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Gorham, NH, US

St. Paul, MN, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Promoted to VP, Engineering with accountability for the full engineering team including applications, integrations, and platform servicesGrew the Engineering organization from about 20 to over 120 US based employees in roughly 18 months with near zero voluntary attritionResponsible for compensation planning, 9-box calibration, defining pay bands.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Managed a platform focused group of teams starting with 11 US based engineers with offshore augmentation staffingTeam responsibilities included DevOps, quality assurance, OCR, Data Science, machine learning engineering, administrative tooling, platform services, and integrationsEstablished career ladders, management philosophy, engineering.

Burlington, MA, US

Led the Application Enablement organization with thirty-five total reportsManaged two managers with twenty indirect employeesProvided technical guidance and cross-cutting services for the product delivery teamsManaged teams covering: architecture, shared user interfaces, shared infrastructure, public API, front and back-end tooling, CI/CD pipelines.

Burlington, MA, US

Defined and evolved front-end strategy enterprise wideLed architects and leaders working to evolve their front-end technology stacks and design systemsEstablished baselines for front-end architecture along with technology standardsWorked with the legal team to establish a plan of action for our patent portfolioAdvised on adoption of a content management.

Burlington, MA, US

Architect for Constant Contact's cross platform drag and drop marketing email editorDrove a multi-year effort to redesign data models, content editors, and external data interfaces for documents and templates enabling server side rendering, cross-device editing, and non-email rendering optionsNominated to the corporate emerging leader programWorked.

Abingdon, Oxfordshire, GB

Fully rewrote the development workflow and tooling for Sophos Cloud's Angular-JS code using Grunt, Bower, and Node to enforce linting, style checking, code coverageProduced new UI components focusing on maintainability and reduction of costUpdated asset pipeline to move from images to font based glyphs, adopt Traceur transpiler, and split theme variables.

San Jose, CA, US

Cross business unit UI development coordinationMigration to layered architecture with isolation of concernsIntroduction of static analysis, unit testing, and peer review for geographically distributed teamsDrove tech debt project to correct static asset delivery, code organization, and cache busting

Full stack desktop app development in Adobe’s AIR HTML frameworkUI development with jQuery Mobile and TinyMCE connecting to a Groovy on Grails back endFocus on encryption and security at every step for a secure messaging productMemory leak detection and preventionUI architecture design

Full stack development using Ruby on Rails with JBoss migrationAgile development process with focus on automated testing

Founded startup with two partnersOwned design of architecture: Ruby on Rails with message bus and Lucene search pipelineHandled full stack web developmentIntegrated work from outsourced visual design firmReached beta release with limited subscriptions

San Jose, CA, US

Worked on collaborative web browsing applicationsDesigned patching and versioning systems for enterprise call center product linesPatented several inventions

Acquired by Cisco Systems

Software development

System administration for SolarisLoading 9-track tapes from the National Library of Medicine

CA

Tech support by phone for dial in modem accessMastery of the modem AT codesPromoted to server and web administration for hundreds of hosted newspaper affiliate web sites