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Boulder, Co, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

- Designed and built a responsive web platform used to perform federally regulated audits of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes- Designed and built an ESB to generate, store and securely access regulatory reports- Designed and built a responsive web platform and complex back-end rules engine used to match financial grants with qualified candidates by a nationally recognized nonprofit- Designed and developed an intuitive mobile app secured with biometric authentication used by brokerage firms to enforce advisor compliance with mandated regulatory requirements- Designed and built a responsive web platform for authentication, data-capture, generation and delivery of personalized, on-demand videos to students nationwide- Significant contributor and consultant to the FOSS web wallet for the Celo cryptocurrency- Refactored and optimized the service layer and data architecture for a payments gateway, resulting in a 10x increase in web application performance and a 20x performance improvement in data access- Designed and built a mission-critical accounting and ERP platform used to run all company projects, track skills and utilization, monitor timesheets, invoice clients, generate dynamic reports and manage a cohort of 500+ consultants- Designed and Built an award-winning virtual terminal application as part of a collaboration with American Express

Boston, Ma, Us

- Recruited, hired and led a top-tier technology team, including Product, Engineer, QA and IT/IS- Created the product vision and product strategy for an online mortgage application platform- Delivered a robust, feature-rich beta product to market

Boston, Ma, Us

Designed and developed a wealth management platform for high net-worth clients. I was engaged by this client after a product launch failure. I also served as an advisor to the executive team on key technology issues.- Led the ground-up re-architecture and re-build of the flagship Wealth Management platform- Trained their staff on the new technology- Served as architect and lead-developer through it's successful re-launch, and several follow-on releases.I was then asked to rescue the Cost Basis product after a failed delivery - The client had estimated 3 months to complete this product, but deemed it a failure 2.5 months in - I completed a ground-up rebuild and successfully delivered the product in 2 weeks

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

Co-founded and led technology for a B2B SaaS lead-gen platform that leveraged ML to deliver pre-qualified leads to Fortune 50 customers.- Developed the flagship product through MVP and V1- Hired, managed and mentored Engineering, Product Management and QA teams- Set the product and technology vision- Developed the product strategy to drive business objectives- Grew company to $1M ARR- Served as Acting COO and CFO from 2014 - 2015- Participated in strategy, pricing, sales, fund raising, investor relations and board management

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As an early hire at this venture-backed startup in the payments industry, I owned the overall software and database architecture, while remaining hands-on with all software products. - Created System and Product architecture for all product lines- Attracted and provided technical leadership for top-notch engineers- Developed the customer web portal- Developed all framework-level software used by the engineering organization- Created the Architecture department - Hired and managed 3 Architects- Evangelized all technology efforts, internally and externally

Newmerix was a venture-backed startup developing change management software for packaged applications. I was responsible for designing and developing a framework in .NET using an embedded XML Database to support end-user customization of their web-based program management software. This new framework enabled simple cross-product integration as well as support for specialized versions of the software targeted at specific market sectors.

Golden, Co, Us

Started as an Engineer and quickly took ownership of the troubled CRM product. Within my first 18 months, the CRM product grew from a troubled child to one of the flagship offerings which was nearly spun off as a separate company. Promoted to Lead Engineer, then again to Director of Engineering. Later transitioned back into a hands-on role to start the Architecture department and lead the transition from old-school VB to C#.NET.As a Lead Engineer:- Led architecture and engineering of three product lines- Responsible for the introduction of a new Corporate Finance product line- Mentored junior developersAs a Director of Engineering:- Managed 3 engineering teams (including QA and Business Analysts). - Delivered an enterprise CRM product that was used by top-tier brokerage firms- Responsible for all hiring, management and mentoring- Introduced an iterative software development process (RUP), championed and trained business and engineering departments through a company-wide roll outAs an Architect:- Led the engineering organization through the adoption of .NET - Headed-up the migration from old-school VB to C# and .NET.- Designed and developed a custom ORM used by all engineers (long before EF).

Ms (Abt), Computer Information Systems

Ba, Economics