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Sydney, NSW, AU

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Technical leader, defining future state and strategy for the Home Security Platform, including hands-on contributions. Enabled and led team growth from four engineers to more than thirty.

New York, NY, US

Led team of full-stack engineers to deliver search-based features in the user applications. Wrote web services and web applications using Express/Node.js, Coffeescript, Docker, and React.

Dundalk, County Louth, IE

(Cimpress is the parent company of Vistaprint) Led group’s design and launch fourteen cloud-scale microservices for manufacturing. All services are zero-downtime and have fully automated deployment and infrastructure configuration. Uses a Serverless stack of nodejs on Amazon Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, Elasticsearch, SQS, SNS, and S3.

Dundalk, County Louth, IE

(Cimpress is the parent company of Vistaprint) Technical lead of 130 engineers in developing and maintaining a world-class custom manufacturing system, following lean manufacturing principles, resulting in gross margins greater than 60%, from manufacturing sites around the world, averaging 70,000 shipments per day.

Waltham, MA, US

Developed and maintained shared in-house libraries and frameworks, including features such as logging, data access, and other general purposes. Designed and led development of replacement build system for monolithic Vistaprint website. Reduced the build mean time to resolution of breakages.

Waltham, MA, US

Led team of four in implementation of in-store, partner-branded kiosk solution for big-box office supply partners.

Haarlem, ., NL

Responsible for the design of the platform architecture for search-related web applications, including Lycos Search, HotBot, search verticals such as Dating Search and Multimedia Search, and forthcoming innovations. Also responsible for selection of platform development technologies and methodology.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

As the lead engineer for the Windows platform development, performed analysis and design, and lead implementation of Windows server components in.NET and COM technologies.

Served as the lead technical resource on various software development projects for government agencies.

Led multiple project teams to integrate cable set-top box commercial platform with multiple set top box technologies. Initiated project with a proof-of-concept prototype, and led project team through multiple iterations and general release.

Established firm to provide customers with consulting services and solutions. As the application architect, designed and led development of systems for clients.

Led development of database components for all telephony software products, which were high volume (millions of users), quick response applications.

Montreal, QC, CA

Implemented migration of commercial lending application from flat-file storage to a relational database. Work technology included C++, Unix, embedded SQL, and Sybase.

Ba, Public Policy

High School Degree