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Denver, CO, US

* Led initial technical design for outbound (pro to homeowner) call tracking, delivered first iteration in production in just two weeks. Eventually adopted a phone number multiplexing solution to reduce cost by 40% and enable 10DLC compliance.* Set the company bar for instrumentation and monitoring of individual services and enterprise-wide workflows.

• Hosted forums: https://popforums.com/
• Produces open source POP Forums for ASP.NET Core, Azure, AWS, plus managed/hosted version.
• PointBuzz.com (since 1998): Most visited unofficial Cedar Point Web site, ad supported, 1 million+ annual visitors, 7 million+ annual page views.
• CoasterBuzz.com (since 2000): A roller coaster enthusiast, content generated by visitors. Ad and subscription supported, 1.6 million+ annual visitors, 6 million+ annual page views.
• Developed ad serving and support tracking applications.
• Consulted and train development shops to use ASP.NET and Visual Studio.

New York, NY, US

Lead through the IPO period the engineering team responsible for the Rails business, which connects third party marketplaces (DoorDash, UberEats, etc.) with Olo's national restaurant brands.* Brought a lightweight project management/prioritization framework to Rails to keep work focus and increase predictable outcomes. Shared that framework broadly with.

El Segundo, California, US

Conduct the daily and strategic operation of the technical development of the company’s document management SaaS product, during its private equity growth phase.* Led a team of 40+ through a transition to scalable processes and maintainable development practices.* Key hires included new QA lead and senior developers to balance depth of experience with.

Orlando, Florida, US

Conduct the daily and strategic operation and development of the company's SaaS association management product.* Hired and guided the software development team, remotely distributed around the Eastern US.* Brought agile/scrum process to the business, adapted it as necessary, coached the team on its implementation. Ramped up a sustainable, two-week sprint.

• Act as technical lead in the vision, design and delivery of custom software projects for clients.
• Directed development teams through vision and discovery, regular sprints, conducted code reviews, mediated feature discussions with stakeholders, ran scrum meetings.
• Actively participated in internal efforts to maintain culture and work quality as company scaled. Mentored new senior hires.
• Worked with business development to create accurate project cost estimation statements.
• Created high level design for new systems and built strategies to improve existing systems. One project involved aggregating data from a number of disparate systems around the world, emphasising instrumentation and.
• Analyzed performance challenges, designed solutions to scale applications. A document management app for an international accounting firm needed to scale for a growing user base and a volume of data that had many times.

Orlando, Florida, US

• (Contract position.) Oversee the technical design and implementation of internal and public facing applications, with emphasis on strategic development, compliance and quality.
• Successfully introduced the enterprise to contextual and behavioral consumer data collection for the purpose of real-time interaction and robust reporting. Included event bus used to decouple systems.
• Designed integration of internal systems to external facing mobile platform, consisting of Web, Android and iOS clients (using Xamarin) via 3rd-party middleware. Bootstrapped the development of REST API for tunneling.
• Led the technical design efforts for mobile integration, third-party vacation packaging, ecommerce system overhauls, etc.
• Designed the user profile system for more robust security and single sign-on capability across all guest facing applications.
• Conducted workshops and discussions with stakeholders of all lines of business to define “customer” in abstract terms and for data objects. Included strategy for better reconciliation of customer data with varying.

Louisville, Kentucky, US

• Provided architectural guidance on process and quality issues for development teams and maintenance and support groups.
• Provided application developers with application health monitoring architecture.
• Built strategy for effective application instrumentation in service oriented architecture.
• Strategy included better enterprise-wide tracking of business events on policies.
• Provided development managers and leads with strategies to embrace agile development practices, specifically around unit testing, continuous integration and quality issues.
• Created solutions for operations staff that included automated build processes and continuous integration for test environments, including automated unit testing.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Feature/process PM for project codename “Data Explorer,” a product intended to semantically classify data and suggest data services that would compliment that data.
• Gathered requirements and developed architectural and functional specifications for the product.
• Generated documentation around interfaces between our system and those of other product groups around the enterprise.
• Prototyped backend services and user interface components using Microsoft development stack and Windows Azure.
• Maintained and prioritized work item backlog in TFS. Scheduled work items for each iteration.
• Acted as liaison to partners within and outside of Server & Tools Business division.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Built and contributed to architectural design of recognition platform, calculating and tracking points and achievements generated by users across MSDN and TechNet. Designed system to be highly available on the front.
• Built and contributed to architecture of profile application, shared across the organization. Work included the integration of centralized “skinning” service to match UI to different brands and properties.
• Supported forum application for MSDN and TechNet and worked to improve its performance while reducing its server utilization by a third. The app serves more than 50 million page views monthly. Work also required new.
• Agile development team with weekly iterations, shipping every four weeks, and deploying to test environments in near real time via Team City.
• Other tools/frameworks used: NHibernate, StructureMap, Sync Framework, xUnit, Moq.

• Responsible for product and platform technical design and architecture.
• Mentor junior developers and conduct code reviews.
• Manage coding standards and adherence to quality software development lifecycle.
• Implement a continuous integration environment.
• Evaluate new technologies for inclusion in products.

US

• Code, design and maintain applications for marketing and auto insurance policy sales using.NET (C#, ASP.NET, AJAX, SQL Server).
• Co-developed rewrite of data-driven interview app that obtains and binds quotes from 15+ insurance carriers. This is Insurance.com’s primary touch point to revenue generating customers.
• Developed several components to integrate interview app with third-party and internal services.
• Design architecture for new marketing sites that allow for more abstract visitor attribution and agile SEO changes.
• Author coding standards for CSS and app-level context objects.
• Advise marketing business unit on best practices for integration of campaigns and Insurance.com marketing properties.

• Facilitate requirements process with client to establish set of use cases.
• Interview, hire and direct developers for iterative delivery of the system.
• Design application architecture.

Mayfield Village, OH, US

• Work with architects and consultants to develop first components in.Net-based policy processing system.
• Explored best practices for agile process and unit testing.

• Created intranet application to track support requests, bugs and software enhancementrequests.
• Engineered data architecture between equipment sites via heavy use of Web services viaVPN.
• Design documentation standards and testing procedures.
• Developed intranet application for project management and centralized documentation.

US

• Used.NET (C#) during Microsoft’s beta period to begin building applications.
• Created a customer service application for IT that included time tracking, document management and case history for internal use. ASP and SQL Server back-end.
• Created privacy policy and opt-out database application for subscribers. Internal marketing customers could clean their own lists based on opt-out requests.
• Designed front-end interface to credit card processing gateway, used internally to authorize cards and generate reports.

New York, NY, US

• Manage development and maintenance of Internet product for vertical markets. Was responsible for the specification and architecture of portal sites from conception to deployment.
• Worked with internal interactive division and third-party developer to create sites that served markets similar to those served by group’s magazines.
• Supported sales efforts to realize value proposition of online marketing opportunities for clients.
• Administered network-wide ad campaigns through Open AdStream.
• Established content creation and style standards for editorial staff.
• Directed content managers to coordinate cross-over news and content between markets and sites.

• Charged with designing, programming and managing a cable access facility for the city and school district.
• Managed $110,000 annual budget to purchase and maintain equipment, hire staff and outline future capital expenditures.
• Coordinated with city and school district officials to establish roadmap for facility and program growth.
• Directed staff and volunteers to produce programming.
• Assisted school district in establishing Web presence.
• Created streaming video of imporviewed by non-cable subscribers.