Kris Mcewan Email & Phone Number

Remote

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Led a multidisciplinary full stack application development team - iOS, Android, Back end / APIs.
• Built, grew and coached the geographically dispersed team across several international timezones.
• Guided team members through promotion to Senior Engineer and to Engineering Manager.
• Collaborated with Product and Design in a cross-functional team to address roadmap development and prioritization, identify, plan and deliver features which benefitted both our customers and our business partners.
• Developed and released advanced filtering features which resulted in a +3% increase in job claims per pro in a workflow which has historically been highly challenging to impact.
• Introduced operational excellence standards by defining and implementing monitoring, alerting, CICD and a test driven culture, reducing production incidents by over 15%.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Serve as a volunteer board member at large, advising leadership of non-profit in general business management.

Kirkland, Washington, United States

• Developed and shipped previously unsupported native retail purchase path resulting in multi-million dollar transaction funnel, seeing initial sales of over $2million in year one.
• Created flexible search and alerting for preferred domain names on mobile applications to expand user base and allow on-the-go participation in auctions resulting in significant customer satisfaction improvement.
• Led rearchitecting of iOS and Android products by introducing modern Swift and Kotlin practices and patterns to increase performance, reliability and scalability.
• Led a team of up to 8 engineers developing a collaborative software development process with a Product owner and a Designer on iOS and Android apps.
• Mentored junior engineers and established innovative standards for quality mobile engineering across the company.
• Established comprehensive CICD pipeline with automation, regression testing and quality control.

Kirkland, WA

• Managed a team of up to 6 iOS Engineers with varying degrees of seniority and technical skills.
• Provided iOS and Apple specific troubleshooting on all relevant projects as subject matter expert.
• Mentored and developed the skills of individual team members identifying areas of opportunity.
• Introduced engineering best practices which reduced software engineering time and increased consistency.
• Mentored team on agile software development processes.
• Completed performance evaluations for direct reports and contributed to 360 reviews.

Kirkland, Washington

• Contributed to a number of applications across GoDaddy’s suite of mobile properties (iOS).
• Advised senior management on all aspects of iOS/OSX as well as consulting on mobile strategy overall (additional platforms).
• Led development of foundational components to be used in a family of apps (Swift) allowing a modular approach resulting in increased continuity of product and decreased development time.
• Led iOS Native team to delivery of first new native product in several years.
• Served as Scrum Master on team – leading ceremonies and educating others on Agile processes.

Seattle, WA

• Managed small native iOS development team.
• Hands on coding for iOS products.
• Lead first major codebase quality upgrade in several years.
• Worked with design and UX to produce new UI.
• Designed and built AppleWatch app on site in Cupertino at Apple Headquarters prior to AppleWatch public release.

Brentwood, TN

• Worked directly with stakeholders and back-end engineers to design, develop and ship a new white label product which was then successfully sold to a number of large financial institutions.
• Mobile work was featured several years running at a large Fintech conference.
• Rebuilt PhoneGap apps natively for both iOS and Android.
• Redesigned and built new UI/UX.
• Added location aware enhancements and augmented reality interface.
• Advised on functionality and security of web service (.Net/C#).

Nashville, TN

• Built bespoke iPad application allowing jewelry sales reps to showcase products. This included the iPad application (native iOS) and the supporting back-end/APIs.
• Introduced mobile (specifically iPad and iPhone) application services to a national marketing agency resulting in an entirely new stream of business and revenue.
• Created and maintained a portfolio of highly interactive client websites and social media applications.
• Designed and implemented SEO and SEM strategies for many website clients resulting in significant traffic increases and in turn additional revenue generation.

Gallatin, TN

• Built and maintained all website properties for large franchise organization, including public/corporate website and internal intranet.
• Worked cross-functionally with marketing team to create corporate franchise guidelines for websites.
• Created bespoke websites for individual Franchise businesses following corporate guidelines.
• Administered Sharepoint property for corporate office.
• Designed and implemented SEO and SEM strategies for corporate web properties and for Franchise websites.
• Created a CMS system to allow franchisees to administer their own corporate provided websites.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Held accounts with several local newspaper business worldwide (from US to UK and Australia) generating time sensitive print layouts and providing press ready files.
• Liaised with print companies in several remote locations to ensure print work was completed correctly.
• Designed and built websites and web applications for businesses nationwide.
• Domain registration, DNS, email, hosting, design, SEO, SEM and all additional tasks required to run a small business website, resulting in a no-worry, stress-free digital presence for business owners.
• Being self employed - marketing, sales, support, advertising.

Glasgow, Scotland

• Helped grow the company from 4 employees printing 2 color litho to approx. 25 employees with 3 locations.
• Oversaw first installation in the country of computer-to-plate digital workflow and Digital Offset Litho Press.
• Maintained and troubleshot new hardware for the print industry, working directly with hardware engineers.
• Took customer briefs from concept through design, QA and plate production, working with print operators to ensure quality product.
• Managed a team of approx. 5 designers and reported directly to company owner and CEO.
• Advised stakeholders on all digital subjects as company grew.