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New York, Ny, Us

• Leading multiple scrum teams of iOS, Android, and backend engineers for Venmo’s new, in-app Crypto platform allowing users to buy, sell, hold, and transfer multiple cryptocurrencies.• Collaborate with cross-functional product leadership across all major functional areas to drive requirements and strategy of Crypto experience.• Projects completed: Address book, ENS integration, external transfers, internal transfers, interoperability to PayPal, showing gains/losses, price alerts, biometric onboarding, 2FA integration, tax documentation integration, various A/B testing, accessibility, and education content refresh.

Greer, South Carolina, Us

• Transitioned personal loan closing platform to digital end-to-end solution leveraging existing infrastructure and credit decisioning platform, bringing the experience online and enabling business to grow outside traditional in-person lending methods.• Designed, prioritized features, and iterated upon the online loan closing platform, working closely with external vendors in an agile environment.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

• Led multiple cross functional data engineering agile teams tasked with creating new and improving existing customer experiences influenced by data through the company’s growing Enterprise Data Lake (EDL).• Managed team of data engineers, API developers, and data scientists ingesting batch and real-time account alerts into EDL and delivering Tableau reporting dashboards to measure customer behavior backed by data. • Owned vision and implementation of proprietary 360-degree customer view (SYF ID) to reduce client touchpoint friction.• Partnered with stakeholders leveraging SYF ID capabilities to reduce operational expense by $1.1M.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

• Drove digital technology projects to meet client growth, productivity, and compliance financing products’ objectives. • Identified technical requirements of projects and effectively assign and manage resources, vendors, and clients' expectations while delivering within budget and timelines.• Led 18-month project enabling tender prioritization, allowing Sam’s Club cardholders seamless integration of their credit on all digital, cross-platform products. Organically increased digital sales on credit by 20%. • Innovated new, unsecured installment product from concept to production for both in-club and online providing customers with alternative financing options.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

The Synchrony Financial IT Business Leadership Program is a two year, three-rotation leadership development program aimed at building domain, company, and industry expertise. Each rotation consists of 7 months of immersive projects followed by a one-month cross functional experience in Sales, Enterprise Operations, and volunteer activities - as well as formal trainings that are completed throughout the course of each rotation.Rotation 3: Vulnerability Management AnalystDates: Nov 2016 – Jun 2017Location: Stamford, CTExpanded the Vulnerability Management program by adding several new asset types to the current standard remediation process.Rotation 2: Software EngineerDates: Mar 2016 – Nov 2016Location: Frisco, TXPerformed proof of concepts using Advanced IBM Forms Designer to develop web forms for Synchrony's Servicing Applications team.Rotation 1: IT Project Manager, Mobile & Emerging TechnologyDates: Jul 2015 – Mar 2016Location: Stamford, CTServed as the IT Project Manager for Synchrony on the Samsung Pay initiative working with client teams to gather requirements and design executables, develop an understanding of complex IT infrastructure, and explore new and innovative technologies within the mobile payments industry.

• Co-founded venture to better understand local secondary market for textbooks and generated profits yearly using social media and guerilla marketing.• Analyzed competitive prices and created pricing program that saved students 45% of bookstore prices and earned company profit margins of 97%.

Rochester, New York, Us

• Practiced Agile software development strategies on the quality assurance team to rapidly and continuously improve software.• Developed methods for tracking bugs in the Kodak Picture Kiosk software. Established road maps with software engineers to resolve problems within the software.