Utility is an award-winning agency that launches digital products that scale. We partner with our clients to design and develop custom mobile applications and connected experiences. From global brands and media properties to innovative startups and funded ventures, we work with clients to bring their big ideas to life and transform their businesses.

Led the Marketplace and Schools product groups launching numerous new offerings used by over 7M+ educators including the company’s next-generation subscription product (TpT School Access).Oversaw engineering recruiting efforts including the creation of an apprenticeship program, pipeline improvements, branding and marketing materials, and numerous outreach programs.Developed technical vision, strategy, and staffing plans for the Marketplace and Schools groups ensuring product objectives were achieved while balancing technical quality and tech debt concerns.

Led numerous initiatives to improve diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I), career growth, and learning and development including:- Serving on the Diversity & Inclusion Taskforce​ that launched company-wide Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)- Leading design of a holistic onboarding program for new engineers and managers- Helping create and lead the engineering learning and development program (“Eng Learning Fridays”)- Introducing numerous career development improvements including "Hype Docs", career development plans, and level assessments- Creating new Tech Lead and manager training and support resources

Managed multiple teams of mobile and full-stack engineers.Led creating a high-performing engineering team through recruitment efforts, mentoring, and championing best practices (security, testing, CI/CD, peer review, logging, monitoring).Successfully led cross-functional collaboration between Engineering and Product, UX, and Project Management teams for on-time delivery of numerous products including a multi-party, large-scale distributed system: the “Shared Collection Catalog”.Led the evolution from a legacy monolith to a service-oriented architecture by building a highly-scalable, large volume platform with a microservice (Node.js, Java, PHP), event-driven (Kinesis/Kafka, RabbitMQ), serverless (Lambda), and container (ECS/Docker) architecture.Pioneered DevOps efforts to build a new, highly managed AWS account with a vast portfolio of AWS services.Led engineering to embrace a metrics-driven philosophy and built a large-scale data warehouse (Redshift) with dashboards, alerting, and monitoring.Owned the engineering roadmap and collaborated closely with leadership, product managers, and project managers on reporting, project, and product decisions.Led engineering to embrace a “security and privacy first approach” building an account/identity platform using OAuth and OpenID Connect and implementing OWASP recommendations and GDPR requirements.

Managed and recruited internal team while collaborating with external developers and UX designers.Built online workshop platform and marketplace for best-selling authors to teach and expand their audience used by over 500,000 people.Extensive experience using AWS services (EC2/RDS/Beanstalk) for scalable, high volume traffic and reliability.Created native iOS/Android mobile Cordova applications (Ionic) launched in Apple Store and Google Play.

Led consulting teams to build numerous high-traffic, consumer-facing and Intranet applications through all stages of software development life cycle.Clients included New York University, American Express, American Airlines, Women's Leadership Exchange and other large organizations.Acquired extensive experience in broad array of Internet services in Online Advertising (Google Adwords, Facebook Advertising), Analytics & Optimization (Optimizely, Google Analytics, Unbounce, Visual Website Optimizer, New Relic) and Payment Processing (Stripe, Authorize.net, ECHO).