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Ellicott City, Md, Us

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Mclean, Va, Us

Managed a high-profile public facing federal program. Lead ~50 contract-wide FTEs. A program where methodologies, processes, and both the underlying & developed technologies all required analysis and modernization. In less than 9 months I was able to inspire, if not occasionally force, transformative change program wide. Inspired program staff to rethink how they approach solutioning; negotiated multiple, sometimes competing, customer-expressed needs or asks by leading a shift of day-to-day focus from firefighting & triage activities to strategic planning, risk mitigation, and crisis prevention. Brought much of the program from a waterfall mindset with into an agile philosophy that more closely aligns with modern software development practices. Areas of focus: Thought Leadership and Program Vision, Technical and people leadership, TDD (Test Driven Development), Section 508 / Accessibility, DevOps / DevSecOps, SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle).

Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Us

Led or supported multiple Federal IC projects and programs. Responsibilities covered service-oriented architecture, data strategy, API design, hands-on full stack development (Node.js, React / Redux / Sagas), information architecture, interface design, accessibility auditing and risk mitigation, in addition to operate as acting scrum master as well as business analyst.Internally I spearheaded and managed branding/identity creation for the firm, including RFP authoring, vendor selection, and project management. Introduced and implemented common "best practices" for software development, testing, and doing agile as painlessly as possible company wide. Imparted an ethos of “curating humane experiences,” provided direction to and mentored engineering team, and grew engineering staff 300% in under a year.

Vienna, Va, Us

Aided in the development and planning of the second version of an enterprise-wide modern platform for a Federal Health customer. My primary area of responsibility in this role was UI development (w/ Redux, Sagas, SCSS). I also contributed to service oriented architecture and EA design, consulted to API design and taught best practices with regard to implementing a TDD methodology, consulted and mentored all staff on WCAG 2.0 Section 508 implementation, testing, and compliance. I also provided general mentorship of staff and subcontracting engineers, adding levity whenever possible.

Sparks, Nv, Us

Provide support and ongoing development of classified project for a federal agency. Responsibilities include advocating for and implementing best practices regarding developer workflow, TDD, CI, CD, platform architecture, software development, and devops.

Baltimore, Md, Us

Ellicott City, Md, Us

Consulting role on DCPS 2.0 project. Hired as first Senior Collaboration Team member. Built system for scheduling asynchronous HTTP requests. Proposed and consulted to various architecture/design challenges. Responsible for refactoring a number of core services; designing the integration of AXIAR system with DCPS; and providing general consulting where needed.

New York, Ny, Us

Consulting role leading new product/service design and engineering efforts for the R&D/Labs group at TIAA-CREF. Designed and built a MVP CMS leveraging a proprietary npm-based user interface component library to allow editorial and marketing users to create brand-locked websites without any training.

Ellicott City, Md, Us

* Worked with a small distributed team to redesign, modernize, and implement a core, public facing system (ECFS) for the FCC on Node.js/Restify, Angular & ElasticSearch. Used RAML to design and test, and then built a RESTful API for both internal and future public developer use. Defined data quality issues and lead data cleanse efforts where needed. Collaborated on ETL. Lead user research and interview process and collaborated with internal working group to plan for future features. Set up and managed TDD (unit, e2e, & CI) processes and systems (Grunt/Docker/Postman/Karma/Protractor/Travis), system architecture, and devops efforts (CD/Docker/Softlayer/AWS). Provided mentorship for junior/mid-level team members. Project management & sprint planning.* Built Phase1 of greenfield Attribute Registry Service on Node.js/Restify, MongoDB, & Angular for the GSA via Deloitte.

Ellicott City, Md, Us

Redesigned key backend systems, developed a new platform/product and designed a service to save researchers hundreds of hours of manual effort.

New York, Ny, Us

Spearheaded audit of existing system’s user flow and interaction design. Drafted recommendations for UI/UX/IA. Designed and built new corporate website.

San Francisco, California, Us

A service agnostic location based check-in service. Working beta introduced @ SBSW 2010.Local.to lets you view friends and what's happening nearby no matter what geo-location network(s) you prefer to use. Local.to is a service-agnostic platform that makes checking in to real-world locations, the search for something to do, or where to go more efficient.

New York, Ny, Us

After spending 10 years in the agency world, I found myself frustrated with the way most of my employers went about things, so I thought to myself, “why not try to do it better?”. Due to simultaneous under and over-utilization of staff, I had to close the doors at the end of 2009, then spend the following few months honoring existing contracts and getting work out the door.

New York, Us

I played a dual role for Kaplan Thaler as a Technical Project Manager as well as Interaction, Experiential, and Technical Designer for the Dawn brand. The result of our efforts had the most successful numbers in the history of a P&G digital campaign, including a <5% bounce rate and a measured >300% ROI. I was also contracted to design (gameplay) and build a game to engage their target demographic with an entertaining, challenging, branded experience. This distributed game was such a hit that one user was documented to have played for 14+ hours and a very high top score!

Nater Kane & Friends was a freelance consultancy that was eventually rolled into the agency that became NOM.

New York, Ny, Us

I relieved Rokkan’s internal team by coming in-house and building the front-end, consulting on IA/UX, and building a light-weight backend for Time Inc’s first ever corporate website... timeinc.com in less than 2/3 the time estimated by the project’s manager.

Played a key role in identifying or establishing client business requirements. Managed the lifecycle of projects that involved our technology services/resources. Developed, documented, and taught the agency’s methodology, workflow and process. Responsible for creating and maintaining functional / technical requirements as well as design documentation. Contributed to IA/UX, generated written and diagram documentation. Operated as technical hiring manager. Participated in business development & RFP response, including (some) lead generation, proposaling, pricing, scope determination, and pitch delivery. Planned and Scheduled all projects. Provided technical consultation regarding creative process and creative direction.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed staff of ~115 FTEs and hired to restructure and reshape Ogilvy’s Interactive Services offerings. Oversaw execution of work for numerous brands including Ford, IBM, Time Warner Cable, the Tribeca Film Festival, and their dozens of concurrent projects representing tens of millions in annual and campaign contracts. My duties were split between Director and Technical Manager. I was responsible for overseeing requirements and technical design documentation processes, testing and code audits, as well as the creation of a universal version/source control system to be used across the department.

I spent nearly all of my time at RegionalHelpWanted.com debugging, refactoring and adding security precautions to their (at the time) 6 year old legacy ColdFusion code-base.

I spent my time at Takkle merging and refactoring two halves of their software that had previously been developed by separate vendors, this included porting some of their software to PHP5 as well as rewriting, optimizing, making standards-compliant, and adding accessibility hooks to 80% of the front-end codebase.

Kingston, Ny, Us

I was the “I do everything except edit video” guy. Interface design, software development, and contributions to every client project during my tenure, including odd jobs like playing gaffer, acting, and miscellaneous duties for video and film production projects.

Baltimore, Md, Us

Developed courseware, continuing education software/presentations/cd-roms, and worked with a team migrating the student database to a SSN-free unique-identifier-based to develop an application for managing all student records.

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

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