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Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, NSW, AU

Hillsborough, California, US

• Wrote and maintained all code and managed all servers for the entire fleet of Bridge School web properties including a bulk migration of all sites to a multisite Wordpress network and utilizing AWS for automated.
• Built a secure donation site leveraging the Authorize.net payment gateway which accepts donations of up to $100,000 and inserts donator data into appropriate Salesforce campaigns.

Pleasanton, California, US

• Managed full stack engineering team responsible for building platform-level components leveraged by all internal application teams, allowing rapid delivery of performant and accessible new features to customers.
• Worked closely with multiple internal stakeholders (Design, i18n, a11y) to deliver a system-wide overhaul to the default styling of form labels and elements, affecting more than 50k discreet views.
• Organized and conducted biannual sentiment workshops across all teams in the organization and presented to senior leadership to inform OKRs and other initiatives with the goal of ensuring team health.

New York, NY, US

• Built a team from scratch and brought a new Content Intelligence product (Express, React, Kubernetes) to market in under six months while hiring to grow the team to five engineers.
• Oversaw the creation of a company-wide data lake which ingested 20 million unique objects per week and made the data available to internal teams though Athena and ElasticSearch.
• Executed a three-month roadmap to migrate the legacy Gracenote View application (Rails, Backbone) into a new tech stack (Express, React, Kubernetes), resulting in more efficient workflows and performance increases of.
• Collaborated with the product and sales teams to prioritize critical features for the Gracenote View application, aiding retention of existing customers and penetration into new international markets.
• Partnered with DevOps team to migrate all code, resources, and deployment pipelines from existing infrastructure to dedicated AWS account in order to align with tech organization mandates.

Emeryville, CA, US

• Led engineering for the Online Video Data product, collaborating with stakeholders from multiple offices on five continents to ensure quality, improve performance and stability, and increase coverage of our global.
• Oversaw the creation of a new Advanced Discovery platform that managed our taxonomy of 6000+ unique video descriptors through the combination of a new editorial application and machine learning models.
• Implemented a weekly engineering support rotation to respond to customer cases and address tech debt, resulting in faster response times, improved system stability, and a 20% increase in engineering hours spent on new.
• Created and hosted a bi-weekly Brown Bag Lunch and Learn series to foster collaboration between internal engineering groups; the series ran for over a year and ended with an archive of 30+ sessions.

Emeryville, CA, US

• Built a demo application for Gracenote’s CES presence to showcase a new sports data offering that was set to be released to customers in the coming quarter.
• Spearheaded an effort to port a mature editorial tool for setting regional and national prices for Pay Per View programming from PHP to Ruby on Rails, with full feature parity, in 4 months.
• Worked closely with our Design team to create a unified style guide that adhered to company design standards and created a CSS framework implementing that style guide.

Irvine, California, US

• Developed the marketing pages for Oracle’s two largest yearly conferences (Oracle Open World and Oracle Java One)
• Refactored front-end code for a client’s digital marketplace leading to a reduction of 10k lines of CSS and 8k lines of Javascript and reducing the load time of the main page by 70%
• Developed customized front-end code for multiple client applications and marketing sites on a variety of CMS platforms, including AEM, Drupal, Wordpress, and Fatwire

San Francisco, CA, US

Hoboken, NJ, US

• Built and maintained a new web application for Wiley's online faculty development initiative -- The Wiley Learning Initiative. Work included:
• HTML / CSS coding
• PHP coding
• Elgg framework development, customization
• API / Web Service implementation
• Custom Framework development

San Francisco, CA, US

• Developed University-wide and state-wide web applications.
• Taught professional development workshops on HTML, CSS, PHP, Photoshop and others.
• Built and maintained university websites
• Adhered to California State University Accessible Technology Initiative guidelines
• Helped draft Accessibility standards for SFSU

Mfa, Creative Writing

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Language And Literature/Letters