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New York, New York, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

As Director of Engineering, I was responsible for managing the majority of our engineering staff, including weekly 1:1 meetings, mentoring, and career/skill development. Established a new candidate pipeline and streamlined interview process that (on-boarded excellent new hires quickly) allowed us to efficiently evaluate candidates to ensure that all new hires would enhance the engineering team.Implemented development process improvements resulting in smaller, more testable stories, fewer defects, higher and more consistent velocities, and a more sustainable sprint cadence (for our scrum teams). Our Kanban teams saw reduced work in process, fewer blocked stories, and higher throughput.As a Principal Engineer, I provided architectural and design guidance to the other software engineers and work with the operations team to establish site reliability best practices. Some of my larger projects included:* Converted our traditional Rails project to use Docker and AWS Elastic Container Service* Automated our AWS infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Chef* Refactored our CI/CD pipeline to use Docker and AWS Elastic Container Repository* 50% reduction in our monthly AWS expenditures through comprehensive AWS audit and reconfiguration* Implemented a Kafka based messaging platform for asynchronous activities and 3rd party integrations* Led the team that redesigned and rewrote the interview platform used to collect health data from patients for scientific and reporting purposes* Implemented our feature flag functionality enabling new features to be released to production in a controlled manner* Migrated our application databases to modern Postgres instances with zero downtime ensuring all data is properly encrypted and follows HIPAA best practices

Claymont, De, Us

BiddingForGood is the leading provider of online auction and event management services to schools, charities, and non-profits, helping our clients raise over $300 million. My job as Chief Architect is to lead the team that designs, tests, builds, enhances, and maintains the software systems that execute BiddingForGood's mission and make this all possible. This is achieved through a suite of focused applications and APIs written in Java and Ruby communicating with a number of microservices via HTTPS or AMQP. Our applications are fully PCI compliant and we maintain a 99.99% uptime. All of our products are fully integrated with each other and provide further integrations with a number of 3rd party services, including Eventbrite, Constant Contact, Pusher, Twilio, SalesForce, Intacct, FrontStream CRM, Stripe, IATS, and Greater Giving.I introduced and refined an agile development process that allowed our team to deliver more features, faster, with fewer defects. This was accomplished by building a comprehensive test suite and continuous integration system to expedite feedback and response.I strive to ensure that my team stays current with up-to-date skills and technologies. I train and mentor developers in both technical and career capacities, assisting developers toward personal and company goals. I implemented weekly "Lunch & Learn" sessions to promote experimentation with new technologies and presentation of findings to the team. When necessary, I also recruit and hire new developers or consultants to augment our team to ensure that we have the necessary technical skills to execute our mission.Technologies used include: Java, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RabbitMQ, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate, Stripes, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, jQuery, Angular.js, Backbone.js, d3.js, REST, Sass/Scss, JUnit, RSpec, Minitest, Capybara, Cucumber, Selenium, Solr, Lucene, Eclipse BIRT, Git, Subversion, and various other small libraries.

Lead developer for team of 6 ABAP and Java developers responsible for the design and development of Java portlet library that integrates Enterprise Resource Planning system (SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel) functionality into a portal environment, reducing implementation time and costs for our customers. Version 1 of the software was a $500,000 project spanning 9 months that was delivered on time and within budget, including a beta implementation of the product at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). The product was developed using Java, JSP, XML, XSLT, JAXB, JAXP, JCo, SAP R/3, and Siebel 7.5.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Provided design and development expertise for a number clients. A sampling of projects includes:Modernista! - Developed owner extranet for hummer.com, which allowed Hummer owners to register their vehicles for maintenance reminders ( Java, Flash, Oracle ).KidzCard - Implemented e-commerce site with registration, online ordering, and rewards programs related to providing identification cards for children and their parents that contain personal and emergency contact information about the child ( Java, JBoss, MySQL, Flash ).Candeus - Developed system for Candues clients to track their maintenance contracts, raise support issues, and request new hardware. The site reduced the amount of money Candeus was spending on customer support ( Java, Tomcat, MS SqlServer ).

Directed the planning, budgeting, mentoring, and daily activities of the Software Engineering Department. Acted as Lead Architect and Developer on numerous successful projects for General Motors, Arnold Worldwide, Zildjian, Base Six, Flooz, CornerLot, PoliticalWag, and more.

New York, New York, Us

Acted as Lead Architect and Developer; mentored junior developers Designed and led development of the distributed content publishing component of a packaged Content Management application, used by very high-volume web site customers including FoxNews.com, FoxSports.com TVGuide Online, MajorLeagueBaseball.com, NHL.com, the New York Post, CompuServe, Newsday, British Telecom, and Telstra. Led development of television listings project for TV Guide Online, providing personalized TV schedules from more than 16,000 cable providers to over 600,000 registered users.

Gillingham, United Kingdom, Gb

Film, Audio Engineering

Communications