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Los Angeles, California, Us

Supported Banc of California following its acquisition of Pacific Western Bank, contributing technical expertise in loan origination and servicing platforms. Focused on ensuring a seamless integration of systems, optimizing platform performance, and enhancing operational processes to support business goals during the transition.- Continued to maintain and enhance a loan servicing application by implementing new features, resolving bugs, optimizing performance, and ensuring system reliability.- Developed and implemented PowerShell scripts to automate document management tasks, improving efficiency and reducing manual workload for multiple teams.

Beverly Hills, Ca, Us

Continued as a consultant with Pacific Western Bank following its acquisition of CIVIC Financial Services. Provided technical expertise in loan origination and servicing platforms, supporting the integration process and ensuring a smooth transition. Assisted in enhancing platform capabilities and optimizing workflows for improved operational efficiency- Maintained and enhanced a loan servicing application by implementing new features, resolving bugs, optimizing performance, and ensuring system reliability.

New York, New York, Us

Recruited by the VP of IT at CIVIC Financial Services, a loan origination company, to serve as a consultant, advising on the design and development of modern loan origination and servicing platforms. Collaborated closely with a growing development team to implement solutions, streamline processes, and enhance operational efficiency.- Consulted with the VP of IT to enhance project outcomes by improving code quality and accelerating turnaround time through guidance and process improvements.- Collaborated with a team of developers to design, develop, and maintain multiple components of an Angular and TypeScript-based loan origination platform powered by JavaScript microservices.- Assisted the team by performing a variety of technical tasks, including writing scripts, debugging errors, inspecting servers, reviewing technical diagrams, exploring architectural solutions, and conducting technical research to support project decisions.

New York, Ny, Us

Recruited by Nogin (formerly Branded Online), a Commerce-as-a-Service platform provider, to develop Magento modules tailored to business requirements. Contributed to the design, automation (using Puppet), and deployment of AWS server infrastructure to support the growing number of stores. Managed and maintained the AWS servers hosting the platform.- Developed several Magento modules in PHP, including one to toggle product search between ElasticSearch and MySQL, multiple UI enhancements using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, and performance optimization modules for Magento PHP and MySQL.- Introduced DevOps best practices, implemented Gitflow to separate Git/SVN master/trunk from development branches, programmed Vagrant Puppet development environments, and created automation scripts to improve overall engineering team efficiency. Established continuous integration processes to deploy from master/trunk to production.- Implemented HHVM-PHP in development environments to boost Magento performance, reducing PHP interpreter speed issues and enhancing developer productivity.- Identified and addressed technical debt in infrastructure, taking ownership of server-side management and contributing to the design and deployment of a Puppet-managed Magento infrastructure using AWS, HAProxy, Squid, GlusterFS, Memcache, ElasticSearch, and MySQL, enabling automated provisioning of new servers.- Designed and implemented a custom self-organizing, replicated GlusterFS system to overcome limitations of existing off-the-shelf automation solutions.- Supported and maintained development and production environments, optimizing development setups based on team needs, ensuring production server uptime, and resolving production issues.- Made UI and PHP adjustments to a PHP Laravel Framework SaaS platform to meet evolving business requirements.- Ran reports, imported/exported databases, migrated stores, reviewed code, and scripted various solutions to support the business.

Created MonkeyPeanuts.com, a personal finance and money management web application designed to help consumers manage their finances. Developed the core software, database architecture, and security model. Implemented data analytics to drive informed decisions for future development.- Initiated the project with a rapid "feasibility" prototype.- Designed the software architecture, database structure, security model, and web services implementation.- Developed all front-end and back-end code using PHP, Zend Framework, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and other technologies, excluding third-party libraries.- Deployed the MySQL database and wrote all queries to interface between the database and the web application.- Designed UI assets and created the user interface using Adobe Photoshop and CSS.- Managed server setup, including domain names, subdomains, SSL certificates, and databases.- Scoped plans for mobile versions of the web application for Android, iPhone, and browser add-ons.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Recruited by Auction.com, LLC, the nation’s leading online real estate marketplace, to stabilize and modernize a range of software applications. Contributed to various projects, including U.S. and international websites, Solr Cloud, API layers, web services, internal tools, and backend portals. Led and successfully managed multiple projects to completion.- Started at Auction.com by resolving various bugs on the U.S. website and backend portal.- Took ownership of a vendor-facing web services project, implementing six additional services required by the business and abstracting the solution to support 13 vendors with different XML formats, replacing a hardcoded solution for a single vendor. Managed one software engineer for ongoing production support.- Joined a team of 15+ software engineers to rewrite the U.S. website and backend portal using a custom PHP framework interfacing with a Java mid-tier and MySQL backend, contributing to core PHP framework components.- Managed a team of 4 Python engineers, 3 Java engineers, and 4 MySQL DBAs to port an internal onboarding tool from PHP/MSSQL to Python/MySQL.- Stabilized a faulty Solr implementation and led the transition to a Solr Cloud solution across multiple tiers.- Developed a Java “Search API” web service for use by PHP, Python, and iOS clients, integrating with the Solr API and collaborating with engineers to incorporate it into the larger framework and security services.- Managed a team of 2-5 software engineers to stabilize the German Auction.com website and backend portal, converted the platform to a "white label" solution, and launched the Spanish Auction.com website and backend portal.- Led a team of 5 software engineers to address a backlog of unresolved Trustee & Residential Operations Jira tickets.

Foothill Ranch, Ca, Us

- Hired as a contractor to assist the engineering team in migrating the e-commerce site from Ruby on Rails to PHP and Magento.

Mentor, Ohio, Us

Recruited by Avery Dennison Corporation, a Fortune 500 company with over 30,000 employees, to accelerate the development of software prototypes. Created and maintained various internal tools and consumer-facing web applications. Designed and presented multiple software innovations for consideration in the development pipeline.- Implemented CSS updates based on designer specifications and recommended necessary HTML changes to Java programmers for "Design & Print Online," a web application used daily by 10,000+ customers to design and print Avery templates.- Created and maintained various internal tools, including a proprietary XML schema comparison tool, to enhance the software team's performance.- Represented Avery's software portfolio in multiple business meetings with Google in Mountain View, CA.- Scoped, designed, and developed "Avery Universal Package Tracker," an online package tracking web application and its corresponding web services, attracting 100,000+ new customers.- Led a team of engineers working on Android and iPhone versions of "Avery Universal Package Tracker," overseeing all technical aspects.- Designed and presented several mobile applications for consideration by cross-functional innovation teams.- Represented Avery's software portfolio in business meetings with USPS in Washington, D.C.

Recruited by WYT Solutions, a small software company, to rapidly address critical project requirements. Designed and developed a web services framework, led a team of programmers to build web service components, and created a mobile version for Windows CE devices.- Implemented marketing features for the "Riteship" shipping solution.- Integrated UPS web services, enabling the generation and printing of live shipping labels within the solution.- Represented WYT Solutions’ software portfolio in multiple business meetings with The UPS Store in San Diego, CA.

- Implemented various feature requests for GeetReel's online media and film manipulation web application.

Torrance, California, Us

- Developed a custom product administration backend for Motorcar Parts of America based on specifications provided by their product manager.

San Diego, California, Us

- Led ongoing development of an open-source "Ragnarok Online" game server emulator that had been orphaned.- Managed a team of 15+ developers, including coders, scriptwriters, and database specialists, coordinating via IRC and developer forums.- Oversaw a community forum with 5,000+ daily visitors and a team of forum administrators.

- Contributed to several in-house projects, including the development of the National Gaming Association (NGA) website.

- Developed Dualfriction.com for a small business owner, utilizing a custom-built e-commerce engine to power the site.

- Founded Octaneboost.net, an e-commerce site specializing in aftermarket performance parts, and designed and developed its custom e-commerce engine.

- Designed a streamlined process for importing product data from digital catalogs into the product database using scripts and macros.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Grilled hamburgers using innovative techniques to enhance cooking efficiency and quality.