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Durham, Nc, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Supporting and advising pre-seed and seed stage women-led startups. With HearstLab, I help startups navigate the engineering challenges that come with building and scaling innovative software products.

Solo venture working with startups on everything from building their MVP to managing existing teams & scaling.

Austin, Texas, Us

Technology advisor to Austin-based healthcare startup. RepSource aims to help healthcare providers keep pace with ever-changing reps, roles, products, and companies through a real-time, easily searchable, verified database that matches every product to the right representative for each facility.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

Mentoring and growing teams across the Bestow engineering organization, 10 direct reports from SE1 to new Engineering Managers, plus near-shore and off-shore integrated teams.Protect - We've partnered with Lemonade (https://www.businessinsider.com/lemonade-added-bestow-term-life-insurance-coverage-2021-2) for a robust API integration powering their term-life product with our platform. The Protect team supports this effort and others like it!Enrollment - A blend of Bestow, near-shore, and off-shore talent, this is the platform team that builds and maintains our Python/Flask API backing our direct to consumer term-life product. This team covers the enrollment application and underwriting and is building some slick new functional TypeScript support for multiple business lines.Foundations - Cross-cutting services and SaaS integrations like authentication and notifications that are leveraged by all of Bestow's business lines. Microservices using Golang, gRPC, and CQRS that have to scale rapidly as the business grows.

Hiring and mentoring a new team to build a ground-up revamp of our reporting platform leveraging Spark and GoodData. Continuing to evolve the Mobile product to integrate Performance Management features and taking on support of the legacy mobile application for enterprise customers including a private-label project. Focused on coaching and leveling up engineers to build their experience and deliver an industry-leading HR SaaS platform.

Day-to-day engineering management of over a dozen engineers building new features our Rewards & Recognition platform, an all new Mobile experience, and production support engineers. Working to re-establish consistent engineering practices and navigating the Austin & remote YouEarnedIt engineering team through the merger with Chicago-based HighGround.

New York, Ny, Us

Building bespoke products and experiences for GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Wired. Managing a distributed team with engineers in Austin and New York City to build a revamped version of The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. Continued to support Partnership projects with Slack and Messenger applications for multiple brands.

New York, Ny, Us

Lead Engineer for the new Partnerships/Accelerator team based at the company's new presence on the east side of Austin, TX. Building and launching the company's first efforts on multiple voice platforms, partnering with internationally known brands Vogue and Epicurious. Worked to further the company as a technology leader by restarting open-source initiatives with a Facebook Messenger SDK that backed applications for multiple brands and writing & editing for the relaunch of the company's public Technology blog.

Austin, Tx, Us

Director of Engineering overseeing day-to-day work of engineering team in addition to hands-on technical contributions.-­ Product Owner/Manager for development scrum team producing Point of Sale (POS)integration, payment services, and operations scrum team providing monitoringsolutions and continuous build & deploy pipelines­- Software architect for payment and data services, POS integrations, and consumer dataservices supporting mobile applications supporting 6x increase in user volume in 16 months-­ Process improvement: code review, implementation of agile/scrum processes, unittesting and continuous integration across all engineering projects­- Primary engineering contact to internal Support team for incident investigation and outages/service disruptions-­ Hands on technical contributor to components on multiple platforms: python/Django,Scala/Play, React/CoffeeScript-­ 10-­20 direct reports across Development and QA; hiring manager for development roles­- Primary technical POC for third party relationships including POS, developmentpartnerships & financial partnerships

Austin, Tx, Us

Software engineer for POS integration systems and services across multiple stacks.- Scala/play REST API serving JSON data to React/Coffeescript front end for dynamicclassification of line item data to canonical SKUs-­ .NET POS integration modifications to NCR Aloha and Dinerware, including custompayment processor/tender type plugin for third-party payments­- Designed and developed .NET solution for merchant registration on the Dinerware POS(plugin architecture)

Reston, Virginia, Us

Software engineer for various operational and R&D imagery analysis systems.- Engineering Lead for imagery derived alerting systems R&D project resulting in multiple successful contract renewals and transition of capabilities to production-­ Primary technical POC for Operations and Support team supporting production systems and for global third-party integrations to imagery data systems-­ Engineering Lead for 12 month effort to modernize desktop thick client tools via conversion to responsive web applications built on REST APIs (python/django) serving JSON and GeoJSON data­- Lead developer for multiple web applications and SOAP services in Tomcat/Java/Spring­-­ Developed and integrated Java and C++ modules supporting image processingalgorithms into web based, database driven systems­- Subject matter expert and developer for multiple imagery derived alerting systems

Mclean, Va, Us

Software engineer for various Cross Domain Solutions and PKI projects.- Designed and implemented OpenOffice­based XML content inspection engine for Microsoft Documents (Java, C++, patents US8069349 & US7930538) ­- Performed software and penetration testing on telecommunications and information assurance systems­- Tested & updated Security-Enhanced (SE) Linux policy Cross Domain Solutions­- Redesigned web based PKI system for improved configuration management and supportof multiple, parallel certificate authorities (Java/Tomcat/Struts)

M.S., Computer Science

B.S., Computer Science