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Denver, Colorado, United States

Led system design and implementation of Angi Key (membership discount and annual renewal) product, across multiple microservices in disparate tech stacksFound and fixed revenue impacting bugs before they impacted revenueLed system design and implementation of various features in the fixed price home services verticalMentored junior and mid-level engineers

Greater Denver Area

Built an effective, close-knit, and technically diverse team by hiring, mentoring, and managing engineersOversaw aggressively scoped projects by understanding business needs, prioritizing work, and making time/quality tradeoff decisionsPerformed requirements gathering, project scoping, cost/effort estimates, etc.Supervised client communications, balancing accuracy with clarity and strategic positioningGathered requirements, negotiated project scope, and estimated project cost/effort

Designed/implemented a Java library for the representation and manipulation of algebraic constructsLed best practice efforts around testing, automated builds, and software design

Responsible for design, coding, and maintenance of web conferencing client software using Agile/Scrum development methodologiesWorked closely with QA Engineers to ensure issues were resolved quicklyIdentified potential risks so they could be addressed early in developmentMade recommendations on technical solutions by assessing effort and risk, versus benefits such as testability, maintainability, etc.Wrote Java and Actionscript code (including UI code using SWT and Flex) that was both low-defect and maintainableRefactored legacy code to improve reliability and maintainability of the systemLeveraged Amazon*s EC2 and S3 services to quickly get a new project off the ground

Created extensible system interrogation tool used by the support teamInvolved in designing, implementing, documenting and testing the product

Presented course material including Introduction to Java, Fundamentals of Programming Languages and Computer ArchitectureHelped students succeed in classes by coaching them on difficult conceptsProvided feedback and grades on coursework

Assisted other researchers with the CoGrid computing system by learning the system, its operations and limitations, then writing a detailed tutorialWorked with others to develop an algorithm to simulate the spread of disease in cattle

Accountable for collection, manipulation and integrity of dataAssisted in field and lab work

Master Of Science, Computer Science

Thesis: An Evaluation of Top-N Collaborative Filtering Parameterization on Multiple Data Sets

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science