Leading engineering for all Mariana Tek products for boutique fitness. Top priorities stepping into the role include stabilizing and improving the scalability and performance of the platform; restructuring the engineering groups to improve velocity and bring Architecture, QA, SRE and Product Management into an improved development process; and installing a performance management framework by normalizing roles and defining responsibilities to set expectations of all in the organization . Working with stakeholders across technology leadership, product management and business to focus the resourcing and road maps for ensure predictable ROI for the business. Our current approach is evolving to the next generation of the platform by migrating a monolithic application (Ember/Django) to a modern micro frontend / micro-service framwork (ReactJS/Golang). At the same time, we are leveraging the new frameworks to accelerate our global expansion (UK, Australia, Japan, Singapore) through multiple AWS regions.

23/24 Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science24/25 Adjunct Professor of PhysicsAppointment in the Computer Science department responsible for academic advising and teaching several topics in the computer science curriculum. Excellence in Teaching Nomination (2024)Courses include: Data Structures and Java Development, Analysis of Algorithms, Human Computer Interface Design and Introduction to Data Science, Calculus II and Introductory Physics

Responsible for functional requirements, architecture, and implementation of the next generation of services as an omni-channel offering. The teams were remotely distributed and utilized Agile/Scrum and Sprint-based delivery methodologies. Solutions were designed for a cloud delivery with high reliance on automation to accelerate delivery. Development in Java, Kotlin and Python; Gitlab; AWS hosted.In building the organization, I mentored engineering leaders and product managers and managed relationships with business stakeholders and other engineering leaders in supply chain, order and warehouse management, retail systems, information management, merchant operations and point of sale to facilitate large technology shifts that would be required to move the company forward.• Organized business stakeholders (internal and external) to consolidate requirements for the delivery of the pricing platform for all downstream consumers for omni-channel operations (ecommerce and retail) and enterprise reporting. Translated requirements to a design, created a milestone-based delivery schedule.• Architect for product master, pricing and promotional overall data flows and integration to SAP ERP with a RESTful service platform and messaging framework. Delivery required working with each engineering group to normalize the model for each area.• Managed the technical road map for the company’s PIM (product information management). This included the delivery of a new PIM model in parallel to functional updates to the legacy system. The result was an accelerated time to market for new offerings, improved data quality and transparency into product data curation.• Performed system analysis on data creation and dissemination within the engineering eco-system which defined the approach in migrating the on-premises legacy monolithic application to an event-based cloud hosted solution of micro-services and data delivery network for both internal and external consumers.

Providing contractual services for software consultation, numerical simulation and fluid-structure interaction. Industry focus on ecommerce systems (top of funnel to fulfillment), content management workflow and, computational sciences (physical and fluid simulations).

Lead teams responsible for Order Management Systems, Returns Systems, 2D and 3D product customization experiences, Chewy’s Drop Ship Program, integration of health products into ecommerce and various tax and finance programs.• Owner of technical and product road maps for all initiatives impacting the Order Management System, Returns System and Drop Ship Integration. Required stakeholder management, functional analysis, cross- team resource alignment and delivery coordination.• Normalized metrics management (both business and technical) for the platform and set standards that helped drive data driven decisions in a fast-paced environment. The result allowed for prioritization at the lowest level for Sprint organization as well as at the higher initiative prioritization discussions.• Migrated legacy Order Management System from a non-scalable component of a monolithic application to an event-based solution hosted in AWS. Monitored incidents of data corruption and system instability/reliability decreased from hundreds per week to several per month resulting in increased organizational engagement and productivity.• Performed a build vs. buy analysis for the 2D/3D product customization for ecommerce customers. Ultimately, managed the delivery of a 3rd party technology integrated into the company’s Product Display Page (PDP) and the long-term technical road map for the integration.• Frontend development in React and Vue, backend/microservice development in Java, Python and AWS technologies.• Mentored new leaders, advocate for women in technology, contributor to job definition and leveling, interview coaching and coordinator for maintaining hiring standards.

Acquired NameMediaLeading engineering for the top to bottom eCommerce experience for the secondary market of domain names for both B2C and B2B. The organization included teams focused on front-end development, backend development, inventory and order services, fulfillment and transfer, CRM, EDM, Machine learning, QA and DevOps.• Responsible for architecture of core suite of services providing real-time access to the marketplace (account, inventory, search, transaction, fulfillment, reporting, vendor management, CRM) for internal integrations as well as B2B product offerings.• B2C offerings included online an online marketplace for buyers and sellers to engage directly in negotiating sales as well as auction patterns. The applications provided inventory and sales management for sellers and tools for buyers to ensure transparency of the marketplace.• Historical sales data was used to develop machine learning approaches (a categorization and a neural network approach) for price prediction. The resulted in improved margins in our strategic inventory acquisition and our sales agents in conversion. • Deep operational metrics resulted in a consistent year over year improvement in our performance standards. This included high-level events generated from our focused customer funnel down to our backend service implementations for improved conversions.• We achieved healthy double-digit revenue growth year over year, with ASP and margin growing nearly double over a five-year period with our managed inventory growing from 4MM to 50MM. Price change reflection (time a change is represented in the marketplace) dropped from an average of 24 hours to an average of 3 seconds.• Identified as a GoDaddy Agile Master to evangelize the Agile process to other teams and guide them to greater productivity through process improvement.• Member of the Women in Technology (WIT) group to mentor women new to management and Women in Engineering, Science and Technology (WEST).

I work with my team to re-implement the company's eComm platform from an antiquated, constrained technology stack to a rational, scalable SOA approach while supporting the existing business and partner integrations. I have been working to change the development culture in this process to achieve an accelerated time to market for products and functionality as well as increased accountability by all.

Java development on iQuest's desktop application Discovery, an event driven swing application built on top of the company's proprietary data store. Development at all levels. PHP and JS development on LAMP stack. Pre- and post-sales responsibilities, customer liaison for both legal and pharmaceutical clients, product management role, services and integration work with 3rd party products.

Development in front-end technologies (PHP, JS, HTML) on the company's next generation web presence leading several developers. Assisted with the maintenance of legacy Perl application and production deployment across several network nodes. Development and support of legacy and Next Gen server side platform aimed at location-based social networking services. Interfaced with QA and PM routinely during product life cycle.

Acquired Context Media, Inc.Principal engineer for content integration products in the content services field. Development in Java for content integration functionality for the company's enterprise content management system. Integrations with Sharepoint, Interwoven, Documentum and others.

Senior Engineer working on the company's repository integration product as well as MFC based client for the company's own repository. Worked within a small team to develop a SOA platform for exporting, importing and providing a processing pipeline for third party content management systems. The framework used some J2EE components deployed in JBoss, Websphere and Oracle. Developed several InstallShield projects.

Providing win32 C++ application development for DVR technologies; application provided video clip management and exporting to remote repositories.

Worked within the main product suite providing algorithm development for ingestion of various audio, image and video formats; bug fixing; C++ Borland Environment.

Research Analyst working in mulitple areas including: multi-agent systems, image analysis, research for SBIR proposals in AVN and knowledge acquisition.

Acquired Temple Games, Inc. Research engineer developing prototype products in gaming, wireless technologies, image analysis and manipulation. Worked on numerous IP exploratory projects including gaming networks, VOD, mobile applications and advertising methodologies.

Multi-player game client development including physics engines for sailing, luge and surfing. Win32 platform, DirectX.