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Arlington, Va, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Engineering and Technology Leader for the world's largest platform of educational games that can be used by anyone, to learn anything, anytime. 75% executive manager, 25% player-coach across all aspects of software/product development and data/analytics engineering. Our technology stack includes Unity, React/Javascript, Elixir/Phoenix, C#/.NET, Postgres, and AWS.

Leadership: Responsible for vision, strategy, and execution of technology products and services at Quad Learning. Original member of the senior management team.Product and Engineering: Hired and led a product and engineering team to create Quad, a world-class digital learning platform including live video classroom, personalized advising services, and social learning features. Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, Redis, Postgresql, Node.js, JSON API, iOS/Android, Ember.js, AWS architecture to support thousands of concurrent users. Championed a rigorous Scrum/Kanban methodology for engineering and company-wide agile workflow. Data Science: Directed a full analytics team and built a culture of data-driven decision making. Hands-on architect of data pipeline, warehouse, and reporting/visualization layer for dimensional reporting, predictive analytics and forecast models in support of business strategy. Tech stack: Python, AWS, Postgresql, Tableau, Google Data Services.Business Process Engineering: Led cross-departmental initiatives by assembling diverse teams with complementary skills for ground-up business process design and systems engineering. Expert customization of Salesforce platform as core system across all business units, including marketing, sales, call center operations, academic partnerships, and student services. Applied traditional product UX and user-centric approaches to design better services with low friction, high impact, and high customer satisfaction.Cloud IT: Established a fully cloud-based IT infrastructure from day one to support a modern, decentralized workforce of 100+ employees using G Suite (Google Apps), Box, Zoom, Slack, OneLogin, etc. Defined and implemented all company IT policies and best practices.Management: Mentored and motivated employees at all levels. Led company-wide management training program. Frequently represented the company at conference presentations, investor meetings, and speaking engagements.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Managed the overall execution and delivery of web development and technology products for Fleishman-Hillard's Digital practice group in Washington, D.C. in a high-growth environment with $18M+ annual revenue. Built a team of 15 highly qualified developers, engineers, product managers, business analysts and content strategists.Managed client relationships with Fortune 100 companies, governments, universities, and non-profits. Set budgets and managed team resource utilization and profitability. Led the implementation of websites, mobile and social apps, online products, marketing campaigns, interactive media, content optimization, CRM, and ecommerce projects. Initiated and developed Fleishman-Hillard’s expertise in content management systems, internationalization, and open source. Tech stacks: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), Microsoft (C#, VB, SQL Server), Adobe (Flash/Actionscript, After Effects), HTML5 (CSS, Javascript). Established content management expertise in Drupal, Wordpress, Sitecore, Sharepoint, Ektron, and Movable Type.

Dallas, Texas, Us

The largest online dating company in the UK at the time, with over 2.5M registered members,150K subscribers, and $25M+ annual UK revenue. Directed product development and technology operations for two international brands and high-volume consumer web sites following Match.com’s acquisition of Udate.com. Managed post-acquisition integration of product, technology, and staff while maintaining productivity, motivation, and focus. Established new policies for source control, coding standards, change management, quality assurance, task tracking, project management and documentation. Successfully relocated key employees and operations data center -- 100+ servers with zero downtime -- while reducing costs and ensuring site performance and availability.Tech stack for both platforms: ASP.NET (C#, VB), SQL Server, SQL Reporting Services, CSS/Javascript.

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

* Led web and database teams responsible for online financial software, serving up to 1 million daily page views. * Designed, implemented, and maintained distributed applications across large-scale web farms and multiple platforms.* Led database development for custom e-commerce platform.* Led software architecture and technical management for a custom email direct marketing platform.