Edward Simpson Email & Phone Number

CA

• Built startup websites in collaboration with founders and other software developers
• Contributed to new product design
• Jumped into existing teams and helped move technical development along
• Collaborated with founder and other team members to pivot to a new business model
• Researched and made key technology-adoption decisions
• Developed back-end services and web front-ends using Ruby on Rails

• Our marketplace platform connected families with the providers, services, and information they need to solve some of parenting's toughest challenges.As CTO, I built and operated the following:
• Parenting-services directory: Ruby-on-Rails site hosted on Heroku with Solr search engine and PostgreSQL database.
• Payment gateway for parenting providers: Tools that allowed providers to accept online payments from their clients (parents). Implemented with Ruby-on-Rails using Stripe Connect (Stripe's marketplace platform).
• Mailing list: Content and scheduling based on the ages of the subscribers' children. I constructed a Ruby-on-Rails service that created and scheduled campaigns via the MailChimp API.
• Blog: WordPress site hosted on DreamHost.We used behavior-driven and test-driven development (Cucumber and Rspec).I hired and managed a remote software developer who contributed to all aspects of our technology. I also.

New York, New York, US

• Aided expansion of BabyCenter into the Chinese market by implementing Chinese character support in their international email delivery system
• Increased the reliability and throughput of BabyCenter's outreach email delivery system by working with operations staff to upgrade the hardware platform
• Increased the quality of the email delivery system by building testing tools to be used by the Quality Assurance team
• Helped improve the product development process by suggesting modifications to BabyCenter's implementation of Scrum (an agile development practice)

New York, New York, US

• Increased predictability, quality, and throughput of the product development process by introducing Scrum, an agile development practice, to the company
• Helped provide core outreach to BabyCenter members and e-commerce customers by playing a key role in the design and development of the BabyCenter email system which was used to author and deliver millions of.
• Supported BabyCenter’s re-entry to e-commerce by contributing to the design and development of the e-commerce order processing system
• Supported BabyCenter’s online paid-content service by contributing to the design and development of the member subscription system, as well as leading the ongoing technical development of the service
• Improved the reliability and performance of BabyCenter's content site, e-commerce site, and bulletin board system by leading the technical team that upgraded the member personalization system

• Served as interim Technical Director during a six-month transition period
• Ensured performance, reliability, and security of national dial-up Internet access, international information networking, website hosting services, online conferencing, and mailing lists by contributing to the.
• Provided technical advice to sister organizations around the world
• Improved collaborative capabilities of subscribers by installing and making extensive improvements to a mailing list management and delivery system; helped implement a gateway between mailing lists and the online.
• Ensured security for subscribed members that used various collaboration tools by installing, improving, and maintaining routers, firewalls, and security scanning mechanisms
• Supported sister organization Nicarao in Managua, Nicaragua, during a month-long consultation visit in 1996 by upgrading and migrating their software systems and training their staff on the use of the new systems

Durham, North Carolina, US

• Contributed to basic medical research and treatment of cardiovascular pathologies by designing and developing software for:
• analysis of cardiac arrhythmia data obtained in the laboratory and clinic
• automated control of cardiac tissue experiments in the laboratory

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Zoology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Zoology