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Engineering manager (SDM) in the Amazon Ads organization, leading NYC- and Toronto-based engineering teams in the Advertiser Experience (AX) org. My teams own and operate campaign creation and management applications, collaborating with Amazon Ads teams to deliver new controls that meet Advertiser demand to grow their business via Amazon's Sponsored Ads product offering. These low-latency, highly-available applications serve 500k+ daily page visits across 80k+ unique daily Advertisers, integrate with 200+ API endpoint integrations, and funnel into the demand side of a $40B+ annual revenue business. We have partnered on successful yearly delivery of 3+ S-TEAM goals, 10+ SVP goals, 15+ VP goals, and loads more team goals.

Founding Technical Program Manager (TPM) for the Campaign Builder team in the Amazon Ads organization. Responsible for delivering cross-functional features in the self-service Sponsored Advertising products to improve campaign effectiveness. Worked closely with engineering, product management, UX design, and stakeholders to define roadmaps and milestones, assess requirements, review technical designs, negotiate priorities, manage resource contention, manage risks and dependencies, define test and launch strategies, and facilitate go-to-market (GTM) plans. Implemented working models to optimize for a high pace of delivery while maintaining a high operational excellence (OE) bar. Actively participated in hiring and mentoring across multiple roles.

Managed a team of ten software engineers and creative technologists, building immersive, high-touch experiences for corporate and civic clients. The team's engineering capabilities leveraged tech and design innovation for immersive, interactive hybrid physical/digital experiences in physical spaces. Stakeholders included client leads, cross-functional managers, product owners, client strategists, and senior leadership.Led hiring strategies to ensure broad technical competency across the org. Managed engineering team utilization, worked with senior leadership and product development managers to set goals, guided technology priority setting, and steered team and stakeholder alignment. Reviewed and advised on business opportunities, and represented the engineering team throughout the sales and delivery process.Played an agile coach role as well. Led agile principles workshops, tuned the team's software development lifecycle (SDLC) mechanisms, and encouraged continuous improvement via fast feedback loops of delivery, inspection, and adaptation. Led an agile community of practice. Coordinated quarterly all-company Product & Engineering Showcase events.

Software engineering on project and product teams.Responsibilities:• Design, build, and maintain applications and tooling for projects and products, ranging from proofs of concept to enterprise deployments• Participate in small, cross-functional teams representing software engineering, design, operations, networking, and product• Apply pragmatic approaches to iteration, testing, integration, automation, and documentationUse heavily:• Agile approaches to software development• Agile Frameworks, such as Scrum, XP, and Kanban• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery• PHP• Yii Framework• MySQL• git, with a strong preference for the github-flow branching strategy Moderate contribution:• node.js, socket.io, Express, and mocha• Javascript• Python/Django• Postgres• Ansible• AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, SNS, Lambda, Cloudformation, and a bit more Just enough experience to do some damage:• Java/Spring & JUnit• Google Cloud Platform• RFID• Network engineering concepts, including CIDR, NAT, bind, and public/private routing

Built web sites and web services for financial and media sectors.Responsibilities• Strategy, needs gathering, time estimation• Data modeling and user interaction design• Programming, debugging, and testing (PHP, JS, .Net)• Deployment and maintenance• Management of project timelines, code repositories, and client support

Feature engineering for CAD/CAM/PLM desktop software.Responsibilities• Programmed in C on Sun Solaris• Converted sections of twenty-year old code base into an object-oriented approach• Implemented new functionality associated with model representation, selection, retrieval, andstorage• Enhanced two-dimensional dimensioning and detailing methodologies.• Identified and fixed existing in-house and customer bugs• Coordinated work with international development teams• Assisted QA team with code testing, including periodic assessment via regression and unittesting suites

Aligned and constructed precision laser beam delivery systems in a class-100 cleanroom environment, for use in semiconductor photolithography. Engaged in troubleshooting of alignment and construction processes. Developed and instituted process improvements. Organized and maintained documentation. Performed on-site installation and customer field support. Fabricated and implemented prototypes of next-generation systems. Inspected, tested, and analyzed optical components and systems using interferometric methods.

Performed and analyzed stress measurements on glass samples using a polariscope/polarimeter. Worked with senior scientists to analyze data and interpret measurements. Worked in close contact with manufacturing plants to recommend process improvements for minimizing breakage and loss. Documented and submitted work to supervisory committee.