Helped the team raise a series A of 40 million at a valuation of 250+ million.Led the restructure of product development into teams focused on core product areas, including starting an infrastructure team.Collaborated with recruiting to ensure the hiring process was suitable for Finch and candidates.Led the project to transition Finch to an event-driven architecture using persistent storage to increase our reliability and data quality. This project is now the foundation of Finch's core product and drives Finch's ability to scale.

Grew the team from 14 to 160+ over 4.5 years. In that time, I helped to expand revenue over ten times into the high double-digit millions.Helped Recharge close series A and B with a valuation of over 2 billion.Structured and hired Product Development, Infrastructure/Devops, Quality assurance, Security and compliance, and Data Analytics.Drove implementation of observability as a core tenet of being stable.Managed multiple complex software projects, ensuring they were delivered on time and within budget.Recruited and developed top talent, building high-performing teams and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.Drove innovation by staying up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends and identifying opportunities to leverage them to improve our products and processes.Created processes that ensured all software engineering work met high quality, reliability, and scalability standards.

Managed five teams: video, product analytics, offset, front-end platform, and a micro photo stock team.Led and mentored a team of engineers, providing guidance and support to help them grow and develop their skills.Led development and implemented engineering strategies aligned with the company's goals and objectives, resulting in successful product launches, including a photo site from Greenfield.Managed the engineering department's budget and resources. I ensured projects were completed on time and within budget.Drove innovation by staying up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends and identifying opportunities to leverage them to improve our products and processes.

Led a team of 5+ engineers and QA professionals to design, develop, and deliver innovative eCommerce video solutions to meet business needs. We increased revenue and customer engagement via A/B testing product decisions and making clear architectural decisions to drive uptime and ease of use.Helped drive the stability of the overall shutter stock platform by suggesting architectural changes.Owned the hiring process for the team and revamped it to make it more streamlined.

Maintained, updated, and created new features for http://shutterstock.com/video.Worked on an Agile team with PHP, MySQL, Restful Services, TWIG, Composer, PHPunit, JS, JIRA, Twitter bootstrap daily.Created API interfaces and maintain various APIs that support the site. Performed Code reviews and mentored peers on best practices.Took part in interviews for new hires.Technical Highlights:Introduced and Implemented Composer package manager and autoloading.Implemented modern configuration class for environment specific configs.Implemented a modern build system using grunt.js.Introduced and implemented phpunit testing and test runs at build time.Facilitated the move from php 5.3 to php 5.5.Facilitated the move from a subdomain to a subdirectory domain structure.Modified our caching layer to account for dog piling effect and failed resource fetching.Introduced and implemented Guzzle for our service adapters.Implemented Oauth authentication for our users.

My team created new features, maintained, and helped design all Beatport properties using agile methodologies. The technology I worked with on a daily basis was PHP, XDebug, MySQL, Javascript, JQuery, SOLR, Zend MVC, SOA with RESTful Services, Twig templating engine, Mercurial, Varnish, Twitter Bootstrap, and Rally.Created jquery plugin for loading album artwork only when the image is visible in the view port.Redesigned content display modules to be responsive.Created feature that allows users to upload purchased music directly to their dropbox or box.com accounts with a single click after authorizing beatport using oauth and the cloud storage sites api’s.

Lead engineer on main web based applications for national network operations automation team. This role involved making final calls on architecture, design, and general application direction.Led project to wrap a soap service into an easy to use RESTful JSON service.Created a RESTful service that accepts XML and transforms it to network configurations via xslt.Suggested and implemented twig templating engine replacing an in-house custom templating solution.Converted applications from multiple php files having entry to the application to a single front controller.Implemented autoloader for all new class files.System Admin for our database and application servers.Suggested, tested, and implemented APC on our application servers.Created 2 new responsive applications using twitter bootstrap, html 5, JQuery, PHP and MySQL.Mentor, teach junior engineers to follow best practices.

Refactored the primary application from a PHP4 based custom framework to a modern design using PHP5.3, CodeIgniter, Doctrine 2, Smarty, and MemCache. This also involved extracting data and relationships from the old schema to a new database design to allow for doctrine 2 entity mapping.Built a RESTful API for user management that allowed our customers to write their own scripts for importing and updating their users. This feature saved admins a great amount of time as they no longer had to manage users on a case by case basis. This API was built upon the Silex PHP micro-framework which helped with a very short turn around time.Redesigned the front-end of the most widely used tool in our application that resulted in excellent customer feedback in regards to ease of use and efficiency in getting work done. The back end was also refactored using object Oriented principles that made porting it over to the new framework a minimal task.Used PHPUnit unit tests and Selenium functional tests for the primary application. Code Coverage tools are used to help determine where testing is deficient and drive our efforts to maximize the benefits of unit testing.

Implemented unit testing, significantly reducing time in test.Suggested, designed, and implemented a central project billing database for all applications that needed a billing component.Completed a Tax R&D report that saved the VP "Days of Work".Employee of the month, and always above average on all employee appraisals.Job duties:Evaluate, assess and recommend software which resulted in the use of JQuery JavaScript framework, JQuery UI framework, Selenium testing environment, NetBeans IDE, PHPDocumentor, and PHPUnit unit testing. Initiate, design and implement complex application features such as databases, single sign on, user interface, and document storage/versioningInnovate and develop high-value technology solutions to streamline processes such as integrated reporting systems, automated set top box testing solutions (using LabVIEW), and centralized billing/time tracking systems.Initiate and drive major changes in programs, procedures and methodology that reduce development time and increase customer satisfaction.Collaborate with fellow developers on current and future projects.