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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

- Managed the software development of datalynq.com, ensuring successful implementation of new features and improvements.- Worked with cross-functional teams to define OKRs and cascaded them down through the organization to individual teams and employees.- Extensive experience in interviewing and hiring software engineers, product managers, and designers for innovative and successful teams.

Austin, Tx, Us

- Led the software development and enterprise integration of Bill of Materials (BOM Tool) and Procurement tooling.- Created and implemented an Enterprise RFQ (Request for Quote) tool that streamlined the process of requesting and evaluating quotes from suppliers.- Created and implemented an automation tool that seamlessly integrated the company's ERP system with multiple web systems.

Established a software development agency specializing in web engineering, product consulting, automation, and enterprise platform integration.ProjectsAmazon Marketplace Web Services (MWS) Management System- Developed a REST API, a data feed builder application responsible for automation oforders, returns, shipments, inventory, catalog and content management for a high volumeAmazon seller (10 Million SKUs).- ETL process for data warehousing and feed processing.- Admin application that include product curation tools, queue management, errorresolution, and a dashboard showing key performance indicators in real time.Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment Pipeline- Jenkins, GIT, BASH, Symfony Console and Deployer.- AWS Secrets Manager for secrets.- Docker, docker-compose for containerization (development, testing stages).- Symfony Console and AWS SDK for publishing web assets to S3.- Slack interactive release messages (release triggers) and notification system.

Founding engineer and employee #1 for the personal assistant startup Mave- Primary responsibility of providing technology leadership and direction. - Interviewed and hired the engineering team.- Lead all team activities and planning, provided technical vision, and executed on the product strategy. - Built and released the customer facing MVP in under 6 weeks.- Led the development process for the marketing site, client facing web application, mobile application and all related web services.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Responsible for providing technical leadership, mentorship and direction for the nordstromrack.com and hautelook.com frontend web teams, the rapid development team and platform team (infrastructure).Responsibilities: • Provided direct career and technical mentorship for 3 teams (12 people). • Managed with a focus on empowering self-organizing teams. • Worked closely with product to help ensure execution and coordination across teams. • Scrum master duties including running planning, stand-ups, retrospectives and post-mortems. • Interviewing/hiring of frontend/backend engineers, devops engineers and product managers. Team Accomplishments: • Introduced a Node.js stack for the front-end teams. • Introduced an auto-scaling AWS pipeline that included tooling, monitoring, alerting, logging and affordances for continuous delivery. • Shipped a new Hautelook and Nordstromrack.com product page, checkout system, catalog and store locator page that led to a double digit increase in order conversion. • Developed a digital asset manager in Node.js. • Optimizely integration and A/B testing pipeline. • IBM Coremetrics integration. • Google Analytics enhanced e-commerce integration.In addition to management responsibilities, at certain times and to varying degrees, I've contributed to our teams success in the following ways: • Strategy development • Architecture discussion • Software engineering • Product collaboration • Cultural improvements • Development process implementation (Scaled Agile Framework) • Quality assurance process development • Project management • Hiring process consultation

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Developed a REST API responsible for product availability and order processing.• Designed and developed a Media Management System for Nordstromrack.com.• Developed Nordstromrack.com Merchandise Pages.• Built an application responsible for batch importing/editing of products into the e-commerce database.• Developed a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet import library.• Built a typeahead suggestion API that integrated with Twitter bootstrap (including CORS support).• Open source contributions to various projects.• Conducted planning sessions, code reviews and pair programming sessions with other engineers.

Carson, California, Us

• Oversaw MIS, IT and Internet Marketing groups.• Built a mobile application to scale warehouse operations.• Led a team in overhauling the company's network infrastructure.• Wrote and implemented an e-mail marketing strategy that included technical requirements, implementation details, process protocol, design guidelines and content strategy. • Wrote various company policies related to password/data security and internal/external communication guidelines. • Migrated company to a third party hosted email exchange solution.

Carson, California, Us

• Oversaw a small team that was responsible for all company web systems.• Built a REST API allowing customers to automate ordering, tracking and product management. • Built a web administration application that included management tools for orders, customers, products, quotes, categories and reporting.• Implemented a product data quality control process.• Selected to lead business development committee that comprised of the companies top managers and thought leaders.• Developed a cost optimization strategy that lowered hosting costs by more than 50%. • Worked with a small team to create a new product category structure.• Adopted scrum and other various agile methodologies into team workflow.

Carson, California, Us

• From conception to implementation, single-handedly built a B2B Drop Shipping website. Features include a shopping cart, product catalog, RMA system and a downloadable product feed.• Integrated third party shipping solutions from FedEx, UPS, USPS and Newgistics (Both web services and internal software).• Built a search engine server using a combination of MySQL, XML and Sphinx.• Wrote and implemented a product photo generation process that automated image optimization, deployment and versioning. • Implemented version control(SVN), issue tracking application and a project management tool into the team workflow.• Implemented a content delivery network using Amazon Web Services.

Carson, California, Us

• Redesigned the static pages of the company website.• Created two e-commerce websites.• Designed/developed/managed the company intranet.• Designed all of the e-mail templates for the marketing department.• Designed the company brand that included a new logo, letterhead, online advertising graphics, vehicle graphics, tradeshow banners and a branding style guide.

• Implemented over 40 web development projects, focused primarily within the music industry.• Managed client relationships, project schedules and budgets.• Wrote proposals, project scope specifications and maintenance documents.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Computer And Information Sciences, General

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Computer Science