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Santa Monica, California, Us

* Led the revision of job level descriptions and advancement criteria for engineering roles, enhancing focus on consultancy skills. Successfully navigated leadership alignment challenges, resulting in more consistent and transparent career progression paths, contributing to improved employee satisfaction.* Pioneered a generative AI adoption strategy, initiating 'AI challenges' and gen-AI-based POCs, which expanded the team's capabilities from zero to eight skilled engineers in generative AI within nine months. Successfully demonstrated the business value of this initiative through the development of an internal AI tool and securing a series of paid client projects in a lean quarter, overcoming initial skepticism within the leadership team.* Managed a challenging layoff process with empathy and transparency during an economic downturn, focusing on clear communication and support for affected employees. Played a key role in restructuring to align with current business realities, while maintaining team morale and productivity.

Santa Monica, California, Us

* a mix of hands-on-keyboard software development and people management* leadership and mentorship responsibilities for multiple engineers* provide input to the performance management process* partner with clients and stakeholders to define and drive technical strategy, vision, and roadmap* partner with our General Managers to staff and determine strategy for project allocation* collaborate with teams to prioritize business, technical, and user-centric solutions* innovate and iterate on Artium’s Engineering processes and approach to software development

Charleston, Sc, Us

* Oversee system architecture of internal messaging platform using Kafka with Avro schema repository* Manage versioning and release process of internal shared libraries* Driving platform toward an event-sourced CQRS architecture* Responsible for oversight of our external (customer-facing) APIs to prevent unintentional breaking changes

Charleston, Sc, Us

* Help lead a small, agile team in the delivery of new revenue management tools for the hospitality industry.* Assess the team's agile fluency and develop a plan to move the team to an appropriate level to meet the business's needs* Develop a curated business intelligence tool and corresponding data warehousing system leveraging various tools from the Amazon Web Services ecosystem

Washington, Dc, Us

* Lead the process of architecting a new merchant invoicing platform to support both existing and new lines of business while improving our ability to audit financial transactions.* Direct the day-to-day operations of the team working on the applications that handle both merchant payments and sales commissions calculation and reporting.* Measure and direct improvements of the team's planning and development process.* Encourage and assist team members in creating and achieving their professional development goals.

Washington, Dc, Us

* Improve code quality of legacy applications through restructuring, refactoring and extraction of services from monolithic code bases.* Lead process improvement initiatives to help increase collaboration, shared ownership of work and our ability to deliver quality work on a predictable schedule.* Champion pair-programming and help maintain a set of tools (http://github.com/livingsocial/ls-pair) to facilitate remote pair-programming.

Oakland, California, Us

Responsible for management of the software engineering department in the Portland Office; Provide both personnel management and technical guidance to my team while working closely with the product development department to build software applications that support the company's objectives.

Responsible for technical management of this small development team. My responsibilities include managing the agile process (a hybrid Scrum/XP/Kanban approach) and mentoring as an experienced, senior developer.

I work as an independent software engineer for companies in both the US and Europe providing software development as well as process support on either an as-needed or retainer basis.

Lead developer on several workflow automation systems for a variety of applications including softproofing, brand licensing management and product merchandiser T&E approval.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Maintain existing PHP4-based website. Evaluate and implement new technologies related to web programming. Currently developing next generation of website with PHP5.

Develop web-based customer relationship management and project management tools as custom applications for small/medium sized businesses. Also develop the open-source eXPlain Project Management Tool (http://explainpmt.com).

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Developed various websites and web-based applications for clients -- including School Outfitters who liked our work so much that they bought out the company to bring us in as their full-time IT staff.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Developed and maintained all websites for this company including the main company website, a home-grown e-commerce application, and various, smaller sites for several of their major product lines.