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Building software to drive the adoption of Solar energy

Acquired in Nov 2021

Eugene, Or, Us

London, United Kingdom, Gb

Leading a team of contractors to build a modern customer UX. Responsive web application using ES6, NodeJS/Express, React/Redux, Bootstrap, JWT, MySQL, and Gulp.

Englewood, Co, Us

• Responsible for Digabit’s single biggest priority of 2016, rebuilding the core UI in Ember. Daily activities included project management, product definition, resource allocation, stand-ups, and writing code. Successfully delivered the new UX on schedule with a team of 4-8 cross-functional engineers in 9 months.• Played a key role in securing management support for an overhaul and modernization of development practices and tools including automation of regression tests and continuous integration and deployment• Personally contributed (in Ember) to the development of key features of the new UX including user preferences, localization, and recently added items• Served as release engineer for multiple releases and automated the process of deploying Solr schema and config using Vagrant and Ansible

Denver, Co, Us

Served as technical lead on many high-profile engagements including Best Buy, Bank of America, Chevrolet, Denver BroncosManaged build and deployment pipelines across 6-8 server groups using Jenkins, Gulp, and GruntImplemented web-driver automation testing using PhantomJS and CasperJSWorked closely with Director of Quality to implement unit testing strategy resulting in improved visibility to code coverage and adding 100s of unit tests to codebase in a matter of weeksResponsible for all production operations including budgeting, planning, quality, uptime, deployment, and infrastructure for a SaaS product that processes 700M records/day, regularly supports 10k concurrent users, and averages 10M monthly visitorsImplemented Agile practices, on-call schedule, and support guidelines that led to 90%+ retention rate for SaaS productAssisted in recruiting, hiring, and on-boarding 14 developer, quality, and operations team members as the team grew and needs evolvedGained technical expertise in Cloud architecture and operations, continuous deployment, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Javascript, Node, and others

Denver, Co, Us

Developed many critical product features, including:• Geo-search capability for social media via Node/React; integrations include ESRI/ArcGIS, MapBox (Leaflet), Twitter, Instagram, and Elasticsearch backend. Supported map types included Regional (cloropleth), Heatmap, and Custom Markers.• Drag-and-drop interface for CMS-like page composition using Backbone.js• Feed Builder module that served as the core social media tracking component within the application. Allowed users to configure complex query criteria using boolean logic, built in Backbone.js. • Enhanced responsive cross-origin iframe embeds leveraging window.postMessage and pub/sub in a Backbone.js architecture

Lead UI engineer on a team servicing european directory search sites with 7M unique monthly visitors. Acted as a leader on the engineering team by spearheading initiatives to remove redundancy, coaching teammates on agile best practices, implementing code reviews, and automating common engineering tasks.

- Successfully built and deployed a custom LAMP CRM/OSS/Billing application that dramatically improved operational processes and business intelligence- Oversaw day-to-day operational and technological objectives while managing two direct reports

Us

Proactively planned, developed, and deployed automation solutions; applications include:- .NET/SQL CRM application that integrated billing, ordering, accounting, and invoicing systems; included a home-grown ticketing system that dramatically improved customer service quality- .NET/SQL app to improve accuracy of payments to accounting system; reduced monthly processing from 50 to 5 hrs- 10-12 SQL reports automatically delivered to clients, saving an estimated 80 hours per monthLed effort to document, revise, and improve core business processes for efficiency, scalability, and future automationResponsible for all billing operations including supporting IT systems for ordering, managing, and reportingSuccessfully completed two major billing system data conversions without incident under stringent timelines

Amsterdam, Nl

Served as technical analyst to implement Billing, CRM, and Business Intelligence solutions at major telecommunications companies including Sprint and Hawaiian Telecom. Learned skills in technical analysis, SDLC, and project management.