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Cleveland, Ohio, Us

Architected proprietary cross-vertical data pipelines scraping 100+ top retailer sites including Walmart and Amazon; established company as the leading provider of product content, share of shelf, and insights across CPG, Auto, Beauty, and Electronics verticals.Spearheaded platform modernization effort, refactoring to .NET Core stack and Azure; transformed architecture to bolster security, resilience and scale resulting in 100x product workspace capacity.Instituted agile processes with iterative deployments, dedicating over 20% time to defect resolution; increased platform stability and accelerated time-to-value.Built 6+ engineer product team applying productivity best practices like RICE prioritization; delivered innovative capabilities fueling 100%+ ARR growth.Drove quarterly penetration testing and audits attaining key compliance; instrumental in winning logos and critical customers.Played pivotal role in raising $1M+ in funding through persuasive demonstrations of platform potential and vision.

Jersey City, Nj, Us

Galvanize new business growth identifying key prospects, building strategic sales approaches, defining and cultivating product strategy including marketing and sales guidelines, supporting product position, and commercial execution.Elevate and clarify product identity/tone across consumer touchpoints collaborating with teams companywide.Enhance products and positioning identifying market opportunities, developing in tandem with Sales, Product, Operations, and Creative Teams.Effectively worked with cross-functional partners including Engineering, Design, Data, and Insights leading the Product Management Team.

Achieved client business requirements affording actionable and fact-based recommendations, continually providing solutions and business insights to address gaps and/or opportunities creating value.-Successfully allocated and maintained resources for client team(s) relating to Professional Service and R&D distribution.-Promoted seamless cross-functional execution of client programs/projects cultivating strong relationships with client teams, including 3rd party vendors and agencies.

Facilitated business and product requirements prioritization within the product development group, authoring timelines, managing deliverables, and releases expectations, overseeing the Engineering, Product, and Design Teams.-Drove product portfolio creation inclusive of the core platform, value-add, and upsell components realizing new revenue streams, managing a complex and highly configurable SAAS Enterprise platform.-Offered client issue resolution, scaling to significant annual revenue relationships working with CPG and Retail Sales in the creation of marketing strategies and programs.-Ensured delivery of product roadmap collaborating with the Engineering, Marketing, Business Development, and Sales Teams.

Championed media platform new capabilities build including enhanced content, native advertising, sponsored listings, and strategic advertising products across the network.-Led the business case development and full product lifecycle for new shopper marketplaces within the eCommerce environment.-Developed best practices across eCommerce product discovery including search exchanges to support national brands.-Fueled partnerships and licensing opportunities performing assessments with the Business Development Team, working with third parties.

• Oversight of Development, and Quality Assurance teams• Developed CapEx and OpEx planning, contract/vendor relations, and reviewed asset inventory management• Partnered with Product Management to support product development strategy• Coordinated with the following business units to ensure deliverability of projects and features, Advertising Operations, Business Intelligence, Marketing, New Business/Monetization, and Sales• Established and ensure adherence to high availability SLA for both internal and external systems• Developed team talent, including training and career growth• Proven experience in high-traffic website engineering, architecture, and implementation of high availability infrastructure and automation• Strong business acumen and exceptional organizational and communication skills• Cultivated a consumer-centric focus, both internally and externally, to align with Product & MyWebGrocer strategic goals• Experienced with software development methodologies, particularly Agile - Scrum• Familiarity with XP practices (TDD, pair programming, continuous integration, refactoring, continuous delivery)

• Interacted with business/product to understand scope and clarification of requirements• Estimated and planned development sprints according to priorities and business allocation• Provided technical leadership to the team, ensuring design and architecture aligned with the platformstrategy• Developed, delivered features and infrastructures changes in agile methodologies• Ensured fundamental quality practices integrated into the development lifecycle, such as automated unit tests, integration tests• Partnered with DevOps to ensure reliability, scalability and comprehensive monitoring of infrastructure• Collaborated with other development managers to deliver workflows that may span across implementation teams• Interacted with peers to avoid any work duplication, ensure business units aligned and moved in the same direction• Communicated business and technical strategy to the team• Reported to development director the current progress, architecture, designs decisions, roadblocks and dependencies• Motivated team members to grow in technical skills, development practices, business understanding• Participated in recruitment activities• Developed and led Full Stack systems involving client-side code and web services• Redesigned and refactored complex architecture involving several teams

Lisboa, Lisboa, Pt

DRI USA provided Web Solutions (custom developed sites on Drupal), Data / Text mining solutions. CRM integrations, and other custom solutions for clients. Collaborating with sales, establishing requirements, conducting analysis, communicating with development teams, and implementing software solutions was my role. I utilized many different skills from software architecture & web development to marketing and analytics. The position was dynamic and required a 'jack of all trades and master of none' or so mentality.

Worked with local, and international vendors to create custom software solutions. We built mobile apps (Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone), and Web Applications using Ruby on Rails & .NET MVC 3 & MVC 4. Leveraging the Agile development methodology, we are able to prototype, receive feedback quickly, and iterate on the software solution leaving the customer satisfied.

• Acted as Scrum Master guiding team through agile (scrum and Kanban) software life-cycle• Collected, organized, and prioritized features and tasks for sprints• Collaborated with Tech-Lead in regards to product roadmap and deadlines• Created workflow to ensure proper agile-scrum methodology was applied• Acted as Quality Assurance liaison with our QA team in Romania• Collaborated with multiple departments to ensure dependencies were resolved• Utilized the OnTime (Project Management tool) to track hours, create burndown charts, and report on the progress of the team• Used Atlassian JIRA (Project Management tool) to create, manage, and resolve issues

• Managed a team of 3-5, engineers and graphic designers, to create software solutions for clients• Built compelling solutions that suited the clients technology needs.• Maintained a broad understanding of ASP.NET, CSS, HTML, PHP, Python, and SQL to ensure proper technical communication of product deliverables and scope to the team.• Assured that the product was properly tested before going live.• Created user requirements, workflow diagrams, and other supplemental documentation to aid in the development of the software solution. Aided in the production of prototypes to ensure client satisfaction.

Burlington, Vt, Us

• Served on several governing bodies such as College Council, Diversity and Inclusion Council, and VP of Student Life search committee• Helped establish the Greater Burlington College Council, an organization which brings area Student Government Associations together• Managed six different officers who directly oversaw roughly 300+ students

Burlington, Vt, Us

• Collaborated with different departments on campus to ensure student members of clubs were properly certified and insured• Maintained and managed the allocation of funds for clubs and the department during the ’10 -‘11 fiscal year

• Served on Peer Advisor team to facilitate culture assembly and interaction on campus• Assisted Career Service Center in facilitating resume workshops and assessed student assignments

• Organized different club events to promote technology and technological services• Maintained a budget from the SGA to ensure spending is being dispersed properly