Vice President, Ecommerce Engineering
Current• In nine months, led a turnaround to grow revenues by 173%, resulting in the highest quarterly earnings and double-digit growth thereafter. Reporting to the CDO, I am accountable for all the technology behind conns.com and badcock.com, with a mandate to rapidly scale the online business with predictable, reliable software engineering best practices. o Recruited an A-team and brought in software engineering best practices and culture (Agile, DevSecOps) with minimal budgetary variance. o Upgraded Adobe Magento and integrated several capabilities (AI search, fraud, merchandising tools, credit rebuild) to improve conversion metrics. o Rebuild credit and bill pay to support multiple lending options integrating with Synchrony, ACIMA, American First Finance, GDS, FiServ, Prove, and ACI.• Conducted technical due diligence for acquisitions and integrated them after the $1.9B merger.• Reduced TCO by re-platforming to MACH (BigCommerce, Cloudinary, Klevu, Algonomy, Signifyd, etc.)• Launched one of the world's first GenAI based product questions and answers conversational commerce implementation.