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Orange, Ct, Us

New York, New York, Us

Part of Markem-Imaje gobal engineering leadership team.* Process Improvement: Led efforts to continuously enhance software development processes, resulting in increased efficiency and higher product quality. Worked closely with parent company global leadership team to ensure alignment and avoid redundancies. * Talent Acquisition: Successfully managed the recruitment process (writing the requisition to sourcing to hiring & onboarding) for the engineering department, growing the team by 220% in ten months, ensuring that the team was staffed with skilled individuals who contributed to the company's growth and innovation. Built out DevOps and quality team, as well as growing full stack engineering pods. * People Management & Innovation: Heavily involved in improving the culture of the company and the department. Introduced the concept of upskilling and leveling that is now currently being used by other departments. Introduced and facilitated full company innovation sprint as well as ongoing innovation and learning initiatives in engineering.* Product Development: Worked closely with product and design leadership to oversee the development of flagship products as well as new builds, ensuring they met customer requirements and delivered value to the business. Successfully launched a free tier self serve product as a new lead generation tool for our sales team. Continuously involved in roadmapping and balancing feature requests with hardening, testing, and security.* SOC2 Compliance: Collaborated with in-house and offshore cross-functional teams to achieve SOC2, demonstrating a commitment to data security and compliance standards. Oversaw audits, facilitated conversations, and maintained compliance protocols.

Danbury, Ct, Us

Full stack engineer responsible for a wide breadth of projects. Rebuilt company website, migrating from legacy CMS to WordPress, and responsible for maintenance, stability, and upgrades. Performed independent source code reviews involving JavaScript, Node.js, React, and other frameworks. Reports, which were geared towards a business and technical audience, included analysis of security, code correctness, and adherence to best practices. As managing engineer, oversaw various projects from end to end - team selection, managing hours, vetting results, participating in status calls, and answering client questions.

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

Remote, Us

Managed the engineering team responsible for the end to end build of cloud product. Worked closely with product leadership, go to market lead, and design team to ensure product meets business demands. Partnered with stakeholders to respond to changing priorities and inputs for quickly evolving product. In addition to this, heavily involved in hiring, onboarding, and people management of full stack engineering team. Mentored multiple individuals on technical and management paths. Introduced and implemented Agile best practices at early stages of the organization, and trained team on how to scale it. Facilitated program increment planning for entire product engineering organization.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

Promoted to Senior Informatics Consultant, which was shifted to Advanced Software Development Engineer upon acquisition by CVS Health.Post acquisition, served as software engineer on front end web team within Aetna Digital organization. As a senior software engineer, was responsible for designing and developing applications created for administration and visualization of Big Data. Worked closely with data science, engineering, and the leadership team to seek to translate user and business goals into an ideal user experience. Worked on various applications to enhance their front-end components using React framework. Designed wireframes, user flows, and comps for various projects. High focus on responsive design and accessibility best practices.Created concept models, prototypes, and detailed specifications based on user research. Developed web application for backend system using AngularJS and React, which consumed Rest APIs. Focused on refining and iterating UX by designing and implementing new modules and interfaces. Worked closely with product owner to ensure reasonable and accurate delivery expectations.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

Rocky Hill, Connecticut, Us

Release/build coordinator, engineering manager, and principal front end developer.

Rocky Hill, Connecticut, Us

Primary front end developer for a rapidly growing internet marketing company. Responsible for working closely with the creative team to turn graphics into robust, functional, scalable pages that create an effortless user experience.

Danbury, Connecticut, Us

Developed interactive and conventional marketing communications programs supporting OEM and aftermarket business segments. Responsible across the project life cycle for design and development of new web sites, intranet sites, Flash-based sales presentations, HTML email programs and traditional marketing collateral. Responsibilities included:•Project planning, management, and leadership from proposal development through implementation and measurement.•User/customer research, information architecture development and user interface design.•Designed website file request system which captures visitors at a key decision making phase. •Creative/concept development, art direction, photo direction, design and development.•Coding of new web pages and interactive web presentations (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript & Actionscript 1/2/3). •Maintenance and upgrades of existing sites and multimedia content.•Meeting branding, business and end-user requirements and adhering to user interface/usability standards.•Perform task and process analysis, identified key user roles and developed task and role maps to guide the information presentation and interface design process.•Coordinate and participate in usability analysis sessions, including conducting sessions, analyzing results and presenting design recommendations.•Reviewed product user interfaces and recommended enhancements to improve the user experience and to conform to layout standards.•Managed development and launch of significantly enhanced web-site: Uniquely introduced to key industry players resulting in immediate sales opportunities with new accounts. •Designed product literature and information sheets for catalog, and other promotional material for trade shows.

•Provided online marketing and research to expand company’s customer base. This includes reaching out to prospective advertisers both in print and online and also research competitors and their advertisers to better position the company in the market. •Performed search engine optimization; including the creation of an SEO optimized website as well as managing and updating Google, MSN, and Yahoo keywords. •Involved in website design and maintenance, using HTML, CSS, ColdFusion, and XML.

•Made cold-calls to both individuals and businesses to set appointments for company’s financial advisors and insurance agents. •Educated customers and prospective customers on financial and insurance products. •Took incoming calls at Metropolitan Life’s number one firm in the country to answer customer complaints and answer billing and other questions. •Maintained and managed database of clients.

Fairfield, Ct, Us

•Answering technical phone calls, assisting professors when technical problems occur.•Responsible for troubleshooting network issues, including TCP/IP connectivity problems and WIN 2000, XP, MS Office applications, and audiovisual equipment.

Ba, Business Administration Management Of Information Systems

Ms, Computer Science

Mba, Business Administration