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Bothell, Wa, Us

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Bringing technology solutions to the criminal justice system. Speeding the delivery and review of evidence discovery to prosecutors and defense attorneys.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Relaunched new Whitepages web, api and data driven implementation while growing revenue on existing platformReleased a new site incrementally and intentionally to increase data ownership, site flexibility and reduce costs. Work in conjunction with product teams to build product and engineering roadmaps and convert strategy and tactics into implementation.Enabled team to make new choices on technologies (Vue /Nuxt /Scala /Kotlin /ElasticSearch /Lambda) . Balanced development resources between platform and reactive native mobile app(s) Enabled marketing team for A/B testing thru internal and external tooling to ensure growth of products. Ensure that analytic tools properly determined the winnersManaged transition to remote workingBuilt a QA team to automate testing across multiple properties, apis and mobile apps.Redefined Agile processes within Whitepages, training both Product and Engineering in practical scrum methodology. Iterated processes as teams evolved..Restructure development teams around product focus to decrease cross team wait timesSet strategic direction for engineering organizationCreate job descriptions and promotion ladder for the team. Resulting in leaders being promoted to people management and mentorship into the role. Technical leadership for tooling like Cloudflare, Rigor, ElasticSearch, AWS services such as Kinesis and Lambda and meeting Core Web Vitals performance.Build South American team and integrate with US based developersDirect backlogs across data/platform/mobile/qa teamsMentor other technical leaders across the organization on how to be people leadersEstablish and deliver against business OKRs (sprint velocity, conversion rates, errors, site performance, A/B testing, Web Vitals, etc)Guide employees thru personal OKRs and accountabilityBalance forward motion and technical debt

Built a professional multimodal transportation app and api to connect people to ridehailing and seemless carsharing in Seattle, Portland and Brooklyn.Started from a green field of 0 technology to new apps. Defined path for platform ownershipMade technical decisions ranging from development language choice to Ci/CD Managed Backend Platform, IOS and Android teams. Directed DevOps /Data / QA teams and managersBuilt processes in place for reasonable TDD and testing at every level (unit, integration, api, app) including mockingDetermine individual career growth trajectory for team members and set path in motion with mentorship Owned Technical roadmap Partnered with Product owners to refine requirements and feasibilityDirected fraud Fighting efforts for payments and identityHired all technical team members (30+!)Deal with difficult personnel issues including firingsSet technical direction/architecture for app(s) and platformTransitioned payment system ownershipManaged technical partner relationships for backend operationsDrove integrations with 3rd partiesArchitectural leadership to drive features such as feature tags, forced upgrades, ratings, etc Spearheaded continuous improvement for customer usage/supportPlanned budgets Set KPI targetsMake decisions to buy/build/modify on a cloud based infrastructure (AWS) with the most modern development tools (Kotlin, AWS, Lambda, Node, Kubernetes, Swift, Kenesis, Kafka, Auth0, Pubnub, Django CMS etc)Drove moving to Kubernetes for CI/CD Refined agile processes -- Consistently 90+% delivery of per sprint goalsIntroduce agile processes to dev ops/data teamsSet POC's in motion for technology such as rabbitMQ and managed Kafka.Remove technical distractions from team (front line api tester, keeper of the postman collection, active tester of app)

As a part of the sale of Enom from Rightside to Tucows, I'm responsible for leading the transition of a team of talented engineers from the Microsoft stack (C#/ASP/SQL Server) to open source solutions of python (django) and postgres. Part of the role is segmenting tightly coupled and shared resources to a new separate infrastructure. Manage communications between two separate locations and breaking the status quo of "we've always done things this way"Finding millions of dollars in savings in two 20+ year old platforms and constructing a new modern infrastructure running while keeping 200+ million dollars of revenue flowing without interruption.

People Manager for Enom Platform and Registry Dev TeamsManaged engineering aspects of the software development process, including planning, task assignments, code reviews, and architecture signoffMy teams are responsible for:o Accounting/Billing/Pricing/Internationalization/ Internal Support Tools/Database Operations/ VAS (Value Added Services) including email/web hosting, SSL Certificates/ Fraud Detection and Prevention, ICANN Compliance tooling, Infrastructure Security, internal monitoring/dashboarding using tools such as Elastic Search and Graphana.· Coordinator and MC for annual hackathon for last 4 years.Product Roadmap owner for Enom Platform and Registry Teams. Set team vision and determined deliverables and deadlines.Developed future development roadmap for Enom ApiResponsible for evaluating new development technologies such as akka.net and .net core and providing training for team Trained Business Intelligence (BI) teams on financial reporting on Enom databasesCoached all of my teams to become full stack: SQL, API, Front EndProduct Owner for Tech Operations, QA and DevOps teams.Established sprint teams and set project priority to catch up on large backlog of testing.Presenter/Evangelist at local meetup events.Direct technical account contact for priority customers.Responsible for determining team size need and hiring of Engineering team membersResponsible for interview process and hiring decision for senior management.Managed Agile "ish" processes for teams, including a hybrid of Agile/Kanban and waterfall projects Implemented technology projects:fraud solutions such as sift science to automate fraud detection and resolution.Managed Registry operations that allow enom to abstract 600+ tld's and 60 registry providers. Shipped 40+ tld’s in 500+ launch phases in 2016.Technical Representative for Enom for evaluating Icann requirementsImplemented Elastic Search for logging and trained teams on dashboarding in Kibana.

Lead Api design team responsible for design of common Api solution between enom.com and name.com. Evaluated developing solution in Scala/Akka or GO in a functional or event driven model. Performed code reviews and systems architecture on existing enom api's and internal webservices.

Took over development/support of registry team. Responsible for launch of numerous nTLD’s and maintenance of a complex C# service that passed ~20-60 million webservice calls between internal services and various registries.

Senior Architect, DBA and Database Developer.Managed DB system (and business) growth from 1.25 million domains to 16+million names and SQL server environment that normally runs 10k/ transactions a second.Built/Support SQL data infrastructure for DNS (both internal DNS and Power DNS) that answers 2.5+ BILLION DNS requests a day.Provide data/business insight for BI and finance teams. Give peers the ability to turn data into information.Completed 5 major partner/MNA projects to onboard millions of domains and tens of thousands of customers.Build systems to simplify release of 1500+ new gTLD's for direct customers and ease transition for resellers.Implemented system wide encryption mechanisms for multiple platforms.Designed vast data distribution platform with sql replication in a highly available, clustered SQL Server Environment. Allowed for growth out, instead of growth up and allowed for dynamic load balancing of database services.Build internationalization support for domains and customers.Implemented approx 100+ TLD's and built system processes to simplify the 1000's more that are coming.Provide technical leadership to team members over emerging technologies.Built security mechanism and designed interface to move api environment from asp to .netTrain, advise and back up production DBA's. Built tracking mechanism to monitor Email marketing /Campaign/Promotional management and determine ROI of marketing efforts.Developed reporting mechanism to simplify and automate customer segmentation based on value and channel.Managed migration from clustered/replicated versions of Sql 2000 -> 2005 -> 2008 -> 2012 and geographic relocation of data distribution network.

Managed contracts, facilities, scheduling, event management for approximately 80 supermoto race events over a seven year period. Hired temporary employees and coordinated volunteers as needed. Built software for event management and score keeping. Built and maintained web site. Create bylaws, and formed rules committee to allow for customer input of how events were planned. Partner with vendors and sponsors to meet event needs and meet advertising and product awareness (and placement) goals. Managed Email marketing and promotional campaigns to bring in new customers.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

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Redmond, Washington, Us

Bachelor'S Degree, Humanities/Humanistic Studies

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Cspo - Certified Scrum Product Owner