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New York, Ny, Us

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

* Increased maximum upload file size 10x by resolving hard limits in Node.js, allowing onboarding of larger enterprises.* Saved developers a half hour each day from scripting common daily tasks with their usage of EC2, docker and kubernetes, enabling faster code-test cycles.

Leading frontend, backend and devops for a new website dedicated to pet owners, featuring apartments, hotels and services.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

* Provide high availability messaging infrastructure, APIs, client and admin UIs, AMQ, Kafka, batch processing, MongoDB, and load balancers, hosted on bare metal and AWS* Coded fixes to long-running bugs using PHP and Java, developed new Jobs page with React and PHP* Lead team of 5, working closely with architect, VP of technology and head of deliverability* Prioritize reliability and performance work alongside stakeholder interests* Use Scrum principles to allow for the self-organizing team to serve our mission effectively* Manage risk and promote educational, high-quality, blameless post-mortems

New York , Ny , Us

* Performed Test-Driven Development in creating new backend functionality, via APIs, for healthcare chat application using NodeJS and the Hapi, Code and Lab framework.* Coached Development Team and Product Owner to follow Scrum guidelines, enabling predictable delivery of sprint goals.* Led teams of 2-4 engineers, building cohesion among members, estimating stories with “points poker” and ensuring adherence to evolving processes.* Created JSON-Schemas for each message type (text, buttons, input lists) to become ready for the publicAPI.* Developed user management system (users, roles, organizations, permissions) to enable a SaaS offering.* Architected and provided the capability of an organization to require users’ approval of certain documents before they could chat with agents of certain roles.* Used Microservices, including Backend-for-Frontend services, processing data via HTTP endpoints andevents and workers with RabbitMQ.* Prevailed over vague and sometimes incorrect requirements to build a doctor search that used cached data from a health insurance company.

New York, Ny, Us

Provide full-stack web development, architecture, technical advice, personnel management, releases, code reviews, agile project management, and new product development for content websites.Lead development for redesigns working alongside in-house designer. One redesign had Minimum Viable Product in three months with a team of three, the next in seven weeks with a team of three, which increased to seven developers after MVP launch. Use mobile-first mindset in specifying how mockups and annotations should be designed and written to be as clear as possible for quick development from offshore team throughout site builds. See http://www.visitcalifornia.com/now for latest work.Enhance developer experience with Content Management System platforms that core team provides, listening to developer wishes and prioritizing backlog.Run Drupal developer meetups where employees demonstrated recent accomplishments and I explained improvements to developer experience.Plan sprints with clarity on users’ desires and development team abilities, establishing capacity, estimating story points, and leading initial problem solving for issues for Health, Real Simple, Cooking Light, and MyRecipes.Perform migrations from Drupal to Wordpress using an AWS Lambda microservice to get the data from Drupal and post to the Wordpress API. Manage operations onshore and offshore team to develop and test code on Lambda and Wordpress. Report status daily to stakeholders.Became expert at LAMP stack, JavaScript, Email Markup, SCSS, Bootstrap, Drupal Module Development, Scrum FrameworkApril 2017-November 2018Developer Experience Champion and Senior Software Engineer, CMS Core TeamSeptember 2016-April 2017Co-Tech Lead, Lifestyle GroupOctober 2015-September 2016Tech Lead, HealthJune 2014-October 2015Tech Lead, All You

New York, Ny, Us

* Assist Professor Fran Gormley with classroom management, technology, and other details so that she and the students generally stay on top of things.* Edit the syllabus and coach students and their teams on their rebranding projects. * Handle esteemed guest speakers so that they have the best possible experience before and after their lectures.

New York, New York, Us

Architect and develop features for an advertising and marketing news website enabling the site to serve as a valuable product for millions of professionals.* Integrate Drupal website with 3rd Party email system, working with Product Manager to optimize user experience for readers, editors and Web Producer* Develop real-time TV-spot-viewing sites with responsive design with Drupal 7 and transition system to use Underscore.js and Backbone.js* Delegate tasks to outsourced team in Ukraine when appropriate after analyzing business requirements* Build article performance reporting system with MySQL and PHP5 using daily social media counts

Goshen, New York, Us

Grew a business that provides a fully cloud-based physician practice management solution using web development and marketing skills.* Developed a multi-site Drupal backend with the ability to have medical specialty sites pull content and graphics from the main site.* Analyzed user click path data and made recommendations for content strategy with system I developed on my own using PHP and Drupal. * Managed on-site SEO causing search engine rankings to increase from ~50 to ~5 for many pages.* Enabled right-click functionality cross-browser, versus having it only working in IE, using JQuery, in the web-based EMR (Electronic Medical Records) and Practice Management system.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Achieving marketing objectives through implementing new web features.* Built a Drupal site integrating outsourced graphic design for FamilyCord.com, enhancing online ordering system for Umbilical Cord Blood banking, mastering custom PHP modules and JQuery code. * Extracted and documented knowledge onto corporate wiki for easy access to server administration information, database access instructions, passwords, set up/build processes and other procedures.* Transitioned company from relying on contractors for its e-commerce system to self-sufficiency.* Created new versions of sites using C#.NET and Ektron, developed new applications on Facebook, and continually improved legacy code when appropriate.

Using Drupal as a backbone, I developed a new way to sublet apartments using video and social networking. Complex decision making happened and cutting edge scheduling principles were applied every day.

Architecting and developing server side software for various websites in an agency setting. * Built a Faculty Recruiting system for Wharton School of Business using ColdFusion and Aspects. * Maintained and added features to websites for California Cryobank, EBSCO, and Solano Library * Learned principles of Content Management Systems (CMS) for Ektron, Drupal, and Commonspot. * Analyzed stakeholders’ disparate requirements, pulling necessary information to create successful output in web projects.

Paramus, Nj, Us

* Built e-commerce applications using ColdFusion for a company that manages network of affiliates and provides leads to professional and technical educational institutions and training organizations. * Served as Team Lead for projects associated with VLMS clients, teaching new hires how the system works, assigning specific tasks designed to enhance systems knowledge, serving as mentor, and, ultimately, transforming trainees into self-sufficient and effective professionals. * Gathered requirements for varied projects and identified key programming issues for developers to efficiently complete efforts. * Excelled in technical and business analysis, communication, test planning, and troubleshooting. * Performed conversion to new, object-oriented system; continually improved the core of the system. * Regularly interacted with experienced and new developers, facilitating information exchanges, and enhancing ways to complete efforts more efficiently, creatively, and cost effectively.

* Founded, oversaw and built e-commerce applications for a company that delivers for multiple restaurants and provides online-ordering menus. * Used ColdFusion with a relational database to create a menu “engine” that can be used in any individual restaurant’s website as well as any demographic-specific restaurant directory. * Transformed entrepreneurial ideas into formal and, ultimately, profitable business model and efficient systems, procedures, and operations.

* Designed and implemented a helpdesk system for the company intranet using ASP and SQL Server. * Performed web updates and created a tool for listing MDS participation at trade shows.

New York, Ny, Us

Interned here during the summers of 2000 and 2001, right before college

Mba, Product Management

Bs, Computer Science

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