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San Francisco, Ca, Us

I lead a talented team of engineering managers and engineers to drive innovation and development of our e-commerce platform that build solutions for our artist community, media rendering, and order fulfillment portions of the minted.com business.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I am on the engineering leadership team and responsible for the platform services that provide product launch, community, fulfillment, rendering (images & PDFs), and ERP data to the customers or stakeholders. This is divided between five different teams of software engineers that are defining, enhancing, and maintaining these core services.

Seattle, Washington, Us

With the acquisition of Imprev, I assisted the Engineering organization in the integration of the Imprev SaaS products and staff into the processes and systems at MoxiWorks by filling the role of program management and engineering leadership. Secondly, I assisted in the company growth as the results of the sales of products and services for Realogy Real Estate Services brands (Coldwell Banker, Century 21, Sotheby's, Better Homes and Gardens, ERA, and Corcoran) by requirements gathering, program management, UAT and launch coordination. As the organization grew, I helped in the transition to disciplines of Product Management and Program Management in the SDLC by filling the role of Program management for the external API and Impress. Lastly, I spent time in coaching and mentoring the individuals working within the engineering organization as the team grew from 35 - 80 individuals.Responsibilities* Technical product leader (MoxiImpress)* Solution architect for cross product initiatives* Developer Management with 9 direct reports* Coach for technical leads* Merger and Acquisition technical leadProjects:* Cross product solution for Canadian Anti-spam Law - Canadian requirement* Integration enhancements and scaling for Impress* Reeazily technical integration (a company MoxiWorks aquired)* AWS cost reduction for the Impress production environment (saving > 50% of the monthly AWS bill)* MoxiImpress product enhancements to allow for the users to select their marketing automation from a library of options

Parity Corporation is a software company in the Greater Seattle area. It provides software and services to the food processing industry to assist in the tracking of the manufacturing processes. It is design to plug and play with the common systems and vendors in the industry to build the wholistic processing view. With this, the clients that adopt this system are able to improve efficiency and reduce the cost of their operations.On this board I worked to develop and maintain the company mission and values, assisted in problem solving with the executive team, and provided accountability via reviewing the quarterly reports, strategy, and tactical plans.Transitioned off the board after Parity was acquired by Working Knowledge (SAAM LLC)

Responsible for all the technical aspects of the SaaS platform. Being a part of the executive management team, I participated in the day to day and the strategic decisions for Imprev. Additionally, this role included all aspects of the SDLC including managing the engineering staff (10 - 12), defining and maintaining the platform features, designing solutions for clients, sales support, industry conference presentations, onsite client meetings, and providing technical vision for the company. Major efforts included:* moved to containerization (docker) and container orchestration* Migrated from a colocation to running fully in AWS with compute level auto-scaling* Scaled the product offering from 25K to 400K users* Moved the platform processing towards event-driven architecture* Enhanced the SaaS product to assist in salesI held this role until Imprev was acquired by MoxiWorks.

Lead the Engineering and QA staff as they performed enhancements to the SaaS platform. In the transition to this role I added the responsibilities of the product quality (the leadership of the QA team).During this time I managed a 12-month rebuild of the middle layer of our SaaS architecture as well as implementation of a new, mobile, bilingual UI. Development included a JavaScript client (web 2.0), rebuilt service layer, and API automation, utilizing 54 engineering months, 42 QA months and 20 Creative and UAT people months. This coordinated a staff of around 25 individuals and consultants. This rebuild that enabled the company to pivot to a SaaS model. To accomplish this I helped navigate the transition of the agile methodology from Scrum to Kanban to focus on greater team productivity.

Lead the Engineering staff (5 - 8 individual contributors) as they performed enhancements of the Marketing Center platform. Worked directly with the QA lead to ensure the features and enhancements were deployed with the highest of quality.Highlights include:* Involved in 41 software releases (agile delivery)* Partner integration enhancements with RE/MAX to provide new data conduit to provide housing data* Integration with MarketLeader for the Keller Williams original eEdge solution, a solution for 80,000 agents* To provide Unicode support to the platform assisted in the engineering that provided an additional system to generate the PDF medium

As an part of the engineering team at Imprev I designed, developed, and maintained the Imprev Marketing Center. Core expertise in: Java, PHP, MySQL (Database), Python, Unix, Apache, Tomcat.Involved in:* more than 50 software releases* Initial re-architecture changes towards a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)* Implementing a the load-balancing layer at the network layer * Upgrading the PHP to PHP 5.x* Providing a new conduit for ingesting third-party listing data into the design templates

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Responsible for the development and maintenance of the service layer that supported the front end drugstore.com site. This C++ layer provided the API that the drugstore.com site depended on to process the millions of daily page views.With the Object Model:* Designed and implemented new features in C++* Analyzed and fixed critical issues in the code* Addressed scaling bottlenecksAdditionally, lead the DevOps deployment of the services across the bare metal and virtualized (VMWare) environment in the Co-Location. This system coordinated the network equipment with the servers for no downtime replacement of front-end, middle-tier, and backend code. With a team of three:* Built and maintained the automation scripts (shell)* Integrated with BigIP network devices* owned the configuration management* managed the source to binary toolchain

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Lead, Developed, and Maintained IBM/Rational Rose product.* Scoped, wrote functional specifications, and wrote technical specifications for new features* Online code debugging sessions with high priority customers like Boeing and Lockheed Martin* Debugged and solved critical product issues* Code reviews* Executed feature and change requests in the context of system design and integrity* Acted as primary liaison and bridge between Ensemble Systems and Rational/IBM Software for the Rose product* Coordinated development activity with Quality Assurance team, defining/refining process and development of test plans* Porting new features to Unix platforms in the cross compiled platform* Maintaining the Unix C++ code-base by solving defects* Reviewing of new feature implementation* Being resident expert of our cross platform internal APIs* Liaison with software toolkit vendors* Resolving differences between the Visual Studio, GNU, Sun Workshop and HP-UX C/C++ toolchains