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San Ramon, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Leader of Frontend Engineering at Memora Health building best practices, optimal workflows and an integrated Design System. Ensure consistent UI/UX across Memora's products by collaborating closely with design team, optimizing communication pathways, and formalizing the delivery of design specifications to engineers.● Enhanced product aesthetics and functionality while meeting contemporary standards by leading transformation of multiple outdated Angular applications into modern React & Typescript applications.● Provided seamless continuity and support to a remote team of six engineers at Memora during a transitional phase by stepping in as a temporary manager, offering personalized guidance, project oversight, and strategic planning.● Accelerated development timelines and enhanced user experience by implementing a streamlined communication protocol between Memora's designs and engineering teams, fostering alignment on product specifications and maintaining design-system component library.

San Francisco, California, Us

Generated millions in annual savings for Swoop (Agero) by spearheading a transformative initiative to revolutionize roadside assistance, piloting UI Architect role to facilitate seamless communication between design, product, and engineering teams, while accelerating development and prioritizing a design-centric approach to architecture. ● Anticipated and resolved potential obstacles before impeding progress by introducing innovative processes into product planning lifecycle at Swoop (Agero), integrating UI architecture early on to preemptively address challenges.● Significantly reduced cost-per-job at Swoop (Agero) by architecting over a dozen pivotal projects, optimizing intake and job processing processes.● Cultivated a culture of code efficiency and adherence to standards at Swoop (Agero) by leading transition towards design-system based development practices, collaborating closely with design and engineering stakeholders to create reusable components that met both design and engineering requirements.

Pleasanton, Ca, Us

Spearheaded ServiceMax's initiative to modernize development process by transitioning from an outdated legacy application framework to a robust React & Less framework, resulting in enhanced scalability and efficiency. Established and led a dedicated UI engineering team at ServiceMax, tasked with creating a scalable and reusable component library, enabling multiple application engineering teams to leverage standardized UI components. Integrated UI into product development process at ServiceMax, collaborating closely with Product, UX design, and Engineering teams to ensure seamless development of new features and products.● Built a scalable React UI component library at ServiceMax, aligning with existing UX design principles to promote reusability and consistency across all user interfaces.● Developed a comprehensive React training program at ServiceMax, personally instructing over 40 JavaScript application developers on transitioning processes to React, fostering skill development and adoption of best practices.● Oversaw offshore application development teams' transition to the React framework at ServiceMax by implementing new coding standards and best practices, fostering accelerated development pathways● Led ServiceMax's UI team to achieve exceptional unit test coverage, surpassing industry standards with over 98% code coverage, ensuring robustness and reliability of UI components.

Irvine, California, Us

Elevated Shipwire's user portal functionality by spearheading adoption of Bootstrap and overhauling Backbone JS framework, resulting in accelerated development through creation of reusable components and streamlined styles. Collaborated with Shipwire's UI designers to execute a complex redesign, integrating Bootstrap code with existing infrastructure to ensure a better user experience.● Contributed to establishment of an Agile team structure at Shipwire in 2017, playing a key role in developing coding practices, testing standards, and fostering effective team dynamics.● Architected Backbone classes at Shipwire to complement Bootstrap components, reducing redundant code and optimizing the development workflow.● Led development of a comprehensive site redesign at Shipwire, implementing Bootstrap-based styles across multiple codebases to ensure a consistent and reliable user experience.● Implemented new coding standards and practices at Shipwire to promote a uniformly tested codebase, enhancing code quality.

Lead UI Engineer building a cross platform video aggregation & viewing iPad application, focusing on user experience, interaction, and social growth. Through accelerated development, I helped enhance the user experience within the iPad application, and built a web presence to lead into the application to accelerate customer growth through social networking.The iPad app is built as a webkit application utilizing Requirejs, Backbone, Jquery & mongodb, with the web presence also leveraging Bootstrap for cross browser compatibility & enhanced functionality.

South San Francisco, Ca, Us

Transformed Tobi.com's shopping experience by spearheading a full-scale upgrade to the latest user interface technologies including jQuery, CSS3, SASS, Jasmine & Bootstrap. Architected and directed development of a comprehensive overhaul of Tobi's shopping interface, implementing cutting-edge technologies to enhance look and feel.● Revolutionized Tobi's shopping experience by transitioning from outdated Prototype JavaScript to jQuery.● Built and led a high-performing team of 3 UI engineers to execute a complete responsive design overhaul for Tobi's shopping interface, leveraging jQuery, SASS, and Bootstrap libraries.● Utilized jQuery Mobile & jQuery UI to swiftly prototype a fully functional mobile experience, laying the foundation for a mobile-friendly responsive design.● Collaborated with UI team to enhance codebase by implementing Jasmine unit testing.● Enhanced Tobi's website functionality to offer free shipping to 150 countries, including currency conversion and price offsets, paving the way for country-specific storefronts.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Execution of extensive server infrastructure maintenance tasks including troubleshooting, installation and deconstruction of network appliances. Also worked with Akamai management to bring in new employees, and train them to perform Deployment Maintenance duties.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Optimized user experiences on smugmug.com as a Front-end engineer by focusing on YUI3 based applications. Spearheaded transition of SmugMug's infrastructure to latest features and architecture of YUI3, ensuring enhanced site functionality and performance.● Revolutionized SmugMug's functionality by conceptualizing and developing "Organizer," now a pivotal feature, which integrates multiple tools into a cohesive interface using advanced YUI3 features like Drag & Drop, Panels, Models & Views.● Implemented a versatile "Picker" interface throughout SmugMug's platform, allowing users to conveniently select multiple galleries or photos for various purposes.● Enhanced SmugMug's user experience by modernizing comment system to adhere to contemporary YUI3 architecture, introducing Facebook login support and refining interface's design and functionality.

San Jose, California, Us

Senior Software Engineer for Gaia Interactive (gaiaonline.com) building one of the largest online communities. One of four core lead engineers, we grew Gaia from 600 thousand to over 10 million registered users, building to a staggering concurrency rate of over 100 thousand users at any given time. Gaia's site encompasses many popular social networking and gaming features targeting them at Gaia's demographic of 13-18; forums, friend lists, journals, mini-games, as well as flash-based MMORPG. ● Lead Back-end development for Gaia's flash-based MMORPG, zOMG to a fully functional beta release, by authoring multiple systems for dynamic content, achievements, and multiplayer functionality. Authored data storage algorithms to handle the massive scale of the site's player base.● Developed a customizable Journal & Weblog software package with industry standard features, geared towards the demographic of Gaia users.● Designed and implemented a fully featured friend list system which scaled to over 10 million users.● Collaborated in the structure & design of Gaia's custom forum system, utilizing database and table level scaling techniques to help handle the extreme levels of Gaia's forum traffic. The Gaia forums see millions of posts per day, hundreds of thousands of new threads across almost 300 forums, and utilize features like multiple post styles, tagging, like/dislike and a forum pulse. ● Developed a bespoke Customer Service application with multiple tools for handling user issues, botting, moderator duties, and user transaction tracking, which is used by hundreds of moderators & administrators worldwide.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Internal application development & database design for determining optimal network structure as well as planning new growth over Akamai's worldwide network.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Managed deployment, maintenance & deconstruction of a worldwide network of over 12,600 servers in more than 1,000 networks in 66 countries. Performed onsite installation, recovery and removal of servers in multiple locations throughout the northern US. ● Authored web based tools for Read-only integration into Akamai's asset management system (Siebel) for faster searching & user-friendly interfaces into extensive data warehouse. ● Developed tools for Reporting, maintenance, and data cleansing of Akamai's network data warehouse (Broadbase/Brio). Automating daily processes to ensure viable data, handoff of new systems into the global network, and QA of existing & new data.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Network operation and monitoring of over six thousand deployed servers, as well as assisting in development of new web-based tools for faster and more thorough troubleshooting of problematic deployed servers. Generated web-based tools using perl, php, and html. All tools used inline integration with mysql, postrgres, and Oracle databases. This position required extensive troubleshooting abilities, a in-depth knowledge of the workings of the world wide web, as well as the details of the providing content online; Cisco routers & switches, diverse servers, TCP/IP and routing knowledge also required.