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Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Managing a team of 7 Software and QA engineers that is focused on developing a cutting-edge lead generation platform for the rapidly growing Education marketplace. Key responsibilities include:1. Develop, enhance and maintain the ClassesUSA brand of EIM and deliver critical projects on time.2. Manage the migration of the legacy platform to a new robust and scalable platform.3. Work with the Product and Sales team to create a roadmap and define strategy for growing the Shared and Directory products.4. Represent the engineering team in meetings with other functional areas of the business to successfully drive engineering initiatives.5. Improve user experience and conversion by supporting A/B testing.6. Implement engineering best practices and manage SDLC in co-operation with other Engineering teams and Project Management Office.7. Act as a mentor, do performance reviews and plan for professional development.

Led a team of 6 engineers responsible for providing production support and delivering small projects to maintain the LowerMyBills.com website. 1. Served as a technical Lead and a mentor. 2. Acted as a facilitator between business and engineering to identify requirements, prioritize issues and design solutions. 3. Presented suggestions to improve the quality and maintainability of the code and implement best practices.4. Actively participated in coding, debugging and troubleshooting applications.

Led a team responsible for delivering projects critical to the growth and profitability of the company. 1. Served as a Team Lead on various projects to enhance product verticals like Lending, Debt and Long Distance.2. Was responsible for requirement analysis, application design and also contributing as a developer during the development phase.3. Evaluated new technologies and re-factored the code to create a more extensible, maintainable and efficient application.

Worked as part of a team responsible developing applications for the LowerMyBills.com website.1. Designed and developed n-tier web application to power the website. Key projects included building the Long Distance, Lending and Debt verticals. These systems were implemented on an in-house MVC framework using Servlets, JSP, JDBC and PL/SQL. 2. Developed a system that helped the Marketing department at Lowermybills.com, optimize and track their ad campaigns including media and search engine traffic and efficiently track their ROI.

marchFIRST Inc. provided professional consulting services to web-enable fortune-500 companies. 1. Involved in the analysis, design and development of n-tiered, database-driven web applications using Java, EJB, JDBC, Servlets and JSP, application servers like IBM Websphere, Allaire JRun and BEA Weblogic and e-commerce packages like Blue Martini.2. Projects included Toyota Financials, IomegaDirect.com, iGeneration.com and ColumbiaHouse.com.

SmartShip.com provided a one-stop package shipping solution for consumers and provided resources to comparison shop for shipping rates, track packages online, schedule pickup, find nearest drop-off locations and generate shipping labels online.1. Part of a small team of 3 engineers that conceptualized, designed and launched SmartShip.com2. Developed a three-tiered web-application using Java, JSP, C, JDBC and Oracle Server and designed XML based API for B2B commerce.

M.S., Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science