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San Francisco, California, Us

- Implemented standardized programs, including a cross-team process for tracking organizational health using Spotify health checks and DORA metrics.- Developed and implemented a comprehensive career progression ladder and skills matrix to foster talent development.- Designed and implemented a curriculum across engineering teams, focusing on building staff plus engineering ladders, as well as individual growth plans.- Successfully managed cross-functional teams with expertise in distributed systems, UI, platform engineering, database scaling and devOps.- Foster programs to drive code and design health cross organizationally. Including better internal design for code and more rigorous design practice.- cross organizational mentor - for other engineering managers, individual contributors and leaders.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Hiring and retention of multi-disciplinary international team. Built a team recruiting process and pipeline from scratch- Partner and Coach of Employee Development, building people up to be their best selves- Eng. Organizational design and development, developing engines for organizational growth- Manage cross-team dependencies and technical ownership- Process improvement: improve process to increase team velocity- Manage remote team across 4 continents- Designed the company wide engineering hiring process- Runs a company wide hackathon program- Product Owner

San Francisco, California, Us

- Lead engineer and scrum master for cloud console.- Design and UX lead for managed search and cloud console- I manage the development process and rituals, in order to make internal tooling around automated deployment and managed services successful and efficient. Enabling our ops, support, ps teams and beyond to be the super heros, focusing on the hard problems, while the platform my team makes obtaining the right level of access to systems, information, logs and metrics a simple and solved problem.- similarly my Managed search work enables companies to be their best selves. Making solr accessible and simple to use and integrate with applications

San Francisco, California, Us

Future Projects team member- Evaluate, define, create best practices around new and emerging technologies- Develop embed framework with web components and vanilla js. Creates the ability to inject widgets into any web-friendly environment.- Create browser IDE, able to quickly scaffold code in multiple languages, including scala, js, able to handle drag and drop of entire folder structures.Lucidworks Site Search -- Released product into the market- Debug critical customer issues- Worked with Docs team for customer delivery and to fill documentation gaps- Manages the release process- Competitive research to determine market factors- Give talks to technical audiences on how to use site search.Principal engineer - Lucidworks Enterprise Search- Led acquisition effort integrating Lucidworks engineering team with Twigkit.- Planned and implemented product with an international team, with members in US, UK, UAE, and Japan- Designed technical specifications for expedient delivery.- Created team unity, and maintained standards - Launched from initial team integration and planning to beta in 4 months with a team of 6 engineers.- worked with stakeholders across the organization including the CFO, CEO, SVP engineering, VP design, to deliver a quality product, meeting market specifications.Lead engineer - Lucidworks View- Led initial development of Lucidworks View, from inception to productization.- Gave internal demos and of functionality, and helped champion the product in conjunction with marketing, leading to press coverage with 7+ websites/publications for the initial launch. Lucidworks Fusion - team memberLead Engineer - Query Workbench- Led architecture and development from inception to release.- Ensured design and UI were on the same page.- Broke down larger tasks to distribute to the team.- Mentor other developers to improve their knowledge, efficiency, and confidence.

- Built multiple products and features, from 0-to-1, while acting as a Lead developer. Examples: Bayesian algorithmic content feed to enhance cross-channel discovery for a social media site, API-driven radio application including management plane, payments, Customer facing UI, and white label embeddable player.- UX research and wireframing - defined user workflows, and performed qualitative and quantitative design research. Achieved 30% growth in user traffic and 100% growth in time-on-site from a redesign project I drove.- Drove Engineering, UX, and product requirements, for new products such as social media websites, a kids-focused radio platform, and a payments platform.- Built and configured highly automated distributed cloud deployments on AWS.

San Francisco, Us

Develop, Deploy, Launch product from the ground up using JS, node, websockets, PHP, Java, HTML, CSS, LESS, HandlebarsCreate system of performance, testing and scalability audits, create testing benchmarks.Manage 7 person engineering team (+3 interns)

Built automated event parser, and ticketing system with a small multidisciplinary team.

Advised on user experience and development best practices.

Boulder Creek, Ca, Us

- Product manager/developer/designer for a social network. - Technical project manager/lead developer heartmastery.com, a subscription-based video course site, and store.- Custom module creation; Infusionsoft API module, UI Modules, Custom FlowPlayer module.- Introduced SCRUM methodology to Management and web projects.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led the website redesign effort (a winner of the 2009 WebTop100 contest on basis of UX, graphic design, technical implementation)Manage design agency contract worth over 1M$Manage developers in our overseas office to ensure a quality functional product.Employ SEO and web marketing strategies.Maintain and update international websites.Collaborate and organize global web operations.Develop custom Drupal Modules.Work with design teams to ensure a quality, functional, modern website.Conduct regular usability tests to ensure a usable and conducive product.Determine information architecture, with a goal of usable systems, suitable for long term goals.Manage and coordinate with various departments, in a handful of offices, for a expedient delivery of 3+ separate web projects.Analyze, research, develop and implement web analytics programs, for measuring website growth as well as company growth.Deal with illegal use of software products on the internet.Design and Alter graphics for marketing campaigns.Product manager: Kerio BlogInterface design and prototyping.

Santa Cruz, California, Us

• Developed a website on top of Drupal, open source object oriented framework;• Integrated drupal with CiviCRM, Constituant relationship management system.• Built Custom Modules, with hooks into existing functionality;• Backend support, configuring the web server which the application will run;• Configuring the website to serve email to users;• Database manipulation and debugging;• Unit testing code, for scalability;• Develop interface using javascript and PHP and configure both for speed improvements• Debugging and problem solving other people’s code;• Maintain a relationship with a client so that website works for their specifications, and is upgradeable and self maintainable;• Use analytical software to help develop website, and improve SEO.• Programming using JavaScript, PHP, CSS, HTML and flash to create a cohesive interface;• User interaction design, used workflows, mockups, and case studies (using Google analytics) while working with clients to create an interface that is tailored to the website’s function and its visitor’s wants and needs. Areas of concentration include info visualization, navigation, and user interaction

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

I maintained a webserver, configured a broadcast automation server, and created an equipment checkout and training website.

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

Taught college level students the fundamentals of database programming, how to code in Java, C, and Perl