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As an Engineering Manager at Stack Adapt I lead a talented team on the Campaign Execution team. My role involves managing software engineers, overseeing projects, planning, hiring, evaluations, and promotions, while also contributing as a software engineer.Key Responsibilities:- Team Leadership: Mentor and support a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative environment.- Project Management: Plan and manage projects to ensure timely and successful delivery, aligned with company goals.- Hiring & Development: Attract top talent, and implement evaluation and promotion systems to develop and retain team members.- Technical Contribution: Contribute to the codebase, working with technologies such as React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and Ruby on Rails.- Strategic Planning: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project scopes and set milestones.Technologies We Use:- Frontend: React, TypeScript- Backend: GraphQL, Ruby on RailsQualifications:- Strong leadership and team-building skills, with a passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent.- Proven experience in project management with a successful track record of delivering complex software projects.- Expertise in modern web development technologies, including hands-on experience with React and TypeScript, as well as over a decade of ad tech industry experience.- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration with diverse teams.About Stack Adapt:Stack Adapt is a leading advertising technology company that provides cutting-edge solutions for programmatic advertising. Our platform empowers businesses to reach their target audiences through advanced machine learning and data-driven strategies. Join us to be part of a dynamic team shaping the future of digital advertising.

St John’S, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

✨ Achievements: 🏆 Mentored and empowered a team of 7 engineers, resulting in accelerated development cycles, heightened code quality, and substantial reduction in technical debt across 7 critical codebases. Introduced automated hook-based linting, type-checking, and regression tests, effectively preventing bugs and elevating overall code quality. 💡 Pioneered early-stage wireframing and prototyping, aligning seamlessly with Product teams and providing invaluable guidance to engineering teams. This process streamlined product development, ensuring on-time delivery of complex, cross-cutting products consistently. 💡 Conceptualized and executed Slices, a mission-critical tool, standardizing data structures for developers and introducing an intuitive UI for managers. This revolutionary tool significantly boosted productivity, fostering cross-team utilization of crucial targeting data. 💰 Drove millions in new revenue by architecting Audiences and Advanced Targeting for Deals, a pivotal revenue-generating product. Conducted extensive research and masterminded the successful integration of these critical business features. ⏱ Identified inefficiencies through meticulous user research and spearheaded a transformative project, consolidating multiple UIs into a seamless workflow. This effort saved account owners countless hours per account, enhancing operational efficiency. 🚀 Authored detailed tech specs complete with code samples, catalyzing rapid development and doubling product development velocity. 🌐 Orchestrated the unification of design processes across acquired assets, establishing consistent interfaces and themes to reflect a unified brand image. Integrated 5 independent development teams into a cohesive frontend tech stack and standardized deployment processes.🤝 Let's connect! Open to opportunities and networking in the UX, Engineering, and Product domains.

St John’S, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

✨ Key Responsibilities: 🛠️ Led the development and maintenance of a customized design system tailored to the unique needs of the company, ensuring a cohesive and intuitive user experience across products. 🌟 Architected and sustained a library of shared UI components, fostering collaboration, consistency, and efficiency in product development. 📊 Tracked and meticulously analyzed user behavior to derive actionable insights, informing data-driven decisions aimed at optimizing product usability and overall user satisfaction. 📝 Authored comprehensive documentation outlining design system rules and guidelines, serving as a crucial resource for design and development teams to ensure adherence and consistency. 🗣 Conducted user interviews and thorough analyses, gaining valuable perspectives to refine product experiences and align them with user expectations and preferences. 🤝 Provided dedicated support to frontend teams, leveraging technical expertise and fostering a collaborative environment for successful project execution and achievement of development goals. 🏢 Stepped into a team lead role as needed, coordinating efforts and guiding teams toward the successful implementation of projects, all while maintaining a strong focus on delivering exceptional user experiences.✅ Accomplishments: 🏆 Successfully championed a cohesive design system, resulting in a unified and intuitive interface that significantly improved user satisfaction and streamlined development processes. 💡 Played a pivotal role in refining the shared UI components library, enhancing collaboration and reducing development time, ultimately leading to a more efficient product development cycle. 📈 Utilized user behavior insights to drive product enhancements, resulting in a substantial improvement in product usability and user engagement metrics.

St. John'S, Newfoundland & Labrador

✨ Key Responsibilities: 🛠️ Led a cross-functional effort within the UX/UI team at Rubicon Project, focusing on unifying the visual identity and user experience across the organization's suite of applications. 👥 Collaborated closely with UX and UI teams to ensure seamless integration of design elements, prioritizing user-centric decisions and effectively balancing aesthetics with functionality. 💻 Drove the engineering aspect of the mission by building and maintaining a library of reusable JavaScript components using ReactJS, optimizing development processes and promoting code reusability. 🌟 Supported multiple teams in leveraging these components, providing technical guidance and fostering adoption to enhance overall product development efficiency and consistency. 📢 Actively advocated for the team's offerings, promoting best practices, efficient workflows, and a unified design system to stakeholders and teams across the organization.✅ Accomplishments: 🏆 Successfully spearheaded the harmonization of app interfaces, resulting in a consistent and intuitive user experience across the organization's applications, positively impacting user satisfaction and usability. 💡 Established an efficient system of reusable JavaScript components, substantially reducing development time and effort, and contributing to a more scalable and maintainable codebase. 📊 Elevated team awareness and adoption of the shared component library, leading to improved product development speed, quality, and design consistency.

St. John'S, Newfoundland & Labrador

✨ Key Responsibilities: 🛠️ Served as a dedicated JavaScript developer within the Fastlane team, focusing on enhancements and optimizations of a header bidding solution. Conducted vital research and development efforts, focusing on optimizing client-side code to boost performance. Employed Vanilla JS extensively. 💼 Engaged as a key contributor to Prebid, an open-source header bidding solution, as part of a collaborative initiative with AppNexus, enriching the header bidding landscape. 🌟 Extended contributions to the FrontEndgine team by developing essential UI components, enriching the overall user interface and experience. ⚙️ Led projects as a full-stack developer on the Seller Cloud Self-Serve team, responsible for comprehensive UI development, backend payments, and automation. Utilized PHP, MySQL, and AngularJS for efficient project execution. 🔄 Undertook a pivotal role in gracefully shutting down the Self-Serve product, a significant endeavor involving the automation of payment and delivery for thousands of active ad server campaigns, demonstrating exceptional leadership and technical prowess.✅ Accomplishments: 🏆 Successfully enhanced the Fastlane product by optimizing client-side code, significantly improving performance and user experience, resulting in a more competitive header bidding solution. 💡 Made noteworthy contributions to Prebid, amplifying the capabilities of an open-source header bidding solution, and fostering collaboration within the industry. 🚀 Developed essential UI components for the FrontEndgine team, enhancing the overall look and feel of the application, positively impacting user satisfaction. 🌐 Spearheaded the graceful shutdown of the Self-Serve product, ensuring a seamless transition while handling a critical workload of thousands of active ad server campaigns, a testament to leadership and technical expertise.

Toronto, Canada Area

✨ Key Achievements: 🏢 Instrumental in the company's remarkable $5M exit as a founding employee, highlighting an indispensable role in the success and growth of the organization. 💰 Orchestrated the integration of multiple ad servers, amplifying the reach and impact of the sales team, resulting in a substantial revenue increase of tens of thousands of dollars. 💳 Seamlessly integrated multiple payment gateways utilizing the factory pattern, optimizing the payment processing system and enhancing the user experience. 🔄 Led a comprehensive refactoring initiative, transitioning the entire UI from PHP to an AngularJS Single Page Application (SPA). This overhaul boosted user productivity by an impressive 100%, marking a significant leap forward in the application's efficiency and usability. 🔒 Restructured the system to achieve PCI Compliance, a critical milestone enabling the successful signing of two major customers valued at over $5M, showcasing a dedication to security and meeting industry standards. 💡 Strategically developed and crafted applications for Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) grants, securing nearly $1M in grants over a span of 4 years. This substantial funding fueled continued innovation and growth within the organization.✅ Contributions: 🏆 Demonstrated exceptional leadership and technical expertise, contributing significantly to the company's success and culminating in a successful exit valued at $5M.

Toronto, Canada Area

I am building cutting-edge Javascript apps for creating ad campaigns with small-business advertisers and salespeople in mind. I work directly using AngularJS and tying into the HTML5 canvas API. I also do PHP development including working with Salesforce (*shutter*) and multiple payment gateway APIs.

I am managing the Marine Institute websites including http://www.mi.mun.ca and http://www.whereyouwanttobe.ca/

I successfully managed Activelink as a part-time freelance website development firm. Originally I started it as a hobby but it quickly grew into business where it was necessary for me to subcontract and manage freelance teams.The past couple of years I have not run this side-business to it's full potential because of my conflict of interest working in the private sector. Now I am trying to get back into it.

I build web applications. Additionally I improve a websites organic and paid SEO. I optimize website markup, integrate social media, and manage Google AdWords campaigns. I am officially a Google Advertising Professional.

I was hired as a consultant to maintain and built web applications.

I maintained website content and built web applications.

While I was at Staples I worked in virtually every department at one point or another including Office Supplies, Computers, Furniture, the Copy Centre, and Deliveries.

Bachelor Of Business Administration, Business

Activities and Societies: The Muse, The Sexual Harassment Peer Theatre Group, Memorial Sea-Rocks

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Activities and Societies: OD/TV, Students without Borders, The Green Team, Choir, Improv, Annie Get Your Gun musical, Fame musical