Brian Morgan Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Wayfair is best known as one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. What most people don't realize is that Wayfair has also internally built out the supply chain to support the multi-billion dollar company.At Wayfair, I run multiple teams that support the CastleGate program through our International Supply Chain offerings and Self-Service Supplier portal. My teams leverage Python and React to create decoupled applications that allow suppliers to be successful in the CastleGate program. For us, suppliers are part of our family. We work tirelessly to make sure they can source products for the lowest overall cost, allowing Wayfair to offer the best prices in the home category.If you are interested in building the platform that keeps Wayfair running, check out the roles I am hiring for.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Catalant provides global enterprises with software solutions to access business expertise on demand. The company's innovative human capital solution matches top business expertise with enterprises to address needs efficiently and in real-time. Catalant has built a global network of more than 27,000 boutique firms, custom teams and independent experts, as well as best-in-class software tools for engaging and managing this market. Based in Boston, Catalant serves hundreds of enterprise clients.

Denver, Co, Us

ShredBetter is a marketplace to connect ski/snowboard instructors directly with clients seeking instruction.TechnologyNode.js, MongoDB, Javascript, CSS (LESS CSS), Nunjucks, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, NginxSide project acquired by Snowvation in April 2016!

Chicago, Il, Us

OpenMile.com acquired by Echo Global Logistics March 2013.Responsible for defining and driving implementation of next generation platform across the enterprise. Managed teams in both Chicago and Boston.Accomplishments - Designed and led the implementation of a distributed architecture. - Gained acceptance and resource approval for an enterprise-wide initiative to clean up a system riddled with technical debt. - Led a growing team of Architects, Managers and Engineers. - Led vendor selection/negotiation for third-party technologies.

Open Mile is a virtual transportation broker.Founding member responsible for the full technology stack, as well as leading the engineering organization through MVP, maintenance, and further feature releases. Individual contributor on core features.Accomplishments - Selected/Managed the entire technology stack for both desktop and mobile applications. - Built Open Mile iPhone Application. - Built Spatial Index Matching Engine. - Built in house collaboration tool to manage incoming paperwork, as well as task management. - Built browser plugins to improve efficiency of our in house operations team.TechnologyPython, MySQL, Javascript, CSS (LESS CSS), Jinja2, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Nginx, Pylons, SQLAlchemy, Objective C

Built an Online Reading Assessment Application based on the work of Dr Gloria Waters. Accomplishments - Managed the requirement/design process from start to finish. - Built both administrative and testing framework.TechnologyPython, MySQL, Javascript, CSS (LESS CSS), Jinja2, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Nginx, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy, HTML5, Bootstrap

New York, Ny, Us

Going.com acquired by AOL June 2009.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Led Engineering and QA through multiple release cycles, while still being an individual contributor. Implemented and managed multiple revenue based features, including ticketing and local ad sales.Accomplishments - Managed 5-man engineering/QA team. - Built self-service ticketing platform to serve general admission events ($500k in NYE sales 2 months after release with no issues) - Built self-service local ad platform, including JavaScript front-end and backend inventory management and pricing. - Led advanced caching architectural changes, leveraging memcache, smarty, and custom written DB layers. - Built Going.com iPhone ApplicationTechnologyPHP, MySQL, Javascript, CSS, Smarty, Objective C

First hire brought on to drive the development of a new social networking site based around getting people to interact offline through local events. Responsibilities included day-to-day management of a team of engineers, as well as being an individual contributor and innovator. The application was a PHP web application using the PHPTAL templating engine on the front-end and a MySQL database on the back end.Accomplishments - Effectively managed resources to produce a high quality, on time product. - Leveraged advanced JavaScript and AJAX to produce a technology leading Web 2.0 user experience. - Led technology research to effect change on the development platform and implementation. - Solely implemented photo tagging and custom auto-completers using JavaScript and AJAX.TechnologyPHP, MySQL, Javascript, CSS, Smarty

Needham, Ma, Us

Initial member of the Development Team responsible for the design and implementation of the Web Based Content Valuation Application. Drove UI prototyping and implementation from high-level product management specification. Leveraged Web 2.0 technologies to make a more interactive user experience.Accomplishments - Solely implemented a web-based application using jsp technologies, struts and tiles, in a JBoss Application Environment. - Implemented business flow and logic in JBoss JBPM workflow engine. - Built integration with financial system (Microsoft Small Business Financials) to allow finance to manage services sold. - Implemented prototype of new Data Extraction Engine, reducing effort and cost involved in scraping data from websites.TechnologyJAVA, JSP, Struts, Tiles, JBPM, MySQL, Javascript, CSS

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Drove product specification from an end-user perspective based on deployment best practices. Key liaison between the professional services and the engineering teams. Supported the sales team through the building of demos and POCs in key and/or technically complex business deals. Attended sales calls, serving as the technical interface with both existing and potential customers. Spearheaded advanced development projects including application prototyping to improve product usability based on observed weaknesses.Accomplishments - Added AJAX technology to standard search result pages, which improved the UI functionality, as well as usability. - Solely implemented a Java/JSP Layout Engine, which included a GUI tool to configure how results were presented to the user. - Implemented a Python markup on top of ZSI (http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net), allowing for the creation of web services and data persistence. This infrastructure also included automatic WSDL, documentation, and C# web service stub generation (Classes/Services). - Led technology investigation for new management tool that resulted in the selection of C# no-touch-deployment built on top of the above Python web services to provide configuration data.Implemented prototype of new Layout Engine, reducing the cost of configuring the output and behavior of the iPhrase Engine. Incorporated extensible design that allowed for UI controls to be implemented in any web service compliant language. - Implemented general XML driven C# wizard. - Built integrations with third party technologies including content management systems and databases.TechnologyPython, JAVA, JSP, Javascript, CSS, C#

Meng, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Engineering