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Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Mountain View, California, Us

Developed and maintained LegalZoom's customer-facing React application, ensuring a seamless and intuitive experience for users filing business paperwork.• Collaborated closely with the Product team to identify opportunities for improving validation of user input and enforcing business rules, streamlining the filing process across all 51 Secretary of State offices in the USA.• Successfully reduced the percentage of orders requiring customer support intervention from 30% to 10%, significantly enhancing user experience and operational efficiency.

Los Angeles, Us

Responsible for overseeing the engineering team for IGN Entertainment, the market leading gaming and entertainment website that services well over 250 million users monthly. Manage mixed teams of 15 full-time employees and independent contractors covering all aspects of IGN’s engineering responsibilities, including the website, mobile apps, bespoke CMS, backend APIs and partner feeds. Reduce yearly employee turnover rate from 20% to 6.7% and increased retention rate to 93%.Rebuilt and completely overhauled the tech stack, leading to a 9% decrease in departmental expenses, a 40% increase in developer velocity and double-digit improvements in KPIs for pagespeed, SEO metrics and error rates.Held regular meetings with key business stakeholders to distill general asks down to feature requests and epics that could then be prioritized and fed into the team’s pipeline. Helped lead build vs. buy decisions and evaluate SaaS providers for costs and product fit.Manage the engineering department's budget, lead all engineering hiring and provide technical expertise when evaluating M&A targets.Key achievements:• Led the migration of the IGN.com website off a legacy PHP framework onto a modern React frontend running on the Next.js framework.• Migrated IGN off several decades old legacy API microservices onto a modern Apollo GraphQL API running on Node.js.• Migrate IGN's data off numerous aging MongoDB instances onto a modern PostgreSQL database.• Provided technical assessments and led the integration of acquisition targets, including HowLongToBeat.com and MapGenie.io.• Hire backend, fullstack and frontend developers. Participate in hiring panels for VPs, key stakeholder roles, and junior and senior product and QA roles.• Manage the engineering budget, monitor and report monthly capitalized development costs, manage vendor selection and relationships.

Los Angeles, Us

• Helped lead the rebuild effort for IGN's customer-facing website from a legacy PHP application to a modern React JavaScript app that fetched it's data from an Apollo GraphQL API. Key technologies used were React, Next.js, Apollo GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and Node.js all running on a dockerized AWS infrastructure (ECS, S3, Aurora, etc).• Cross-functional collaboration with key stakeholders, including Product, Design, Ad Sales, Commerce, and Editorial, to make sure features were prioritized and scoped properly.• Mentored and upskilled junior developers.

Los Angeles, California, Us

• Lead engineer in charge of monetizing FOD's website and video products. Integrated Google DFP and IMA products for display and video ads. Supported Ad Ops with 3rd party billing, viewability optimization and partner implementations.• Managed a cross functional team to develop FOD's iOS, Android and Apple tvOS apps. Worked with offshore developers to schedule and track Android implementation. Developed and maintained API that feeds iOS, Android and Apple tvOS apps. Pushed product timelines and communications for the team and advocated for engineering resources.• Led FOD's switch from an Adobe Flash based video player to a modern HTML5 JavaScript player based on the video.js platform. Developed multiple JavaScript plugins to expand the capabilities of the player, customized look, feel and functionality, and integrated multiple preroll and postroll solutions.• Led effort to recruit and hire up dev team. Responsible for reaching out to developers, scheduling and conducting phone and in-person interviews and promoting candidates for formal review. Doubled the size of the team over two years.• Mentoring and training newer and junior members of the dev team. Participated in code reviews on all site/app functionality and helped identify and set technology direction.• Countless other responsibilities at FOD during my tenure as a full-stack developer. Most development work was done in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, SQL, CSS and HTML. Created first mobile apps in Objective-C and Java and later worked on the iOS app's Swift rewrite.

Los Angeles, California, Us

• Prior to my promotion to Principal Software Engineer, I worked as a fullstack developer for the Funny Or Die website, leading development efforts using Ruby on Rails, MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS and Memcached. • Helped extend the FOD platform to multiple white-labeled properties, including ShredOrDie.com, EatDrinkOrDie.com, PwnOrDie.com and multiple internationalized versions of FunnyOrDie (Brazilian, Korean and UK).• Developed backend APIs and frontend, customer-facing features, including a rebuild of our video streaming player based on the video.js platform, a custom admin CMS, an in-house commenting and following product and countless other features.

Freelance software engineering for a video rental and streaming startup founded by ex-Funny or Die leaders. Duties included initial build and technical direction for the website to secure a successful funding round. Assist in interviewing full-time employees to replace freelancer staff and development of the PCI-compliant payment system.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Helped lead development of LookSmart's award winning AdCenter where advertisers could purchase search keywords and manage ad campaign spend. Ruby on Rails connected to an Oracle database.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Built consumer-facing web pages in PayPal’s proprietary rendering engine that consisted of XML/XPath templates and developed utility Perl scripts to help other web devs.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Started as a junior developer and worked my way up to senior web developer mostly developing customer-facing web applications using LookSmart’s proprietary rendering engine that consisted of raw HTML, CSS and JavaScript templates fed into a C++ engine.

Developed interactive multimedia assets for customer websites, including the Northern Nevada Medical Center and the California Transplant Donor Network

Reno, Nv, Us

Teaching assistant for the Reynold's School of Journalism's New Media Lab. Responsibilities included lab setup/maintenance, developing websites for the Journalism School and teaching students the fundamentals of web design and programming using HTML, JavaScript and MacroMedia Director.

Ba, English, Film Studies

Ma, Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs

React Nanodegree, Computer Software Engineering