* Develop and support Hadoop and HBase for use by internal R&D teams. Act as liaison with Apache community in creating feature enhancements driven by internal project needs.* Support internal operations team in diagnosing and fixing functional or performance problems with Hadoop and HBase cluster.* Advise internal development teams on optimal usage of Hadoop and HBase. Identify performance issues in application code and map-reduce jobs. Consult on HBase schema design to best satisfy application requirements.

* Managed a team of software engineers: conducted code and technical architecture reviews, mentored engineers on performance and scalability considerations and sound design strategies.* Worked with other lead developers, VP of Engineering and CTO to define development standards and process.* Built scalable and robust technical infrastructure for meetup.com.

Managed a team of programmers to create public facing applications:* Citizen Science programs: Data entry, analysis and visualization applications for Christmas Bird Count and Important Bird Areas programs* Audubon Portal: Led effort to unify all web applications under an enterprise-wide single-sign-on and access control framework.* Online Credit-Card Donations: Designed and developed organization-wide system to process credit-card donations, including self-service publishing of individual donation forms.

Customized and integrated eMeta's enterprise e-commerce platform, eRights, in client projects with the Professional Services team. Interpreted client requirements, documented technical design and specifications, and developed implementations. Coordinated implementation with client developers and provided developer, integration and deployment support.

Roles ranged from technical project lead providing application architecture and design documents for a team of programmers, to performing complete system design, implementation and documentation.

Reporting to the Director of Online Marketing, developed technical strategy for Warner Books' and Little, Brown & Co.'s online presence.