Had a great time helping my partner start an indie beauty brand focused on high performance body care.Accomplishments:* Helped conduct market and opportunity analysis.* Successful collaboration on art direction and brand identity for product collection.* Secured strategic partnerships and licensing with world leaders in cosmetic ingredient manufacturing.* Designed company lab and WHO GMP standard operating procedures with help of expert advisors* Coordinated research and testing with top-notch laboratories and chemists.* Helped define brand's unique positioning in the market.* Established lean, streamlined operations capable of supporting future scaling* Participated in soft-launch of product collection to conduct market validation* Successfully grew direct customer base for brand to over 34 countries in less than 12 months* Secured national and regional press coverage with noteworthy media outlets

Hired by Senior Partner to assist with the ongoing development of their custom CRM platform targeting the debt consolidation industry. Key Contributions: * Served as right-hand to lead developer, taking on responsibilities for organizing project around Agile principles and provide backup in running SCRUM planning and daily standups. * Worked closely with Senior Partner to identify functionality gaps and organize into stories for estimation. * Took on responsibility of authoring RESTful APIs, along with backend features, in support of front-end app. * Authored a Role Access Control layer as solution to allow feature-level access based on user organization role. * Refactored authentication services to allow better reusability by other core services. * Helped create backend services for integrating with telephony, SMS, and Fax 3rd party APIs* Served as front-line CI/CD support, working with Rancher, Docker, Github, and AWS* Provided UI/UX guidance to SMEs and front-end team

Enlisted by founders and CEO to lead product design and of SAAS platform prototype designed to combat construction insurance fraud using modern approaches to data acquisition, optimization, delivery, and visualization. Key Contributions:• Worked closely with CEO and SMEs to identify mission critical features.• Visualized requirements as wireframes and flows.• Researched disparate public government data sources and built data acquisition (ETL) solution.• Planned out and implemented cloud architecture to support required services.• Spearheaded backend and frontend development using Angular, Symfony, Redis, MySQL, Redshift• Led bi-weekly sprint planning, estimations, standups and demos.• Successfully delivered functional product prototype for pitching to investors.• Participated in creating investor pitch deck.

Advising and contributing to high-priority areas of the platform.Accomplishments thus far:* Productive contributor to strategy sessions with financial clients.* Designed and built ModoConnect v1, exposing Modo's core offerings as a REST API layer.* Successfully devised and created a "mechanical"​ OCR solution that resulted in company moving forward on a deal with one of the top U.S. financial institutions.* Established innovation workshops & hackathons tailored to bringing corporate partners into close collaboration when developing new technology products.* Successfully co-designed and built financial-grade, multi-factor, mobile security product. Used at one of the largest banking firms.* Designed and built a server-side platform for supporting location-based payments, gifting and offers for use at various big-name U.S. retailers.* Developed real-time, double-entry accounting subsystem to Modo's core platform.* Created a dynamic, customizable, (Apple) Pass composer.* Helped support company's effort in obtaining PCI compliance.* Served as strong advocate at Modo for Agile, lean and rapid development. Improvements: > closer coordination through introduction of tools, processes, and philosophies > higher degree of test coverage for source code and functionality through unit tests > more stable, more frequent, feature releases through virtualized and software-defined, personal development environments that mirror company's critical environments > tighter team dynamic through regular standups, planning sessions and group problem-solving exercises > increased self-development through team sharing of new tools, strategies, and relevant stories in our vertical* Successfully delivered various drawings and sketches of our CEO while in company meetings* Effectively have made every single Modo Payments team member laugh at least twice.

As employee #1, spearheaded every aspect of software development and tech strategy at TastemakerX. Responsible for product architecture, leading the team and coming up with hair-brained solutions to all sorts of insane challenges.Accomplishments:* Took the TastemakerX idea from napkin to functional prototype in (roughly) three months, allowing successful pitching to VCs and landing first-round funding.* Art-directed TastemakerX's initial product identity: design, logo and user experience.* Established development pipeline and helped design & facilitate deployment strategy.* Responsible for building the team, hiring and training next five key employees.* Built a gamification engine, complete with user-signal tracking for triggering accomplishments, rewards and badges.* Rebuilt from ground-up TastemakerX's real-time music stock market, as v2.* Created strategy and implementation for piping-in music and artist data from various source partners and into a cohesive user experience.* Designed and developed artificial intelligence "trading bots" that helped, in real time, test various aspects our music stock market engine. These tests required bots to trade, organically, across a span of weeks.* Successfully led team up to an "Alpha" version of our platform -- both iOS platform and authoritative game server -- which was instrumental in securing a second round of funding. I'm proud of many accomplishments but this one took the cake (and many sleepless nights): designing and programming of a real-time stock market for music.

Team Leader, Engineer & Architect, Business Analyst, Project Manager.After working as an interactive engineer and professional consultant for a couple years, I met Silicon Valley veteran, Andy Kieffer. Our interests and passion for technology brought us together to form Agave Lab, LLC. We modeled our company around one core offer; low cost high tech R&D services. The two primary markets we targeted were to Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley.During the first 3 years, we brought to life over 10 product ideas, ranging from functional prototypes to market-ready products. We also focused part of our energy on developing our own product ideas as a way to flex our creative and technical muscles. Some of these include a mobile to promote the launch of Range Rover Evoque, Overstat, Pretarget, Screening Party, PaperClp, My Green Home FB virtual game, CartCult, Puppy Time, ShotStrip, TastemakerX (prototype version)... and others.Wore many hats, as our company was less than ten people. This included building and leading the dev team, hands-on engineering, steering creative staff, business analysis, company strategy, client management and watering the plants.Accomplishments:* Developed intitial business strategy, company focus and development model.* Hired and trained all team members, allowing efficient and high-productivity in all client engagements.* Successfully pivoted business strategy which resulted in over 100% revenue growth, year-over-year.* Helped build close relationships with all our clients.Most important accomplishment for me was scaffolding a lean R&D company from scratch, hand-selecting and training the core team and creating a framework for rapid-development of any "x" idea into its product form.

Professional Consultant. Business Analysis, Systems Architect, Interactive Engineer.Embarked on a walkabout of sorts, providing professional consulting services to various entrepreneurs and startups in the areas of areas of Rich Internet Applications, business analysis, project management, and R&D. The purpose was to gain exposure to multiple problem domains and business ideas. Worked with various, exciting startups including DiscoveryPost, VoiceCloud, Fuuze. Responsibilities have included business analysis, multi-tiered architecture planning, usability study, and programming using Agile methodologies.

Open Source Contributor & Engineer C# .Net. Worked as software engineer for open source project, Jad 3D engine, viewed as most robust Managed DirectX and .Net open source project. Responsible for documentation, analysis and programming an improved architecture. Author of EGGSH, a command shell for the 3D engine. Small contributor on redesign of JAD's Mesh framework. Ported EGGSH (v2) to the Pluto plugin framework and helped promote the project amongst the JAD community.

Business Analysis, Architecture Diagrams & Documentation.Brought on as Documentation Specialist working with client's IT unit . Assisted with analysis, back-engineering and documentation of their multi-tiered financial IT infrastructure, spread over 500 servers. Responsible for analyzing and documenting client's Apache, J2EE and Oracle architecture. Conducted extensive interviews with SME's to help plan for major infrastructure overhaul. Established departmental documentation standards and collaborative document repository.

Project Manager and Hands-On Engineer/DBA/Sys Admin.Recruited to assist TIAA-CREF's subsidiary, TFI, Inc. in their effort to expand their online business. Managed relationship between executive-level stake holders and web strategy group. Helped lead team of web producers, designers, writers and developers to implement first 529 plan online transaction system. Participated in successful growth of TFI, Inc. from less than 400 million dollars to over two billion -- more than 65% originating online. Rated highest success by industry experts.