizing SQL • Enabled searching of documents containing Asian alphabets by embedding Basis technologies into search system using C++• Prototype next generation search offerings supporting concepts, clusters, and facets based on Vivisimo

Scrum Master for agile development team responsible for implementing a high value set of user stories in a one-month sprint. Lead architectural design reviews to guide the development organization towards a maintainable and extensible design that meets our performance needs. Profiled and implemented performance improvements in key product areas to help improve client satisfaction. Evaluated and architected next generation product offering based on Enterprise Content Management platform

• Serve as technology architect and product visionary while leading a department of 50 people • Participate in executive-level meetings, presenting department’s progress to the board of directors• Created and manage department budget for 2006 & 2007• Oversaw 3 releases of EED’s flagship product EED Discovery • Initiated Business Intelligence (BI) program to empower clients to generate dynamic reports on demand• Refined software development process by implementing early architectural and design reviews, resulting in improved product quality, greater code reuse, and less development rework• Initiated outsourcing efforts to develop critical features quickly and economically adding capacity without overextending in-house development team• Manage third-party technology vendors responsible for fixing bugs and implementing features in a timely manner

• Managed a team of 14 developers, testers, and program managers • Oversaw design, development, and testing of two applications for two release cycles resulting in 400% increase of installation base: • Partnered with EMC to develop custom SDK that extracts data from Legato Email Extender • Interviewed and hired 10 new employees using referrals, online job postings, and recruiting agencies • Conducted demos and training to introduce new features to internal and external users • Participated in contract negotiations with potential third-party software vendors • Managed relationships with current third-party software vendors by identifying issues and facilitating resolutions • Provided on-call crisis management by identifying and repairing bugs in deployed software • Personally contributed to software development efforts through bug fixes and key feature development using SQL and C#

• Architected, created and shipped a distributed agent-based system in .NET for processing terabytes of files into EED’s data repository, resulting in significantly increased productivity• Extracted data from Lotus Notes using the Lotus C & C++ API’s that communicate with the system via sockets • Implemented data persistence layer using C#, SQL, and XML • Improved system extensibility by creating standard interfaces for all data sources • Created first version of Coding Conventions and Best Practices document still in use today

• Participated in design and implementation of a distributed media system capable of serving content (music, images, and movies) from any computer on the network to any set of destinations • Created plug-in for Java-based Espial Browser that interacted with C code through Java Native Interface (JNI) • Implemented Strings wrapper for Real Networks SDK deployed on Intel Web Tablet • Ported Macromedia Flash player and mpglib to Strings• Wrote extensive automated testing code for the 2nd generation media processing engine