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New York, Ny, Us

Helping to lead the development of new social product initiatives

Advising to better connect veterans with benefits in the new age. We were inspired by our father's difficult experience navigating the VA disability system after their military service, and their call to transform the system for the next generation.

Boutique design and technology agency. Strong focus on hands-on guidance through every step of your project.Clients and projects include:• DoubleVerify - aiding in their mission to preserve a free, ad-supported Internet that is impactful for brands, sustainable for publishers, and respectful of consumer choice.• REDEF - the interest remix company• Loop's List - a series of books, games, and other curricula designed to help teach pre-coding to preschoolers.• Sockeye Media - a producer of content that engages and educates a global audience across the entire range of media platforms available today.

Ny, New York, Us

Led the development effort to plan, prototype, build, and scale product offerings. Responsible for hiring, goal-setting, and leading the team to deliver on these initiatives.

Ny, New York, Us

Senior backend architect working on expanding the OpenSlate platform.

Music licensing & performance with songs featured in the Superbowl, Delta in-flight, and documentary films. Creators of ambient, driving songs and soundscapes.

New York, New York, Us

Powering the REDEF-curated content. Interest remixes for multi-disciplinary verticals delivered on web and mobile.• First hire, chief architect, and head strategist for building out the CMS, consumer website, API, publishing workflow, and iOS application.• Built the curation processing system including gathering and storing content, workflow automation, and channel distribution.• Set the foundation for a centralized API leveraging distributed services, data replication, caching, search, and rapid deployment practices. This supports both the internally curated products and REDEF social network. Manage and contribute to the continued backend and devops engineering.• Lead the frontend application work on the CMS and REDEF.com website. Work closely with product on feasibility and timelines. Mentor developers through coding reviews, standards, and encouraging automation and testing.• Managed and contributed to the development of the REDEF iOS and Watch apps.• Pivot point between the CEO, consultant firms, project managers, engineers, designers,and product to move development forward on a day-to-day basis.

Head technologist (strategy and development) for the location-centric startup Location Star, specializing in internal products and project consultation. We deliver applications and services that leverage location to extend customer reach.• Worked with Toyota and Foursquare to create a web and Facebook app delivering a multi-region set of city guides marketed for the Scion demographic.• Created a location-branded Foursquare campaign to put NabeWise (acquired by Airbnb) in the middle of their consumer base.• Selected for Nokia & Microsoft’s AppCampus program in Helsinki to design and develop the sports event and messaging app ‘Game Day’ for the Windows Store.• Creators of: Game Day, Ear Candy Go, and Tickets & Music.

Consulting firm with roles ranging from systems architecture, to full site development, to team management.Worked with clients such as • Viacom/MTV Networks: Part of the platform blog development team. Head of the Rhapsody music data integration project. • The Webby Awards: Independent evaluation of code + potential vendors for the website redesign.• The Rauch Foundation: Developed the site 'Build A Better Burb', a design competition calling for entries that will help reshape the Long Island landscape. http://www.buildabetterburb.org/• The Cools: Developed the first phase of their User affinity index, creating algorithms around lifestyle questions and incorporated machine learning to form better associations and tagging mechanisms.• additional consultation work with multiple startups.

Helped develop the back end for a large-scale medical claims processing group.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Consultant on various projects centered arund social networking, facebook applications, and large-scale web development including such clients asBurda Style : http://www.burdastyle.com/

Managed full development of the Jackassworld.com website site. Supported the premieres of Jackassworld 2 / Jackassworld 3.

New York, Ny, Us

Part of the core Urge development team. Built the first phase of the MTV's digital asset rights and reporting system. Multiple data integration projects.

Lewisville, Texas, Us

Managed front end application development for medical and behavioral patient record processing. Scaled out to over 10 million patients across 20 states.Developed and maintained their high-volume claims processing engine for all regions and providers. Contributed to a 50% gain in performance and a 70% gain in accuracy of processed records.

Advanced Certificate, Java

Ba, Humanities, Computer Science, Asian Studies