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San Francisco, California, Us

Managing the Trucking engineering team at Flexport. We build and maintain all trucking products at Flexport, from internal operator tooling, to carrier-facing workflows and integrations. Established Trucking engineering presence in Bellevue, WA. Grew the team from 5 to 30 over a 6 month growth period across both Chicago and Bellevue. Worked with Senior Management to break the team into 4 workstreams aligned to business needs: Planning, Execution, Pricing/Procurement, Finance, Funnel Management. Supported metric gathering for WBRs and Executive MBRs.- Drove the product roadmap for Trucking when PM support was unavailable. Worked with engineers to source estimates for projects, then projected product delivery ETAs through capacity planning.- Coached engineers both on and off of my team through the promotion process: SWE1 -> SWE2 and SWE2 -> Senior promotions.- Established a Directly Responsible Engineer (DRE) initiatve for projects, allowing our team to scale as we grew quickly without additional EM or PM support. Engineers were responsible for full projects end to end: requirement confirmation with stakeholders, design, implementation, rollout, input / output metric tracking.- Conducted 450 technical interviews for engineers of all levels (SWE1 through Senior Staff eng, including Engineering Managers).- Drove Correction of Error (COE) root cause analysis with the team after incidents to ensure we never repeated the same incident twice.- Grew a scaleable and repeatable carrier integration process to improve development velocity from months to 1 week for new integrations.- Created an Operational Excellence (OE) POC initiative on the team, where a rotating member of the team would own the identification and fixing of OE related issues on our team for a quarter.- Owned product support (PSUP) process - our team drove the support backlog down from 170 to under 100 tickets within a 2 month period.

San Francisco, California, Us

Working on the Trucking Tools team to increase automation and efficiency of Trucking supply operations

San Francisco, California, Us

Technologies: React, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, React Native, Flow, Expo, Jest, RspecWorked on Transmission web / mobile teams, as well as the Trucking Architecture teamWinner October 2019 Hackathon - "Computer Vision Container Number Detection for Flexport Warehouses"

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Developed course material alongside University of Chicago Professor for business school students to learn the fundamentals of simulation and linear optimization.Developed open source package to make simulation with the simpy framework easier for students: https://pypi.org/project/simpy-helpers/Worked with professor to adapt the course to an online learning environment during the 2020 pandemic.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Technologies: React, Redux, Apigee, Hapi.js, Vue, Vuex, SCSS, Jest, Javascript, Node, Spring Boot, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, Marathon, Django, Python, SwaggerPromoted to Senior Staff Software Engineer in October 2018, with expanded responsibility:- Worked on the Application Studio Team: built a drag and drop interface for users of the Uptake platform to create custom dashboards and applications without the need for engineering resources. - Nominated for November 2018 Values Award

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Member of the Developer Services team at Uptake. We own the Developer Portal for the Uptake platform, as well as the strategy for exposing and securing our public facing API products. We also own the Uptake Design System and our Vue.js Component Library.During my time at Uptake I:- Presented developer portal milestones to exec board and to audiences of 100+ at multiple "Product Feature Showcases". I worked with our product team to ensure I delivered messaging in line with product vision, and that the technical depth of the presentation was appropriate for the audience.- Fought for DRY architecture: instead of implementing user management in our application, I worked with Product and Identity Management teams to centralize this responsibility in a new "accounts” application that could be used by all of Uptake's products.- Advocated for standardization across frontend teams: used Uptake's Architecture Design Record process to research options on HTTP request libraries and Javascript Testing Frameworks, and validate the conclusions with relevant stakeholders.- Identified need for more frontend familiarity across platform engineering teams: developed “Frontend Fundamentals @ Uptake” curriculum to quickly bring backend engineers up to speed with frontend landscape. Enlisted other senior engineers to help prepare and deliver course content.- Gave tech talks at frontend community of practice. Presentations resulted in quick performance wins for frontend engineering teams across the company, due to increased awareness.- Jumped in to help Uptake.org's Student Union team make some changes to their Django application during a series of tight deadlines. Helped the team to onboard a public facing endpoint to the Uptake developer portal- Finalist in November 2017 Hackathon - Self Service API Platform

Seattle, Wa, Us

Technologies: React, Redux, Mobx, Jest, Javascript, Node, SpringBoot, Java, Scala, Keycloak, Docker, Jenkins, AWS ECSI worked on the Expedia Media Solutions team, which develops the marketing and advertising products offered across all Expedia brands. I focused on the TravelAds product, which allows hotel owners to participate in auctions for sponsored listings inserted in hotel search results. This greenfield product helps hoteliers increase room night production, by allowing them to bid for impressions within targeted customer segments (e.g. customers with a particular "length of stay" in their search criteria).During my time at Expedia I:- Evangelized React internally as a viable technology choice for UI development. React went from a "framework for side-projects" in the company to a production ready solution within a year of my joining the organization. - Developed curriculum for a React Fundamentals course, targeting backend engineers with little to no prior frontend experience. Curriculum covered: Flux architecture, component decomposition, and ES6 features for React applications.- Presented at the inaugural "By Tech For Tech" speaker series in the Chicago office. The 50 minute presentation included live coding demos, and covered React/Redux (Flux) architecture and a discussion of Webcomponents and their utility.- Received "Horizon Award" in Jan 2017, which is awarded to employees with high potential for growth within the organization.- Mentored Summer intern, and designed a non-critical-path project for him to work on during the Summer. He accepted a full time offer with the company after a positive and productive summer with our team.Hackathon Results:2nd place out of 11 teams - 2017 MediaSolutions HackathonProduct: TravelAds "Premium Features"5th place out of 250 teams - 2017 Global HackathonProduct: Rotation Finder Finalist (top 25 out of 250 teams) - 2016 Global HackathonProduct: "Subject Matter Expert" Search Tool

Chicago, Illinois, Us

I taught and mentored students, while helping them navigate the tech industry and inevitably find employment. Bootcamp curriculum was designed for students looking to make a career pivot: no prior knowledge of web development or CS fundamentals was expected.Over the 6 month course we covered: - HTML & CSS - Javascript - React - Node & Express.js - Handlebars - Client / Server architecture - Git - DevOps fundamentals using Heroku Students were expected to complete homework assignments and complete group projects throughout the course, which we would grade and return with individual feedback. We also offered resume critiques and practiced whiteboard problem solving to help students prepare for technical interviews.Additionally, I gave lectures on: - Agile fundamentals - Git - Homework walkthroughs, - Tracking the binding of the keyword 'this' in Javascript.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Promoted to Development Team Lead in March 2016, which included expanded responsibility:- Led engineering team, including team operations such as agile activities (planning, standup, demo, retrospective)- Prioritized feature work with the product owners and sales teams to scope out sprints, and ensure we were always in sync with the most important work items for the week.- Interfaced with clients to ensure their continued success with our products- Participated in security audits and worked with product owners to prioritize security fixes as issues were identified.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Technologies: Angular, Django, D3.js, Jasmine, Karma, Javascript, Node, Python, TravisCI, Heroku- Developed and implemented strategies for Unit, Integration, Performance, Load, Cross-Browser and Continuous Integration testing of the Syndio platform (both backend and frontend)- Fostered a culture of quality and testing among development team members: code coverage rose from 0% to 80% within 3 months, and hotfix releases to production dropped to once a quarter. - Identified and implemented performance optimizations around gzipping both static assets and JSON objects being shipped from the Syndio APIs / CDNs. This reduced data sent to end users by 60-75% and improved page load time by up to 3 seconds- Implemented git-flow branching model for configuration management. The system made it clear which branches of the repository were considered production ready and facilitated the release of new versions to production- Designed release procedures and managed releases to production by working with product owner to define release scope, create release branches for final QA of release candidates in staging environments, and make the final push to production when candidates passed QA

Chicago, Us

During my time at GE Healthcare I:- Worked on cross functional Engineering teams as a Design Controls Subject Matter Expert, to ensure Compliance with GE Healthcare Surgery QMS and external regulatory requirements during design changes.- Represented the "Quality" functional area on the Design Change Board. Also represented Quality during daily stand up meetings with the Software Engineering team.- Cross trained as a Process Quality Engineer: learned to process Non-Conformances (NC) on the factory floor, evaluate them for risk, and come to root cause for the Symptom/Problem/Cause of the NC. -Aided in the completion of CAPA tasks related to computer system validation (CSV) of GxP relevant spreadsheets & logs. Generated user requirements, assessed the Business risk and Product Quality risk of those requirements, and wrote test scripts that applied appropriate testing rigor (challenge testing) for the risk level associated with each requirement.- Supported internal and 3rd party audits (ISO13485 through GMED notified body) by assuming leadership roles in both audit back room and front room. - Delivered Non-Conformance (NC) awareness tool (HTA app for Windows 7) that provided visibility for management into the timeliness of NC processing on the factory floor.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Spent a summer working with GE Aviation's Engineering Tools Center of Excellence, where I developed a proof of concept for a new engineering tools portal. I worked with IT Program Managers and a cross functional engineering team to help define user requirements for the portal, and examined both "company internal" and "third party external" tools that could fulfill those requirements. I provided a gap analysis of all internal/external tools against those requirements to management at the end of the summer, so they could make a decision on which solution to implement after my internship ended.I delivered a Windows 7 desktop widget as proof of concept for the portal at the end of the summer.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Analytics