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Los Angeles, CA, US

• Advised clients on technology selection, project planning, and team management. Supported non-profits in improving performance.
• Drove language selection for MVP.
• Trained in sprint planning and tracking.
• Assisted in annual review process and goal-setting for team members.

New York, NY, US

• Managed delivery of content metadata for TV shows and movies streamed in 50+ countries, to partners, including Apple, Amazon, Xbox, and Comcast, with teams of contract and FTE employees.
• Rescued failed software, cutting time between crashes from 2 hours to 4+ weeks, eliminating 90% of incidents.
• Coordinated QA initiative with remote teams to automate end-to-end integration testing in an untested codebase, reducing escaped bugs to 0 and passing Apple’s stringent quality tests.
• Collaborated with DevOps to move AWS cloud app from 4+ hour bi-monthly manual deployment to 5-minute automated staging and production deploys.
• Spearheaded process to include engineering contractors in architecture and business review, mentoring, regular 1:1s, and coaching, reducing turnover to 1 team member in 2 years.
• Increased team diversity through clear DEI initiatives in job listing creation, posting, and interview process.

El Segundo, California, US

• Developed, with a team of 4 FTE, ad tag-delivered Web, and native advertising features; migrated codebase from Java and MySQL on AWS to Javascript workers and NoSQL key-value store on CDN edge.
• Refactored vanilla Javascript client-side code, streamlining payload size by 60%.
• Guided rewrite of Java ad server code into Javascript Web Workers on Cloudflare CDN, reducing response time for ad payload queries to less than 10ms.
• Introduced a new testing toolset to allow end-to-end testing of ES Modules natively, instead of transpiling into CommonJS Modules or IIFEs, decreasing escaped bug risk by more than 30%.

Buffalo, New York, US

• Synacor provided Portal, E-mail, and Identity Management services to Fortune 500 clients in the media industry. Promoted from Principal Engineer to Team Lead.
• Drove sprint rollover from 30% to 0% in 2 months by tracking, improving estimations, breaking work down into more granular stories, and coaching developers.
• Implemented search marketing code delivering targeted results to Android users within a 20ms budget, driving $1mm in revenue annually.
• Teamed with Product and UX to introduce early technical, a11y, and i18n validation of proposed work, improving product cycle time by 10%.
• Collaborated with teams sharing a platform to create a joint roadmap, eliminating duplicated work and saving up to 6 developer weeks per sprint while migrating server-side to Go and Node.
• Coached, carried out 1:1s with developers, matching diverse team members to mentors within the company and driving 2 promotions during team members’ subsequent review periods.

Buffalo, New York, US

• Synacor provided Portal, E-mail, and Identity Management services to Fortune 500 clients in the media industry. As a Principal Engineer, I developed code throughout the Web stack.
• Launched Portal product for Fortune 10 client serving up to 32 million pageviews/day.
• Engineered core in-browser data layer & reducer for finance-related features in React, enabling more than 100,000 users to create and customize stock portfolio trackers.
• Developed new features using React, PHP, and Backbone/JQuery, including comprehensive test coverage using Jasmine/Sinon and PHPUnit, gaining 100% feature parity with the competition.
• Mentored junior developers.
• Provided code reviews and ensured high code quality throughout the organization.

New York, NY, US

• Codesmith is a 12-week programming bootcamp in Los Angeles teaching full stack JavaScript and software engineering. Helped students at leading 12-week software academy succeed through lectures, problem sets, hands-on.
• Demonstrated algorithm, data structure approaches multiple times weekly, whiteboarding and holding Q&As on engineering challenges
• Taught classes in SQL/NoSQL databases, Agile processes, technological approaches to SEO, Bash customization & productivity
• Led regular code reviews with students, to provide debugging direction, refactoring recommendations, and train code review techniques
• Mentored students one-on-one, to clarify technological questions, such as async processes and DOM manipulation, resolve team conflicts

Santa Monica, California, US

• Directed development of e-commerce platforms and integration of third-party tax management, billing, and marketing automation APIs with Web site and ERP systems for a rapidly-growing startup.
• Supervised local & remote dev teams, championing Agile processes & training in JIRA, improving & formalizing project timeline estimations, improving feature cycle time by more than 30%.
• Wrote PHP Twilio integration to distribute pre-recorded information via phone tree & text to a nationwide sales force, reducing live tech support needs by up to 8 hours per month.
• Developed all homepage content and launched more than 30 new products on e-commerce site, using HTML, CSS, jQuery, and Magento.
• Hired & onboarded 2 additional PMs and 5 remote and local developers.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Managed remote dev teams using Agile SCRUM, Kanban to develop and support content platforms serving more than 3mm pageviews daily.
• Wrote Javascript ad content-targeting code, using vBulletin API, allowing 40% increase in ad impressions on forums.
• Drove code quality initiatives bringing 90+% unit test coverage and speeding development by up to 30%; used Jenkins to monitor coverage.
• Oversaw crisis response to attacks on Web site, including hardening site vs. XSS and SQL Injection attacks, and deploying DDOS defenses.
• Led business strategy for multiple publications, researching user needs; developing feature plans and content objectives; building buy-in from editorial team; breaking down strategy into epics and stories; inspiring.

Mba

Computer Software Engineering

Ba, Political Science, Psychology