Led high value initiatives: JetBlue Integration and White Label Site, Virtual Interlining White Labels and Virtual InterliningPlanned and guided projects across the Flights organization to reduce product latency, leading to a reduction of 40+% improvements in speed and a 25% increase in customer conversionDrove introduction of caching solutions to Hopper Flights, resulting in savings of over 300k$ per year Worked extensively with product leaders to develop and refine project plans, roadmaps and team structuresMentored and grew a staff of 30+ members, ranging from managers to individual contributorsRestructured hiring practices inside Flights, introducing predictable question coverage as well as setting standards for talent. Refined and improved on-call support, this resulted in significantly less downtime as well as standard incident response guidelines

Led the Dealer Engagement Platform to improve and modernize our day-to-day customer experience.Led the International Dealer team with implementations for managed leads, rethinking our lead engagement model and integrations for other international CarGurus' properties.Led the Decomposition Team to create a new vertical slice framework to be used to move us towards a more modern platform.Led the Mobile Dealer Engagement Platform team.

Led micro service adoption for customer fulfillment platform in CarGurus, adding massive flexibility into the sales process and making time to go live for a customer from 24+ hours to near instantaneous.Oversaw internationalization of our text/chat platform, bringing lead delivery in multiple channels to our non-us markets.Designed and led a team to automate many of the manual sales and activation processes inside of CarGurus, leading to an overall increase in efficiency for both the sales and engineering organizations.Served as a subject matter expert for the Dealer team during data center migration, ensuring that dealer facing products and tools remained functional post move.Served in a steering and subject matter expert capacity for Project Velocity which redefined sales process and its integration between CarGurus and Salesforce.Responsible for MRR and Dealer facing project enhancements.

Full Stack Architecture design/implementation for CarGurus websiteCoordination between all aspects of a project, from the business requirements to the technical specifications.Worked on several dealer facing projects to enhance tools for dealers to understand the value proposition of CarGurus.Mentoring and Training for new developers.

Led integration of Bloomreach and Zettata search as a service providers into Staples Global Search platform.Technical Lead and Design for generic search engine platform to allow multiple vendors to operate in Staples Advantage simultaneouslyDesigned Global Search initiatives across multiple Staples Properties.Designed and guided all Search efforts, and feasibility of new feature sets within Staples Advantage.Technical Lead for Staples Advantage B2B Assortment Management Effort, providing custom search catalogs per customer.

Technical Lead for Search Engine technologies for Staples Advantage.Lead initiative to replace search engine platform from Recommind to Oracle Endeca.Designed stateless search platform API which resulted in overall improved performance and stability at Staples Advantage.Designed and guided all Search efforts, and feasibility of new feature sets within Staples Advantage.Lead technical representation on enterprise wide Search Initiatives, sharing knowledge and resources with our other properties.

J2EE/Python Development for MGI WebsiteDesigned and implemented the Apache Solr Indexing/Data retrieval infrastructure for the MGI 5.0 release.Implemented new web infrastructure using Hibernate/Spring MVC/JSON for MGI 5.0 launch.Designed and implemented the MGI Biomart.Developed back-end Apache Lucene solution for the MGI Searchtool.Created, and maintained pages for the MGI Website.Designed and maintained the application server infrastructure.J2EE Application Server AdministrationDrove the adoption of the JBoss application server at MGI for new applications.Setup and configured JBoss for use at MGI.MGI Website SupportTroubleshot MGI Website for performance issues.Advised and Implemented plans of action when issues were encountered.Created Custom SQL Reports, and script based solutions on demand.Maintained MGI Wiki for release documentation.

J2EE Development for Management Operations Matrix System (MOM)Improved the Back-End Java data delivery portions.Added new functionality to the JSP Front end components.J2EE Application Server AdministrationResearched and Introduced the JBoss application server to the GSA web environment.Supported production EA Servers for existing web applications.Quality Assurance for the PWS solution comprised of Unwired Orchestrator, EDI, J2EE technologies and MS SQL Server.Handled build validation testing from a QA perspective.Tasked for Smoke testing, and regression testing for PWS solution.Learned the Unwired Orchestrator code, in order to be able to replace developers on demand.

Designed and Developed several utility classes for the JIVA portal, including logging and audit mining.Team Lead for PL3, COI 4 compliance for the JIVA Portal.Developed JIVA GUI using the BEA Weblogic Workshop.

Section Lead: MCIA/Triton Portal Task, BAE SystemsDesigned and developed the "What's New" Portlet for the MCIA Portal.Primary point of contact between contractor team and MCIA customer.Developed project artifacts including Software Development Plan, Configuration Management Plan, Risk Management Plan, Plan of Action and Milestones, and Monthly Reports.Developed requirement specifications for each baseline release of the MCIA Portal, as well as baseline related deliverables.Point of contact for inter-agency cooperation between the MCIA Portal project and the ONI Triton Portal.