As an Expert, I provide strategic advice and guidance to founders and operators within the Primary portfolio and broader network. Experts enjoy access to early stage businesses, emerging trends and technology, and an expanded network of exceptional leaders, and resources through a top-tier seed-stage firm. Primary is New York City’s premier early stage venture firm working alongside founders to build unicorns like Alloy, Chief, Electric, K Health, Slice, and many more.

• Led engineering organization to make strategic long-term technology decisions for sustainability/scale• Led product development, set direction of future products, helped hire future VP of Product• Built AI/ML prototypes for efficient improvements in operations, innovative products • Automated bot protection, saving 15% on infrastructure costs, engineer time• Helped foster product ownership culture throughout engineering organization

• Head of engineering organization with 30+ engineers• Progressed quickly from Team Lead to Director to VP, with success at each level• Hired 25+ engineers (local/remote), and managers to be part of several small product teams• Migrated from local data center to 100% AWS cloud-based servers• Optimized AWS spend from $160k to $28k (570% savings), without any capacity loss, through a combination of savings plans, reserved instances, Kubernetes, and shutting down of lightly used resources• Transitioned email vendors, saving the company $276k/yr• Collaborated closely with Product/Design to align Engineering to deliver on product goals• Built new subscription payment system to replace original Perl-based system while offloading credit card data to a PCI compliant vendor to reduce compliance burden• Drove adoption of Accelerate metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR) across organization to measure engineering productivity• Changed culture of engineering organization to be product centric, breaking down silos and creating a DevOps product ownership culture• Drove investment in CI/CD, going from monthly deployments to multiple deployments daily with increased stability• Managed all vendor relationships and negotiated contract renewals, saving the company money

• Led all consumer facing teams working on services and front ends• Co-led entire engineering org until VP was appointed• Made hard decisions about cutting initiatives that weren’t aligned with business goals

• Technical Lead for two agile teams working on the consumer facing site.• Revamped deployment process and git workflow to ensure 100% regression-free automated deployments• Made homepage load 4x faster with optimizations.• Contributed as a full-stack engineer to major features on the site (resume tools, search listings, job listings)• A/B tested several conversion strategies using Google Experiments/Optimize• Recruited engineers for several teams across the company

Shared Applications • Managed a staff of 13+ engineers • Responsible for back-end CMS, front-end sites, circulation/marketing acquisition, e-commerce, back-end services for iPad apps • Transitioned 100% of servers to the cloud (AWS) • Load tested AWS configuration to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks – 600% improvement • Optimized client's AWS EC2 configuration for a 500% capacity increase with no increase in costs • Saved over $75k+ annually by scaling down lightly used AWS resources • Managed multiple internal/external client relationships • Introduced and implemented Agile Scrum process • Implemented transition to a Git-based deployment DevOps workflow • Updated e-commerce software and processes to comply with PCI requirements

Private Wealth Management2008 – 2012-- Technical lead manager for a team of 10 engineers; managed requirements, timelines, and delivery quality.-- Hired a new team, including 5 engineers, and a manager, to jump start an office in Glasgow.-- Responsible for PWM public web portal that provides online access to a client's account information, electronic statements, e-Delivery preferences, etc.-- Optimized back-end services (C++/ksh scripts) to improve batch processing of client data by a factor of 3-4x, enabling the business to scale up to a larger client base.-- Redesigned the web portal using AJAX/Ext.js, improving the user experience.-- Involved in designing the next-gen ultra high net worth platform for the larger Morgan Stanley Smith Barney joint venturePrime Brokerage IT2007 – 2008-- Managed an 11-person team of developers, maintaining a core suite of applications for Prime Brokerage, used for trade capture and reporting.-- Designed the next-generation architecture for legacy applications by leading group discussions with team members, managers, and peers. Debugged memory leaks in existing Java web applications, saving the operations team needless restarts of the web containers; worked directly with hedge fund clients to troubleshoot issues.Enterprise Application InfrastructureChange Management Team2005 – 2007-- Managed a 10-person on-shore/off-shore hybrid team to develop and maintain a suite of applications used firm-wide to control application change for regulatory (SOX, BASEL II) and risk purposes.