GameChanger is the leader in youth sports streaming, scoring, and team management. Working with a world-class engineering organization, I oversee the Trust, Quality Engineering, and Activation Engineering teams.

As a committed Engineering Director at FullStory, a prominent Digital Experience Analytics company, I played a pivotal role in shaping the technology landscape. FullStory's innovative software empowered digital teams to craft exceptional customer experiences. My leadership revolved around a passion for customer centricity, driving teams to develop value-driven capabilities. I successfully identified and seized a lucrative opportunity, resulting in an $8.6M increase in ARR. This achievement stemmed from creating an infrastructure solution that allowed the acceptance of customer data using customer domains. By spearheading these efforts, I contributed to our customers' ability to unlock the full potential of FullStory, ultimately facilitating the creation of flawless digital experiences.

I was entrusted to lead a team of software engineers to deliver innovative Analytics Reporting services to our customers. We emphasize healthy work/life balance, cohesive team culture, and fulfilling individual contribution. My responsibility is simple: ensure the team succeeds!SparkPost is the world’s #1 email sender, trusted by customers like Zillow, The New York Times, Booking.com, Ebates and Zynga to dramatically increase email performance. SparkPost sends more than 37% of the world’s business to consumer email, more than 5 trillion messages a year. SparkPost’s unmatched data footprint and email analytics help leading enterprises break through the email noise to drive top-line results.

In the year since joining SparkPost as part of the Signals Analytics team, I contributed to much of our Analytics work, including multiple integrations with an acquired company’s services, and tools that help companies gain better insights to their deliver ability.I’ve leveraged my strengths and unique perspective by helping to lead various initiatives, including Diversity & Inclusion, Company Culture, and SparkPost’s Spring Hackathon (an effort for which I was recognized with a Q2 TLC award).

Helped new ventures source and engage with their target customers to better understand problem alignment and product-market fit, to inform product development.

Apkudo is a smart device test company that helps the world make sense of the billions of experiences smart devices enable, using its cloud-based testing and warehouse automation platform for the global telecommunications industry.While at Apkudo, some of my achievements included:• Reduced AWS spend by over 85% by refactoring video transcoding pipeline to leverage AWS Batch and other tooling• Created scalable, redundant network infrastructure and embedded software for supply chain tracking, routing, and processing• Built end-to-end system to process and transcode over 22,000 hours of video footage for a leading reverse logistics company while also reducing the transcoding failure rate from 10% to under 0.1%• Recruited engineers and increased team by 25% by screening, interviewing, and evaluating dozens of candidatesMy main responsibilities included:• Executed complex engineering projects full Agile lifecycle software development• Created well-designed applications, using PERN stack to write efficient, testable code• Integrated software components into a fully functional platform, using continuous integration tools

Managed on-site and hosted infrastructure of data, voice, and video technology for a staff of 45 employees, 600 volunteers, and 4000 weekly attendees across 4 buildings, and led all digital marketing efforts with website development, SEO, and execution of online advertising campaigns.Highlights:• Created Internet broadcast platform with end-to-end video streaming and API endpoint• Engineered network solution, comprised of multiple network subnets and VLANs, multiple Cisco endpoints, and redundant uplinks• Converted physical hardware-­based systems to VMWare, Amazon Web Services, and G Suite stacks• Led technology volunteer teams and virtual community in Online Campus

I helped dozens of companies succeed in the digital communications space, specializing in web development, telecom, IT infrastructure, and video communication. My analytical and strategic thinking strengths allowed me to create solutions for businesses of all sizes.Some project highlights include:• Concurrent Manufacturing (Drupal 7 website dev)• MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (employee survey processing & analysis)• Fireside Stone & Patio (IT support)• Inclime Solutions (CodeIgniter PHP/JS product development)• RadNET partner websites (Drupal 7 migration and maintenance)• Henshaw wedding (videography)• Lewis wedding (videography)

Served as Project Manager: led projects for enterprise customers, primarily large hospitals, including Cooper University Hospital (Camden, NJ), St. Louis Children’s Hospital (St. Louis, MO), and Inova Health (Fairfax, VA), and provided Internet strategy consulting to help customers leverage new technologies.Project Lead portfolio references:• stlouischildrens.org• cooperhealth.org• inova.orgAs Senior Software Engineer, developed custom solutions for enterprise customers, again, particularly for large hospitals, including those above and including Johns Hopkins (Baltimore, MD), Georgetown University Hospital (Washington, DC), Washington Hospital Center (Washington, DC), including architecting mobile and desktop applications:• http://services.hughesnet.com/service_tools/status_meter/• http://www.inova.org/about­inova/socialmedia/mobile

Served as lead developer, designing a content-centric web application, utilizing PHP, Perl, and Javascript development, on a Linux/Apache system integrated with an Oracle database, which included such features as:• CMS features, allowing editors to create, proof, and publish daily content to production site.• white-label branding capability, whereby affiliates can license the application via Javascript widgets to integrate content as if their own.• sophisticated actuarial calculations in PHP with user input to allow users to generate estate planning reports for their clients.Responsible for software architecture direction, and planned feature development and deployment, incorporating full lifecycle software engineering processes into the development methodology and integrating high-level goals and objectives from current and prospective customers into product management process.

Prior to the role of CTO, served as the company's CEO to complete company's founding and incorporation, fund raising $250k for initial development, managed P/L, planned initial business development and strategy, made key hires, and led company towards growth, in seven months; afterwards, held the role of Chief Technology Officer, responsible for technology development and management, which included:• Architect of complete product line• Hired and led team of developers and development processes• Served on Board of Directors, negotiations with investors• Invented now-patented protocol for secure establishment of encryption session keys (http://www.google.com/patents/US7373507)• Consulted clients and prospects with custom integration and implementation of company's software; most important customers included US Department of State, US Department of Energy, and US Department of Transportation, and various commercial companies and organizations.• Designed and implemented ground-up system for online ordering and fulfillment and an online portal for reseller partners, using Perl, PHP, PayPal SDK, MySQL database integration, Enterprise-in-a-Flash database integration• Managed relationships with technical service providers of back-end systems