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Backend domain leader for our Engineering org, working across five product focused teams of engineers toward building customer and internal facing products- Helped design and implement multiple customer facing products- Designed and implemented our Simple Plus product, which included invoicing/billing on a monthly cadence, ATM reimbursement and enabling other products (credit card expense and free checks) to be built on the Plus platform- Designed and implemented our next generation infrastructure platform and disaster recovery plan using terraform, concourse and cloud foundry- Migrated and developed common scala and java libraries for applications to easily transition and make use of next generation platform- Implemented advanced monitoring and metrics across our applications using DataDog, PagerDuty and terraform to make our monitoring repeatable and easy to audit/change- Helped write engineering OKRs- Mentored engineers as part of our mentoring program- Supported our applications via our 24/7 on-call rotation

Helped build a bank and supported company goals by designing and implementing numerous customer facing features. - Migrated customers/accounts from two different banking partners to our current partner, BBVA - Designed and built our customer on-boarding flow, including an identity verification system with fraud/risk rules, enabling onboarding of a customer in under 30 sec - Built Recurring ACH - Assisted in building Fraud mitigation tooling - Expenses and Goals, including Protected Goals - Built initial loan offering with an external partner and successfully launched to thousands of customers - Managed and supported our infrastructure, including Jenkins CI pipelines, AWS instances and system observability - Supported all applications via 24/7 on-call rotation - Mentored engineers as part of our mentoring program - Founder of quarterly Simple Thing's, engineering talks, quarterly planning and full company gatherings in Portland, OR for all employees

Develop for and support 24/7 operations of Shopbop.com and Eastdane.com - The lead engineer during the development of the Shopbop iOS application and supporting API, built with RESTful design - Built the My Hearts feature - Built the Customer Reviews feature - Built International Returns flow and applications to support - Introduced and administered automated build and deploy services for use with Shopbop's software development life cycle - Shopbop's main engineering culture evangelist, planning internal hack day events and engineering outings

Assist in analysis, design, implementation and support of Internet/Web based applications across multiple platforms and network environments.Duties include maintaining, supporting and creating new functionality for various in-house web applications.Technologies include Websphere Server 5.1/6, Rational Performance Tester, Rational Software Architect, Eclipse, MQ Series, CICS, Java/J2EE, YahooUI, Struts, DB2, AJAX, JavaScript and XML.Lead developer for multiple large scale projects, including developing a custom load test library using Rational Performance Tester.Strong communication skills used daily with business clients on the writing, reviewing, coding and supporting of various in-house projects.

Responsible for preparing and maintaining batch processing activities.Monitored various mainframe, network and company systems.Worked with IBM z990 mainframe, CA/7, Unicenter and various other pieces of hardware/software.

Duties included working with the mainframe, printing customer billings, insurance claim statements and checks. Printed internal documents and routed those documents within the company.Skills included book binding, printer and mainframe troubleshooting and various communication skills.Worked with IBM-4000, OCE 3500 and Xerox 6235 series printers.

Responsible for designing and coding a web based elementary grading system.Technologies included J2EE, Apache JSTL, Hibernate, Apache Tomcat, XDoclet, Apache Ant, AS/400 DB2 and the iText PDF Library.Developed custom code to enable web generation and delivery of PDF report cards using iText.Worked with administrative clients, as well as teachers to create a system which was useful and user friendly.