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Texas, United States

Texas, United States

Detroit, Michigan , Us

Oversaw digital operations for 24 brands and websites, driving performance improvements and scalability. Built and led Operations, NOC, DevOps, and Software Engineering teams, bringing work in-house to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. Implemented the 12-factor app methodology to enable scalable growth and optimized operations.• Fostered AI-driven innovation by launching Innovation Day, generating business ideas that shaped future projects and positioned the company to adapt to shifting market conditions.• Led the development of a PaaS CMS solution using React, Next.js, AWS, and Vercel, creating a scalable application for all brands with Atomic design and highly reusable components.• Orchestrated the 36-month transition to ArcXP, modernizing editorial workflows and improving site performance. This culminated in the successful launch of Autonews.com, significantly enhancing the user experience and achieving a major project milestone.• Scaled engineering teams by transitioning from consultants to internal talent, developing training programs, and enhancing collaboration. This increased output and cost savings while maintaining alignment with growth objectives.• Optimized resource allocation by negotiating vendor contracts, managing SaaS/PaaS budgets, and overseeing compensation plans. These efforts led to significant cost savings and improved operational efficiency.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Focused on leading high-impact web engineering initiatives, I oversaw the web teams responsible for platforms serving over 2.6 million monthly users, built on React, Next.js, and AWS. I spearheaded efforts to scale web applications, driving performance, team expansion, and cross-functional innovation.• Scaled engineering leadership by growing the team from 1 manager to 3, expanding oversight to 65 people, ensuring readiness for the company’s aggressive growth toward a public offering.• Optimized web platform performance through the implementation of GraphQL APIs, improving query efficiency and overall application responsiveness.• Unified brand experience by directing the creation of Unified Navigation across all key web applications.• Fostered a culture of collaboration by breaking down silos, improving communication, and setting higher standards for application quality.• Drove operational efficiency by negotiating contracts for critical tools, enhancing hiring processes, and facilitating Hack Days to spark innovation.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Managed BeachbodyOnDemand.com, Beachbodylive.com, Blogs and the CMS team. • Handled all budgets and invoicing for teams which allowed us to better forecast, plan and adopt features. • Continued staffing, interviewing and implementing standards across the division which led to easier scaling for teams. • Ensured that teams are working more within agile, which sped up code delivered in a reliable weekly cadence, moving from the 2-4 weeks builds had previously, reducing risk and allowing team to operate much more agilely.Telecommute position.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Managed team of JavaScript and full-stack engineers supporting on BeachbodyOnDemand.com, including full-time employees and a large team of off-shore contractors. • Oversaw all recruiting efforts for this team and assisted other teams interview candidates for culture and tech screening. • Fostered growth while maintaining a good balance of deliverables for Product owners which allowed the company to continue delivering predictable, feature-rich, timely quality builds.• Steered for a better developer experience and stricter standards across teams with tooling like CI/CD, linting, code coverage, Lighthouse integration, mentoring, GitFlow and managed scrum teams. Firm believer in fail-fast, fail-hard.Telecommute position.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Led BB Live team of full-stack engineers to develop BeachbodyLive.com using React, AWS, WordPress, Java and a full CI/CD pipeline using Docker and AWS. • Piloted Beachbody.com team during full rebuild of checkout flow. Used Node, AWS, Lambda, React and some Java removed the outdated stack and allowed our business to rapidly grow this segment of our business, this eventually led to integration on BeachbodyOnDemand.com and taking over this application to create better user experiences and implement checkout.• Managed BeachbodyOnDemand.com using React, AWS, CI/CD, Node with Express and Redux. Worked with stakeholders on maintaining, updating and adding many features to improve the stack including performance enhancements, StyledComponents, GDPR, Entitlements and Early Access features and the latest versions of React and Redux. • Conducted and ran weekly company architectural meetings with various technology and business stakeholders.Telecommute position.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Active tech and delivery lead over team and exciting full-stack project, beachbodylive.com. Worked with Java, React, AWS, docker, PHP, and WordPress. FInished project on-time and under budget.Telecommute position.

Oversaw and guided all architecture and technology decisions, managing the UI/UX direction of the site and application and working with management on the product roadmap, feature development and bug assessment and integration.• Built a fully custom WordPress site, including 2 custom themes; one for desktop and another for mobile and wrote all of the code. Setup Slack, BitBucket and JIRA to help the product and development workflow. Setup Google DoubleClick and Analytics for better tracking, A/B testing and ad revenue opportunities.• Built iOS app version of site using Phonegap to allow deploying the Oh Mama application on the iOS store.Telecommute position

Rendered all of the technology decisions for products and managed the product requirements with the sales team. • Managed the team of engineers responsible for building our RESTful API and worked with all vendors and clients.• Built several AngularJS applications to showcase API, drive revenue and to create demos for clients. • Wrote all of the docs about the API and SDKs; published our SDK to bower and built a client portal.Telecommute Position

Glendale, California, Us

Lead numerous Disney cutting-edge technology initiatives to support and promote guests’ experience within the theme parks. Drive research and development of confidential Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) initiatives, build and maintain Disney websites, and create interactive technology used in park exhibits while working remotely. Working in collaboration with creative production teams and vendors, develop prototypes, proof of concepts, demos, and play tests. Coordinate the App Store and Google Play submission process. Offer guidance, training, and mentorship to team members in proper software application development.Helped drive IT strategy for WDI’s Corporate Alliance projects that connect guests to theme park attractions. Develop and maintain corporate websites and mobile apps to promote attractions and create prototypes from new technology in several languages.Key AccomplishmentsIntroduced cocos2d and SpriteBuilder, which improved the speed of prototyping ideas and gave creative team more control over animations and polish.Helped manage and maintain the Amazon AWS servers, including load balancing and monitoring of servers. The Great Piggybank Adventure–http://piggybank.disney.go.com ● Helped lead development of website and mobile app during changes, teaching children the importance of setting financial goals.Innovation Website–http://innoventions.disney.com/ ● Worked with vendors on QA testing feedback in the development and launch of this website that promotes invention and imagination.Habit Heroes–http://www.habitheroes.com/ ● Managed all updates to the iOS and android mobile app development project that promotes healthy eating and exercising habits. Incorporated interactive elements, including, gyroscope, accelerometer, food scanner, and GPS tracking. Legends of Frontierland ● Integral part of team that created an interactive experience between guests and Disney actors, allowing guests to assume and play out roles in Disneyland for a play test.

Burbank, Ca, Us

At Disney, I am a Senior Software Engineer working on many projects, from Flash website frameworks, to back-end engineering, to build management, to registration systems, to SEO, to analytics to Javascript and CSS libraries.I work regularly with jQuery, CSS3, HTML5, Javascript, Flash, AS3, TeamCity, Ant, Perforce, Git, GitHub, Varnish, Apache, PHP, Smarty, LAMP, Unit Testing, Backbone, SASS, REST, OOP, XML, JSON, TEA, Agile, Scrum and Bash. I also recently started working with Ruby and Sinatra.I transition between technologies as product requirements and business needs demanded, lead code reviews with an emphasis on proper testing methodologies, and mentored product teams on how best to leverage the many technologies to which we have access. I have managed large teams of contractors as the product requirements required more people to solve problems all across the globe.During my time at Disney, I built and managed the disney.com flash framework, disneychannel.com, disneyxd.com, radiodisney.com, Disney Registration, My Disney, and worked on the team that implemented the newest iteration of disney.com using responsive layouts for all devices.

Dallas, Tx, Us

At Slingshot, I was a Senior Software Engineer working on everything that came through the agency. My duties included front-end development, build management, deployment management, prototyping new ideas, working directly with clients, and team mentoring. I worked for clients such as; Jack Daniels, Dr. Pepper, Mango Mobile and American Heart Association.I worked regularly with AS2 (and started the transition to AS3), Flash Remoting, Flex 2, OOP, XML, HTML, Javascript, CSS and SourceSafe.I architected and built a massive Flash site for Dr. Pepper that was their version of Facebook and allowed guests to navigate through 3D space and explore other UGC content.

I built and architected a rapid prototyping tool in Flash 8 using OOP methodologies. The entire application was configured via XML, with support for multiple character sets and languages (including Chinese, Russian, and Japanese). This allowed the client to add custom components and events as needed.

London, Gb

I was brought in as a contractor to help Tribal meet the needs of Pepsi. I built and architected the entire Aquafina flash site (aquafina.com) with 2 developers working for me. The site was built using Flash 8 Professional with AS 2.0 using OOP, XML and DB calls to Oracle.

I worked on a new product prototype development for an online scrapbooking application. Application is built entirely in Flash 8 utilizing Actionscript 2.0 and OOP. I worked with a team to architect this product from conception. I created the initial UML diagram to the actual code implementation.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

I built 2 applications entirely in AS 2.0 with OOP. Worked in a large team environment remotely using VPN and SourceSafe. Project was a 3-month contract and it was completed early prior to the contract end. The client was very pleased with development time and cost.

London, Gb

I built the Pepsi Lime flash site using AS 2.0.

I built Report Viewer using Flash MX 2004. Viewer based entirely off XML. Functionality of viewer compares to Adobe Acrobat reader.I built SlideShow/MP3 player using Flash MX 2004. Works from XML data and MP3 ID3 tag data. This Slideshow tool plays flash files, jpg’s and mp3’s by loading them only as needed. I built the ‘Touch the Face’ application using Flash MX 2004 and 3D Studio Max.

I worked for a large span of clients including LeapFrog, SPX International, NEC, Integris Health Care, DMLR, Big Bang, WilTel, Six Flags and the NRA. I built and assisted in building several advanced web sites with Flash, Premiere, Javascript, XML and Flash Remoting.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Direct Involvement Client list: Travelocity, EDS, American Standard, Candlewood Suites, Central Market, Highland Homes, Pilgrim’s Pride, Sub-Zero, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, YPO, Hunt, Belo Interactive, Friendly Robotics, Chick-fil-A, ClubCorp.I created a CD-ROM for YPO using Premiere, Director 8.5, SoundForge, 3DS Max 3.0 and Flash 5 and several CD-ROMs for EDS for use at large tradeshows such as Comdex using Director 8.5 and Flash 5.I helped prototype new ideas for clients.

Milpitas, Ca, Us

I developed and programmed a web application called "eFloorplanner," which allowed tradeshows to sell booth space online utilizing a drag and drop interface. Was built with Flash 4 and ASP.net.