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Hot Springs, Sd, Us

My wife and I used the time after being laid off to acquire some hospitality real estate and get them running; namely Highland Meadows Resort and The FlatIron in Hot Springs, South Dakota.

Denver, Co, Us

• Responsible for the CRM (Salesforce and custom) and various internal tooling projects.• Projects accounted for 10s of millions in revenue and efficiencies per year.• Led 4-6 teams (25-30 people) across a wide array of projects and technologies.• Transitioned a previously frustrated and disillusioned group into the most consistently satisfied, connected, and aligned group in engineering.• Teams became some of the most autonomous, empowered, and self-reliant teams in the org.• Collaborated with product peers to facilitate architectural sessions, team syncs, product demos, and social events.• Advocated a pragmatic agile mindset within my own group, amongst peer leaders, and within the Product org.• Created an “Impact Group” framework in my group to enable them to solve their hardest, most frustrating problems.• Constantly worked with the team to drive home the idea of engineering excellence and accountability.

Brooklyn, New York, Us

• Managed the engineering team for the core product.• Held engineering syncs, product demos, and feature kickoffs for the entire engineering department.• Supported and advocated the Shape Up (Agile) development process.• Ensured properly defined work was queued up and helped reduce and clarify the work with the team.• Managed backlog of other critical work (bugs, refactors, minor feature refinements).• Responsible for team effectiveness, focus, and progress.• Improved methods around hiring, onboarding/offboarding for engineering.• Engaged in architectural oversight and product refinement.

Covina, California, Us

• Managed a team of 15 software engineers across 8 products.• Implemented and advocated Agile processes and testing discipline.• Responsible for driving engineering performance, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing solutions.• Drove processes and implementation of company quarterly surveys and first annual performance reviews.• Responsible for all hiring and onboarding for Engineering.• Guided architectural and tech leadership conversations.

Boulder, Co, Us

• Member of committee focused on developing better company-wide culture and employee engagement.• Focused on creating a productive and healthy engineering culture.• Managed team expectations and effectiveness.• Coached individuals through areas of personal and professional growth.• Led projects to delivery.• Led process to develop API standards.• Highly focused on scalability.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Managed Web, Mobile and QA teams.• Encouraged Agile practices and development culture amongst the team and company as a whole.• Represented the engineering needs of the product.• Coordinated with Product/Project Managers and other internal/external stakeholders.• Led development processes according to company expectations and needs of the team.• Provided opportunities for team growth and learning.• Ensured team's on-call schedule and resource availability.• Senior contributor to Angular/Rails web platforms.

• Developed public facing Learning Management System prototype.• Involved in determining development standards and practices.

• Developed and maintained a distributed, Ruby on Rails/PostgreSQL, white-label, e-commerce “cashback” and rewards platform. System utilizes Redis for caching and Resque job queuing. Application is equally split between UI/Portal functionality and heavy backend processing/API usage.• Facilitated major platform software upgrade.• Spearheaded specifications and architecture decisions.• Facilitated Scrum meetings, project management.• Responsible for vendor relations, technical client discussions, and documentation.

• Maintained and created new features for a new product offering for print and digital publication management.• Prototyped cross-platform mobile tablet publication display using JQTouch.

• Developed web-based (SaaS), city-integrated, business licensing platform, business directory, and community hub.• Organized and evangelized remote team using Agile methodologies and tools in a start-up environment.• Organized standards for documentation, development process, communication, and client integration.• Gave regular product demonstrations and presentations to investors and municipal leaders.• Encouraged education and taught sessions to the technical team to improve competency and productivity.• Architected and deployed enterprise-level systems on a Ruby on Rails platform (w/ MySQL).• Worked with vendors and other providers to achieve maximum leveraging of company resources.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

• Organized click fraud protection plan and vendor pilot to protect client advertising traffic.• Developed critical client management and reporting portal (PHP, AJAX, Oracle) and system-wide debugging tools.

Handled client relationships, client conflict and project management.

• Led team through major release and seamless integration of key profitable product.• Sole developer and architect of click fraud protection system used by Microsoft, CNET and Yahoo!• Instrumental in applying SDLC, project management processes and tools.

• Brought development and other IT facets in-house (IT previously outsourced).• Organized technology affairs, budget and planning.• Successful implementation of documentation, project management and quality assurance processes.• Established security policy and tracking of information assets.• Seamless orchestration and transition of all IT assets from one location to another.• Established proactive activities to keep documentation, security and technology current.

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• Developed various interactive JavaScript/AJAX search interfaces utilizing PHP and SOAP on the backend.• Developed administrative backend using heavy JavaScript to manage networked cluster and stats.

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

• Developed loan fulfillment CRM application in PHP, Flash/Actionscript technologies, SOAP and DB2.• Successful management of client expectations, business requirements and project management.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

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Bloomington, Mn, Us