Homebot drives repeat and referral business for real estate agents and loan officers by helping their clients build wealth.Responsible for research, development, and delivery of all Homebot products, IT, and corporate security. Includes ownership and responsibility of the full product development life cycle and associated Design, Product, and Engineering teams. Additionally responsible for the corporate security program, including maintenance of SOC II compliance, and associated security team.

Charter Communications is the second largest US cable operator, providing Internet, Mobile, Cable/TV, and voice services to over 25M customers in 41 states.Responsible for overall development, delivery, and maintenance of the spectrum.net, spectrumbusiness.net, and Voice Online Manager (VOM) properties.Notable achievements and responsibilities include:- Management of 50+ team members comprised of Directors, Managers, Architects, Front End Developers, Front End QA (manual and automation), and Integration Engineers based out of local and distributed locations- Develop and implement standardized recruitment and on-boarding processes- Develop and implement broad organizational structure, including defined roles and consistent job families- Develop and implement technical and managerial career development tracks- Lead initiative to re-architect Angular front end portal applications from independent and redundant systems to a comprehensive shared architecture based on flexible, reusable components, high automation, and consolidation into a single monorepo- Provide cross-functional thought leadership and guidance for moving from siloed, waterfall-based product development process to SAFe-based lean and agile, data-driven methodology- Oversee and guide ongoing effort to optimize existing, highly manual software delivery process to one based on automation of CI/CD, testing, and deployment across multiple, disparate and complex enterprise-level environments through to production- Oversee process of consolidating multiple portal applications obtained through the acquisition of Time-Warner Cable and Bright House Networks into a single, Spectrum-branded experience- Develop and manage annual capacity plan in support of Product and Technology-driven roadmaps- Review potential technology, recruitment, service, etc. vendors, and maintain ongoing contracts and relationships

GutCheck is a pioneer in agile market research, providing fast and actionable answers to businesses via quantitative and qualitative research methodologies augmented by analysis of primary and third party data sources.Develop and direct all aspects of the Engineering organization responsible for building and maintaining applications and infrastructure for both internal and external facing clients. Additionally, develop and direct all aspects of IT operations responsible for providing internal technical end user support, asset procurement and provisioning, and oversight of the security management organization.Notable achievements include:- Built a 22 member Engineering team (20 net new) over the course of 16 months with no agency referrals- Increased Engineering employee satisfaction ratings from 40% to over 90% within the first 6 months- Implemented Lean and Agile based PDLC and SDLC processes across entire organization, including other departments not directly involved with R&D- Orchestrated effort to completely rebuild legacy platform from monolithic app to a modern, decoupled service oriented architecture with multiple front end clients- Architected and built front end platform using Angular 1.x, with proprietary NPM modules, designed with Angular 2 forward compatibility and CI/CD readiness in mind- Reduced production defect rates from over 30% to less than 1.5%- Contributed to securing $12M series D round of funding- Served as executive sponsor for obtaining ISO 27001 certification

Now defunct, Open Book Ben's vision was to provide detailed information about a given business' fiduciary and ethical worthiness using crowd-sourced data augmented by publicly available data sources.Develop and direct all aspects of the Engineering department building highly scalable applications related to big data problems, including technical direction, application architecture, project lifecycle, human resource management, and product development.Notable achievements and responsibilities include:- Built Engineering team from three to eleven over the course of two months in a challenging technical talent market, including Java, Python, and Front End developers- Implemented Agile development practices using a hybrid of scrum and kanban with Atlassian toolset (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)- Implemented PDLC to gather and flesh out requirements, including mocks, comps, and technical implementation detail documentation- Managed relationship between the Engineering department and the business stakeholders, including all other Corporate departments, the Board of Directors, and Investors- Provided mentorship, guidance, and oversight for eleven direct reports- Architected and built front end application using AngularJS, Grunt, NodeJS, and Apache, with a custom mocking framework, that supports multiple application types, environments, and API sources- Participated in architectural design for data collection and aggregation tier built with Python- Participated in architectural design for middle tier built with Java, Cassandra, Spark, and Hadoop using the Lamda design pattern and Graph database principles- Supported automated deployments of all applications to Google Cloud Services with Jenkins and other automated build tools

ReadyTalk provides conferencing solutions that power meetings and webinars for businesses of all sizes.Manage a team of Engineers responsible for the development and maintenance of the ReadyTalk back office applications, including billing and salesforce integration, as well as the corporate website. Development conducted using Kanban process management, with both LAMP and Java stacks.

Experian is a consumer credit reporting agency that collects and aggregates data on over 1B people and businesses worldwide.Grow and manage team of Web Developers to develop highly trafficked, internationally recognized properties including freecreditreport.com, freecreditscore.com, creditexpert.co.uk, and protectmyid.com. Responsible for the entire UK development team as well as 1/3 of the US development team. Achievements include building team from 1 developer to 13 over the course of 5 months, establishing best practices between corporate and newly formed Denver office, shepherding team through multiple development projects, conducting end-of-year performance reviews, and instituting Agile development practices, when practicable.

Vail Resorts is an snow sports industry titan, owning and operating ski resorts, hotels, and other hospitality-related businesses in several US states and Canada.Manage product development and delivery for onthesnow.com, a top web property in the snow sports vertical market. Includes development of business requirements, wireframes, and comps for initiative to rebrand existing property to enhance growth and revenue. Also manage development team, instituting new best practices based on agile/SCRUM methodologies, version control, release schedule, and configuration management. Milestones include a complete redesign of two properties, instituting new recommendation engines, search engines, flexible ad delivery platform, enhanced content management, and branded campaign management while maintaining existing SEO best practices. All of this was completed on-time and within budget, despite numerous staffing and technical obstacles that cropped-up during the development period.

Photobucket.com is an image and video hosting provider with over 100M registered members, hosting over 10B pieces of media.Manage and provide direction to team of Engineers responsible for all branded sponsorships and revenue impacting content throughout a site that has 55M monthly unique visitors, over 100M registrations, over 26M active users, over 8B images, and consistently appears near the top of comScore rankings (as of 2011).Includes maintenance and new development, from working with other departments through the concept phase in Product, through development and delivery in Engineering.Clients include, but aren't limited to, the following:- Universal Pictures- 20th Century Fox- MGM- Disney- Microsoft- Apple- HP- Kodak- Canon- LG- Verizon- AT&TWork with the ad trafficking team to develop and support the ad serving framework used throughout the site. Includes a complicated, lengthy project to migrate from Ad Manager to aiMatch without disruption of service.Manage codebase and release schedule using Subversion, Mercurial, and slack.

US-Reports (now AFIRM) provides premium audits, inspections, and risk services for the Insurance industry.Developed web software applications for internal use. Projects included the following:- Developed custom MVC framework for use by all corporate sites, both internal and external, using PHP, smarty templates, and SQL server- Developed redesigned corporate site and migrated from static HTML to new MVC framework- Began migration of internal systems to new MVC framework

CheckMark Software provides Accounting and Payroll software and services for small-medium sized businesses.Develop applications for the web for both public and internal use. Technologies used include PHP 4 & 5, MySQL, FileMaker, Apache, FreeBSD, *nix, and Flash.Specific projects include:- Complete redesign and development of corporate website, migrating it from static HTML to dynamic, database driven site using PHP, MySQL, ODBC (to pull/push internal FileMaker data to/from the website), CSS, JS, and Flash- Integrated third party osCommerce shopping cart system into corporate website and internal ordering process so that users could purchase new desktop applications as well as annual software updates, annual tax forms, software support packages, and other products and services- Designed and developed content management system (CMS) for internal use in managing elements of the corporate website, customer records, and sales products