As the VP of Engineering, I lead a cross-functional team overseeing the development and delivery of our EdTech SaaS platform facilitating social-emotional assessments for millions of K-12 students annually.Leveraged AI to deliver language translations on our UI, allowing internationalization to happen in our CICD pipeline whenever text changes happen. Allowing human review to overwrite any AI translations when needed. Spearheaded a complex SOC 2 Type 2 audit, establishing rigorous security processes and documentation to achieve compliance. Instituted comprehensive career development programs to upskill the engineering team and provide rewarding growth opportunities.Implemented agile best practices including continuous integration/deployment pipelines to enhance product quality and accelerate time-to-market. Fostered a collaborative culture centered around mentorship, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.Currently driving strategic initiatives focused on innovative product enhancements and scaling our platform's architecture to accommodate rapid user growth. Championing DEIB efforts to build high-performing, inclusive teams that maximize diversity of thought.

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Led a set of globally dispersed, cross-functional engineering teams comprising up to 20 members across various skillsets and geographic locations. Achieved elite DORA metrics through fostering an environment of continuous improvement and operational excellence.Spearheaded DEIB initiatives as the steering committee lead, setting focused goals that increased gender diversity in engineering from 6% to 18%. Instituted regular team health checks to facilitate open dialogue and quickly identify areas for enhancement.Cultivated an engaging remote culture by launching an "Engineering Fun Committee" that hosted monthly team-building activities to connect members across regions. Improved collaboration by defining department-wide working hours that accommodated multiple time zones and sharing cultural learning opportunities.Led a major architectural refactoring of the B2B2C product, decreasing development cycles and risk through modern software practices and contracted APIs. Strategically broke down the re-platforming into an iterative, product-aligned roadmap.Facilitated seamless onboarding by creating reusable "Crash Course" resources and optimizing processes. Established a grooming framework with the support team to maintain a streamlined bug backlog for faster issue resolution.

Served as an Engineering Leader managing multiple high-performing teams responsible for O.C. Tanner's flagship $280M annual revenue product. Spearheaded transformation initiatives to double team velocities and enhance productivity through process optimization and cultural empowerment.Streamlined operations by clarifying request/bug tracking workflows and implementing transparent roadmaps for transitioning the monolithic system to a distributed microservices architecture. Fostered seamless collaboration between technical teams, client relations, production, and design stakeholders to maintain service reliability.Championed an inclusive, psychologically safe team culture anchored in continuous improvement. Institutionalized remote-first practices pre-COVID, enabling a frictionless transition to fully distributed teams during the pandemic.A passionate advocate for diversity, created and led O.C. Tanner's Women in Tech employee resource group. Hosted panel discussions, mentoring circles, and development events to provide a supportive community for learning, growing, and driving career advancement for underrepresented technologists.Addressed compensation disparities through equitable salary adjustments, promoting a sense of empowerment. Maintained transparency to ensure robust alignment across multi-team projects and on-time delivery of key milestones.

Served as the Engineering Director leading a globally distributed team of 30+ engineers spanning various skill sets from junior to senior levels, including engineering managers. Reported directly to the CTO with a dotted line to the Commercial GM overseeing Envato's content marketplace.Collaborated extensively with cross-functional leaders in UX, Design, Analytics, Operations, and Commercial units to provide technical guidance and develop strategic roadmaps impacting 1/3 of the engineering department. Oversaw end-to-end ownership including cost management, architecture design, security, risk assessment, and operations for mission-critical systems handling digital content collection, verification, storage, and marketplace serving.Maintained a 2-year rolling forecast to ensure proper budgeting and resource allocation for the engineering department. Established a comprehensive risk registry to provide executive leadership and the Board with transparency into the technical risk landscape.Championed DEIB initiatives, revitalizing the Women in Tech group and fostering an inclusive culture of open dialogue, mutual support, and celebrating achievements. Proactively created growth opportunities and provided mentorship to uplift team members across all backgrounds.Instituted Agile best practices, continuous integration/deployment pipelines, and operational processes to enhance product quality, reduce time-to-market, and drive operational excellence across distributed systems and teams.

- Manage, direct and lead 5 teams each with front end developers, full stack developers, and testers.- Participate immensely with incorporating the agile software process and continue a focus to maintain and enhance to have the best process for the needs at hand- Provide solutions for easier workflow and enhanced communication- Act as the "scrum master" for a process that follows directly under agile and most like the scrum process- Work directly with Tech Leads to choose and direct architecture and new technology decisions- Lead technical interviews; providing information about iFit, requesting information about them and searching for their technical skill level- Guiding new hires through setup and training process- Strive to provide a comfortable work environment while keeping coding standards in place across the teams and providing ability for growth for developers- Deliver information and structure knowledge of the code base- Put together and run retrospective activities that are dynamic and diverse to facilitate communication, spark ideas, and provide change so that the retrospective doesn't become dull or unthoughtful- Facilitate technical team discussions

- Placed in charge of overseeing the development of the front end of ifit.com while developing full feature sets from the backend though to an interactive the front end- Developed, maintained and enhanced the payment process and auto renewals - Architected and enhanced MongoDB collections- Respond quickly, creating needed scripts and Mongo queries to gather data for our marketing and sales teams- Lead contractors and team members increasing effectiveness and pace when in need of deadlines or fast turn around times- Developed and maintained several large feature sets including all areas of interaction- Develop in Node.js, Javascript, Jquery, Jade, Less, Mongoose, MongoDB, Redis, Express, Backbone, React

- Worked directly with sales, marketing, and technical directors to choose direction of projects and provide current information on a variety of projects- Ran one on ones with entire development team- Interviewed, hired and trained new employees- Worked to enhance communication, clear focus on tasks and projects, and stable software process

~Created an interactive web site using Javascript and Jquery with an embedded SVG metabolic pathway processed through Matlab that increases the currently available feature set gene knockout research.~Processed large metabolic maps such as ECOLI into readable displays showing the interrogate connections of the substrates, products and chemical reactions that occur.

~Developed, enhanced, and maintained multiple software products, executing customers specialty requests.~Planned, tasked out, and developed enhancements following the Scrum Methodology and using Test Driven Development.~Actively engaged in code reviews on a small and large basis to guarantee the quality of code written and to further discuss the overall architecture changes of the system.~Frequently participated and lead continued learning discussions on a variety of topics such as SOLID, and OOP Design Principles.~Scrum Master, frequently making tweaks to processes to increase team performance, 
often leading team discussions to incorporate everyone’s input and planning team building activities for the continuation of employee moral.~Developed in C#, Windows Form, WPF with occasional development in Javascript, and HTML.

~Responsible for developing and maintaining projects valuing over a million dollars in annual revenue.~Worked closely with production, project managers, sales and clients to ensure all customer requirements are being produced in a quality manner.~Efficiently documented and tested all new developments through unit tests, integration tests and system tests to ensure all software requirements are being met.~Maintained projects in Cobol and Mainframe while implementing and upgrading projects to open systems using xml, control files, and in-house software.