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Portland, OR, US

Portland, Oregon Area

• Lead multiple teams and 5 products, 4 of them complete green field development. Each product has multiple integrations with enterprise data systems to deliver users the desired business value. Host weekly design.
• Assembled an 11-member engineering team from the ground up within a span of 90 days. Together we developed a new web application, with 4 system integrations, and only 1 defect recorded after it went live in production.
• Led the team to use a decision matrix for making critical decisions on which type of database to use for supply chain compliance infrastructure, resulted in flexibility in handling different data without having to.
• Drove improvements in product quality by adopting use of TypeScript instead of JavaScript as primary development language by discovering incorrect type comparisons much earlier in development cycle.
• Led with empathy in reviewing customer needs and built a consensus around minimal viable product requirements that resulted in shorter development time and achieving business impacts earlier than expected. Show less

Portland, Oregon Area

• Led multiple teams in the development of workforce management SaaS application, a highly available, fault tolerant, highly scalable cloud based enterprise solution using.NET, C#, Javascript/TypeScript, Angular.
• Developed a dynamic partitioning algorithm that enabling the scaling of our routing engine to grow from routing hundreds to 10’s of thousands of work orders and field technicians in the same… Show more Led multiple.
• Developed a dynamic partitioning algorithm that enabling the scaling of our routing engine to grow from routing hundreds to 10’s of thousands of work orders and field technicians in the same time window.
• Championed evaluation of APM tools by investigating and demoing features and capabilities, allowing teams to get real performance data to identify and fix performance and scaling issues.
• Reduced cost of goods sold by over 80% by using Excel / PowerBI to show teams how much each of their services were costing and introducing ideas to improve the costliest system design areas.
• Created robust business to business interfaces by managing changes to the product interfaces to RESTful APIs, leveraging Azure API Management services to publish, establish policies, and document APIs

Hillsboro, OR

Led 27-member team directing all facets of product development for Saber Product Group. Oversaw user interfaces, model development, simulation core technology, software build and testing. Set product strategy and direction, led cross-functional product team in prioritizing customer requirements. Monitored and managed product planning, process development.