Managed a department of 40+ software engineers, coaching teams on execution, agile development, release planning, backlog management.Worked closely with Product Management organization on execution, prioritization, release planning, agile development.Responsible for department-wide staffing including interviews, job descriptions, annual reviews.

Team LeadLed a young, inexperienced, talented team through a difficult project with tight deadlines and an at-risk client. Took a rough prototype and delivered a high performance system for testing correctness and compliance of publisher websites. Scaled the system to a theoretical capacity of 500,000 tests per day. Full stack development, agile planning guidance, product demonstrations, customer engagement, team leadership, career mentorship.Led a small team to modernize CJ's flagship front end application to ES6 JavaScript. Introduced a modern build pipeline based on npm, Gulp and Webpack.Front End Chapter LeadManaged a department-wide group of developers and designers improving the quality and consistency of our front end applications. Provided guidance to the department on technologies, training, coding standards. Prototyped and introduced React as the department-wide preferred technology for all front end applications. Oversaw development of the open source Visual Stack library of reusable React components.Principal EngineerDeveloped an early prototype front end application used to demonstrate insights concept and explore requirements with customers and internal stakeholders. The application was featured prominently in the 2016 CJU Solutions Lounge.Built an agile project management tool on top of Atlassian Jira to facilitate release planning and backlog management. Original intention was to plug a gap in the Jira toolset for a single team. The tool has grown and is now used company-wide to provide a data-driven snapshot of progress over time.

Delivered a mobile SDK for event tracking in IOS applications. Developed and published a full IOS application containing the SDK to the App Store. This project required me to quickly learn Objective C and XCode.Delivered a new Developer Portal allowing customers and third party developers access to the IOS and Android Tracking SDKs and created documentation on how to use them.

Hired to build a next generation display advertising system. Designed, coded, tested an application that implemented complex rulesets across multiple advertising networks, user attributes and geographic configurations.Implemented data migration tools to ETL ad server data into a reporting-friendly schema and an internal-facing, web-based application providing near-realtime KPIs, impression statistics, CPMs, revenue. Node.js, CoffeeScript, MongoDB, Mocha, PostgreSql, MySql, AWS.

Formed the nucleus of a new Internal Applications team to aggregate and modernize various legacy financial and internal business applications. Led the interview and hiring process.Coordinated the successful upgrade and migration of existing Microsoft Dynamics GP server and 15+ client installations.Introduced an internal-facing, web-based portal as a home for migrated and future interfaces produced by the team. Rewrote legacy financial application. ASP.NET MVC, Castle Windsor, NUnit, Rhino Mocks, MSSQL. Delivered multiple data migration applications compliant with the company's extensive data security policies.

Assembled and managed a team responsible for multiple internal applications. Full stack development, devops, hiring, annual reviews, agile planning. Reported to CTO. .NET, C#, MSSQL.Technical project management / leadership on key operations-focused development projects. Specifications, design documents, test plans, cross-team project coordination, demos.

Built web-based customer service / business process application. Integrated with core game engine and multiple datasources and web services to support customer service, cashier, marketing/promotions, affiliate management, operations, fraud and game security. Initiated Domain Driven Design-based re-architecture of the application in response to the evolving enterprise architecture and business requirements. .NET, C#, WCF, MSSQL.Initiated agile transformation within the IT organization. Hired the company's first ScrumMaster. Team success led to Scrum adoption across the company.

Rewrote UNIX shell / Perl batch nightly jobs to populate data warehouse, adding error handling, logging, automation. Bash, Perl.Developed rules-based royalty and commission calculator and features for Customer Account Management application. Java, ATG Dynamo, Oracle.

Created Java connectors to third party data sources from Day's flagship content management product, Communiqué Unify. Developed specs and code to connect Communiqué to IBM's Enterprise Information Portal. Worked closely with Day partners from Germany to develop the requirements and initial specification for an SAP connector. Completed initial implementation and started porting to JCA architecture.

Developed multi-threaded, distributed, high throughput email delivery system. Introduced and developed guidelines within the core engineering team for unit testing with JUnit. Java, JavaScript, Oracle, SMTP.Created web-based monitoring tools for the operations team. Tools monitored system activity, performance, machine memory / CPU usage, and delivery schedule.

Hands-on leadership of 4-6 member engineering team. Development, scheduling, hiring, project management, code review. Reported to VP of Engineering. Prototyped and evaluated technology for Styleclick.com e-commerce project. Eventually, the company pivoted and renamed to focus on this project.Front-end development for a desktop CD-ROM product, sponsored by Intel and published by Sierra Home. Extensive use of early JavaScript and CSS integrated with IE4(!) and ActiveX.