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Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Providing technical leadership, training, engineering, and advisory support to digital product and infrastructure teams, with a focus on AI.

New York, Ny, Us

London, London, Gb

Delivering instruction, workshops, and coaching to technologists at companies like Lowe's, Northwestern Mutual, CBRE, and the New York Times, empowering them to excel in best practices, and giving them patience, hope, and enthusiasm for their craft.

Santa Monica, California, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Organized and planned events,spoke at conferences, and built a community for a large group of engineering leaders, many overseeing product and engineering teams of 100+ members."

Denver, Colorado, Us

Introduced speakers and panelists on the main stage and assisted with content selection for the largest annual blockchain conference in the US, which draws over 48,000 attendees.

Helped teams design, code, and align to ship high-value features based on customer research and data.

Led Product for oracles (off-chain data posted to the blockchain) and blockchain + space exploration efforts for Ethereum's largest venture studio.

Inglewood, California, Us

Defined the value proposition and go-to-market strategy for immersive high-end VR experiences, established initial client engagements, and guided software teams.

New York, Ny, Us

Responsibilities:• Opened an office in a new city for a thriving design and development consultancy.• Delivered clean, well-tested code fast, while guiding others to do the same• Mentored software engineers and engineering directors.• Networked extensively to hire top professionals.• Found, built, and decorated a new office space.• Set up and managed client projects for success.• Trained client product owners on how to prioritize.• Evangelized Lean, Agile, and continuous delivery practices.• Oversaw global sales and project onboarding.• Facilitated Product Design Sprints.• Architected and implemented software for internal and client projects.• Hosted developer meetups.• Contributed to Open Source Software and other applications.Highlights:• Hired 20 top professionals within the first year.• Managed successful client projects for renowned companies and startups.• Enabled enterprises to move at startup speed and startups to gain stability.• Oversaw $18M in global project onboarding. Sourced and closed $5M of these annually.• Created an AR/VR practice with several client projects.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Co-led Pivotal NYC’s largest project with 20-30 developers.• Built software in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript using Lean and Agile methodology.• Assisted with user experience research and incorporated user feedback.• Implemented complex business rules simply using clean object and method design.• Taught other developers and project managers and developed rapid learning techniques.• Spearheaded upgrade and refactoring efforts.• Improved legacy project code from an F to an A rating.• Optimized test suite performance.• Led and managed projects and trained client project managers.• Rallied the team for a large government project to use Lean Startup techniques.• Coordinated Pivotal NYC’s weekly Tuesday Tech Talk program.

• Implemented an HRTech team appreciation website using Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and Redis.• Led the development team, and recruited and managed designers and other developers.• Pair programmed with founder Obie Fernandez, documented the company’s vision via user stories in Pivotal Tracker, and contributed to product decisions and business development.• Performed test-driven development using Rspec, Cucumber, Capybara, and Capybara-webkit.• Determined and implemented user tracking analytics.

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