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Penngrove, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Oversaw the technology strategy behind the foundation of Gap’s e-commerce stack. Ownership of multiple teams, roadmaps and programs primarily focused on Platform Infrastructure, SEO and Site Speed. Worked closely with Engineering and Technical Program partners to plan strategy, delivery, funding, capacity and ongoing team operation. Key partner in our journey to a Headless Commerce platform including UI Modularization and API Platform.- Overall scope included Site Speed, SEO, Design Systems, Content Management, DAM, Foundational Services and UI, Cloud Infra/CDN, CI/CD, Environments.- Led CI/CD migration to Canary Releases, leading to zero sev issues in FY22.- Championed SEO roadmap representing an improvement of up to 25% SEO traffic and $50M in incremental demand in FY23.- Leadership role in omni-channel CMS migration led to acceleration of delivery.- Leader and SME in Site Speed, driving a culture change toward user-centric approach and metrics utilizing Google Core Web Vitals connecting to core biz KPIs

San Francisco, California, Us

Managed critical elements of our e-commerce platform, both internal and external customer-facing. Starting with Product Listing Pages and moving into Platform, had additional ownership over SEO, Design System, CDN, routing, MFEs and CI/CD. Managed multiple roadmaps, built business cases, worked across multiple teams and stakeholders (business, Engineering, UX, TPM).- Used user/behavioral data from Adobe Analytics, New Relic, Fullstory & Medallia.- Site Speed work in FY21 led to $40M+ demand, improvement in funnel conversion.- Additional focus across the e-commerce org to ensure foundational and DevOps support led to reduction in sev issues in FY21.

San Francisco, California, Us

Technical leader for multiple dev teams for core brands including Old Navy and Athleta.- Managed multiple managers, senior managers and teams totalling 20 developers.- Led content development strategy including responsive templates, introduction of automated linting, QA and visual QA using Jenkins, Selenium and Applitools.- Leader in our journey from bespoke content development to templatization and our first Marketing UI product, an atomic system of configurable React components.- Technology - React, Node, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, JS/ES5/AJAX.

San Francisco, California, Us

Early roles at Gap, Inc. as a Tech Manager over multiple teams of front-end developers over four key Gap, Inc. brands: Athleta, Intermix, Gap & Banana Republic International (UK, EU, Japan).- Development focus was front-end marketing experiences, microsites and other customer-facing marketing content including localized international content- Managed development lifecycle across teams through our proprietary lightweight content management tools including concepting, solutions, dev, QA, launch and production support- Worked closely with Product Management and Engineering to enhance and optimize core customer-facing functional elements of Gap’s e-commerce platform- Leadership role for migration of sites and marketing experiences to responsive design- Worked with Digital Marketing partners to add new channels and marketing functionality including Gap’s initial launch of Display Media marketing- Had a leadership and mentor role within the broader marketing development team, leading numerous trainings on responsive design and many other topics- Earned numerous internal recognition awards including the prestigious Fisher Award for Innovation in 2011 for my work on our Display Media launch- Technologies - HTML5, CSS3, JS/ES5, Angular, React

San Francisco, California, Us

Early roles at Gap, Inc. as a Tech Manager over multiple teams of front-end developers over four key Gap, Inc. brands: Athleta, Intermix, Gap & Banana Republic International (UK, EU, Japan).- Development focus was front-end marketing experiences, microsites and other customer-facing marketing content including localized international content- Managed development lifecycle across teams through our proprietary lightweight content management tools including concepting, solutions, dev, QA, launch and production support- Worked closely with Product Management and Engineering to enhance and optimize core customer-facing functional elements of Gap’s e-commerce platform- Leadership role for migration of sites and marketing experiences to responsive design- Worked with Digital Marketing partners to add new channels and marketing functionality including Gap’s initial launch of Display Media marketing- Had a leadership and mentor role within the broader marketing development team, leading numerous trainings on responsive design and many other topics- Earned numerous internal recognition awards including the prestigious Fisher Award for Innovation in 2011 for my work on our Display Media launch- Technologies - HTML5, CSS3, JS/AJAX

San Francisco, California, Us

First role at Gap, Inc. as lead web content developer for Gap’s former brand, Piperlime.- Technical manager over team of 3 developers- Lead development of new marketing experiences for Piperlime e-commerce site- Coordinated closely with marketing, design and production functions to plan and execute new experiences- Deeply involved with product teams on global site layout and function improvements- Technology - XHTML, CSS, JS, Prototype/Scriptaculous, PHP

San Francisco, California, Us

Front-end Tech Lead managing a team of Developers and QA Engineers for an entertainment and sports e-commerce company. Built new storefronts, enhanced and maintained existing storefronts along with working on the internal platform and backroom capabilities.- Dozens of clients in the entertainment and sports industry including NBC, Fox, Discovery Channel, UFC and the Boston Celtics.- E-commerce site builds from scratch based on PHP templates, apply client brand styling and expression based on Photoshop layouts- Managed development lifecycle including template development, QA best practices, client testing/feedback- Secondary role improving and maintaining backroom platform functionality including content management and reporting capabilities- Technologies - XHTML, CSS, Javscript/AJAX, PHP and MySQL

San Francisco, California, Us

Front-end UI developer of storefronts for an entertainment and sports e-commerce company. Built new storefronts, enhanced and maintained existing storefronts as well as proprietary shoppable video technology along with working on the internal backroom platform.- Dozens of clients in the entertainment and sports industry including NBC, Fox, Discovery Channel, UFC and the Boston Celtics.- E-commerce site builds from scratch based on PHP templates, apply client brand styling and expression based on Photoshop layouts- Additional development work on their proprietary shoppable video technology “SeenON” (flash-based)Secondary role improving and maintaining backroom platform functionality including content management and reporting capabilities- Technologies - XHTML, CSS, Javscript/AJAX, Flash/ActionScript, PHP and MySQL

In my entry developer position, I maintained and enhanced two proprietary web-based platforms for a hospitality project management company - an internal project management platform and a customer-facing e-commerce platform selling furniture and housewares.- Project management platform was used to manage aspects of new build or refurbishment hotel construction projects including materials/sourcing, logistics/tracking, workflow and P&L/reporting.- Ecommerce platform powered several retail sites selling furniture and housewares from the hotel industry- Primary role as an application developer (back-end, back room features)- Secondary role as a front-end UI developer for the e-commerce platform- Technologies - ColdFusion, Microsoft SQL Server, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Certification, Product Management

Ba, Computer Science