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Chicago, Il, Us

Here I'm contributing to the integration of The Wellness Network's product portfolio and tech stack with those of WebMD. Most notably, I've led the technical implementation of WebMD TV, a re-branding and enhancement of TWN's television products, contributing overall architectural and team leadership as well as a large amount of development work, on both back-end tooling and the on-screen viewing experience.

Here I've contributed scrum-mastering, coaching, and occasional architectural and troubleshooting help. Our team develops content-management tools and public-facing web experiences for the School of Medicine and its clinical practice, Yale Medicine.

TWN develops and distributes award-winning content that helps educate and engage patients. I led a major effort to modernize their disparate technology stacks, better automate their content-delivery operations, and exploit cloud-based services for content-preparation, CI/CD, and hosting. This work culminated in the acquisition of TWN by Internet Brands, the parent company of WebMD.

Bundoo offers web- and email-based education and other resources for parents. Now part of The Wellness Network, we are working to broaden the range of content we offer and our capabilities for serving employer- and insurer-based populations.

Greater New York City Area

Here I've done a number of development projects for bundoo.com, a heavily customized Wordpress site, including a deep integration with DFP for display ads, an integration with WhatCounts to support new email-newsletter products, and a substantial front-end redesign to achieve better responsiveness.I've also developed a complete set of provisioning scripts and an orchestration approach for the bundoo.com infrastructure, which is hosted on AWS and managed by Scalr.Finally, for a major healthcare client, I've worked on: • Assessment of cloud-based learning-management solutions, and ultimately the selection and integration of Instructure Bridge, to deliver an e-learning program to 4,000 employees.• Assessment of social media management tools, and design and prototyping of an analytics strategy spanning web, owned-social, and social listening platforms.• Design and prototyping around continuous integration for .NET and Node.js apps on Microsoft Azure.* Scrum-mastering, Agile coaching, bug fixing, and architectural consulting for a new website based on .NET, React, and SDL Web 8. The team is distributed across 4 locations in the US and Europe.

Greater New York City Area

I advised three different startups on product strategy, user-experience design, and server- and client-side architecture. For one of them, I also did work in Node.js and MongoDB to enable user-facing features, as well as business-facing analytics using D3.

Greater New York City Area

BBC Worldwide was developing a variety of direct-to-consumer digital video experiences, for both browsers and native devices. I wrote a requirements document for this effort, conducted an extensive series of interviews with vendors to assess their capabilities, and advised generally on architecture.

New York, New York, United States

In this role, I led the team of software developers that create and support all of Viacom's websites, games, and apps, across all of its brands – MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and many others.Our biggest priorities at this time were the consolidation and modernization of our content management systems, improved support for connected devices, via both native apps and responsive web design, and improved integration with the broadcast video supply chain. Throughout, we continued to enable our audiences to engage digitally with a steady stream of TV premieres, tentpole events, and sponsor campaigns.Our team consisted of 220 developers and test engineers, based in New York, Chennai, and Minsk.

New York, New York, United States

Earlier at Viacom, I worked in and led various parts of their digital software-development team, sometimes focused on individual properties such as nick.com and mtv.com, and sometimes on shared-platform projects. Some highlights:- Managed Viacom’s first integrations with Akamai, and devised a way to use ESI to achieve good caching efficiency even in contexts where some content is personalized.- Led the implementation of a major deal with Virgin Mobile, in which MTV-branded WAP, SMS, and ringtone content was offered exclusively to their subscribers.- Implemented an artist-based subscription platform for MTV and VH1, allowing users to receive email and SMS alerts when new content about their favorite artists was published.- Helped add movie data from AMG (now Rovi), and showtimes/ticketing data from MovieTickets.com, to mtv.com and vh1.com. Implemented geo-based search capability for showtimes.- Implemented an algorithm for picking the best thumbnail image (for a video, article, artist, etc.) from a list of candidates.- Led the build of an all-Flash, video-centric version of mtv.com. The site wasn’t successful, but I learned a lot from the experience.- Did extensive front-end and back-end work to optimize the presentation of video playlists and photo flip-books on mtv.com, vh1.com, and cmt.com.- Led web development for many special events, including the VMAs and other award shows, the Hope for Haiti Now special following the 2010 earthquake, and the 2009 blackout on Time Warner Cable.

During this period I did contract software development for a number of firms, both established and startup, the most memorable of which was UrbanFetch in NYC, where I wrote key components of their payment processing and order fulfillment pipeline in Visual Basic.I also prototyped an application for capturing and analyzing business strategy, in Visual C++.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Trout was a commodity futures trader that started out in Chicago but moved offshore to Bermuda and Toronto. I was a research analyst there, responsible not only for analyzing historical datasets and developing new (primarily technical) trading strategies, but also writing all the code (in C++ and S) to backtest and implement them in production. I was modestly successful at the research part of that job — which today would be called data science — but I always preferred the coding part.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Batterymarch was an equity investment fund manager. There I led a small team developing a suite of portfolio-management applications for X11 on Unix workstations, written in Objective-C — pre-Apple, pre-NeXT.

Mclean, Virginia, United States

My work at this defense contractor was in Pascal and C, for an intelligence client and for NASA. The NASA app was written in C for MS Windows 1.0!

Economics

This was the first year of their Ph.D. program. I took a software job the following summer, and decided I didn't want to go back.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science, Gpa 4.0

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics, Gpa 4.0

Double major with English.