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Greater New York City Area

• Founded a successful digital agency (Solidus / Ruby on Rails), providing clients with external technical leadership, engineering, and ecommerce expertise• Recruited, mentored, and led a globally distributed team of engineers• Developed high-value ecommerce features including multi-tenancy, just-in-time manufacturing, mobile-first design systems, and custom API integrations for multiple clientsSelected Work:• Created a novel tool to automatically list a comic book for sale using a photo of the cover by training a dhash-vips machine learning model• Implemented MLS integration for online real estate brokerage Keller Williams• Delivered an end-to-end bridal ecommerce solution with made-to-order products, appointment scheduling, payment processing, financing, logistics, digital marketing, and customer support• Released multitenant aware reporting tool for regional broadcast managers to access sales data• Modified order state machine to drastically improve checkout for mealkit subscription service• Improved efficiency by replacing default collection management tools with a performant React interface for a collectibles enthusiast platform• Optimized search engine rankings and conversion by tuning caching, load time, and SERP structured data for fashion retailer with over 40,000 product variants on only 100 products• Upgraded the Gatsby open-source major version from 1 to 2 and added Netlify CDN, improving site performance and maintainability• Integrated with third-party services including: Intercom, Affirm, Stripe, Contentful, Calendly, AWS, Fastly, Heroku, PayPal, Klaviyo, Yotpo, HotJar, Twilio, and Google Tag Manager• Modernized and re-released legacy codebase for a print-on-demand ecommerce platform

Greater New York City Area

• Founded visco-elastic temperature sensitive memory cell material mattress company (MattressHomeFurniture.com)• Designed and set up website, filed EIN and tax ID forms, established supplier relations• Created merchant banking and credit accounts to meet business, accounting, and financial needs

Greater New York City Area

• Led 4 teams of 5 engineers in code review and daily scrum, frequently diving into the code• Coached senior tech leads on 1-on-1s, project management, and performance management• Designed and instituted company-wide career planning process• Organized company around Agile methodology to deliver large scale ecommerce applications• Maintained project backlogs and allocated engineering resources according to priority

Greater New York City Area

• Managed 5 engineering managers and supported their teams of 4-6 engineers• Estimated project cost and timeline to meet business stakeholder requirements• Supported developers with code reviews, pair programming, and engineering mentorship• Integrated Alchemy CMS with Spree, creating brochureware ecommerce platform• Delivered on-time and under-budget projects for clients including British Gas and Chipotle

Greater New York City Area

• Founded independent mobile-first responsive web design and development company• Led team of 4 in successfully developing custom open-source online furniture store in Ruby• Designed, built, and deployed many different static and dynamic web applications

Greater New York City Area

• Built and maintained multimillion-dollar customer relationships though frequent client visits, immediate request fulfillment, and constant networking• Designed and distributed marketing materials and catalogs for regional advertising• Entertained buyers/owners during dinners out and trips to High Point, Las Vegas, and China• Assisted in the management, direction, and troubleshooting of customer related problems• Presented new products to current and potential customers at numerous trade conventions

Greater New York City Area

• Collaborated on development of iPad multimedia student/teacher interactive ‘smart’ lesson book• Setup, secured, and maintained remote servers via SSH• Investigated LMS and LMR options including Moodle, Canvas, and the Tin Can API

Greater New York City Area

• Reformatted existing website layout using Photoshop mock-up of newly designed site• Implemented reusable custom elements through overriding core Twitter Bootstrap elements• Ensured proper operation of new website with its Python Django and Mysql back end

Piscataway, Nj

• Managed retrieval and formatting of daily inspection backlog from SAP Inventory Tracker• Created and drastically improved methods for tracking inspector and total lab productivity• Designed multi-faceted excel macros which helped to clarify and display detailed inspection data which was previously indiscernible within standard SAP reports• Assisted in the management, direction, and troubleshooting of personnel within the lab• Streamlined the receipt, storage, and retrieval of quality assurance samples thereby substantially reducing the time needed per inspection

Mahwah, Nj

• Led investigation and analysis of failed field returns to conclude modality of breakage, and subsequently implement a solution involving the redesign of a cable component• Revised and updated specification drawings for implementation in manufacturing by utilizing ProEngineer/ProIntralink Computer Aided Design software • Supervised extensive testing of new products for compliance with protocol and standards • Collaborated with senior engineers to accomplish critical objectives involving the redesign of proprietary medical device components

Morristown, Nj

• Led experimentation project to implement new lower cost / higher efficacy raw material into previous product formula• Handled and prepared various stock chemicals according to SOP and MSDS for daily use• Supervised and created customer trial and experimental batches of product • Maintained and operated large pilot plant manufacturing equipment and laboratory specification analyzers

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