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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Served as a technical leader across d2c and b2b applications• Led vision and strategy for our front-end technologies and practices• Instilled emotional/relational intelligence into the tech hiring process• Partnering with engineering management to shape interview and hiring practices• Fostered collaborative problem-solving through pair coding, mentored junior teammates through the onboarding period, troubleshot inherited code, and contributed new approaches and code patterns to the code base that reduced tech debt and increased reusability

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Collaborated with and reported to leadership for a transportation technology startup creating an all-in-one routing and live navigation management platform for school districts (Node, React, Firebase, GCP, DevOps, Microservices).• Hired to take over engineering responsibilities and to transition into leadership• Increased scalability of tech stack by identifying/prioritizing action areas and spearheading efforts to position for rapid growth.• Improved company culture through constructive communication, emotional support, and team-building efforts.• Reduced tech debt, contributed ideas to improve QA processes, and helped to implement valuable engineering practices.• Proposed and implemented new features that helped the organization achieve positive MoM growth that exceeded 130% as of June 2022

Greater Boston Area

Collaborated with and reported to the CTO for an IoT security startup creating an advanced security platform for IoT manufacturers.• Stepped in to immediately assess and present a plan to rebuild the previous web application from scratch• Improved sales support by re-evaluating architectural and tooling choices and updating the tech stack to serve more fast-paced feature development and deployment• Vastly improved quality of the user experience and reduced troubleshooting/bug-hunting hours by implementing unit and integration tests and adhering to them as part of QA.• Drastically reduced development cycles using better tools, better QA, and better engineering practices• Created an industry-leading application that serves Fortune 250 clients

Denver. Co

Walkthrough was a TechStars Graduate and was one of Denver’s Top 50 Startups to Watch in 2018.• Met demanding schedules by building an MVP marketplace app in under three months from concept to revenue generation using Django, Python, React, PostgreSQL, SASS, and AWS (EC2, RDS, S3).• Stopped costly issues and loss of customers by aggressively assessing the existing Python & JavaScript code base after the technical founder moved on. • Increased customer satisfaction by discovering and fixing critical issues quickly, even in off-hours if necessary.• Reduced the time cost of hiring by interviewing and working with engineering hires to on-board them quickly. Documented the existing IP and technical assets. • Increased productivity by implementing Agile/Scrum engineering principles.• Increased the quality of the product & service by implementing Dev Ops procedures such as staging environments, Git version control and using AWS to provision staging environments, and implementing peer review processes.

Greenfield, Ma

Provided consulting and engineering services to a wide range of clients across various industries• Instrumental in increasing online sales for a $30mm+/yr catalog company from $1 to $3 million/yr by spearheading a ground-up php, MySQL, and JavaScript-based website using open-source tools.• Guided a regional coffee roaster to more effectively reach customers online by planning & implementing a new website with full eCommerce capabilities. Sales increased from $25k up to $90k+/year and maintained a cost overhead of roughly 7% over a four-year period with minimal customer acquisition efforts.• Made it possible for a large art supply distribution company generate over $1.4 million dollars in sales with a specialized buying system that allowed their buyer-customers to make rapid bulk purchases at high volume during their annual trade shows. Built with PHP, MySQL, and Angular, hosted on Apache.• Helped a leading national paper company drive sales by developing advanced store locator tools using PHP, Angular, and Elasticsearch on multiple high-traffic websites.

Boston, Ma

Provided technical leadership for a privately-funded startup that raised $1.3m to develop opportunities in the collector car auction market• Helped lead the company to a $1.3m private investment seed round by advising the founder pre-raise on the critical technical aspects of the business concept.• Kept branding and product development on-schedule by leading the selection process for both our contract branding agency and our contract engineers to develop technical IP for our online auction market. Managed a collective team of 10. Solely responsible for all tech stack decision-making using PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch and Apache.• Increased brand awareness and strategic partnerships by helping to lead the company into exploratory partnerships with NESN as well as major collector car auction houses like Barrett-Jackson and Mecum.• Helped control costs by effectively managing a monthly engineering budget of roughly $40,000.