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Boulder, Colorado, Us

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Palo Alto, Us

Palo Alto, Us

Palo Alto, Us

Dublin 2, Ie

Columbus, Oh, Us

Santa Monica, California, Us

• Delivered three greenfield products in first 12 months in the product management role.• Managed the backlog and priorities for a team of 4 software developers.• Identified user stories and ran estimation meetings for bi-weekly product iterations.• Organized bi-weekly iteration demo meetings to demonstrate new product features to relevant stakeholders.• Maintained a 90 day product roadmap and communicated timelines to management.• Provided ongoing infrastructure maintenance and product optimizations to support the growth of the USAA vehicle trade-in program to a national network of 350 dealers and submission of 4500 vehicles monthly.

Santa Monica, California, Us

• Provided the technical direction and architecture for an online vehicle trade-in platform that enabled USAA members to sell their vehicles directly to participating dealerships.• Delivered a scalable platform supporting a $1m+ business via 3500 vehicle submissions and 300 transactions monthly.• Gathered integration requirements from dealers and integration partners.• Communicated platform decisions and architecture diagrams to the CTO.• Provided mentorship and technical oversight to a team of 5 developers.

• Developed a promotional product catalog management solution with 2 other senior developers.• Maintained an existing promotional product email marketing product.

Austin, Tx, Us

• Managed a team of 8 offshore developers working on Smiley Media's coregistration advertising platform.• Delivered a modular advertising optimization platform that supported deployment of new creative optimization algorithms at runtime and analyzed real time results to optimize ad creatives and flows.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Delivered new features, bugfixes, and performance optimizations for the company's email delivery platform.• Mentored a team of 3 junior developers.• Collaborated on a redesign of the email platform's architecture. The updated architecture along with the move to a “private cloud”/virtualized environment also enabled us to decommission more than 400 physical servers and reduce our support team by 40%.• Introduced jQuery to the email delivery product and utilized the library to build an advanced SQL query builder widget, the first UI component to extensively utilize AJAX and “Web 2.0” visual effects.• Responsible for analyzing bugs and performance issues in the production environment and ensuring swift resolution. Primary point of contact for the operations team.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Ported the company's email delivery and campaign management platform from Java to .NET.• Primary technical liaison for Microsoft, providing support and development for the .NET (C#/asp.net) port.• Responsible for maintenance and implementation of features for the Java and .NET email platform(s).

● Responsible for providing technical support to all customers.● Designed and developed custom projects (primarily implemented using Python and PostgreSQL) for clients.