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Westwood, NJ, US

Vancouver, BC, CA

• Provide support and leadership of the Identity team within the Digital Engineering space, a dedicated organization of 50+ people ranging across both engineering, program management, project management and business.
• Directly managed a team of highly skilled Engineering and Program/Project Management leaders, each responsible for specific aspects of the Identity organization, its technical architecture, components, and experiences.
• Responsible for the strategic planning, technical definition, and tactical execution of the Guest Login and Profile experience, including integration with selected third-party SaaS providers into the lululemon Digital.
• Successfully led the delivery and launch of the lululemon Membership experience, a new loyalty program which provides lululemon's guests with rewarding, high-value services while at the same time encouraging our guests.
• Oversaw dependency management and risk mitigation with other lululemon Digital teams, to ensure alignment with the Identity space on design, development and delivery across multiple strategic initiatives in support of.

Purchase, NY, US

• Responsible for the strategic planning, product definition, and tactical execution plan of the Digital Payments group’s latest iteration of the flagship product Masterpass, built on the principles of EMVCo’s Secure.
• Led efforts supporting the previous iteration of Masterpass, using data-driven analysis to identify efficiency, optimization and performance improvements, coordinating with Product Strategy for functional enhancements.
• Assisted the migration of the Masterpass Switch to a microservice architecture deployed on a Cloud-based platform, defining product features, managing elaboration, and executing at the ground level as a Product Owner.
• Organized and managed Agile Sprints of multiple Engineering teams using modified Scrum and Kanban, managing the product backlog, Acceptance demos, Sprint planning sessions, and managing scope changes, emergent issues.
• Directly managed a team of Product Managers, each responsible for the product definition of components within the SRC and Masterpass applications across all supported platforms, organizing their efforts embedded within.
• Oversaw interactions with internal Mastercard development teams who were responsible for SRC and Masterpass dependent downstream services, working with business owners to create partner project roadmaps, manage the.

Purchase, NY, US

• Responsible for the strategic planning and tactical execution of the Digital Payments Web Engineering group, a dedicated organization of 35+ people in 4 distinct delivery teams, including Software Engineers, Technical.
• Organized and managed Agile Sprints of multiple Engineering teams using modified Scrum and Kanban, including managing the product backlog, Acceptance demos, Sprint planning sessions, and managing scope changes.
• Set technical direction for the front-end development of the Masterpass technical organization, and supported execution, including analysis, coding, and code review, as well as providing technical consultation to.
• Led the effort to build out the Engineering Scrum teams in the NYC TechHub for Mastercard, with the specific need to facilitate the colocation of the Product, Technical, and Operations staff in support of the Digital.
• Directly managed 4 teams of Development, QA and Product Engineers across diverse technology specialties (Web/Mobile Web/Native Application) across multiple, international locations, including recruitment and hiring of.
• Oversaw interactions with internal Mastercard development teams who, in turn, were responsible for Masterpass dependent downstream services, including working with the respective business owners to create partner.

New York, NY, US

• Responsible for the strategic planning and tactical execution of the Business Technology Group, a dedicated team of 20+ people, including Software Engineers, System Architect, QA Engineers, Product Delivery.
• Organized, managed, and tracked Agile Sprints using modified Scrum methodology, including managing the product backlog, leading Acceptance demonstrations, directing Sprint planning sessions, and managing scope changes.
• Set technical direction for the team, and supported project execution as needed, including analysis, coding, and code review, and provide technical consultation and expertise to Product and Business Owners
• Directly managed a team of 10 Development Engineers of diverse technology specialties (Web/Mobile Web/Native Application) across multiple, international locations, including recruitment and hiring of full-time and.
• Managed the initial inclusion of the Nielsen SDK in Bento for both the iOS and Android native environments through the full product development lifecycle, including initial project requirement analysis, architecture.

New York, NY, US

• Managed the Development and QA Engineering Teams for various AOL Entertainment Properties, including resource allocation through multiple, concurrent large- and small-scale projects through the full product life cycle
• Organized, managed, and tracked Agile Sprints using modified Scrum methodology, including managing the product backlog, directing Sprint planning sessions, and managing scope changes, emergent issues and risk mitigation
• Set technical direction for the team, and supported project execution as needed, including analysis, coding, and code review, focusing on front-end and middle-tier efforts, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, and MySQL
• Oversaw interactions with other AOL teams and 3rd-party vendors, including working with the respective General Managers and C-level Executives to create project roadmaps, manage and execute the project pipeline.
• Directly managed a team of 10 Development and QA Engineers across multiple, international locations, including recruitment and hiring of full-time and contractor resources, training, development mentoring, and.
• Managed the reconstruction and redesign of Moviefone.com to a service-based architecture, to better support a more iterative engineering process; includes rebuild of the ingestion processes, design and development of.

New York, NY, US

• Managed the Development and QA Engineering Teams for BlackVoices and other Entertainment Properties, including resource allocation through multiple, concurrent large- and small-scale projects through the full product.
• Organized, managed, and tracked Agile Sprints using modified Scrum methodology, including managing the product backlog, directing Sprint planning sessions, and managing scope changes, emergent issues and risk mitigation
• Set technical direction for the team, and supported project execution as needed, including analysis, coding, and code review, focusing on front-end and middle-tier efforts, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, and MySQL
• Oversaw interactions with other AOL teams and 3rd-party vendors, including working with the respective General Managers and C-level Executives to create project roadmaps, manage and execute the project pipeline.
• Directly managed a team of 10 Development and QA Engineers across multiple, international locations, including recruitment and hiring of full-time and contractor resources, training, development mentoring, and.
• Managed the reconstruction and redesign of Moviefone.com to a service-based architecture, to better support a more iterative engineering process; includes rebuild of the ingestion processes, design and development of.

New York, NY, US

• Acted as the Front-End Development Lead for Moviefone.com and its related blog, AOL Music and its related blogs, PopEater.com, and Asylum.com; responsibilities included design analysis, coding and code review across.
• Maintenance/Enhancement coding on the front-end and middle-tier of Moviefone.com, AOL Music’s website, and AOLTV.com’s utility pages and editorial content pages, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, tcl, and proprietary data.
• Design, coding and continuous Maintenance/Enhancement implementation of “Big Bowl”, a tcl-based proprietary CMS system built for AOL’s Entertainment and News properties, to better facilitate the need for dynamic.
• Design, coding and continuous Maintenance/Enhancement implementation of “DynaPub’, a Java-based proprietary CMS system built to serve all of AOL’s web properties, to better manage scalability issues and stability while.
• Interfaced with the Editorial, Product, Design and Advertising teams to define, implement and manage coordination of related projects into the Entertainment roadmap, and document and execute emergent work

New York, NY, US

• Initial Development/Maintenance/Enhancement coding for Moviefone.com, acting as application-layer and front-end web engineer, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, tcl and proprietary database access software
• Interfaced with the Design team to define, implement and manage the process to rebuild the initial website with current-to-date standards for user experience, interface guidelines and graphical aesthetics
• Acted as the direct liaison between the Engineering team and the Editorial staff, to facilitate training, execution of day-to-day editorial requests, and document and execute emergent work

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

• Completed Translation of Report Broker, WebFOCUS’s Report Distribution Manager, to Java Servlets, using Java 1.2 and HTML
• Maintenance coding of the company’s flagship product, FOCUS for Windows, and its successor WebFOCUS, using C/C++. SQL, and VB3 through VB5
• Maintenance/Enhancement coding of FOCUS Personal Agent, the Middle-Tier addon product of the company’s flagship product, FOCUS Six for Windows, through 3 full release cycles, using VB3 through VB5 and SQL
• Maintenance/Enhancement coding of Installation programs for several of the company’s PC products, using VB3 through VB5 and InstallShield
• Coordinated the redesign of the FOCUS Six for Windows build process, including the redesign of the makefile scripts, integration of separate build components into one cohesive whole, and solidification of the.
• Interfaced with the software development team to define, implement and manage the process to coordinate the day-to-day code check-in and nightly build management

• Design, Coding & Implementation of enhancements to the Wheatley Insurance System (WINS) Version 4/Release 14.1, using COBOL/COBOL II
• Design, Coding & Implementation of client customizations to WINS Version 4/Release 14.1, including both new clients and previous clients upgrading to the new release, using COBOL/COBOL II
• Coordinated the day-to-day activities of the other Programmer/Analysts in their projects with the Release Schedule defined by the Technical Manager of the R&D Team
• Assisted in client-site installation/upgrades of WINS, as well as enhancement training and documentation, when necessary

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Music

Certificate Of Diploma, Computer Programming