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Responsible for architecture and overall development for multiple services within the commerce platform at GoDaddy. This includes defining the overall system architecture, API schema and design, data model, and more. I work across multiple teams and work to provide consistent structure and paradigms for all core commerce services.- Architected and lead the team building an async bulk ingestion service that can ingest 100,000+ items into any service within the commerce platform.- Created a common architecture and IaC platform for faster and more consistent development of platform services. This has helped speed up development and cross-collaboration between teams.- Defined the GraphQL guidelines for the entire GoDaddy organization and have helped to begin the adoption of GraphQL at GoDaddy.

Lead a team of 9 engineers across the globe. Worked to coach and mentor team members on a regular basis and provide technical guidance for all current projects for the team. Performed weekly 1:1s with each team member and pair programming with junior team members. During my time as manager, I interviewed and hired 6 of the 9 direct reports.

Remote

Lead the frontend team and architecture for the Managed WooCommerce Stores product. Utilized and improved the SkyVerge component library to be used within the GoDaddy ecosystem. Built a distributed notification system to deliver messages and recommendations (2+ million events/day) to merchants within their WooCommerce store admin area.

Lead the frontend development and adoption of GraphQL for SkyVerge's email marketing application. Built a custom and composable React component library to be used across all of SkyVerge's 50+ products.

Remote

Worked on multiple teams to deliver projects for US government agencies. Utilized Angular and Node on all of the projects and helped to codify and introduce modern ways of writing CSS to help developer productivity across multiple teams.

Remote

Responsible for the design and development of completely custom websites for a variety of clients. Developed multiple starter themes utilizing modern technologies (Twig, Sass, Gulp, Webpack, ES6, React) to build websites on top of WordPress. Lead the company to adopt new technologies and new approaches to architecting the front end architecture of our sites and implement new technologies.

Durham, Nc

Utilized a mobile first approach to completely redesign and construct ACR Supply’s estore website that was built on legacy Java software from Infor and build a new marketing website for ACR Supply that matched the brand and design of the estore.

Managed multiple web and mobile applications built on Ruby on Rails, Javascript (Phonegap), and PHP. Lead the identification, recommendation and definition of a new strategy and features for a completely rewritten version of a product from PHP into a Ruby on Rails application.- Prioritized and delivered road map items defined as user stories- Set and achieved goals for product adoption and engagement- Managed internal and external teams to build and design multiple products

Managed relationships between multiple vendors to ensure the daily operations of one of American Bible Society's digital products was able to continually run and meet the needs of its users. This included SMS marketing and management, project and product management for the future of the product and ensuring that we met deadlines and all administrative responsibilities were taken care of.

Build brand awareness and sales through internal and external efforts. Build online awareness of the restaurant through the use of social media and online marketing. Develop yearly marketing plans and strategies.