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Managed and hired for multiple teams of engineers (including offshore) to provide features and continuous improvements of loan servicing system, online payment and loan servicing public site application, and Prosper’s second major product (Home Equity Line of Credit).Led team for Data Engineering to create new Prosper's Direct Mail Marketing program based on scoring and selection of credit report data.Introduced Kotlin (JVM language) to Engineering stack by creating POCs and holding workshops.Led engineering DevOps team to create deployment platform using Ansible and Jenkins.Designed federated front-end application suite to provide sophisticated tools for back-office business teams.Coached multiple teams on Scrum framework, principles, and values as Scrum Master in Prosper's Agile transformation effort.

Designed and built Prosper's core loan servicing system, integrating it with external products and internal systems to track loan lifecycle and history. Responsible for systems' 24/7/365 availability.Redesigned and built Prosper's Origination Service — extracting it from a monolithic .NET Remoting application to Java RESTful web service.

Created multiple integration applications (Marketo, Stripe) to synchronize with Insightly user data.Converted ASP.NET WebForms application into Javascript / MVC application.Created Insightly’s API developer documentation website using Microsoft’s API Explorer and custom attributes to keep the documentation details dynamic and inline with web API methods.Created first version of Insightly iOS app using Xamarin platform.

Advised on software design and requirements gathering, wrote design documents for legal/HRIS software.

Directly managed, guided, and participated in 13-member development team for multiple product lines. Led product integration and partnership strategies with HRIS systems. Created vision for next-generation multi-tenanted web applications. Served as member of Management Team tasked with determining company focus, marketing strategies, and product direction. Created departmental budgets and quarterly metrics. Hired and mentored development team members.

Department of English, Composition, and Literature

Department of English Literature ClassesClasses in English and Composition and Rhetoric