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Sacramento, Ca, Us

• Reporting to the CEO, lead a global Engineering and IT org of 100+ people across the US, South America, Europe, India, and Philippines• Build and lead teams that operate at startup speed, bank security, and enterprise scale• Led the creation of Mobile, Data, Security, Machine Learning (ML), DevOps, Agile, IT, and SRE departments to accelerate and rapidly scale business capabilities resulting in 3x revenue growth and double digit profit margins• Partnered with executive team peers to establish company roadmap and strategic direction• Transformed engineering to align with business needs while fostering a culture of technical and operational excellence• Implemented industry best practices to achieve SOC 2 Type II for all applications for the past 3 years• Launched revamped mobile apps for iOS and Android with 4.9 star reviews• Drove uptime from 98% to 99.99% across all products, while 6x-ing the number of systems• Tripled code release frequency while reducing cycle time, escape defects, and customer escalations• Established and maintained performance SLAs in milliseconds at petabyte scale• Demonstrated ability to launch 100k+ users concurrently with no loss in function or performance• Reduced cloud spend by nearly $500k per year• Led technical due diligence for company acquisitions leading to the best launch of a new product in company history

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Execute business strategies by defining technical roadmap, establishing architecture, and leading development and delivery of Cardlytics systems• Played a key role in growing a company from private startup to successful IPO as a public company • Lead 60+ person department of directors, managers, and cross-functional scrum teams including UI, Salesforce, and Product Management groups• Established multitenant AWS cloud architecture for high availability, performance, and scale• Drove the design and roll out of a real-time streaming architecture using Kafka

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Responsible for road map delivery and product development of Cardlytics systems• Manage 5 cross-functional scrum teams• Established strategic technical roadmap for enterprise systems and translated business goals into actionable strategy• Responsible for hiring and retaining engineering talent, building high-performing agile teams, and managing department budget

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Lead multiple cross-functional scrum teams including UI and Salesforce groups• Established strategic technical roadmap for enterprise systems and translated business goals into actionable strategy• Responsible for hiring and retaining engineering talent, building high-performing agile teams, and managing department budget• Managed vendor relationships and RFP process for new solutions and offerings• Responsible for defining engineering-wide SDLC process, ensuring product security and audit compliance, and handled tax credit allocation for all products and engineers

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Lead application development and UI teams• Introduced continuous deployment and integration paradigms• Established technical gating factors for production go-live• Implemented cross-system development to reduce key-person risk• Drove the adoption of enhanced development tooling across the engineering organization for collaboration, source control/ticket tracking, and automated builds and deploys• Established Next Gen architectural platform including analytics, logging, performance testing, and responsive design

Denver, Co, Us

• Participated in University of Washington and Vertafore leadership development program• Lead a team of 5 developers and 4 QA in the development of a single page web application using latest web technology to provide a zero footprint, cross browser SSO solution that is used domestically and internationally• Core member of the UI Framework committee responsible for evaluating, selecting, and building an underlying framework to be used by all product lines in the enterprise • Coordinated, collaborated, and communicated with remote and offshore teams to deliver on integrated offerings• Mentored and trained team members on web technologies, paradigms, and best practices

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Led the corporate website modernization project into self-sufficient Content Management System• Architected and managed the implementation of a single-sign on (SSO) project for 7 different user-facing websites with different technology stacks• Devised technical design specs for developers, infrastructure engineers, and DBAs• Created self-service portal with MVC3, .NET 4, JQuery, Ajax, and NHibernate, allowing users to manage their online profile• Introduced standardized development unit testing practices using MOQ, NUnit, and Team City to facilitate better code quality and mentored other developers on software best practices and conducted code and design reviews on a regular basis

Denver, Co, Us

• Proposed specifications and developed a client application embedded in Microsoft Outlook to seamlessly integrate access to the ImageRight system• Increased the performance and scalability of the ImageRight Application server• Created add-ins for Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat to facilitate in the transfer and conversion of files to the ImageRight system• Created and developed a maintainable framework for automating user interface testing for Quality Assurance automation.• Advocate for continuous improvement and better processes among developerso Mentored peers on best practices and performed code reviews as needed

Us

Bs, Industrial And Systems Engineering

Ms, Finance