Michael Lebarron Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

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The Kingdom Basketball Club is a local affiliate of the Amateur Athletic Union, a national organization providing support and recognition for amateur athletes and athletic associations, providing exposure for players, directing them towards quality colleges, and creating a positive environment within communities.

Greater Boston Area

• Developed an infrastructure of peer mentoring and leadership within the Engineering organization across 2 offices and several remote employees.
• Created career paths for the engineering team and worked with team members both senior and junior to set goals and methodologies to hit these goals.
• Grew the engineering team from 15 to 50 engineers, establishing multiple teams and empowering leaders in the organization to make decisions independently with a company- wide impact.
• Continued to improve the Scrum/Agile implementation to work in an environment with determined end dates and feature sets based on client needs.
• Established hiring standards and processes to ensure consistent high-quality new hires.
• Met with clients to discuss high level road mapping of their products, distilling complexissues into easy to understand concepts

• Introduced Scrum methodologies to the organization and drove company-wide adoption. This stabilized the delivery schedule, allowing sustainable profits and predictable delivery.
• Built client applications utilizing Rails, Node.js, and Kinvey (a Backend as a Service provider) for backend services and responsive front ends using AngularJS.

• Responsible for front end team building, hiring, and development.
• Designed and built a scalable front end including template structure and a reusable CSSarchitecture.
• Integrated git into the development workflow across engineering.
• Rebuilt the jewelry customization wizard in Backbone.js with modular/reusable components.
• Built a new internal tools platform leveraging AngularJS.
• Collaborated with the design team on designing for the web, with mobile and touch as adriver in future iterations.

Greater Boston Area

• Lead the mobile web initiatives to create an industry leading mobile shopping platform across apps and web.
• Oversaw the front end code structure of a site redesign with more than 5 million pageviews per day. The redesign was a 2011 MITX Award Finalist.
• Started and ran the Rue:Tech Hackathon, a quarterly, company-wide event to foster innovation. Wrote the winning submission: a Solr powered, user customizable shopping experience.
• Mentored junior team members on Mobile UX, front end structure, CSS, and web design.
• Ran cross-departmental trainings on HTML5, CSS3, and other front end technologies.

Greater Boston Area

• Responsible for overseeing the design and development of the CitySquares.com local search platform, front-end user interface and experience; ensuring the integrity of the product both for advertisers and users.
• Successfully managed the lifecycle of a business management dashboard that increased customer time on site from under 1 minute to over 10 minutes, and exponentially increased customer signups.
• Assisted in building and growing the website infrastructure to scale and support 10,000 to over 2.5 million visitors per month, using a mix of traditional and cloud based hosting with Rackspace and Amazon Web Services.
• Collaborated with management on processes and policies surrounding the entire development cycle, including project and product milestones, client integrations, internal requirements, and technology requirements.
• Implemented processes ensuring the latest search engine optimization techniques were properly leveraged, content creation and layout stayed consistent and relevant, and ad space was targeted based on the needs of the.
• Mentored junior team members, outlined hiring requirements for new employees, and conducted interviews.

• Using emerging web application knowledge, analyzed existing processes, developed, and implemented solutions to increase productivity, reduce rate of errors, and ensure timely delivery of marketing materials.
• Solely responsible for gathering requirements and developing a web based multi user application using PHP, CSS/Javascript, and MySQL leading to reduced errors by up to 95% and decreased processing time by 50%. Target.

• Rapidly translate business objectives into functional specifications to develop web based trading applications, file management, reconciliation, and supporting tools for millions of dollars in trades on a daily basis..
• Utilizing PHP/Apache/SQL Server, developed a custom, multi-user trade routing application that increased productivity by over 50%. With an XHTML/Javascript/CSS UI the target business users were able to easily integrate.
• Built custom, LAMP based solutions to ensure optimal and continued operation of systems between bug fixes of installed third party applications.
• Optimized daily support monitoring and support tasks through CRON controlled Perl and UNIX shell leading to a better than 80% gain in alert procedure efficiency.