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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Managed four for the six growth teams during significant transition in our product org. Supported two teams without a product manager while helping operationalize a new unifying product strategy for growth. Led one of my teams in removing their domain from our company's main monolith to support modularization efforts and to replace a tedious manual cross team process with a single system that empowered non-technical teammates. Pushed to migrate an application from static templates in a third party system to a headless application driven by their API. Played a key role in developing a personalization platform that could bridge the gap between our machine learning, data, and product orgs. Codified a system to roll out growth plans for all engineers across four teams that connected our core competencies with their interests and growth areas.

New York, Ny, Us

Was brought in to manage a sibling growth focused team, Conversion, after significant attrition. Rebuilt it from a single engineer while also leading a complete replatform of their application that allowed the new team to launch multiple experiments through the subsequent quarters. Advocated for best practices, pushing my teams to champion the RFC process and lead the company in test coverage and reliability. Supported company wide initiatives that improved engineering diligence. Oversaw the refactor of a critical, unowned service, site creation, that improved its speed, reliability, and maintainability. Fostered a culture of mentorship and leadership that allowed our teams to promote almost half of their team members using focused growth plans.

New York, Ny, Us

Founding team member of Trial Experience, a conversion focused team. Deployed a user personalization service to track user preferences throughout the trial period. Launched an alternative starting point that improved overall conversion 3%. Scaled the team to six engineers and helped advocate for experiment driven product development on both the team and throughout the org. Built a new onboarding experience that improved new user conversion. Led development of a new in trial assistant that accelerated the time in which people subscribed.

New York, Ny , Us

First in house engineering hire. Lead a team of remote contractors to launch a redesigned shopping experience and support multiple brand collaborations. Developed a staffing plan to reduce cost by transitioning to an onsite engineering team. Provided engineering direction for senior leadership. Oversaw an ERP integration and wrote an internal system to improve reliability and reduce order fulfillment latency. Transitioned a tedious, manual return and exchange process to an automated system.

New York, New York, Us

Built internal A/B testing framework that supported server-side and client-side assignment, multi-device users, unit testing, and manual debugging. Ran multiple successful iterations of price testing. Lead engineering for acquisition efforts enabling the doubling of on site conversion. Oversaw implementation and extension of front-end pattern library. Managed two product teams, working with two product managers to define OKRs and roadmaps while mentoring rising team leads.

New York, New York, Us

Lead architect for a new front-end pattern-library. Migrated traditional Rails view templates to modular React components. Designed and built server-side rendering engine and client-side data layer. Worked in React, Rails, RWD, SASS, RequireJS, Grunt, ES6, CSS3, and HTML5.

New York, Ny, Us

Was a part of a small product engineering group at a business management consultancy focused on developing and maintaining multiple applications intended to scale internal intellectual property into recurring revenue. Rebuilt the main marketing site as an internally managed CMS. Worked in Backbone, Rails, Wordpress, RWD, SASS, RequireJS, Grunt, ES6, CSS3, and HTML5.

New York, Ny, Us

Software developer optimizing web performance, extending functionality, and refactoring code base to make it DRYer and more maintainable. Implementing OOP where possible in WordPress, and working in RWD, SASS, RequireJS, Grunt, JS, CSS3, and HTML5.

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Team lead and web engineer developing front-end technologies to integrate with back-end. Worked with large fortune 500 clients. Utilized mainly HTML5/CSS3, RWD, JS, jQuery, & OOP.

As a freelancer, worked in branding, illustration, print design, web design, development, hand-lettering, and consulting. Managed client relations. Pursued new business across multiple industries. Worked in Adobe Creative Suite as well as XHTML/CSS, jQuery, PHP, & WordPress.

Nashville, Tn, Us

Working primarily with ExpressionEngine, developed for both front-end and back-end, building plugins, modules, and extensions for specific client needs. Help initiate and write internal coding standards. Focused primarily on XHTML/CSS, RWD, JS, jQuery, PHP, & OOP.

Nashville, Tn, Us

Art-directed and developed internal site redesign. Created and presented strategy, wireframes, and design for clients. Developed database architecture, interactive pivot tables, and custom PHP to SVG graphing libraries. Also utilized XHTML/CSS and jQuery.

Begin learning both Python and Django while developing for front-end and back-end. Mainly focusing on XHTML/CSS, RWD, jQuery, PHP, and also WordPress.

Opelika, Alabama, Us

Developed and presented strategy, branding, art direction, and design for clients. Researched emerging web practices and executed front-end and back-end development for primarily WordPress. Working mainly in XHTML/CSS, jQuery, & PHP.