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Ann Arbor, Mi

Lead developer on the core ad serving software. Refactored existing software, written in PHP, to be more performant, reliable and testable. This resulted in a 10x performance improvement with fewer system failures as traffic grew and faster, more successful development cycles. Implemented additional user targeting and ad quota features.Designed and implemented an analytics system using Apache Cassandra for real time reporting and Apache Pig and Python for offline batch processing. These metrics power application decision making, real time and historical dashboards and campaign summary reporting.Built a content management system using Java and Spring Boot for creating and serving microsites to provide additional content behind mobile ads. This resulted in increased brand engagement from users.Developed an Android client library for distribution to partners looking to integrate their Android apps with the AdAdapted platform.Improved the company’s use of resources on Amazon Web Services to be more fault tolerant, performant and easier to maintain. This includes automating the deployment of the new software builds, improving disaster recovery with backups, centralizing key logs and better monitoring coverage.

Detroit, Mi

Designed and developed an integration between Fathead, third party lead generation and Responsys Interact Program using a web service endpoint, worker queue and worker agent, written in C#, for real-time email lead processing. This allowed Fathead to automate marketing email and decreased the time between email list subscription and initial email delivery.Built Responsys Interact Program logic to automate marketing email campaigns in Responsys.These programs defined when and how a series of emails are sent to subscribers.Implemented an email signup page, in Asp.net, to assist with the new Body Part Chart Insiders mailing list initiative.Integrated third party analytics data with the internal product catalog using Transact-SQL and a custom built email templating system to create an Abandoned Cart email that is sent out daily.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Authored ETL scripts using Talend to load customer data files from text or XML files into a central Oracle database.Configured recommendation modules to display on the customer’s website or to be sent as HTML formatted emails using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.Assisted in other department duties such as training new employees, clarifying processes, updating documentation, and writing utility scripts using Perl.

Salem, Nh

Administered the AgaMatrix server infrastructure containing a mix of Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Linux systems.Designed and deployed virtual servers to the Citrix XenServer environment to allow for a better use of our hardware resources.Assisted in the planning and execution of moving and redeploying all IT infrastructure during an office relocation.

Salem, Nh

Managed the day-to-day workload of company IT for over 100 employees as a department of one.Coordinated the upgrade from Microsoft Exchange 2003 to Microsoft Exchange 2010.Migrated the company file server to new hardware in order to double storage capacity.Maintained relationships with numerous outside vendors providing us with IT related services.

Salem, Nh

Designed, wrote, and supported internal applications to monitor process flow using either the Microsoft stack of ASP.Net, C#, and MS SQL Server or the LAMP stack with PHP.Developed server controls for the company's intranet website to display tabular data from multiple business systems using ASP.Net and C#.Authored reports for use with business ERP system using Crystal Reports XI.

Cambridge, Ma

Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Peer Tutor for 3 Semesters.

Education record

Activities and Societies: F.I.R.S.T.