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New York, Ny, Us

Supervise and provide mentorship to multiple distributed teams of highly talented software engineers (both onshore and offshore, 24 total direct reports).Build and deliver critical product features for Estée Lauder (including promotion engine, shopping cart and several internal business tools).Provide technical directions for Product and Design teams to refine and enhance product features that translate into tangible business values. Partner with Product Managers and Tech Leads to ensure that the roadmap is clear and understood, set priority and milestones for each project. Collaborate with Engineering and Product senior leadership to continuously identify architectural or process improvement to increase engineering efficiency, product reliability, and responsiveness to market.Responsible for the growth of engineering teams (candidate pipeline management with Recruiting, interviewing, tech assessment, offer negotiation and budgeting)

Built entire MVP product line for this Ad Tech startup, technologies used: Flutter, Svelte, Python, Wix and Firebase

Chicago, Il, Us

Executive leadership role responsible for successful delivery of a globally distributed Work-Force Management SaaS product to Fortune 500 customersSupervise the entire software engineering organization, in addition to the product and project management teams (both onshore and offshore). 45 total reports, 5 direct reports.Develop and maintain a highly reliable and distributed, global enterprise software system.Interface with customers directly as the technical liaison in close collaboration with the Sales and Implementation Teams.Promote an energized and engaged engineering culture by fostering an environment of inclusivity and collaboration.Heavily involved in all engineering hiring processes and candidate pipeline management

Lead the company's overall strategic direction, development and growth.Provide technical leadership, vision, direction and mentorship for the entire software engineering department of the company. 5 direct reports, 40 total reports.Work closely with Product and Design teams to help ideate, scope, plan, estimate, coordinate and derisk roadmaps for the company long term goals.Define KPIs, objectives and targets for measuring and improving the quality, security, scalability, maintainability, cost and time to market of our custom software solutions.Standardized the SDLC across all projects and teams. Collaborated with the Project Management team and engineering teams to set priority and milestones, normalize and improve the overall Agile process.Promote an energized engineering culture by fostering an environment of inclusivity and open mindedness which also encourages continued learning.Establish hiring plans and protocols.

Supervise and provide mentorship to a team of 10 highly talented engineers.Lead the development of company flagship products.Provide technical directions for Product and Design teams to refine and enhance product features with business value. Collaborate with Product Managers and Tech Leads to ensure that the roadmap is clear and understood, set priority and milestones for each project. Own and refine the processes and communication strategies the development team utilizes to streamline the product release cycles.Instituted an on-going, internal development training program for all the engineering teams in the company.Continuously identify architectural improvements to increase developer efficiency, product reliability, and responsiveness to new feature requests.Heavily involved in research and development in areas of potential growth per company strategy.

Built the entire suite of the next generation, company flagship products.Wrote the custom, proprietary Javascript framework that powers most of our software service offerings.Mentored and provided peer-programming opportunities for junior team members.Provided technical expertise in strategic planning discussions with product, design and executive teams.

Chicago, Il, Us

Developed the first version of the custom, proprietary object oriented JavaScript framework for the company to ensure quality and standardization. Innovated and built several internal software tools for the company operational environment to facilitate workflow and achieve business objectives.Mentor junior members of the team.Heavily involved in research and development in areas of potential opportunities.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Built the entire company website and all subsidiary websites.Supervised and mentored a team of full stack developers.Worked closely with the Design team and CEO to create engaging, interactive product demos and microsites utilizing the latest front-end technology for the desired cinematic and immersive effects.