Lead a team of ~20 developers (both full time and student interns) in the design, development, and maintenance of software and infrastructure for internal clients in the Operations division of New York University.In addition to the development responsibilities listed in my Programmer Analyst position below, I was also responsible for supervising the team as a whole, and ensuring that the entire team understood and met a consistent set of code quality expectations, and had a clear vision of the product direction.• Kept my finger on the pulse of each project ◦ I met regularly with team members to pair program with each of them. ◦ This let me get a sense for how their tasks are progressing without hampering their productivity ◦ In turn, this allowed me to keep the product manager and business stakeholders informed of the projects progress• Identified productivity bottlenecks and resolved them ◦ A developer can get absorbed in his task, and lose sight of how their piece fits in with the whole ◦ I provided a holistic view of how things fit together: This code gets run infrequently, so we don't need to spend days optimizing it; this other team member is more familiar with how that library works, so ask them for advice; Here is another place we did something similar, so follow this pattern or find a way to reuse code between them.

Design, develop, and maintain software and infrastructure for a diverse set of internal clients in the Operations division of New York University.• Built an ORM for use across several projects. ◦ By giving up the universality that most ORMs try to achieve, and making assumptions about the table structure in our applications, I was able to provide far more efficient and expressive access to our databases. ◦ Ultimately, this increased team productivity and application speed across the board. ◦ It supports lazy navigation of entity relationships, arbitrary predicate queries, and saving an entire object graph with one call.• Shaped and formalized a development process for a growing team. ◦ The team was very small when I joined, and I had the opportunity to help shape the culture, process, and best practices of the team. ◦ Focused on code quality through things like Code Review, Pair programming, Unit testing, and continuous delivery. ◦ This effort was validated by almost any metric we cared to take: Schedule accuracy, application performance, number of bugs/issues reported, client satisfaction, etc.• Helped to identify solutions to client needs by proposing features which empower users to perform their jobs more effectively. ◦ One example: One system we maintain is a "Space Management System", which tracks each of the universities spaces (classrooms, administrative offices, etc) and how they change over time. During some recent work on this system, I was able to rewrite the AutoCAD drawing upload process. This increased performance dramatically (from 20 minutes per upload down to 1 minute per upload), enabled important use cases (such as uploading a drawing "in the past" to correct clerical errors), and many quality of life improvements (such as a preview of how the drawing would look, more detailed and specific error messages when there were problems with the drawing, and far more fault-tolerant code). ◦ More examples available on request.

“iTunes for news”, an aggregator with paid mini-subscriptions instead of paywalls for the $71B news/magazine industry; finalist at NYU’s $200K business plan competition• Designed and implemented the architecture for news aggregation service• Coordinated small team of developers to implement and deploy each feature• Dealt with issues of scale and flexibility from a vast and disparate array of different news sources

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Assist in the development of internal and external tools in use at the Clerk and Comptrollers office of Palm Beach County.• Built a "Patch Tracking System" to track vendor updates which had been received or deployed to a proprietary "Banner Courts" system.• Rewrote a "Self Service" module, which assisted users in filling out certain types of legal forms, reducing administrative overhead for the courthouse.• Wrote a library for programmatically generating PDF / XPS files easily.