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Denver, Co, Us

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

MedGeo's goal from the beginning was to disrupt the medical professional's traditional job board experience. The software system that sits below all our product and service offerings is a map-based, customizable web application that shows all potential places a physician could work, including those with actual job openings.Technology: AWS, MapBox, PostgreSQL, Sequelize, Express.js, Node.js, React, Next.js, Chakra UI, AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate serverless compute engines.• Established business objectives and products with other co-founders, then developed and implemented the technical strategy necessary to deliver both. • Partnered with product management to prioritize and specify product functionality, and established a two-week release cadence. Working software was delivered to the sales team within 6 months.• Assembled a contractor-based, worldwide team of technical experts to help build the initial application, then scaled back to a smaller team of employees once main product functionality was released.• Collaborated on the architecture and design of MedGeo’s SaaS platform which uses MapBox map technology and react front end libraries to consume modular node.js micro services.• Implemented CI/CD pipelines, enabling the development team to deploy to any environment within minutes.• Co-designed MedGeo’s AWS environments using AWS’ Well Architected Framework—with scalability, cost, and security being the main objectives.• Initiated Security, Compliance, and Governance best practices—including secure coding practices, data encryption, and compliance with data protection regulations; business continuity and disaster recovery plans to ensure RTO and RPO’s of 24 hours or less; data privacy practices based on GDPR requirements; and data incidence response planning in case of a data breach. • Routinely communicate technology strategy, progress, and metrics to partners, investors, and stakeholders.

New York City, Ny, Us

Business: Secondary and Higher Education online courseware and content | Scope: Responsible for quality engineering practices for nine (9) software development teams, engineering leadership for one development team | Reports: 10 developers, automated/manual testers | Technology: Java, JavaScript, Selenium, Cucumber, Cypress.IO, Locust.IO, Jira, GitHub• Developed and implemented comprehensive QA strategies, processes, and metrics.• Collaborated with product management, software engineering, and operations teams to ensure alignment on quality objectives and deliverables.• Established and maintained test environments, ensuring they accurately replicated production.• Led the selection of QE toolsets, including test case management, automation frameworks, and reporting dashboards.• Re-initiated QE's culture and cross-team sharing of disciplines, knowledge, and solutions.• Managed a small development team in charge of all external Learning Management System (LMS) integrations.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Business: Career Solutions / Job Board for Healthcare Professionals | Scope: Responsible for all technical operations including software development | Budget: $2.2M | Reports: 20 developers, automated/manual testers, data analysts, designers | Technology: C#, MVC, REST, Java, AngularJS, Cold Fusion, PHP, MySQL, SQL Server, Tableau, Bloomreach CMS, AWS, Jenkins, Jira, GitHub• Health eCareers was acquired by Everyday Health Professional in December 2017. • Involved in entire sale process from DHI Group including management presentations and roadshows, due-diligence preparation and presentations, negotiation of Transition Services Agreements, and the actual separation of systems and services from the seller. • Post-sale, co-led migration of Health eCareers web applications to AWS and integration with new enterprise email/marketing and accounting/financial platforms. Completed all AWS migration work ahead of schedule, within three months.• Led a GDPR compliance project to enable Health eCareers to operate worldwide. • Established continuous integration and deployment practices, mostly focusing on automated testing and builds. Release durations decreased from nearly two hours to less than 15 minutes.• Revamped the job seeker user experience based on input from usability testing and captured online sessions, resulting in nearly 40% more end user conversions (job applies).• Justified and successfully finished projects focused on modernizing and simplifying an aged platform and codebase—including consolidating architectures, eliminating obsolete frameworks and technologies, combining similar data stores, and creating APIs behind key public facing features. Severity 1 downtimes decreased by over 75% in the first year.• Formed a data analyst team to create or assist in building operational dashboards and KPI reporting for sales, marketing, partnerships, product, and technology.

London, Gb

Business: Higher Education online courseware and content | Scope: Responsible for Learning Platform development for Pearson’s Higher Education division | Budget: $18M | Reports: 125 engineers / 24 teams (US, Sri Lanka) | Technology: SaaS, REST API’s, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, AWS, Jira, GitHub• Increased Pearson’s Higher Education online global reach by directing the design and implementation of a totally services-driven, reusable, cloud-based (AWS) Learning Platform.• Freed up 35% of the overall Product Development budget for new products by transitioning two sustaining product lines (50 subsystems, 2.5 million LOC) to offshore teams in Sri Lanka. • Strengthened offshore development capacity by working with Sri Lankan management to clearly define goals, best practices, organizational strategies, and then assisting with leadership candidate interviews.• Saved over $450,000 in annual developer and server license costs by successfully migrating development teams from Microsoft to open-source, Java-based technologies.• Decreased average release cycle time from 4 weeks to 2 days by introducing continuous delivery processes and driving investment in build, testing, and deployment automation.• Drove efforts to reduce customer impact minutes by 46% by introducing comprehensive instrumentation and monitoring that targeted reducing the mean time to diagnose (MTTD) customer-facing issues. • Ensured smooth operations of all systems (nearly 10 billion transactions/day) by working with cross department leadership to define and introduce DevOps practices around instrumentation, deploys and product monitoring.• Led the technical due diligence of Pearson’s acquisition of an Australian content management company and subsequently led their integration into Pearson operations and systems.

London, Gb

eCollege was acquired by Pearson Plc in May 2007.Business: Online, distance education courseware | Scope: Responsible for software development of four product lines | Budget: $18M | Reports: 125 engineers / 24 teams (US, Sri Lanka, Australia) | Technology: SaaS, REST API’s, C#, ASP.NET, Microsoft Classic ASP, SQL Server

London, Gb

Business: Online, distance education courseware | Scope: Responsible for Learning Management System (LMS) development with global team | Budget: $8M | Reports: 35 engineers / 7 teams (US, Sri Lanka) | Technology: SaaS, MVC, C#, ASP.NET, Microsoft Classic ASP, SQL Server

London, Gb

Scope: New development and support of eCollege’s online classroom SaaS educational platform | Reports: 21 engineers / 3 teams | Technology: Microsoft