Oversaw all aspects of product development within entrepreneurial team tasked with bringing a brand-new subscription-based Web application to market for financial advisors. The name of the product was BillFin. I split my time designing and documenting product features and leading engineering efforts.• Acted as engineering lead and code contributor on most sprints.• Highly available product owner who prized communicating with customers and stakeholders.• Applied Lean UX… Show more Oversaw all aspects of product development within entrepreneurial team tasked with bringing a brand-new subscription-based Web application to market for financial advisors. The name of the product was BillFin. I split my time designing and documenting product features and leading engineering efforts.• Acted as engineering lead and code contributor on most sprints.• Highly available product owner who prized communicating with customers and stakeholders.• Applied Lean UX principles for interaction design resulting in excellent user experience.• Wrote user stories and BDD documents for consumption by Scrum team and automated tests. • BillFin went from 0 to over 500 financial advisory firms subscribed as paying customers.• Staffed and managed a small team consisting of engineering, QA, UX, and design resources.• Worked directly with CEO and COO that founded the company.• Demoed BillFin at conferences, hosted webinars, and visited users in-person to gather feedback.• Practiced full traceability of feature requests leveraging Confluence and JIRA.• Worked with large custodians (TDA, Fidelity, Schwab, RBC) to consume nightly data feeds.• Integrated product with 3rd party vendors (Blueleaf, Redtail) for SSO and sticky user experience.• Simplified releases by leveraging DevOps and CI techniques across multiple environments.Technologies: Java 8, MongoDB, AWS, Spring Data, Spring MVC & IOC, Spring Batch & Integration, Jasper Reports, Tomcat, SSO, SAML2, RESTful APIs, GWT, HTML, CSS, JSON, Maven, JUnit, Artifactory, Cucumber, and Selenium Show less

Responsible for engineering decision-making and staffing across three lines of business. A highly available leader who got his hands dirty with the teams and helped wherever needed.• Hands-on technical leader of software architects, engineers, and QA staff (up to 12 people).• Split my time designing, architecting, coding, and mentoring small Agile teams.• Responsible for estimation, implementation, and deployment of engineering endeavors.• Oversaw software which handled… Show more Responsible for engineering decision-making and staffing across three lines of business. A highly available leader who got his hands dirty with the teams and helped wherever needed.• Hands-on technical leader of software architects, engineers, and QA staff (up to 12 people).• Split my time designing, architecting, coding, and mentoring small Agile teams.• Responsible for estimation, implementation, and deployment of engineering endeavors.• Oversaw software which handled trillions of dollars of assets for major financial institutions.• Reported directly to President/COO of the company.• Acted as Scrum Master across multiple teams.Technologies: Java, Spring, JavaScript, Angular, jQuery, Bootstrap, AJAX, Hibernate, SOA, AOP, SQL, MySQL, SAML2, Web Services, SOAP, Quartz, Eclipse, SoapUI, Tomcat, Linux, Ant, Ivy, Maven, SVN, Git, Bitbucket Show less

Hired in 2009 for a small highly skilled and experienced team tasked with building a new Web-based SaaS offering for the managed accounts marketspace. The product was called Wealth Manager. I was the third person hired in the Boston office to help bring the product to life.• Created a platform that serviced over a trillion dollars of assets for more than 300 firms.• Worked in a fast-paced distributed Agile team. • Key code contributor and designer for critical modules and… Show more Hired in 2009 for a small highly skilled and experienced team tasked with building a new Web-based SaaS offering for the managed accounts marketspace. The product was called Wealth Manager. I was the third person hired in the Boston office to help bring the product to life.• Created a platform that serviced over a trillion dollars of assets for more than 300 firms.• Worked in a fast-paced distributed Agile team. • Key code contributor and designer for critical modules and feature development.• Spearheaded crucial undertaking to optimize batch jobs that processed millions of transactions. ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- Cut processing time down from over 20 hours to less than 2 hours.⠀⠀⠀ ⠀- Tuned SQL queries, MySQL config, Hibernate mappings, multithreading, and caching.Technologies: Java, Spring, Hibernate, jQuery, Mockito, New Relic, JConsole, JBoss, Percona Tools Show less

Led requirements, design, and development of Web-based enterprise Java applications. Chose tools and technologies, and supervised up to six developers for software development group.Logistical tracking project - Led design and implementation of logistical tracking system for Trident missile guidance system hardware. - Developed back-end with RMI technology using SOA approach. - Achieved minimal impact on client applications by exposing only POJO interfaces for domain… Show more Led requirements, design, and development of Web-based enterprise Java applications. Chose tools and technologies, and supervised up to six developers for software development group.Logistical tracking project - Led design and implementation of logistical tracking system for Trident missile guidance system hardware. - Developed back-end with RMI technology using SOA approach. - Achieved minimal impact on client applications by exposing only POJO interfaces for domain classes. - Implemented singleton design pattern with JDO persistence layer.Data acquisition project - Designed and developed universal data-processing engine for transforming, validating, mapping, and storing data files received from customers. - Highly visible project that required coordination across multiple vendors and all data-centric applications. - Scalability was a major factor in design. - Regular expressions could be defined on the fly to determine data types.Web-based workflow applications - Implemented with MVC pattern using Struts or JSF as core presentation framework. - Used O/R mapping technologies to decouple domain objects from Oracle database. Show less

Acted as lead or co-lead for requirements, design, and development on software projects. Supervised up to three developers for software development group.- Co-led development of internal custom reusable framework for developing online workflow applications.- Introduced use-case requirements gathering with UML, and agile software development methodologies to department.- Mentored newly hired and senior developers.

Worked in teams with many developers to create and maintain dynamic Web sites. Participated in all areas of software development life cycle.- Wrote code and test scripts, and helped install and deliver software to customers. - Used LEADTOOLS Imaging SDK to dynamically watermark TIFF images based on a sampling algorithm used to find whitespace. - Developed servlet to markup Word documents on the fly using JActiveX tools to interface with COM controls.