PriceSpider is a data company helping brands to both increase sales (Where to Buy platform) and perform Digital Shelf Analytics.Reporting to the CTO, originally hired to bring engineering and product delivery leadership to the Digital Shelf Analytics' applications of Brand Monitor and PROWL which perform 1 Billion crawls per month and ingest 300 price changes per second.Brought Brand Monitor out of a 3 year beta into a GA release within 6 months of being hired by defining processes and procedures and helping the team achieve laser focus to get MVP delivered and iterated upon to achieve the General Availability Release.Assumed the product management role for PROWL and led various quarterly business review and roadmapping sessions.Optimized support processes and implemented a metric driven focus on prioritization.Led the team through the SOC2 Type 2 compliance initiative, working directly with pentesters, auditors and business stakeholders to achieve compliance in April 2021.Created innovative solution to optimize the performance on a LAMP stack architecture to bring query response times from 300 seconds to 300 milliseconds.Recruited engineers, UX, product and QA to bring PROWL to the next level using a microservices GoLang based architecture backed by Snowflake and Data PipelinesAssumed leadership of the Data team and brought real business objectives to the ongoing Kafka based datahub project. Worked to integrate EU & US based data engineers. Hired replacement Director of Data and Analytics to continue projects in a cost effective and business oriented way.Assumed leadership of DevOps during staff turnover and helped navigate the team through various high profile projects and incidents. Engaged vendor to perform security and risk assessment. Hired replacement Director of DevOps and several additional DevOps team members to increase the strength of the team. Created Disaster Recovery (DR) processes.

Providing mentoring; Business Analysis; Software Solutions; Project Management and Consulting services to Customers that include Automotive Tier 1 and Tier 2 Manufacturers and an Investment Bank dealing with stock exchanges worldwide. Expanded customer base through referrals. Utilizing Analysis & Design; Project Management; Training; Technical Documentation; Coding along with Research skill sets. Derived dynamic specifications from loosely defined Requirements.

Product & engineering Advisor and Mentor to CUDDLY. More about CUDDLY. CUDDLY helps give all animals a healthy life and a loving home. We enable animal rescues to create fundraisers and wishlists to support animals in their care. Through CUDDLY, animal lovers can purchase and give in a modern, transparent way. With over 2,000+ animal welfare organizations on board, CUDDLY's mission is to help save as many animals globally through community, innovation, and creativity. As a for-good startup, we believe animals often "rescue" us. And it is our obligation to support those who do not have a voice. As a company, we believe the best way for us to make an impact is by providing the "business" tools, namely fundraising, marketing, and a valuable community, to animal-focused non-profits so that they can fulfill their potential and continue to do good.

Assisting a SaaS stealth startup on product design and technical architecture.

Responsible for building out the teams and architecture to support a variety of Digital Marketing and E-commerce initiatives utilizing Serverless Technologies.Leading transition to Scrum, Agile Testing and fully automated regression testing.Our current tech stack is primarily AWS Lambda to support our React/Redux; Node; Java applications.

Responsible for building and managing a team of Managers, Developers, Designers, DevOps and Architects that grew from 10 to 100+ to build and maintain a world class cloud based expense management solution worldwide. Supported ongoing company growth in excess of 30% per year. Cut hosting costs by moving from Rackspace dedicated hardware to AWS hosted Reserved instances, increasing the ability to dynamically respond to load changes at reduced costs. Directed further cost cutting within the µService architecture by encouraging the use of containers, improving both software quality and the increased utilization of EC2 instances.

Hired to solve 2 basic problems. The existing GUI was a Flash based UI that was dated and prone to many technical and security problems and to uplift the engineering team, consisting of both software developers and operations to the next level. I set about solving these problems by doing the following:Built a dedicated team (Mercury) to create a new UIArchitected collaboratively with the team to create a HTML 5 compliant, backbone.js based, template driven (Thymeleaf/handlebars.js) highly configurable UI.Led the conversion of the existing Expense application onto the Mercury platform.Managed the product side, creating stories; documenting algorithms and other formulae to create a set of business driven requirements.Initiated the creation of the Product team, to take over the product management side, implementing Scrum processes and story driven requirements.Recruited engineers of all skills and organized them into functional teams to support the ever expanding number of high profile projects that were flowing into engineering.

Tasked with leading a team of top-tier engineers and architects to solve complex problems involved in turning the Glovia ERP suite into a cloud based offering. Led team of 20 software developers (Java; C++; .NET) located in the U.S., Thailand, and the Philippines. Introduced the use of storyboard guidelines for the design and tailoring of glovia.com v9 by product management.

Tasked with creating and implementing a company wide outsourcing and remote working model with improved efficiency and cost-effectiveness of relationship between Los Angeles development staff and offshore development centers in the Philippines and Thailand.Led team of 40 onshore and offshore team members in the design of new B2B XML-based transactions with the potential to create API for the glovia.com ERP system; project resulted in the development of 30 major transactions and two patents-pending.Analyzed requirements of Migrations team and designed a new suite of tools utilizing offshore development team in Thailand and migrations team in the Philippines, resulting in increased quality and capacity.

Responsible for all integrations between Glovia’s ERP suite and third partiesLed first-ever Glovia project completed entirely offshore; project resulted in the first XML based API of the Glovia ERP suite.Designed and Developed 18 XML based API transactions for implementation in the glovia.com ERP suite.Designed and managed the implementation of five web-development projects which comprised the company’s customer portal offering, eCRM, eOrder, eStatus, eQuote, and eRMA.

Designed and Developed enhancements to the Glovia/Chess ERP suite, specialising in EDI.