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, organizational planning and staffing levels, hiring prioritization and approval, software budget forecasting, and metrics evaluation for team performance assessmentMember of the corporate security councilAligned architectural infrastructure planning with new product development to evolve legacy monolith systems into service clusters to set up for tenancy support and optimizing for cost effective innovationMigrated to Auth0 for third party authentication supportMoved to a modern front-end single page apps with a page based federated single sign-on approach to make integration of multiple applications feel seamless to the user

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 strategyIntroduced an effective onboarding strategy to deal with exponential team growthLed team to adopt AWS’s API Gateway and a versioned API approach with 6 month deprecation timing

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, Kubernetes deployment and support, functional testing infrastructure, engineering productivity application support, cloud support and guidance, and JavaScript tech support located offshore in the Dominican RepublicResponsible for driving the architecture work streams including regularly updating leadership on progressAutomated the extraction of Agile metrics from Jira for story point distribution, velocity, and historical trendsEstablished a fail fast expectation within the organizationEncouraged diversity in hiring and team compositionHandled engineering and architecture due diligence for multiple potential acquisitions

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 system (CMS) for the website teamGuided the registration and onboarding team to reposition themselves from an application model to a platform for front-end enablementPrototyped a functioning Heroku based collaboration server for real-time task resolution based on Node JS using Web SocketsDesigned the multi-product and acquisition integration strategy for federating disparate applications into the Constant Contact brand’s application stack

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 directly with the CTO on UI architectureDesigned and rolled out cross-team strategy for user interface development including dependency control, change management, build system requirements, and legacy code base migrationFostered cross-business unit strategies for managing view dependencies and design systems to support multiple brand identities with one code basePrototyped audience analysis and selection tooling with UX team

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 from SCSS library based on Bootstrap 3Trained globally dispersed teams on new development tooling

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

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

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