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Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Support all aspects of The Capitol Forum's business from a technical perspective. Visit thecapitolforum.com to learn more.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Technical lead, mentor, ideator, architect, coder, code reviewer and critical event / election war room on-call. Led teams of 4-8 software engineers and 3-6 cross-functional resources in the development of internal trust and safety tools that enable non-technical operations resources to mitigate on-platform harms. Collaborated across multiple teams to develop new capabilities that had outsized impact. Hands-on (designing, coding, code reviews) on a daily basis. Lead road-mapping, both in thought / ideation leadership and process (assessing strategy, product maturity and value to customers).• Enabled operations resources to stand up targeted content detection in hours instead of days.• Enabled operations resources to launch auto-delete and auto-enqueue for review interventions self-service.• Enabled operations resources to configure and launch proactive detection in days instead of weeks.

New Hope, Pa, Us

Lead the technology organization, supported business development and partnerships, and more. Primary architect of the platform. Led a team of three software engineers, one QA engineer and one graphic designer.• Get Your Pet's two-sided marketplace enabled over 10,000 dogs and cats go from one good home to another.

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

Scrum master for a 10-person agile team. Directly managed 5 software engineers. Worked collaboratively with product management, customer support and professional services and other software development teams on a daily basis. ASP.NET MVC, C#, Entity Framework, SQL Server, Web Services (traditional asmx, SOAP, REST), HTML, CSS, JQuery, Ajax, JSON, JavaScript, Visual Studio, TFS, Subversion, CruiseControl, Bamboo, Octodeploy. • Transitioned the team to a rigorous application of scrum and a consistent 7-week delivery cadence.• Hardened the system and enhanced performance allowing the growth of installed locations to triple while at the same time improving system responsiveness and lowering average transaction times by 70%. • Introduced technical design and code review processes that lead to a decrease in the buildup of technical debt.• Completed PCI compliance audit one week early.

Toronto, On, Ca

Lead 4 teams (3 on-site; 1 offshore; approx. 35 resources total) with a $5M budget developing academic and scientific research analytics products, services and internal tools. Provide general leadership, enable collaboration, facilitate expansion of connections between teams and team members, evolve process and governance, and provide an environment in which innovation can emerge organically. Provide high-level technical and subject matter guidance.• Delivered an author disambiguation system that enables projects to be completed in hours, rather than months.• Rewritten, re-engineered version of Research Analytics’ flagship product delivered in December 2014 was showcased throughout the division, and was the basis of the division’s 2014-2015 growth strategy.

Toronto, On, Ca

October 2009 – February 2013 Software Development Manager, Research AnalyticsFormed and led a team of 10 resources (4 internal, 6 new hires) to develop an academic profiling system now in use by several institutions. Acted as chief architect. Developed the team’s culture of high performance and quality, doing the right thing, with a healthy dose of pragmatism mixed in. Formalized processes and standards for a variety of the team’s functions. Enabled collaboration and making connections throughout the greater Research Analytics team. C#, ASP.NET, MVC, Entity Framework, SQL, Visual Studio, IIS, SOAP, Web Services, HTML, CSS, JQuery, Ajax, JSON, JavaScript, TFS.• Delivered first version on time to The Ohio State University, onboarding over 5K faculty and over 100K users.• Integration with two other Research Analytics products reduced onboarding costs and dataset delivery time.• Promoted to Director based on performance as Software Development Manager.April 2008 – October 2009 Senior Lead Software Engineer, Discovery LogicWorked with project management and customer stakeholders in the development of custom web sites. Provided technical project management, acting as technical lead on all projects. Architected and coded solutions. Managed detailed development, QA and deployment tasks of 3 resources. C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SQL, Visual Studio.• Developed and implemented search architecture of DLs federated research analytics databases, allowing client applications to be developed in a standard way, reducing maintenance costs and time to market.• Delivered a custom research grant proposal system to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, enabling the Foundation to correlate similar proposals, and similar research grants, scholarly publications and patents to each proposal. Gave an on-site presentation of the system to Foundation stakeholders at the Foundation’s request.• Promoted to Software Development Manager based on performance as Senior Lead Software Engineer.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Participated in developing system architecture, defining patterns, and coding of both foundational components and feature-specific functionality of marriott.com. Created project plans and work breakdown structures. Managed the day-to-day tasks of up to 10 resources on projects ranging from $1M - $2M. Broad subject matter expert across the enterprise. Key connector between members of the technical and business teams responsible for reservations and loyalty marketing. ASP, [D]COM, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Web Services, Java, J2EE, JDBC, JSP, Struts, WSAD, Eclipse, JUnit, DB2, UNIX.• Independently developed the ability to deploy a new page at any time containing a customized “Find & Reserve” form, allowing sales and marketing efforts to be decoupled from marriott.com’s once-a-month release cycle.• Led multiple points-based reservation projects, each saving approximately $10 per reservation.• Led globalization of My Account (localized for nine languages). Increased online usage reduced call center costs.• As one of two primary technical leads, delivered a 100% from scratch J2EE rewrite of marriott.com in 10 months, which included the integration of a content management system.• Defined, formalized, documented and evangelized marriott.com’s defect management process and customized the supporting tools. Still in use today, the process enables a metrics-based approach to defect management.

Provided requirements analysis, software development and hosting services to clients. Created a browser-based data collection and processing system for Governance Metrics International’s core product line that is still in use today. C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Visual Studio, SQL.

Fourwinds was a startup that sought to deliver geospatial databases and location-based information services to targeted vertical markets. Developed an aeronautical data web service and a prototype product, FlightBrief Express, to demonstrate the web service’s capabilities. C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SQL, MSMQ, ESRI ArcGIS.

Mercari was a software company whose product line sought to improve supply chain management by incorporating consumer behavior into planning activities. Was one of three technologists hired to deliver initial prototypes. Initially worked as the database programmer and DBA, subsequently as the UI / UX lead. ASP, [D]COM, Visual Basic, SQL.• Initial prototype demonstrated revenue increase of 20-50% depending on retailer and product category, which led to securing additional rounds of funding.• Expedited and organized rapid expansion of the prototype’s feature set by creating standard templates for functional and technical requirements and evangelized their use.• Promoted to head of UI / UX focus team based on performance in the initial prototype phase.

Toronto, On, Ca

January 1997 – June 1999 Manager of Technology and Applications Development, CDA/SpectrumManaged a team of 4 software engineers responsible for delivering client-server applications to the financial services market. Responsible for annual budgeting and capital purchases totaling $1M. C, C++, PowerBuilder, Oracle, CGI. • Increased adoption of flagship product by >400%, growing revenue to >$5M, by meeting with customers’ technical resources and developing a streamlined onboarding process and technical documentation.• Implemented a high availability server environment based on Oracle’s transactional replication that lead to decreased customer downtime and greater flexibility in the deployment process.• Developed an early XML-over-HTTP web service.May 1994 – December 1996 Software Engineer / Architect, CDA/WiesenbergerParticipated on a team of four software engineers to develop HySales, a standalone Windows application used by financial planners to present mutual fund data in an investor-friendly way. Concentrated in various areas including visualization and computation of complex investment hypotheticals. C++, Visual C++, STL, Win32 API.• Promoted to Manager of Technology and Applications Development based on performance as Software Engineer.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science And Engineering