Founded successful consulting firm specialized in helping enterprises in any stage of their product development lifecycle (PDLC).Nearby Creative consultants are experts in UXR, UX/UI, Software Product Design, Software Development, Cloud Infrastructure, Brand Development, Go-to-market Strategy, Integrated Marketing Communications, Public Relations, and Technical Content Writing. Our work serves a wide range of online and offline industries, including: mobile technology, internet tech, press media, fintech, medtech, edtech, policing, security, restaurants, retail, fashion, and more.My day-to-day role includes overseeing business operations, building project teams, mentorship, strategic vision, growth strategy, and technology leadership to our clients. My minute-to-minute role includes pathological enablement and getting out of the way of great minds at great work.

Joined as a Senior Engineer under the direction of the CTO to work on their influencer marketing platform. During my time with Tidal Labs, I engineered solutions to web platforms and also supported hundreds of influencer marketing campaigns for many national brands including Today, Kohler, NFL, Maybelline, Clarins, Mens Health, and more.Tidal Labs has graciously given me an opportunity to be an agent of their company while I pursue opportunities at Nearby Creative.

TargetSpot is the world’s largest digital audio advertising network servicing advertising to thousands of digital and terrestrial radio stations, with offices both in the U.S. and Europe, reaching millions of monthly uniques. As a full stack engineer on TargetSpot’s 10 person engineering team, my responsibilities entailed feature development, new technology, scalability and performance, software architecture, and dev ops.• PHP 5.3, sometimes calling on other languages like Bash and Ruby for server-side scripting supporting all internal and externally facing software tools.• Often a go-to on server side tooling and assisting in automation and process improvements.• Defined and implemented strategy for a migration from SVN to Git, and implementation of Continuous Integration process via Jenkins.• Worked on MySQL and Mongo strategy, performance improvements, indexing, table and queryoptimization, migration tooling and process.• Point on organizing large partner integration spanning many months, requiring multiple hats in product management and engineering.• Designed and documented complex systems in both Wiki and LucidCharts.• Suggested and presented on technologies to help improve engineering processes. Ie: Ansible, Git/GitHub, Percona TK, Jenkins, and others.• Implemented a task runner command line dev tool, much like Rake in Rails, for TargetSpot’s custom PHP framework.• Part of on-call rotation, monitoring nagios warnings, and responding to critical alerts.• Investigated and fixed difficult software bugs, some of which have been lingering for years.• Point on research to suggest a next generation development environment for TargetSpot engineers. Focused on the "where are we now", "where to do we want to be", and defined an incremental approach.Core Skills – PHP 5.3, Amazon Web Services (EC2), MySQL, Mongo, Memcache, CentOS, Ubuntu, Apache, Javascript/AJAX, jQuery, JSON, XML, SVN/SVK, GIT/Github, AdTech Industry Knowledge, Project Management Skills

Helped kick off and manage a startup from pre-seed funding days, to early seed funding. As the coredeveloper and company’s technical strategic voice, I set the stage for engineering processes.• Reported directly to CEO.• Suggested 3rd party relationships to help build company.• Setup and managed AWS infrastructure and networking using RDS, EC2, and Route53, security groups, load balancing, and other server/network side skills.• Created a continuous integration and development processes utilizing Jenkins, GitHub Hooks, and Railsless-capistrano deployment tooling.• Scouted for engineering talent, conducted interviews, and managed a complete redesign of our core product.• Integrated Volume11 Advertising partner into our core product.• Managed external relationships in seeking e-commerce partners.• Wrote code in PHP 5.3, on the Yii PHP Framework.• Authored cross-site inject-able JavaScript code library, to create for the possibility of a self-serve version of our product.Core Skills – PHP 5.3, Yii PHP Framework, Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, Route53), PEAR CS, MySQL, Jenkins CI, Design Patterns, Javascript/AJAX, jQuery, JSON, GIT/Github, Magento Experience, AdTech and Ecommerce Industry Knowledge, Entrepreneurial Knowledge, Project Management Skills

RealSelf.com provides visitors everything they need to know to make a confident decision about cosmetic procedures -- from braces to Botox, gastric bypass to facelifts.• As the company's only remote engineer, I worked on RealSelf.com and extensions of, which has on the order of 3 million+ unique visitors per month.• Provided software development on a LAMP stack, using PHP 5.3, MySQL, Yii Framework, Virtual Box, OS X, AWS, and rails-less capistrano deployment tools.• Primary developer on the Doctor Team, reported to VP of Engineering.• Collaborated with designers, other engineers, and management to develop new features and improve existing features of RealSelf.com• Refactored and scaled features through multiple facets including code skills and a product lens.• Used tools such as Splunk, New Relic, and Pivotal Tracker to assist in issue tracking, monitoring, and management.

Joined as a telecommute engineer to work on FM's bread and butter ad platform, built on a homegrown framework that had been developed over many years, amounting to millions of lines of code.Worked using PHP 5.3, MySQL, jQuery, Subversion/Git to improve interface, query efficiency, and overall code quality.Wrote unit tests against new and legacy code using PHPUnit.Advocated a switch from SVN to Git to improve branch and merge strategy on a large engineering team ( 20ish people ).Refactored large amounts of code to follow stricter design patterns, moved SQL out of controllers and into models frequently.Converted custom javascript autocomplete code to use jQuery UI across the entire ad platform, requiring the refactor of over 30 different ways of achieving a similar goal. This improved efficiency of searches, and promoted consistent UX/UI for our end users.Worked with and produced advanced Javascript for rich ajax experiences.Did support work for clients, bug investigations, and ad trafficking.

Ground floor employee of very well-funded (43 mil) and innovative startup founded by Scott Kurnit, founder/CEO-About.com.Worked successfully with an entirely geographically distributed 40+ strong senior engineering team. Managed other engineers while reporting primarily to VP of Engineering, and at times our CTO for certain projects.Developed AdKeeper.com, extensions of, and a backend ad management system (AMS) using a broad range of skillsets and knowledge: PHP 5.3, Yii, Zend, CodeIgniter, Memcached, Redis, Apache, Javascript, AJAX, Mercurial, SVN, Ubuntu, OS X, Service Oriented Architecture ( SOA )Implemented 3rd party services, including: SendGrid, GA, Tealium, Gigya, OpenX, Facebook Connect, Twitter, and others.Worked closely with product team to take ideas from whiteboard brainstorms to technical implementations.

• First in-house software engineer hire on ground floor, charged with heading up in-house frontend engineering agility for a new well funded social-commerce website led by industry leaders.• Provided direct support for software technology development to include frontend architecture, services APIs, deployment strategy, distributed systems, database design, caching strategy, source control management, internal tools, development, testing, production systems and operations.• Scaled software platform to support member growth from 0 to 16 million users between 2009-2010.• Provided hiring suggestions and recruited key individuals to build out in-house engineering teams.• Played key rolls in a successful infrastructure and frontend technology rewrite to scale growth in less than 45 days.• Authored middleware service-client that paved way for separable frontend teams to mix and match technology stacks to get projects to market faster.• Lead on frontend technology, video platform, and social platform.• Provided technical research, strategy, and 3rd party integrations.Post launch, Lockerz notably raised 65m in venture funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, former Microsoft CFO Greg Maffei; DAG Ventures, Live Nation and others.Core Skills – PHP 5 OOP/MVC, CodeIgniter, Zend, Smarty, Apache 2, Nginx, Memcached, ICE, Java Knowledge, JSON, jQuery, AJAX, Ubuntu, Multi-tier Linux Server Expertise and Administration, Database Architecture and Administration, MySQL 5, XHTML, CSS, Drupal, SOAP, Project Management Skills, Open Source Software, Entrepreneurial Knowledge.

• As the first engineer hire on ground floor, I was responsible for creating core technical infrastructures, and oversaw all web product development.• Organized specifications, planning, scrums, meetings, code reviews, and reported directly to the company President.• Provided hiring suggestions to fill needed expertise.• Deployed project management, version control, and communication tools to manage construction of a social network, engaged by a mix of roughly 10 software developers and designers.• Turned business specifications into technical specifications in chart and written form. Continually documented code; and worked as a project manager, database architect, network administrator, and lead programmer.• In 3 months, FirstString.com released as a web 2.0 beta. Within a year, the company established partnerships with “MySpace”, “Hilton Hotel”, “East Bay”. Core Skills – Ruby on Rails/REST, PHP 5 OOP/MVC, jQuery, AJAX, Multi-tier Linux Server Expertise and Administration, Database Architecture and Administration, MySQL 5, CSS, XHTML, XML, Project Management Skills, Web 2.0 Technology, Open Source Software, Entrepreneurial Knowledge.

• First engineer hired to create a white label social networking solution, laid technical ground work for many projects supporting company's quick-to-market style growth.• Worked as a software development lead and supervised several developers providing guidance and support on various projects.• Assisted in the design and implementation of high traffic web systems meeting critical requirements and deadlines in support of high profile music industry clients and their fan networks (e.g.: Madonna, Los Lonely Boys, Ray J, & many others...).• Provided technical support to clients.• Company was ultimately acquired by OneSite.com, after nearly 3 years of development.Core

• After receiving Dr. Donald Adjeroh’s highest grade in a CS course, he hired me to work under his direction applying computer science theory to cancer research being done at the University.

• UUNet, later became MCI, became my entry into computer science. I spent time job shadowing and assisting professional developers through which I learned fundamentals of programming, and began what would become my future passion, and career, at the young age of 15.Core