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Austin, Tx, Us

SimpleAndDone provides fractional and full-time engineering, product, and user experience consulting to teams looking to build new web applications, mobile applications, or other technology solutions. As the founder and CTO, I'm responsible for all aspects of the business. SimpleAndDone has worked with HeatCheck Recruiting to build a web application, iOS mobile app, and Android app. Additionally SimpleAndDone has consulted with Praxis and Thurgood Industries to validate their product idea and build an initial product prototype.

Helping define the initial product, create the user experience designs, and minimum viable product. Partnering with the founder to hire the initial head of product, and contractors to help design and build the initial launch product.

Created the initial product offering web application, migrating data from the prototype, and launching.Built both the iOS and Android mobile applications and deployed them into the app stores. Successfully launched Stripe integration for payments, Nylas integration for email powered messaging, as well as expanding beyond the initial sport into four additional sports.

Austin, Texas, Us

As a Sr. Director of Engineering I was responsible for leading not just the entire Incubator Engineering team (10+ projects simultaneously, 80+ developers) but also influencing the product selection process and driving systematic changes across the 4000-person Engineering organization. I coordinated with our SRE, Data Science, Product, UX, Legal, and other teams, ensuring the Incubator program was successful, providing feedback on processes, and responding to their needs.One of our most significant accomplishments was the Virtual Interviews Platform (VIP), kicking off in March 2020. Six weeks later, the first production video interview occurred, and VIP had integrated into the Indeed ecosystem. By the end of 2022, VIP had hosted over eight million quality interviews (interviews where the job seeker and employer connected for an actual interview.) We quickly grew the team from the initial seven to over 40 engineers, QA engineers, and managers across multiple teams before handing it off to a core team to continue its scale.Along with VIP, we had several other significant projects in this same timeframe. We successfully grew a configurable platform of automated assessments to screen job seekers before interviews. We created dozens of assessment modules, selected several external vendors for additional evaluations, and had hundreds of employers using it to scale their hiring (saving them significant time and energy.) The team also successfully transitioned Text2Apply (10 thousand+ SMS-based applies), Universal Resume (Japanese resume creator - #1 Japanese resume creator app), and more to core teams during this time.I was one of the top interviewers (hundreds of interviews completed) and trained many interviewers. I supported the career growth of my team, promoted principal engineers and directors, and mentored leaders in other disciplines. Finally, I was the executive sponsor for the Code2College program, bringing in multiple high school interns every summer.

Austin, Texas, Us

I grew the Incubator team to 50+ software engineers, managers, and QA, even as we exited projects and teams to other parts of the business. We leveraged 4-6 contractors to support UI improvements and Accessibility across our 10+ early-stage products giving them significant speed improvements in delivering accessible and polished products.I led the delivery of Indeed Hiring Events which drove significant new revenue ($100+ million in revenue by 2022 and hundreds of hires). This became a foundational element of the new Indeed Hiring Platform (IHP, or pay per hire.) I also coached the team building Virtual Interviews, which delivered more than 500,000 interviews in its first year and the second leg of IHP.During COVID-19, we launched 12+ new teams in two weeks to help people get jobs. This included products like the Virtual Interviews Platform, Unemployment Assistant, and early automated matching of job seekers.I was a champion for the career growth of engineers and managers across the career ladder (Software Engineer to Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager to Director of Engineering).Beyond the Incubator team, I revamped the Indeed performance management process to unify all Product, Engineering, Operations, and Strategy roles across Indeed on one performance management system (reducing 20+ workflows to one and affecting ~4,000 employees.) I was a crucial leader in the change management program rolling out these changes and a spokesperson for the 2000-person Engineering organization. I trained leaders across the organization on the new process, answered questions about the benefits and challenges, and helped write the core of the documentation. I also created a program training the 2000-person engineering organization about the Indeed compensation philosophy. I wrote a three-part blog post series read by hundreds of engineers and a mandatory video/computer-based training series for every manager and above within the organization.

Austin, Texas, Us

Coming in to lead the Labs engineering team of four engineers, I partnered with the head of product for the Labs team and we rewrote the charter to focus exclusively on new product innovation. We created an internal venture capital system that, over the next 6+ years, would test 60+ new product ideas and grow 15 of them to significantly positive enough results to "exit" into other parts of the Indeed engineering team. From that initial four engineers, I grew the team to over 40 in Austin, Seattle, and Tokyo and 10+ projects running simultaneously. Eventually, we created $150M+ in new revenue, millions of interactions with job seekers, and many other positive outcomes for Indeed's key metrics. I created a transition plan for legacy Labs projects, moved them to other internally facing teams, and shut down many others to reduce the maintenance burden on the team. I also managed the Indeed Prime team for six months helping improve the software development lifecycle and making incremental improvements in the architecture of the platform to enable faster smaller releases. I worked with the software engineers on the Incubator team to grow in their careers, promoting several to more senior engineering roles, and promoting several to engineering managers. I was also the first manager for the Code2College high school intern program, coaching two high school interns in their first summer of professional development. I oversaw this program from its first year of partnership and became the executive sponsor for the relationship with Code2College through 2023.Beyond my immediate teams, I was also responsible for running semi-annual hackathons for hundreds of engineers, the university recruiting program alongside my talent acquisition partners where we hired 70+ full-time and interns, interviewing many new engineers considering Indeed, and making numerous operational improvements to recruiting, hiring, onboarding, performance management, promotion, and many other processes.

Austin, Tx, Us

I created a Data Lake (using Amazon Redshift BI database) aggregating our production MySQL database information, Stripe, Salesforce, Zendesk, Mixpanel, and Google Analytics data into one location for easy business-wide analysis. Additionally, I researched and proposed the visualization vendor allowing leadership at LawnStarter to view BI data from across the organization.Hired three front-end engineers and created the front-end Angular team and drove improvements in the build and deployment of the applications to increase page speed and reliability. I improved the build and testing processes, moving from Pivotal to Jira and creating a more repeatable testing process for the web, Andriod, and iOS applications.I established the product management processes, working with leadership to develop the roadmap and prioritizing features against company-wide OKRs. I instituted performance management principles in Engineering, expanding the skill sets of each of the Engineering team members.I improved interviewing process to create a high-quality candidate experience. Additionally, I oversaw the expansion of the wired and wireless networks across two additional floors, allowing for the expansion of the sales and support teams during the Spring by 20+ new hires.

Austin, Texas, Us

At WP Engine, the Director of Engineering role meant many things:- Growing our R&D team in size, skills, and capabilities.- Improving the team's Software Development Lifecycle to get the team delivering the right software at the right time (using a combination of Scrum, Lean & Kanban.)- Hiring strong leaders in Product, Development, Quality & Operations to allow the team to grow further.- Collaborating with the CTO on strategic objectives and team growth opportunities and mapping out when those could be delivered.- Building the R&D culture and exciting the team to create fantastic new software.- Developing an approach to quality that allows the Engineering team to be agile and responsive yet cognizant of our client's needs for quality.

Austin, Texas, Us

As an engineering manager, I have been responsible for:- Building the Bazaarvoice New York Engineering team from scratch and leading that team to develop two incredible new products that have drastically impacted the company.- Instilling a customer-centric mentality in our Engineering Support team and helping Engineering to become acutely aware of the customer-facing service level agreements around Support cases. - Cheerleading and helping design our first developer-centric API (http://developer.bazaarvoice.com)- Recruiting and retaining some of the best engineers in Austin & New York City, and many college hires.- Choosing a consulting agency to help speed the development of products in New York City and effectively manage them to augment our existing team.

Austin, Texas, Us

As a Senior Java Developer at Bazaarvoice, I was responsible for several development projects, most notably:- The creation of Brand Answers - the first system at Bazaarvoice that allowed clients to see data from across the Bazaarvoice network in real-time and take action based upon it.- Content Tagging and Tag filtering - Indexing all review content from Bazaarvoice into our search index and allowing consumers to include "tags" as a part of their submission and subsequently filter the reviews displayed on a page by a set of tags.

Austin , Texas, Us

As a Programmer/Analyst III at National Instruments, I was responsible for designing and implementing large-scale web applications in support of the e-commerce, marketing, and support teams. I was an evangelist for the new solution I had created and helped champion its use across the company to great success. Additionally, I was very involved in the training and development of programmers at all skill levels throughout the National Instruments IT organization.

Austin , Texas, Us

My role as Programmer/Analyst II involved building many backend systems to support the documentation and metadata projects as a part of the IT team. Amongst several other applications, I built an application that allowed significant amounts of metadata to be asynchronously added to the search index to make documents more discoverable. This functionality subsequently enabled the use of the search index as a primary means for content discovery across the National Instruments website. I was additionally involved in the training and development of some other engineers throughout the IT organization.

Rolla, Mo, Us

In my three semesters as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at UMR, I taught the Visual Basic course one summer and the Introduction to Programming (in Java) course two semesters. I was responsible for the book selection, creation of all homework and tests, as well as all lectures and grading.

At KISI Labs, I was the part-time IT team for the office of 5-8 engineers. My role was to keep the backup system working successfully, maintain all network and phone systems, and create a few simple PHP-based web applications to help support the Engineering organization.

Ms, Information Science & Technology

Bs, Computer Science