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San Francisco, California, Us

Part of Twilio's supply side messaging team -- joined via the Zipwhip acquisition

Seattle, Washington, Us

Key contributor to Self Serve initiative, which allows new customers to sign up for service and activate via the web.Served as Team Lead, designing and implementing a new API platform that underpins one of the key pillars of Zipwhip's business.Supported continued evolution of Zipwhip's Core Messaging infrastructure.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Led numerous successful initiatives, including: major effort to clean up core customer data, design/implementation of enterprise-ready customer data model, design/implementation of Single Sign-on support, completion/rollout of new internal sales account management tool, and development of new foundational and ancillary services that underpin Zipwhip's SaaS application. Key contributor to onboarding of first enterprise customers (including enablement of single sign on) and support of legacy code/systems.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Part of the Core Infrastructure team -- ensuring that Zipwhip's new messaging infrastructure is fault tolerant, highly scalable, and meets the demands of our current and future customers.Key contributions include design/creation of high performance mission-critical services, including those that handle SMPP traffic and carrier interconnects.

Worked to expand rapidLD's portfolio by building new products in the learning and talent management space. Key responsibilities include: Understanding the Learning Management software space, researching multiple LMS software solutions, identifying product opportunities in the space, design/prototype/build upon identified product ideas (back end and UI), spec and manage implementation of the software, demo the software for potential customers, leverage customer feedback for product refinements, as well as major contributions via hands-on software development.Notable achievements during the first year at rapidLD included designing and build out of a new product from scratch, creating a functional prototype in 10 weeks which was successfully demoed at a major industry conference, and then successfully licensed and implemented at two Fortune 50 companies. Left rapidLD with a pipeline of product concepts, some of which were subsequently brought to market.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Served as lead developer on a team tasked with building a new cloud-based application that serves four key purposes: collect data from internet connected power protection devices, collect data from non internet connected power protection devices via mobile app, allow customers to remotely control power protection devices, and view/report on the data that these devices are sending to the cloud.Worked closely with firmware engineers to design and enhance capabilities of internet connected (IoT) devices and their integration with the cloud platform.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Served as a member of a team tasked with designing and implementing API-driven messaging platform to allow easy integration of internal and external services with a new e-commerce storefront and Oracle Financials.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Hired as an analyst in 2005 as part of Manhattan’s Professional Service Organization (PSO) and quickly promoted to positions of Senior Analyst, Principal, and Manager during my tenure. Worked on numerous high-profile projects (including several for Fortune 500 companies), often serving in multiple roles on a single project. These roles included leading project kickoff meetings with customers, owning/managing customer communications, ownership of functional and technical designs, budgetary and project management, day-to-day people management, hands-on development of front and back end code, as well as testing and production support.

Initially hired to handle basic tasks including simple graphic work, HTML page assembly, and implement sites in the Cold Fusion programming language. Quickly moved up the ladder, becoming lead developer in 2002 having implemented web applications using additional languages (Perl, ASP, PHP, Java, JavaScript) and back-end database technologies (MS SQL, MySQL, Postgres). Also took on network administration responsibilities, which included speccing out needed hardware, ordering/building servers and storage systems, upgrading internal networks, and co-managing a small NOC.