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Indianapolis, In, Us

Givelify is a mission driven fintech startup with the #1 mobile app for charitable giving. The app has a 4.9 rating (out of 5.0) based on over 100,000 reviews on the App Store and Google Play. We are honored to have over 1.6 million users collectively donating more than $1 Billion annually.I head up development of our Giving platform, which includes our iOS and Android apps and our donation website, along with the APIs and supporting back end systems, and the associated QA teams. In this role I lead a growing cross-functional organization distributed across the U.S. and North America, Europe, and Asia. My focus is on architecture and system design, product and resource planning, mentoring, recruiting, and organizational development. I also collaborate closely with Product Management, Design, Executive Leadership, and other stakeholders to drive successful outcomes.We are currently moving from a monolith towards a microservices based architecture hosted in Docker containers and Kubernetes, with the goal of scaling the system to millions of users and billions of dollars in donations per year.Technologies used in our apps and back end include Swift, Kotlin, PHP, React, MySQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, & AWS.

Oakland, California, Us

Marqeta is a fintech leader providing API-powered credit and debit card issuance and intelligent payment processing. Major clients include Uber, Block (Square), Instacart, and Doordash.I led tech efforts in the areas of payment transaction processing, data ingestion pipelines, reconciliation, and settlements, with teams of up to 20 reports including managers and leads. I also worked closely in a cross functional manner with product management, internal customers, senior leadership, and other stakeholders.We used technologies including Java, AWS Lambda (Serverless), REST and GraphQL APIs, React, Terraform, Datadog, MySQL, Spark, and Snowflake.

San Diego, Ca, Us

I managed local and offshore teams developing web-based financial applications for LPL's network of investment advisors. During my tenure I grew our tech team from 10 people to 25, including 4 managers, and launched numerous new products.My responsibilities included hands-on development as well as Product and Project Planning, Client Management, Tech Strategy, Software Architecture, Infrastructure Management, Development Management, Information Security, and Recruiting and Organizational Development.In this role I led development of both standardized and custom financial workflow and analytics software for our clients. I also drove the migration of our infrastructure to the AWS cloud, including use of serverless (Lambda) and Docker container technologies. And additionally, I facilitated the transformation of our development process from traditional Waterfall to an agile Scrum based methodology.Our products use open source technologies including Java, Angular, Linux, and MySQL.

San Diego, Ca, Us

I headed up all technical efforts for AdvisoryWorld, managing local and offshore teams developing SaaS-based fintech applications. AdvisoryWorld was acquired by LPL Financial in December 2018. I led the technical due diligence efforts to support the company's exit and its subsequent transformation into a subsidiary of LPL.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Tongal is a startup digital agency that connects major brands with a community of creative talent.I built up and ran the tech team and managed the front end web, server, API, database, and native mobile development efforts. To this end I recruited and built up a team of 9 local and offshore resources.Also performed intensive hands-on full stack web & mobile development as well as architecture and technical design, technical project management, and organization development.Technologies used include Java, Spring, Hibernate, jQuery, Angular.js, React, iOS / Objective-C, MySQL, Linux, and Amazon AWS.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

I headed up the technology organization for the Cars.com Santa Monica Division, reporting directly to the division's General Manager and representing tech on the Senior Management committee.The tech organization consisted of up to 22 people across the Site Development, QA, Systems, and Technical Operations teams as well as the Release Management function. The teams included onsite as well as remote and offshore resources.My teams developed and maintained three websites in the Cars.com family using LAMP (Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP / Python) and Java technologies.

San Diego, California, Us

Performed hands-on development and project management of hosted (SaaS) financial web applications.Internationalized and adapted an application for use in the UK and the Middle East.Worked with B2B partners to develop custom, private labeled versions of applications.Coordinated work with an offshore development team.Utilized Java, PHP, MySQL, Tomcat, and Apache technologies, as well as XML, XSLT, JavaScript, CSS, and Linux.

Performed technical project management for Disney's Family.com portal and community website.Served as the technical liaison between the development team and the marketing, creative, and ad teams, as well as offshore QA.Wrote functional specs, tracked projects, prioritized issues, and managed schedules.Technologies used include Java, Spring, and Hibernate.

Beverly Hills, Ca, Us

Managed multiple teams developing web applications and features for Myspace, which was the world's leading social network at the time.Technologies used include ASP.NET, C#, .NET 2.0/3.0, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, WCF, and SQL Server.

San Jose, California, Us

Built a team of 25 developers (including remote and offshore resources) to help create Norton 360, the flagship consumer security product for Symantec.Introduced a new feature category, Internet based Online Backup, working with a partner company to design the API and scale the infrastructure.

M.B, A., Finance

B.S., Computer Engineering