Chicago Engineering Lead, and part of the national Technology leadership team. Responsibilities include supporting business development, mentoring and managing engineers' career growth, and working to grow and evolve the Digitas Technology Capability.Client work in this role:• Technical Architect for a suite of ad-tech related data ingestion, aggregation and reporting tools used to service a Fortune 50 financial services client. Responsibilities include managing run and operate, providing guidance on incremental development and compliance needs, and leading the effort for a phased technical stack modernization.• Technical Architect for in-house built POS demo applications deployed world-wide with centralized behavioral analytics collection. Performed detailed team and product analysis and provided roadmap to implementing overall process and execution improvements. Provided team and architectural leadership to implement those improvements. Planned and oversaw the migration from a manually managed collection of servers and VMs to a GCP hosted infrastructure with on-demand environment scalability.

Technical partner for Digitas clients and development teams providing architectural direction, executional leadership and strategic technology planning for projects involving e-commerce, CMS implementation and customized marketing applications.Overall lead and architect for the Johnson Outdoors account - an engagement to redesign and re-launch 8 brands onto Acquia Drupal 7 and use Drupal Commerce to provide a seamless single-store experience. Significant technical implementations include automated PIM integration and product display page creation, multi-brand single-cart checkout experience and Vertex tax server integration. The result was increased conversions and revenue with the launch of e-commerce for all brands and the awarding of the 2018 Acquia Engage award for Excellence in Digital Marketing B2C.

- Regional leadership of the Software Engineering team including employee mentoring, team support and growth of direct-reports- Client-facing role representing technical capabilities during the RFP and sales process with responsibilities including contributing to client growth through business development- Provides technical direction and oversight for a variety of clients and verticals on a per project basis servicing clients such as Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Beam Suntory, Dremel, Altria and Amazon- Key leadership role for over 6 years managing teams of developers providing year over year architectural planning and development direction for a multi-million-dollar custom Java J2EE web ecosystem tying together remote authentication services, identity verification, content management, order management, geo-locational services and user generated content.- Developed and deployed highly responsive national promotions on a monthly basis targeting customer engagement through multiple channels (web, tablet, mobile web and text).-- Platform architecture was planned in a way that it could be leveraged to provide product identity websites for several sister brands without rebuilding new platforms - enabling significant code re-use between sites and providing compressed development timeframes to go live. - Managed the development, feature growth and maintenance of a million+ dollar responsive website highlighting a portfolio of brands on the Drupal platform providing a content rich engaging, responsive and functional customer experience. Features included adaptive homepage displays to surface content relevant to the visiting user based on weather at the user’s location and registered users’ preferred brands - Created technical architecture and development plan while managing full development lifecycle of a Liferay website leveraging content management and a web ecosystem consisting of remote authentication services, Solr search, and remote product APIs.

-Java web developer creating customer engagement campaigns for companies such as Incyte Genomics, Miller Brewing, Hewlett-Packard and Cardinal Health.--Built data comparison and normalization tools--Developed promotional website that aggregated data feeds from multiple sources and provided a search engine for customers to find activities in their area--Developed a customer productivity tool that accepted an XML feed from a Flash front-end and generated custom greeting cards by merging user provided pictures and text with pre-configured designs to download and print--Designed and developed a web-tool to use risk profiles based on customer input and match them to pre-built model portfolios of mutual funds utilizing Java, JMS and Java based PDF generation --NET web development building productivity enhancing intranet tools-Technical consultation in strategic planning of web executions and software architectural decisions-Role grew from mid-level developer to a senior client-facing team lead and primary development contact

-Web Development (ASP, HTML, JavaScript)-Data Modeling and Process Workflow Development-IT Support (Workstation and Network Infrastructure)