Responsible for all Flyhomes technology, product, machine learning and data science functions. • Grew the engineering team in US and India, created and staffed the Data Science & ML function.• Initiated the framework for development of an ML backed pricing methodology for trade-up pricing. • Led initial re-branding, including new logo design, branding guidelines, website redesign• Led search portal build and marketing tech integrations. • Built Flyhomes first generation data warehouse to accurately measure all critical business metrics.

Executive sponsor and leader of zulily's cloud transformation. Led the evaluation of cloud partners for capability, feature, and cost match. Negotiated multi-year, multi-million dollar partnerships with primary and secondary cloud vendors. Organized and led the transition, schedule and execution plans for multiple teams. Hands-on led the transition of zulily's website/apps and marketing tech functions. Ran all customer facing e-commerce, marketing tech, and machine learning functions for zulily. Provided technology guidance for the Qurate New Ventures org.

Led the build of Arivale customer facing systems including the Arivale health information dashboard, incubation of the mobile app and whole-genome display and delivery. Worked with executive leadership to define and execute on how to visualize the confluence of genetic, blood, activity, and dietary data.

Led the effort to rebuild and re-platform zulily.com using responsive design. Consolidated the mobile website and desktop properties to ensure features were deployed across both simultaneously.

Led the customer facing e-commerce, marketing-tech, and machine learning teams through hyper-growth phase. Built the international presence for zulily in Europe and Canada. Managed technology operations, drove product innovation and delivered a great experience to our customers daily, across all devices. Helped zulily reach the $1B mark faster than all but 2 retail companies.

Developed many of the first generation portions of the e-commerce systems from the ground up. Bootstrapped early versions of most of the software zulily uses today across merchandising, customer service and data science. Built a team of developers that ran and maintained all software development for all of the zulily front-end systems.Key Accomplishments:• Re-platformed zulily.com property off Magento on to a custom, scalable solution• Successfully Introduced MongoDB, lithium, Redis, Elasticsearch and various other technologies• Built a scalable image serving platform that is expandable to serving Tb of images each day• Managed the initial development of zulily mobile apps• Built zulily's initial merchandising and customer service systems • Built the initial big data platform later used leveraged for machine learning based predictive modeling.

Developed architected and delivered highly scalable solutions for Marchex's local advertising products. Delivered major releases to production by empowering the development team to move faster than they were previously capable of.

FiveLabs is a Professional Services firm specializing in:• System and Software Architecture• Complex Software Development• Website Performance and Scalability Analysis • Website Software Infrastructure• Quality AssuranceProjects Include:• Architecting a massively scalable system to evaluate security of a large auction site's user generated content. The system leveraged Java, Glassfish and JMS, as well as third-party web services. It was scaled using Amazon EC2 and achieved peak sustained processing of over 12MM page evaluations in a 24 hour period.• Working in a senior advisory role helping Blue Nile's site and core development teams deliver on a total website re-launch. This included providing technical guidance as well as hands on coding for almost every aspect of the website including Hibernate usage, Level II caching, REST web services design and implementation, JQuery and UI performance, site scalability and reliability.• Working with a long time client and partner, Fortune 500 firm Towers Perrin in designing a new web based benefits evaluation platform for use in their HR services practice. The system is intended to replace existing client server based applications and provide greater access to customized, user defined charts, graphs and analysis. The system will use state of the art UI controls to provide highly customizable insights into complex datasets.• Working with FiveLabs' long time partner PugetWorks in developing a Proxy Model system for communication between Oracle EBS and a custom suite of publishing software used by a subsidiary of major education materials publisher School Specialty, Inc.

Worked directly with Avenity's major client to develop custom software that helped evaluate job and employee compensation information. The custom solutions were part of the client's market leading Human Capital Management business offerings and are available in over 60 countries.Actively managed software development work directly resulting in over 30% of company revenue. Set direction and priority for several projects concurrently.• Accurately defined project scope, objectives, tasks and deliverables• Led multiple, large-scale projects concurrently• Monitored workloads and work flows of geographically distributed staff; redeployed staff as required.

Led a team of developers and analysts in development of a corporate wide Cash Reconciliation accounting system for the nations largest secondary mortgage broker, Fannie Mae. The system was developed from the ground up using Spring, Hibernate, and J2EE. It was responsible for reconciling all internal cash accounts and incoming wire transfers, validating data, and posting information to the corporate General Ledger system in a manner that was FAS149 and SOX complaint. The system went into production in Feb 2005 and is currently processing over $1.5B in transactions.

Developed software that helped the US Postal Service evaluate and manage large pallets of mail from business customers. The system integrated the a set of bar code scanner technologies and scale technologies with a Java web application. The system went into production in July 2004 and is currently being used in mail processing facilities across the US

Designed and developed software for major US Financial Services clients, as well as state level revenue organizations.Technologies Used: Java, J2EE, Struts, Weblogic, Oracle, Sql Server, Visual Basic, Visual C++