Helping to decarbonize multi-tenant housing in NYC and beyond

Helping climate tech founders grow good ideas into successful climate companies

Solving technology problems for clients big and small across a wide range of industries.

The Climatebase fellowship is a 12-week cohort-based program for working professionals to expand their knowledge about applied climate solutions. Climatebase fellows are a diverse group of highly motivated professionals who study climate solutions through the lens of science, technology and innovation, policy and governance, and equity and justice.

Maintenance, bugfixes, new features, and support for an online store built on the Magento 2 platformConsulted on the feasibility of moving ecommerce operations off of Magento and onto alternative platforms including BigCommerce and an in-house Python application

I fight with computers using made-up languages to get them to do things.

Lead the Magento development team, giving technical guidance to its members in the U.S., Canada, and Romania, while facilitating effective remote collaboration.Responsible for the deployment of code to all systems and servers while continually improving and managing a development/testing process used by all branches of the development team.Provide emergency support for live site errors, issues with payment and shipping gateways, and system outages.Scope and build new features and create technical documentation to support new functionality and internal processes.Actively maintain and update internal development environments so new features can be effectively and efficiently tested in all stages of work.Participate in and/or lead semi-weekly status meetings to review completed tasks, discuss active tasks, coordinate testing and deployment efforts, and set priorities for developers.Review all new code to ensure that best practices are being followed.

Developed Enterprise-level ecommerce applications on the Magento 1 and Magento 2 platforms for 50+ clients in an agency setting, including new site builds, ongoing maintenance, and application upgrades. Consulted with clients in a senior technical role to architect solutions, provide estimates, write technical requirements for new implementations in response to the business requirements and user stories outlined by the client/sales/account/project management team, and drafted tech specs for developers to use as blueprints for building more complex new features. Responsible for deploying new code to production servers, troubleshooting issues with payment and shipping gateways, and providing server support during site outages. Managed the workload of delivery teams ranging in size from 4 to 10 members by using Scrum and Waterfall methodologies. Led weekly priority-setting meetings to plan work and daily standups to ensure that all planned work stayed on track.Made sure that all tasks were well-defined, with clear requirements and testing criteria, and worked to remove any anticipated impediments to their completion (i.e. answering new questions, connecting developers with resources that could help them, etc.)Coached junior developers and reviewed code created by direct reports to ensure that best practices were followed.

Self-employed web designer and web developer specializing in creating online stores for small businesses with OSCommerce, Zen Cart, Prestashop, Magento, Drupal e-commerce, and various Joomla and Wordpress ecommerce plugins. Also built and customized sites for clients in several other non-ecommerce applications and fully custom applications coded from scratch.

Designed and developed an online storefront for a guitar retailer/repair shop and integrated the sales and inventory with the brick-and-mortar store's POS software. Handled all online sales and customer service, shipping (domestic and international), marketing/newsletter and SEO. Also responsible for creating all product content, photography, and meta information.