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Kanab, Utah, US

Fort Mill, SC, US

• Responsible for leading front-end, back-end, staff augmentation, data engineering teams and the cloud infrastructure across 8 different teams supporting 4 industry groups and the long-term strategic direction for the.
• Led the engineering team that successfully launched a new brand product worth $840k by scaling the team by 50% over a 6 month period and delivering the product on time and on budget
• Managed 50+ engineers across 7 different teams to launch 100+ products and features over 2 years by collaborating with stakeholders to strategically roadmap, prioritize and budget initiatives against the business vision
• Reduced attrition from 15% to 4% by leading an initiative to determine growth opportunities for all engineers across the vertical and identify hiring needs to support stretched employees to increase retention
• Increased the quarterly project completion rate from 45% to 90% by working with project revamping the intake process, keeping detailed records of project progress and updating stakeholders on progress and milestones
• Reduced 15% fraudulent orders by working with fraud analyst to integrate a third party to reduce to 10% and then identifying fraud trends in the data to recommend a solution and communicate risks to business.

Fort Mill, SC, US

• Responsible for leading digital experiences and internal applications for a team of 40+ engineers across various industry groups including Credit Cards, Insurance, Loans, Financial Wellbeing, Telecommunications.
• Reduced operation cost by 33% by leading a team of engineers and devOps to migrate 50+ applications to AWS by taking an inventory of on-prem assets, monitoring usage and coming up with a plan to uplift or sunset over 7.
• Reduced malicious activity (60% of traffic) by analyzing and monitoring trends in data and proposing technical strategies to mitigate down to 5%
• Built an affiliate system that tracked monetization and customer lifecycle events for detailed reporting by creating a scalable architecture to quickly onboard 20+ providers worth $5M
• Improve employee retention by 10% by working alongside the HR team to create and define career trajectories for engineers.
• Led a team that rebuilt the e-commerce infrastructure and front-end architecture to receive 85% faster FCP on Mobile, 67% on Desktop and 47% smaller payload (~1MB) resulting in 20% lift to visit conversion

Fort Mill, SC, US

• Built and led the first team that is dedicated to paid and natural search where we built a bidding application and internal web applications.
• NCTA Award in Analytics - 2016: Led the team that architected the supporting application for ML algorithms and automated SEM bidding across Google and Bing that resulted in an average 15% increase to CM across RV
• Streamlined SEM and SEO analyst work by creating tooling, api connections and web applications that helped automate redundant work
• Participated in Road2Hire that teaches technical skills to students for them to land engineering roles while also coaching and mentoring peers to help improve talent and boost skill levels

Fort Mill, SC, US

• Individual contributor for the insurance vertical where I built and maintained various digital applications.
• Built ETL pipelines into SQL Server and reporting within SSRS to improve data accuracy and improve analyst reporting
• Improved functionality and built 50+ customer facing websites by working with stakeholders to define requirements and propose solutions to build features and architect new websites to meet the needs of the business

Akron, Ohio, US

Maintain existing sites and develop new websites for Ohio.com using the Polopoly Framework/CMS with Java and Veloicty.

Akron, Ohio, US