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Fort Collins, CO, US

Quincy, Massachusetts, US

Quincy, Massachusetts, US

My role is best described as a technology smoke jumper. I've worked across the entire product engineering team to help identify areas where we can be more efficient, increase speed, and reduce cost.* Reduced annual COGs related to our cloud spend by over $1 million annually* Rearchitect key portions of our technology stack to increase efficiency and reduce.

Quincy, Massachusetts, US

Heading up product and engineering for the communications platform in FORM's the digital assistant of frontline workers.* Merging communication: In 2021, FORM acquired Rodio to add its communication features to the company’s existing product suite. Working with the product and engineering teams, I’ve driven the plan for embedding communication features.

Managing Up is a podcast about leading and managing in the world of technology. With a format akin to a "recorded peer mentoring session," we spend an hour digging into topics ranging from building trust, to holding 1:1s, to understanding the various roles in technology leadership.

Alpharetta, GA, US

I joined Rodio in 2019 to prepare the team to spin out of its parent company and guided it through that process to a successful exit in 2021 when we were acquired by our largest partner, FORM.Product vision: When I joined Rodio, the company wasn’t sure if it was a chat application, a workforce execution tool, or something in the middle. During my first.

I joined Kazoo (rebranded from YouEarnedIt during my time there) to help scale the engineering team to support their new growth strategy. We grew from a team of fewer than 10 to nearly 50 during my time. A few highlights include:* Tackling scalability: High-traffic events used to be fire-drills that sent the team scrambling to keep the site functional..

Refresh Austin is an organization of over 3,000 folks dedicated to promoting the culture around web and mobile design, development and business. Our monthly meetings attract nearly 100 people. We also promote special events from happy hours to #AWBash, a holiday party with over two dozen meet ups in one place to celebrate the year and meet other folks..

New York, NY, US

As the second hire to start in Austin, I helped grow the Austin team to nearly 30. Among the projects my team has overseen: Condé Nast’s first foray into conversational interfaces (Messenger, Alexa, Google Home); new monetization strategies for email newsletter signups; and a new unified login interface for all brands.I've helped document the career paths.

The Awesome Foundation is a worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of awesomeness in the universe. The Foundation distributes a series of monthly $1,000 grants to projects and their creators and has collectively funded over 400 projects. The money is pooled together from the coffers of ten or so self-organizing “micro-trustees” and.

US

Part camp counselor, part executive. That's the best description I've been able to come up with for my work at The Iron Yard. My days were split across a variety of tasks. One hour I was introducing CTOs and HR directors to The Iron Yard and what we did. Next, I was helping alumni hone their interview skills and resumes. After that I might jump in to help.

Austin, Texas, US

Continuum Analytics is the Python data science company. I was the go-to guy for web and user-experience. Continuum was primarily scientists and I was the first web-native on the team. I worked on tooling around the Wakari and Conda platforms for most of my time there. I pushed the Conda platform's user experience forward. One effort I'm particularly fond.

Austin, US

Speaking at tech conferences around the globe, I've introduced other developers to Git, testing methodologies and technologies as diverse as microframeworks all the way through XMPP.I'm available to speak at conferences and offer small-group training sessions on a variety of topics.

Austin, Texas, US

I often described my position at the Texas Tribune as the one who was supplying the ammo to those on the front line. The longer I stayed, the more it became evident that I wanted to be on the front lines. This role changed my position to be the point person on data on the site. During my time there, the team I lead delivered dozens daily interactives.

Austin, Texas, US

As the grant that had funded the Armstrong development started to draw to a close, I took over as the Director of Technology at the Tribune. Director gives the position the air of pointy-haired bosses and such, but this was a player/coach role with the coach figuring out budgets and strategy and such. We worked on everything software development related.

Austin, Texas, US

I joined the Texas Tribune to work on the grant-funded, open-source news platform, Armstrong. While funding ran out before we built everything we wanted to, we did create solid foundation for others to build upon. Armstrong has been used by dozens of news organizations to build out their custom CMS.While there, I also helped with a variety of other tasks.

One of the contributing developers to SimpleTest. I've helped with minor enhancements and contributing bug fixes for the rare bugs that are reported.

I've worked with companies and organizations large and small building web and mobile applications. I've kept the name and still occasionally contract under it, but mostly its the home of my email address now.

Was elected to the governing body of PEAR, the PEAR Group, by developers within the community.

Menlo Park, CA, US

I worked on the apps team in the layer between the core team on the backend and the user interface. This role was PHP and JavaScript focused. We built activity streams and photo galleries and messaging tools and everything in between. The team was globally distributed with about half located in Palo Alto and the rest of the team scattered to the four.

San Francisco, CA, US

While my official title is "Staff Engineer", my unofficial title is the "Performance Guy". I was responsible for ensuring that SugarCRM continues to get faster through optimizations of existing code and ensuring any new code doesn't cause a performance issues.SugarCRM is uniquely positioned as the enterprise PHP application. Everyone with a new platform.

San Francisco, CA, US

I work as senior PHP developer helping to add new features and functionality to Mashery's API community services.

Worked as senior developer on open-source medical EMR application, Clearhealth.