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New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

- Built Agile/XP team from scratch to rewrite website from a fork of an old open source PHP store to a Rails and React-based checkout and subscription management app for customers. - Led a refactor of our ecommerce data model to be event-sourced and following CQRS pattern - Led a redesign of website to allow content teams to edit the website on their own.

New York, New York, US

- Mentored first-time managers to succeed in their new roles - Facilitated and assisted with large project kickoffs - Helped establish engineering KPIs for site performance and quality - Participated in reorganization of company goals and product, engineering, and design structure - Increased Plated's recruiting brand and visibility throughout NYC's Ruby.

New York, New York, US

- Led a major refactor of the codebase to pay off technical debt and deliver new features - Led a major redevelopment of all core UI, increasing retention by 150% over a year, half of that increase occurring after a single release - Managed and mentored engineers, promoting junior and mid-level developers to senior and lead positions. - Brought in agile.

New York, NY, US

Led a team to launch a new feature that allows learners to practice what they have learned by allowing them to make, share, and edit web projects while remaining in the familiar Codecademy interface. Improved the team's best practices including code design, refactoring, and TDD. Automated server provisioning and configuration with Chef/EC2.

Led implementation of Agile/XP development processes and continuous deployment with automated full-stack testing. Lead team of up to 3 developers doing both pair and solo programming along with XP/TDD mentorship. Participated in implementation of Lean product development processes. Automated service provisioning and configuration with Chef and Fog (on.

US

Sliced and implemented new homepage, sidebar, and footer using modern HTML/CSS practices and an in-house template system/web server.

Miami, FL, US

Founding director of FIUSM.com. Implemented and launched the first version of FIUSM.com using Ruby on Rails and assisted FIU's Student Media group in the transition from an old-style media organization consisting of a newspaper and a terrestrial radio station into a modern news and entertainment organization with web, print, and broadcast radio presence..

Frisco, Texas, US

Optimized and rebuilt team's technology infrastructure that involved web development, audio streaming, and game server management. All servers were dedicated bare-metal boxes. Later acquired by DirecTV as the Championship Gaming Series.