Bryce Mcdonnell Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Providing leadership and technical direction for multiple product teams with a mission of "empowering people to make smart financial decisions."https://smartasset.com/

New York, New York, Us

Responsible for leading software engineering, quality assurance & BI/Analytics. I provided leadership for more than 20 people, local and in our various global offices, working in concert with all areas of the business to add many new web and mobile products to SERMO.Overhauled and developed an agile BI/Analytics department. Recruited data engineering and data science competencies to provide access to better insights of business performance.Improved QA processes by focusing on automation and imparting an SRE mindset.

Responsible for building value in the company by providing executive leadership and guiding company direction in all aspects of technology: engineering, product, IT and data science.Changed trajectory of company by building small and agile product team (developers, designers and product) to continuously deliver value to consumers. Investigated and utilized emerging tooling in data processing and analysis space to create product recommendation engine.Used my background in marketing to lead user acquisition efforts to fill an interim role for several months.Cricket's Circle successfully exited via an acquisition by Team Launch (http://teamlaunch.com/)

New York, Ny, Us

At VerbalizeIt, I served as the company's most senior technologist as a member of the executive team.Define and execute technology strategy aligned with the overall growth goals of the company. This included:* Created an engineering road map* Identified and filled gaps in the executive and implementation teams* Created an agile process for product development, code quality and deployment* Identified and prioritized business opportunities to meet growth goals* Worked with employees outside my organization to develop roadmap* Developed experiments to use natural language processing and other machine learning techniques to improve the quality of translations.Growth prospects were limited due to a challenging market environment.

San Luis Obispo, California, Us

I served as an individual contributor to build the initial concept of the business, as a team lead to scale the technology and as a leader overseeing around 20 people in multiple departments to scale the business. Instrumental in growing the company from $0 to more than $100MM in annual run rate and more than 100 employees.* Responsible for software engineering, internal IT (tech services, networking and VOIP) and business intelligence (data science) teams* Served as the principal engineer for the company in the early days (until around 10MM in annual revenue)* Built out the initial technical team and then scaled to around 20 engineers* Led the development of custom facing flash sale e-commerce platform, backend logistics infrastructure and data processing & visualization systems.* Worked very closely with our initial growth team to grow the member base to more than 2M members* Served as infrastructure and software architect to scale rapidly in an era before the popularity of cloud services* Led company's engineering, IT and business intelligence decisions through seed, A, B and C rounds of fundingThe company grew quickly, often doubling revenue and headcount month over month, and I was responsible for maintaining our culture as we grew.

A single person consulting company to occasionally advise management teams and execute strategies related to:* Technology team development and growth* Data, Business Intelligence and Analytics management* Technology architecture, platform (infrastructure) and systems* Data science / Machine Learning competencies* Road map development* Business plan developmentI provide technical and/or product leadership and develop agile engineering teams for backend, frontend and mobile software. I am well versed in Ruby, Python, R, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Clojure, Kinesis, SQS, Docker and a few others.

As a contract software developer, I worked with a variety of marketing and advertising agencies building custom software for their clients. I often interacted directly with clients and other stakeholders. I also routinely architected solutions and advised on best practices + emerging technology. I was frequently on call and provided infrastructure (ops) architecture advice, implementation and troubleshooting.During these years, I established rapport with one agency in particular and became a tech lead. I built a small (~ 5 developers) team and was responsible for project planning, budgeting, code quality and team collaboration.

Johnson City, Tn, Us

I founded a startup to enable private practice physicians to participate in clinical research. I built the core technology, business plan and led the sales efforts.

I began as a medical assistant, but was quickly promoted to a billing specialist and finally was tapped to start the research department of this six physician neurosurgical practice.

Mph, Management & Policy, Emphasis In Economics

B.S., Biochemistry