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Seattle, WA, US

Dallas, TX, US

Dallas, TX, US

Dallas, TX, US

• Partnered with client stakeholders to evolve a development program building complex operations management software from a project-based monolith to a product-based micro-app architecture with UX as a central focus.
• Developed internal evaluation criteria to establish the first partner program at the company
• Delivered a strategy and roadmap for the implementation and development of Shared Services and SDKs to accelerate a Fortune 500 organization’s transition to “mobile-first” application development

Dallas, TX, US

• Partnered with a client Product Owner to deliver a roadmap and backlog for a complex, highly regulated, online lending application.
• Architected and implemented a DevOps pipeline and autoscaling AWS environment using several AWS native technologies for a financial services client.

Dallas, TX, US

• Coached client Product Owner the WSJF backlog grooming methodology, resulting in significantly higher client value delivered in the same budget and timeline.
• Managed the delivery of strategy, strategy and design, and full development cycle projects with cross-functional teams.
• Leveraged technical and user experience skills to build prototypes, automate content deployment, and translate technical concerns to non-technical client stakeholders.

• Led the design and development of the AirCheck One brand and e-commerce platform.
• Managed technology partners in the development of new air quality hardware for residential use.
• Improved efficiency of onsite techs by digitizing sensor data to create automated reports that could be shared with sales team and clients.
• Managed offshore team to develop and implement backend infrastructure for data collection on Microsoft Azure using App Services, Blob Storage, Azure Functions, and Application Insights.
• Served as primary marketer, writing and running all online advertising for both Google and Facebook ads.
• Utilized Google Analytics and FullStory to find and remove UX friction, resulting in a conversion rate from web ads of 4%.

• Cofounded TakeUsOut, a novel business concept that takes unused inventory/capacity from restaurants, entertainment venues, and driving partners to provide all-inclusive surprise date nights for couples.
• Owned and delivered an end-to-end user experience that resulted in a 9.4/10 average customer rating, and an average of three referrals per customer.
• Led a cross-functional team of contract designers and strategists to decrease customer acquisition cost to 5% of the initial launch costs.
• Served as primary marketer, writing advertisements, partnering with design resources to create templates, managed social media accounts, and cultivated unique referral markets such as couples' therapists and realtors.
• Conducted user interviews to build personas and journey maps in partnership with designers to iterate on the experience.
• Identified, targeted, and built relationships with a network of more than 50 different restaurant, transportation, and entertainment partners.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Improved application UX from the initial design, reducing total page templates by 75%.
• Planned and implemented the highly available application hosting infrastructure for the Ruby-on-Rails based application on Amazon AWS using Elastic Beanstalk, S3, and RDS (PostgreSQL).
• Oversaw creative output and developer implementation of the peer-to-peer marketplace.
• Planned, implemented, and measured the results of various online and offline marketing strategies including social media advertising and outreach, content marketing, and local guerilla marketing.
• Developed and maintained relationships with vendors that provided functions for the service such as tax management, physical item delivery, and fraud prevention.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Handled client relationships and managed a team of engineers working on application hosting, migration, and infrastructure improvement projects as well as configured and supported web applications hosted on private.
• Supported multi-tier applications across numerous technology stacks including PHP, Java, and.NET.
• Worked with VMware vSphere based virtualized infrastructure.
• Troubleshooted applications hosted on IIS, Apache, and nginx.
• Performed basic database administrator tasks within Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL.
• Managed servers running Windows Server 2003 – 2012, CentOS, and Ubuntu.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Primary client contact
• Client retention
• SOW creation
• External financial reporting
• Internal financial forecasting
• Team engagement

Dallas, TX, US

• Worked with industry partners to select and define projects, collaborated with other universities, and managed teams of students on a wide variety of projects.
• Researched and developed new exercises to enhance the creative output of students during sprints including alternative brainstorming methods and adjustments to the working space.
• Created and expanded external relationships for the Innovation Gym with other universities, private industry, and government entities such as the Dallas Chamber of Commerce.
• Hands-on experience with SolidWorks CAD software, Stratasys 3d printers, NI Lab View, Arduino, and various other rapid prototyping tools.