Responsible for hiring, training, mentoring, software delivery, and production support. Collaborate with external business and technical partners to support integration with Cardlytics’ products and develop custom solutions while leading twelve engineers across two teams.Our team builds high-transaction, customer-facing APIs and UIs serving 175 million monthly active users. Technologies include .NET, Redis, MemoryDB, JavaScript, Vue.js, Go, Swift for iOS, and Kotlin for Android. Containerized applications hosted in AWS and on-premise.Help team members grow technically and personally within the organization to achieve their career goals. Advocate for the team and provide what the team needs to be successful with their projects and enjoy their time at work. Meet with team members in weekly one-on-ones, bi-weekly team meetings, and when team members need assistance or feedback. Facilitate daily standups and sprint planning. Assist with code reviews, development tasks, and improvements to our CI/CD pipelines and monitoring dashboards.Assess and recommended technology for use on team projects and across the organization. Estimate cost of implementation and ongoing maintenance. Facilitate technical training for acquired technology.Partner with stakeholders in Program, Product, and UX to review, scope, and provide high-level estimates for requirements. Work with the development teams to review requirements, breakdown work into development stories, estimate, provide delivery timelines, and deliver working products.Led the team to a successful delivery of the Cardlytics’ Ad Server platform, our next-generation platform used to serve relevent content to customers within our banking and retail channels.Led the team to a successful delivery of the Ad Server APIs and UIs in Europe to launch our OpenBanking initiative, Cardlytics’s first engagement with non-traditional banking partners.

Led a team to design and build the SmartNexus IoT platform in Flex’s Atlanta Design and Innovation Center. Our software provides services for device management and data transformation, collection, delivery, and analysis. Customer business verticals using the SmartNexus platform include asset tracking, logistics, energy/solar, and health care.Hired, trained, and led a five-person development team in order to bring development in-house and remove our dependency on consultants. Led development team hiring and technical training initiatives.Ownership of backend architectural decisions, reference architectures, and documentation. Hands-on architecture and development of event-driven cloud services and applications employing serverless and microservice architectures using .NET Core and UI development using AngularJS and TypeScript on the Azure cloud platform. These services provide IoT device management and high-speed processing, storage, and delivery of device telemetry, event, and location data. Components include Azure IoT Hub, Function Apps (Lambdas), App Services, Event Hubs, Logic Apps, Service Bus Topics and Queues, Storage Accounts (Blob storage), CosmosDB (DocumentDB), and SQL Server. Familiar with MQTT and AMQP messaging protocols and publish-subscribe pattern.Led initiative to migrate on-premises, monolithic applications and services to microservice and serverless architectures provided to customers as a SaaS cloud service model. Trained development team on concepts of cloud development, microservices, serverless architectures, enterprise patterns, and migration strategy.Led technical aspects of initiative to redesign the SmartNexus admin portal UI and UX and migrate technology from ASP.NET Web Forms to AngularJS.Collaborated with Solution Architects, Product Owners and IoT security experts to architect cloud solutions, develop production-quality deliverables and create proof-of-concepts to meet customer requirements.

Provided full-stack development, requirements gathering and creation of technical specifications for parts of BCG’s OrgBuilder application. Developed HTTP services using ASP.NET Web API. Code First Entity Framework implementation targeting SQL Server. AngularJS used for front-end development.BCG is a multinational management consulting firm operating in over 50 countries.

Design and development of financial web applications and back-end systems. Worked with business stakeholders to document business processes and create technical requirements.Migrated legacy systems to a service-oriented architecture, which involved modeling financial data, schema design, migrating and validating data, and building out services.Developed REST services using ASP.NET Web API. Developed web applications using ASP.NET MVC and JavaScript/jQuery. Entity Framework implementation using LINQ-to-Entities targeting SQL Server. Unity used for DI. Microsoft Unit Testing Framework and nUnit used for testing; moq used for mocking.Morningstar is a global investment research and investment management firm.

Development of high-transaction, server-side .NET systems and applications hosted in Microsoft Azure. Worked on-site as a consultant.Developed news aggregation application for the L.A. Times using .NET, JavaScript, and JQuery.Worked with a three-person team to define and implement standards for development tools and testing frameworks such as nUnit, moq, Castle Windsor IoC container, and Cucumber for .NET. Implemented TDD practices.

Design and development of server-side systems, web and native applications as well as custom sync software for mobile devices for the medical industry.Designed and developed middle and data tiers of server-side systems using C#, ASP.NET, WCF web services and SQL. These web services drove all client-facing web apps as well as mobile web and client-side apps.Developed responsive web applications for use with mobile devices such as iPhone, Android and Blackberry using HTML5, JavaScript, JSON, jQuery/jQTouch, ASP.NET and C#.Developed native applications as well as sync and file transfer software for Windows Mobile and Palm OS/Access OS-based devices using C++, C, C#, ASP.NET and the .NET Compact Framework.Developed a server-side system using C++, MFC and SQL to create native Windows Mobile and Palm databases that are synced to the various mobile devices to serve as data sources for native mobile applications.

• 2001-2003 - Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) (CPG Data Analytics)• 2000-2001 - Dantis (Managed Web Hosting Startup)• 1988-2000 - Probusiness, Inc. (through acquisition of Conduit Software, Inc., Human Resources and Payroll Software Startup)• 1996-1998 - Creative Loafing (Newspaper, Advertising, Web Publishing)