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New York, NY, US

Seattle, WA, US

• The AWS Data Exchange is a service that minimizes the operational time and cost it takes for customers to find, subscribe to, and use third party data in the cloud. Through seamless integration with other AWS services.
• Doubled the team to 60+ engineers in 2022 through traditional hiring, recruiting directly from my network, and minimizing regrettable attrition.
• Led the team as we launched both new delivery methods for third-party data, incremental improvements to existing delivery methods, better integration with the AWS Marketplace, and improvements to the search and.
• Promoted several high performers, managed out low performers, and coached certain individuals as they moved from IC to manager roles.
• Partnered with other Core Marketplace teams to help accelerate foundational work that benefited the larger AWS Marketplace.
• Filled in as the direct SDM of three of my teams at times when those positions were vacant.

New York, New York, US

• The leading educational program for kids ages 2-8. At HOMER, I led our 50 person engineering team.
• Oversaw the successful completion of the necessary rebuilding of almost all of our key systems including the mobile codebase (iOS and Android) of our flagship product, our game platform (CMS + game engine), and all of.
• Drove a large reorganization that better aligned the team with our 2021 business goals and continued our evolution into cross functional autonomous squads.
• Set and achieved many engineering goals that made our site more reliable, more performant, and increased throughput of our engineering teams.
• Introduced new processes to ensure sound technical decisions, as well as a standardized career ladder, promotion process, and recruiting process.
• Led technical due diligence on all potential acquisitions, including two companies acquired in 2021.

New York, NY, US

• Oversaw the majority of engineers during our hyper-growth period as we grew the team from 30 to over 100, the number of countries we operate in from 4 to 32, our network of partners by 400%, and our user base by 600%..
• Led all user-facing teams responsible for growth and the consumer experience across iOS, Android, and web.
• Led teams on the B2B side of the business that built our primary partner-facing B2B tools, our corporate product, and our integrations to 20+ external systems to ingest our partner’s inventory and fulfill reservations.
• Led technically-focused teams such as our infrastructure team, our data platform team, and a team dedicated to eliminating technical debt from our original monolithic API.
• Drove all engineering recruiting efforts from the Engineering side in New York and San Francisco in partnership with our Head of Recruiting.
• Managed all mobile engineers, and led the multi-year transition to defaulting to React Native as our primary mobile development language. This resulted in approximately 75% of all mobile development to be done once and.

Hagerstown, MD, US

• Led the engineering and product teams that enable charity: water to achieve its mission of bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.
• Managed the rebuild from scratch of our online donation and fundraising platform. Built a subscription donation product on this new platform that brought recurring donation revenue from under $50K to over $10M per year.
• Led the effort to create our data platform. Enabled other leaders and their teams to use this platform to make charity: water more data-driven in our product development and business operations.
• Delivered a monitoring system that tracked and visualized water flow data transmitted from sensors installed on water projects in the field.
• Developed systems that enabled our water programs teams to manage projects from the grant phase through physical implementation.

• Doubled the throughput of the engineering team in the first six months by introducing agile processes and tools, reworking the methods used for source control and code deployment, solidifying the organization of the.
• Initiated and led the effort to boost the performance and stability of our websites. By September, 2011 load time had decreased by 60% and site uptime had increased from under 98% to 99.95%.
• Initiated the ongoing process of decomposing an old monolithic system into smaller stand-alone services. Migrated these services and most of our web applications to AWS from a traditional data center.
• Took over the Product Development and Design groups in June, 2012. Improved productivity and the overall quality of work in those groups through roadmap prioritization exercises, data-driven decisions, and hiring a.
• Relaunched CollegeHumor.com with a responsive design in late 2013. The project also included a complete redesign, custom responsive display ad units, a new video player designed to work on all web enabled devices, and.
• Refactored our codebase to become a flexible publishing platform and used it to launch/relaunch other CH-owned web properties.

New York, NY, US

• Led the technology and product development groups within the centralized HQ organization with a focus on development of a shared platform that supported over 50 sites in over 20 countries.
• Owned the strategic direction of our platforms and digital products as the sole technologist in senior management. Advised other senior managers on all matters relating to technology and product development for web.
• Owned and managed a $5MM+ budget. Reviewed and approved the budgets of central development teams and other centralized services which are allocated out to the business facing technology groups.
• Supervised a team of over 40 people. Directly managed 25 developers spread over New York, London, India, and Argentina. Functionally managed another 20 developers through “dotted line” reports in 6 additional countries.

New York, NY, US

• Developed and executed a plan to improve operating income by over $2MM by migrating many websites from disparate local technology stacks to one centralized platform.
• Defined technical requirements to be integrated into core MTVN products to ensure the business needs of MTVN International Digital Media would be met in every layer of our technology stack.
• Designed and led the development of custom solutions to create the “international layer” built on top of the global platform to meet the specific needs of the larger international regions.

New York, NY, US

• Led software development for 2005 relaunch of comedycentral.com. Remained on at comedycentral.com as a manager of software development.
• Built features for Comedy Central's digital properties, while making core contributions to MTV Networks digital platforms.
• Oversaw technical integration on several outsourced projects. Evaluated proposals and advised senior management during the vendor selection process.

New York, NY, US

• Led server-side Java development on many core features used for MTVN music sites (mtv.com, vh1.com, cmt.com, etc...)
• Developed core features of the custom content management system including the management of TV shows, music artists, and all video content.
• Led development on Showtime’s ITV (interactive television) data feed project.

• Developed custom software for clients in different industries including a telecommunications software development company, and industrial supply company, and the United Federation of Teachers in NY.
• Designed and built large-scale relational databases.
• Consulted clients on general technical issues such as code deployment and change management, quality assurance, and staffing. Conducted technical interviews for full-time positions at a client site.
• Once had to hunt down Y2K bugs through thousands of lines of COBOL:(

Mba, Specializations In Management Of Technology And Strategy

Bsee, Electrical Engineering