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Olympic Valley, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

At Squadformers, we believe that outstanding product starts with great teams. We assist teams with building exceptional software by providing high-caliber squads that know how to always deliver.* Was promoted from Senior Software Engineer to Staff Engineer to oversee the engineering team during a high growth period, after demonstrating the ability to effectively onboard, integrate, and mentor engineers into our client companies.* Managed the engineering team, developed software processes, and oversaw engineering onboarding* Helping the company deploy squads with new clients, scoping out needs and technical requirements

Palo Alto, California, Us

* From the ground up, created and scaled product to serve 20+ enterprise customers. * Created a survey engine that serves 500+ respondents on a daily basis.* Created a panel management system that allows companies to manage large panels.

Fresno, Us

* Founded Benchmark and lead until acquisition, created MVP from the ground up, and scaled product to serve over 1000 brick-and-mortar locations for over 50 enterprise customers.* Assisted team in building a company/product that raised over 500k in venture funding.* Scaled and managed the engineering team to 5 engineers.* Created a customer feedback solution that collects over 10,000 unique customer data points a day.* Built an audit system that allowed customers to perform audits in the field, completely replacing their previous pen-and-paper solutions.* Built a custom bot that allowed our customers to completely replace and automate their traditional customer FAQ system.

Fresno, California, Us

Was invited back to lead teams at a subdivision of Bitwise, this time focused on building world-class technology solutions for government and private-sector clients that want to scale quickly.Lead teams, mentored engineers, architected, developed, and maintained software for our clients.

Six Degrees Software helps Credit Unions manage their member relationship.* Developed a member relationship management tool that managed over 10k locations and over 50k contacts.* Mentored junior developers into full-stack developer roles.* Developed a banner creation tool that allowed our customers to post custom social media banners to bring awareness around their brand on sites like Facebook and Instagram.* Created a doc template tool that allows customers to easily create documents from custom templates for member correspondence.

Shelton, Connecticut, Us

The world’s largest first-party data platform for insights, activation & measurement.* Assisted with migration of over 10 engineers from Critical Mix to Dynata.* Built, iterated, deployed, and maintained our white-labeled ad industry research tool.

Joined Critical Mix to help accelerate the development of its market research platform, until the acquisition by Dynata in Feb 2019.* Led software development of a product that managed research projects around ad industry methods such as: Impact Screener, Touchpoint Pulse, and Brand Strength Monitor.* Added ability to white label one of our portfolio companies' ad research product.* Expanded our survey importer tool by adding more survey features and history.

Fresno, Ca, Us

Joined Bitwise for a mission that’s dear to my heart: Bitwise helps build tech economies in underestimated cities.* Created curricula, instructed, and mentored over 30 aspiring developers to become software developers.* Held a 98% career placement rate for developers who exited our cohort program.* Instructed over 20 high-school students in the field of computer programming.

Rejoined Decipher, the quickly growing survey platform, this time as a Software Engineer. Helped build and scale the company until the acquisition by FocusVision in 2015.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Joined the US Navy and assigned to VFA-122 and VFA-2 Strike Fighter Squadrons. Deployed to Iraq onboard the USS Constellation and USS Abraham Lincoln during Operation Enduring Freedom. Promoted quickly to E-5 due to exemplary service. Led a team of 5 service members and entirely responsible for VFA-2's aircrew survival QA program. Equipped over 100 aircrew with the new Naval Aviation Joint Helmet Mounting Cueing System. I value the Navy because of the tight-knit teams and environment. I believe that through teamwork, we can collaborate and accomplish more, especially under pressure — it's been a core tenant of my career ever since.

Bachelor'S In Computer Science

General Education