As an Engineering Manager, I lead multiple cross-functional teams, including Software Engineers, ML Engineers, Data Engineers, and DevOps. Collaborate closely with AI Scientists, Product Managers, UI/UX designers and Stakeholders to build compelling products & services. Drawing on my technical background and leadership skills, I drive software engineering excellence and architectural innovation. As early adopters of modern Large Language Models (LLM) and AI technologies, such as OpenAI GPT3/4, Finetune is building the future of SaaS products that solve real-world problems with AI in the education and assessment industry.Responsibilities:• Lead and mentor cross-functional teams in developing web applications in React.js, Typescript, & Python on AWS to create software solutions that revolutionize the assessment industry• Lead Machine Learning Engineers to integrate Large Language Models (LLM) and AI technologies, such as OpenAI GPT3/4, into our SaaS products• Lead DevOps & Data Engineers to optimize our infrastructure and create robust, scalable, and reliable solutions • Drive architectural innovation, exploring new applications of Software Architecture & AI technology• Bridge Engineering and Product Management, aligning strategies and driving successful outcomes • Provide coaching and mentoring to empower team members and foster growth and development in AI and ML implementation.• Champion an experimental agile approach, leveraging data-driven decision-making & team empowerment• Streamline processes to enhance operational efficiency, maximizing productivity across teams.Join me at Finetune, where we are reshaping the assessment industry through AI-powered solutions. #AI #AssessmentIndustry #EducationTechnology #EngineeringManager #Innovation #DevOps #CloudInfrastructure #DataEngineering #MachineLearning #LLM #OpenAI

Hands-on leader of our flagship Web & Mobile products in collaboration with product management and stakeholders. Director over 4 teams organized with a mixture of different team topologies and technologies including React.js, Native Android/IoS apps, GraphQL and a polyglot best-of-breed tech stack involving C#, Golang, Typescript, Swift, Kotlin, and a mix of glue-code in Python and Terraform.Concurrently held role of Software Architect leading application development, systems engineering, cloud hosting, and other concerns within the department. Directly led a shared SRE team maintaining our Kubernetes, Gitlab CI-CD and AWS cloud resources utilized across all teams as well as associated toolchains. Led other Solutions Architects across the department.Acted as enterprise architect, representing the Architecture Office working across all teams and departments. Led the Cloud Native Working Group championing modern software engineering practices in the cloud following a Twelve Factor App mindset and a Microservices strategy at-scale. Championed and led the creation of an internal Platform Toolchain for our Kubernetes SaaS implemented across the organization.Earlier roles at TradeStation include an internal startup building our first web-based brokerage Trading Platform and leading our API Team, building real-time streaming Market Data services and RESTful API's for brokerage trading functions. Led & championed creating an API-as-a-Product offering by transformingour internal API's into a 3rd Party API program that is still redefining how the company thinks about itsbusiness model around B2C and B2B offerings.Thrives under pressure, persevering and overcoming obstacles while building relationships across thecompany and fiercely representing both customer success and engineering practices to build and grow asuccessful company. Laser focused on outcomes vs effort while still having fun along the way embracingdiversity as a cornerstone of our culture.

Member of the architecture team, building shared libraries and frameworks for our healthcare SaaS platform - serving hospitals & hospital systems across the US. Contributed to Authentication, Authorization and Administration framework with per-tenant Policy Configuration and varying auth behaviors based upon those settings. Member of the enterprise Architecture Team, developed principles & standards, reviewed architectures.Focus: ASP.net C# components & services, ASP.net Membership Provider, application architecture

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Focus: Team Leadership, software engineering, ASP.NET, VB6, C#, Javascript/HTML, Sql Server, TSQL, stored procedures, BizTalk Services, Sql Reporting Services.

Focus: Team Leadership, application architecture, software engineering, ASP Classic, VB6, Javascript/HTML, Sql Server, TSQL, stored procedures

Focus: Software engineering, ASP Classic, VB6, C++, Javascript/HTML, Sql Server, TSQL

Focus: Software Engineering, ASP Classic, VB5-6, Javascript/HTML, Oracle DB, PL/SQL