- Developed strategy and execution plans for multi-channel sales functionality. This initiative was brand new for the company and is becoming more strategic between partners in the ecommerce industry.- Collaborated with cross-functional teams of high profile partners such as Facebook, Pinterest, and Square.- Championed prototyping and building a new production service in Golang running in ECS that allowed us to separate out new domains from our legacy code base. This was important in supporting wider engineering goals to move toward a more service-oriented architecture.- Directly managed a team of 6 backend focused engineers. Led a cross-functional team of 12-15 backend/frontend/quality engineers, designers and product managers in our initiative area.- Upon acquiring a small company, integrated technology stack and oversaw onboarding of team to quickly become productive towards our goals in the multi-channel initiative.

- Led development for important partner integration projects for core areas of the commerce platform, like tax and payments.- Collaborated with many cross-functional stakeholders across the business in different locations (Austin, TX and Sydney, AUS) to help in planning, execution, education, and go-to-market activities for projects.- Helped team development (forming, storming, norming, performing) for a newly established office within a larger company that was rapidly growing. Included hiring activities.- Mentored junior engineers on how to be more impactful in a chaotic environment.

- Championed evolving product beyond desktop web. Demonstrated effectiveness with iOS app which eventually led to the development of an Android version of the product after I left. - Owned all technical development to support iOS app effort including API’s, iOS dev, and backend services built to enhance mobile user experience.- Managed a nimble team of 3 engineers responsible for all mobile development of a social network with 10+MM unique visitors per month.- Collaborated closely with product and design teams to continuously evaluate direction of mobile experience, evaluate feasibility, and prioritize work for engineering team.- Implemented usage of Pivotal Tracker to centralize project management for our growing team.

- Full stack engineer for a large scale web application running on a LAMP stack.- Architected and implemented an internal API using Symfony2 php framework to support development of the Experience Project (ep) iOS application.- Modernized engineering team development practices including: moved version control to git/github, introduced Jenkins CI for continuous testing and builds, unified developer environments with Vagrant, Virtualbox and Puppet.- Improved basic application development practices: eg, introduced beanstalkd to leverage basic asynchronous work, advocated use of Symfony2 bundles/services for separation of application concerns, strongly advocated for unit and integration testing as a first class development practice.