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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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..
• 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.
• 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.

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..
• 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.
• 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..
• 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.
• Promoted to Manager of Technology and Applications Development based on performance as Software Engineer.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science And Engineering