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New York, Ny, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

- Built out entirely new full stack teams (Android, iOS, GraphQL, Web) dedicated to delivery of search experiences.- Incrementally rebuilt and rearchitected the entire search stack for all search platforms adopting modern technologies and approaches, reducing client side error rates by 20%- Delivered a 0 to 1 product, comment search, marking the first new searchable content type on Reddit in 16 years- Drove a hearts and minds campaign to improve public perceptions of Reddit search, while also taking public quantitative feedback on it to help drive next product and engineering decisions. Improving CSAT scores by 15% by proactively engaging with our users.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Managing the home and search engineering teams, through the entire stack, driving personalized ML driven content to users to all top for funnel experiences.- Encouraged adoption of standardized, data driven UX components driven by backend services to deliver consistent measurable impact of experiences.- Shifted search functionality to be user centric and enabled improved user functionality resulting in conversion lifts.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Managed the consumer facing web team (27 members) through conversions off of Angular 2.0 onto modern rendering libraries, while improving the entire development tool chain in the process.- Launched GH+ and managed a cross platform 13 person engineering team to deliver the Grubhub subscriptions product.- Driving stabilization of organizational Frontend CI/CD tooling from home grown, or fixed Jenkins runners to Github Actions.- Managed an SEO focussed team, improving SEO conversions through adoption of server side generation techniques, which improved landing conversion by 10%.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Implemented a customizable Contentful CMS driven component library for driving personalized presentational elements to users.- Worked to deliver and expand the marketing tooling to better engage with users within existing campaigns- Expanded payments tooling and options to allow users to improve their selection and ease of use during the checkout funnel.

- Delivered scoping for approaches of intersystem communications through various ESB providers.- Delivered approaches and system design of organizational cross system communication.- Drove domain driven design approaches to ensure consistent data transfer of entities- Modernized CI/CD infrastructure to consistent, repeatable and centralized implementations.

- Designed and implemented the new corporate blog, and online enrollment systems- Organized and designed future systems architecture to target Mobile and single page applications, leveraging the Angularjs framework- Designed and prototyped the MyAccount android application- Co-ordinated and on boarded offshore assets- Performed Web CMS analysis for suitability for company-wide content management

-Developed and implemented the business.directenergy.com redesign, a site with 41,000+ monthly hits, using the ASP MVC 3 framework-Enhanced the field sales tablet tool, a mobile enabled website implemented with the ASP.NET MVC 3 framework to increase door to door sales-Engaged in and managed end user testing, as well as unit testing-Participated in architecture reviews and redesign

-Developed testing strategy, plan and procedures for Generation Management System (GMS) implementation-Coordinated QA resources to support the test plan execution-Coordinated with third parties vendors to implement testing procedures-Implemented client interface and trade transaction system for Indirect Retail Customers-Developed SSRS reports to enable further automation of FERC reporting (regulatory)-Lifecycle support and testing of nMarket (Scheduling and Settlements), settlements tools and related interfaces.

Ottawa, On, Ca

Designing and implementing a basic database app with some graphical analysis features as extras

-Designed, built and implemented the new web based engineering course registration system, using PHP, Ajax and JQuery-Designed and implemented the MySQL database back end-Engaged in end user testing and integration -Procured new hardware for the system

B. Eng, Software Engineering

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