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Oceanside, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

As VP, Head of Product and Technology at Centr, I lead the end-to-end product development lifecycle, driving our vision for an integrated Global Wellness Platform that delivers a seamless blend of physical and digital goods and services in the health and wellness space.I oversee our talented product, design, and engineering teams. Collaborating closely with our marketing and content teams, we share a common mission: to empower individuals to lead healthier, happier lives through innovative wellness solutions.About Centr:Centr, founded by Chris Hemsworth, is your all-in-one global wellness ecosystem. We offer digital and physical goods, providing personalized guidance in fitness, nutrition, and mindfulness to empower your journey towards a healthier you.

Kids in Leadership is an company that aims to empower and inspire children to become future leaders. Through engaging books, interactive activities, and educational resources, Kids in Leadership fosters essential skills such as confidence, social awareness, and critical thinking. The Astro the Monster book series takes young readers on exciting adventures that encourages them to embrace their unique abilities and make a positive impact on the world. Kids in Leadership is dedicated to nurturing young minds, instilling leadership qualities, and creating a brighter future for children everywhere.My main responsibilities include:Creator and Author• Created and developed the concept, storyline, and characters for the Astro the Monster book series.• Conducted extensive research on child development, social-emotional learning, and educational standards to ensure the books aligned with curriculum guidelines.• Collaborated with illustrators, designers, and editors to bring the book series to life.• Managed the publication process, including formatting, printing, and distribution.• Developed marketing and promotional strategies to increase visibility and reach of the book series.• Organized and facilitated author visits and book signings at schools, libraries, and community events.• Engaged with parents, educators, and readers to gather feedback and incorporate it into future book development.• Maintained financial records, budgeted expenses, and managed sales and royalties.

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

San Diego Tech Hub San Diego Tech Hub represents a movement aimed at changing the perception of the San Diego tech ecosystem by building community through collaboration.We provide services, programs, and events that support our community of technology professionals, entrepreneurs, and social change makers. We pride ourselves for being Conduits for change as we partner with other local businesses, organizations, and individuals to help build a stronger San Diego tech community.

San Francisco, California, Us

VP of Engineering responsible for the Product, Platform, and Foundation Engineering groups.My leadership scope includes:• Leading the next growth stage for Strava Engineering as the team is scaled• Supporting the growth and development of a talented engineering team• Contributing towards building an inclusive, collaborative, and antiracist culture• Collaborating with Strava’s leadership team to support planning, execution, and delivery of fun and engaging experiences for an athlete community that is rapidly approaching 100 million members

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Responsible for defining the vision, strategy, and execution plan for unifying the assortment management tooling capabilities. I lead a international team of over 300 talented associates across 4 different time zones which include product, design, engineering, architecture, and program.Scope include managing a team responsible for • Developing backend services to streamline manual processes by connecting systems to automate the end-to-end merchandising process across catalog, supplier, assortment management, replenishment, store, and ecommerce systems.• Developing the building blocks to enable development of our UI capabilities, including (but not limited to) application platforms, workflow management, data access, data consolidation, and assortment versioning. • Building a data pipeline to capture merchant inputs, customer activity, and machine learning to improve the decision-making process for merchants and site ops through insights and recommendations.• Driving initiatives that improve the team's overall operational efficiency by reducing tech debt, improving systems monitoring and availability, and reducing infrastructure, development, and support costs.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

• Defined and led the mission, vision, strategy, and execution of the Experience Tools organization to deliver tooling solutions, which support various business units across the enterprise (U.S. Technology, Sam's Club, Canada, Mexico, ASDA).• Built a modernized suite of siteOps tools that supported various business units across the Walmart enterprise (U.S. Technology, Sam's Club, Canada, Mexico, ASDA) for our web and native app experiences. Usage totals 40,000 modules published per year across customer experiences for web, mobile app, and store.• Built an in-house A|B Testing Platform used to manage all testing activity across web and native mobile app experiences for Online Grocery and GM supporting over $1B GMV benefit and 500 bps GMV lift annually.• Built a developer testing and insights platform that help automate application testing efforts for our CI/CD pipeline saving more than 2.5 million developer-hours since 2017.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Designated site lead, assisting with and being the point person for hiring efforts, location and branding strategies, and office growth for the Southern California location. In addition to helping maintain a healthy team and work culture.As Director of Engineering I manage a 40+ distributed team of engineers, program managers, design, project managers, and architects responsible for building in-house CMS, AB Testing platform, and Asset storage to manage and optimize the .com and native app experiences for our online grocery and GM business units.In addition I run the developer experience tools team responsible with building tools to improve the overall developer ergonomics and product quality/delivery through CI/CD, performance monitoring, and test automation.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Manage activities related to APT user interface framework and support of APT releases. Oversee geographically dispersed, cross-functional engineering teams to deliver key features for APT releases from end-to-end perspective. Re-architect display advertising UI framework to enable external clients to leverage platform look-and-feel. Lead pattern definition initiatives for performance improvements, strategy development and training to ensure development efficiency across suite of display advertising products. UI Framework:- Led team to deliver 3 major releases and 8 minor ones. Contribution to developer productivity initiative included delivery of remote debugging and expediting of UI development. (2011)-Increased user productivity by planning and leading on-time delivery of high-quality framework releases and organizing training activities, code reviews and open hours. (2010)-Initiated and planned framework refactoring tasks to decouple app-specific code into a common framework, which expanded team productivity outside the Display Advertising Platform group. (2009)CI Compliance: Inspired and guided team to achieve results that significantly increased code coverage above the 50% goal. (2011)Media Planning Application Definition: Played key role in transforming conceptual model and research into tactical tasks. Led team of business stakeholders, product managers, user experience designers and architects to direct activities that led to project being funded and included in roadmap. (2011)Yahoo! APT Product Success: Contributed directly to success of Yahoo! APT by leading and achieving on-time implementation of major features that met strict quality requirements. (2010)

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Managed 8-member engineering team tasked with building and deploying reusable framework components of Yahoo! APT, the company’s next-generation advertising exchange platform combining search, display and local advertising.- Partnered with product management and user experience design teams to capture common requirements and feature sets and to establish design for UI framework components. - Developed workflow process used by product management, user experience design and engineering teams to deliver critical results within an aggressive schedule.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

-Yahoo! Panama Engineering Team -Yahoo! Panama Front End Integration Team -Yahoo! Panama International TeamManaged 3 successive teams focused on critical aspects of development for Panama product. Initiated and led actions that included CSS and HTML definition for prototypes; front-end to back-end integration points for UI development; and definition and evaluation level of effort for internationalization.

Los Angeles, Us

Developed and maintained client-side of J2EE applications. Developed web application prototypes for external clients and marketing teams. Coordinated communication between QA and development teams to resolve client-side defects. Interacted with management and external clients to write high-level design proposals and functional specifications.

Burnaby, British Columbia, Ca

Developed sophisticated webpages, interactive forms and custom graphics.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Worked on the company intranet site using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.