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New York, Us

Helping omnichannel retail brands (Rebag, Aloyoga, Clare V, Todd Snyder, Gorjana, Frame) drive more sales with one easy-to-implement clienteling platform.

New York, Ny, Us

ZX Ventures is a wholly owned subsidiary of AB InBev focused on innovation and disruptive tech. As an early employee, I drove global Omni-channel and e-commerce tech strategy to improve customer experience and create high-growth businesses. Developed high-performing teams by recruiting and retaining hundreds of great engineers. Ensured product excellence by developing and implementing product improvement strategies, while employing architecture and software best practices.Key Achievements:- Pioneered a serverless first approach to tech architecture to reduce hypergrowth engineering headcount requirements by 75% compared to legacy model. The new strategy also reduced platform architecture overhead constraints for scaling speeding time to market by years.- Launched dozens of innovative capabilities for DevSecOps resulting 100x faster innovation.- Reduced MTTR from months to hours for all critical and high severity vulnerabilities.- Hired and retained hundreds of engineers globally with less than 10% attrition for several years- Transformed the AWS Organization architecture to comply with Amazon’s best practices and recommendations this eliminated thousands of security vulnerabilities.- Established an AWS Startup Credits application process that saved millions in upfront venture costs.- Adopted annual review cycle for reserved instances, savings plans resulting in millions in annual savings.- Spearheaded global GDPR compliance, researching vendor solutions, campaigning for a specific strategy, and successfully lobbied for global solution resulting in saving the division millions in OpEx annually.- Created a custom ML powered cost anomaly detection service to prevent runaway costs in development and staging environments this empowered engineers to take more ownership of costs.- Secured millions of additional dollars in brand advertising spend for several businesses while we increased revenue per user 5x.

New York, Ny, Us

LiveIntent is a B2B SaaS MarTech VC backed startup company based in NYC. I drove tech innovation as employee number five, propelling the company from $0 in revenue to a valuation in the $100’s of millions over about 5 years. Tackling problems from hiring and onboarding, to UX, DevOps, and everything else in between while assembling all aspects of both the demand side and supply side platforms of the company’s flagship real-time advertising exchange.Key Achievements: - Conceptualized, architected, launched, and sustained all aspects of the flagship real-time advertising exchange platform capturing $65M USD in venture capital over several rounds.- Ensured continuous performance improvement by delivering exceptional leadership and guidance to four teams, comprising of two product tech teams (i.e., Supply-side Platform, Demand-side platform), DevOps, and the integrations API team.- Led several major strategic initiatives to reduce tech debt (e.g., unit test coverage from 0 to 80%+), improved cycle time from weeks to days, and deployment frequency from weeks to days.- Drove our change failure rate to less than 10% with the adoption of new innovative tech capabilities including those for automation and testing.- Mentored, coached, and motivated dozens of engineers with an inspiring, inclusive, and aligned tech culture performing one-on-ones with all direct reports including managers, leads, and individual contributors.- Launched DevOps team to maximize automation, quality, and efficiency, reduce burnout, and optimize cost savings. - Reduced time to first commit from days to hours for new hires by ensuring custom Vagrant and Ansible setup.- Improve cycle time and deployment velocity by days by chartering an automated capability to launch new feature branch environments during CI using a combination of Jenkins, VirtualBox, Ansible, and CloudFormation Templates.

Ensured seamless technical operations by engineering the core tech platform for all Viacom brands (MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, etc.). Provided effective leadership to engineering to launch new VMA web experiences, optimize new traffic, and increase engagement to the business. Developed and engineered tentpole event tech platform (e.g. HipHop Honors) to improve organizational image.

For over a decade I've consulted small to medium sized businesses on internet strategies and technology implementations. I've worked on everything from SEO consultation and implementation to developing full scale web application solutions.