AI-powered e-commerce

* Established the Data Science Team to transform Octopart into a data-driven platform and promote data literacy across all teams. Led team of 2 Data Scientists.* Selected and integrated an experimentation platform (A/B testing) by identifying requirements and consulting subject matter experts.* Wrote Tracking Plan to simplify adding analytics to new features and improve ease-of-use of Looker for business users. * Implemented new ETL/ELT and event tracking infrastructure using AWS Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, DBT to make analysis more reliable, up-to-date, and flexible.* Guided Product and Marketing KPIs based on user engagement, retention, and graduation analysis.

* Led team of 8 engineers: conducted weekly one-on-ones, introduced new processes through thoughtful change management, and provided support, goal setting, and guidance.* As part of the company leadership team, created strategic plans, KPIs, and OKRs; determined Product roadmap and set technical strategy: driving consecutive years of +50% revenue growth.* Collaborated to institute an Outcome-Based Hiring system. Key interviewer and decision maker in hiring engineers, product managers, marketers, and company leaders. * Chose, planned, and deployed key infrastructure: GraphQL, Looker, Elasticsearch, CI/CD, Docker.

* Created a critical sales tool for customer spend optimization and upselling using Redshift, SQL, and Looker to simulate business logic over all 50 million parts and 180 million offers. Used in every sale – supporting millions of dollars of sales. * Made critical changes to the Octopart Search Ranking Algorithm to improve search result relevance; developed metrics for search relevance; increased conversions from search by 3x. * Numerous other data and engineering projects: bot blocking, time series outlier detection, image deduplication and quality ranking, attribution, traffic acquisition, paid search (SEM) analytics, technical SEO, migration to Golang.

* Evaluated, tested, and documented electronic controls for household appliances; project management with complex dependencies; communicated results to customers.* Led process improvements: redesigned certification report to support structured data; led two-day requirement gathering session with key customers; taught two-day class on new process to 18 engineers from USA, Asia, and Europe.* Analyzed revenue relationships between UL product categories: parsed 43,000 unstructured product reports and showed category connections using social network analysis.

Systems engineering, instrumentation, monitoring and control.

Built and maintained a Drupal-based website with event calendar and video streaming library with ffmpeg and lighttpd. It was remarkably cool.

Designed hardware and software to implement a color-sensing system; deployed the system on eight mobile robots.

Impact Lab: crashing cars for data.Emissions Lab: what does ethanol do to cars?

Launched and managed a three-person video production company creating documentaries and wedding videos.