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Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Bootstrapped auto shop to convert vintage cars to fully electric during global pandemic.
• Reverse-engineered proprietary CANBUS protocol, allowing programmable control of EV motors.
• Stood up React/Node.js website, turning arduous gearbox calculations into at-a-glance visualizations.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Mentored hybrid engineering team of ten, enforcing the good programming practices of clean, test-driven design and decoupling, while shipping quality features on schedule.
• Shifted organization from an overly-microservice-heavy approach to a modular monolith, enhancing team productivity, simplifying system understanding, and increasing velocity.

Los Angeles

• Resolved critical performance issues during peak sales, significantly increasing seasonal revenue and morale, while decreasing emergency engineering efforts.
• Rewrote PHP Wordpress storefront with Java, Spring, Memcached, and event sourcing, doublingefficiency and eliminating years of debilitating tech debt.

New York, New York, United States

• Spearheaded the development and launch of a new subscription payment service, independentlymanaging the project from initial concept and research through to deployment, maintenance, andreporting, successfully.
• Migrated 50k ever-changing subscriptions to Stripe with no loss of funds or service to customers.
• Ensured availability of critical financial data used for pricing decisions and to satisfy federal/state taxation and… Show more
• Ensured availability of critical financial data used for pricing decisions and to satisfy federal/state taxation and reporting requirements by acting as liason to Finance, Legal, and Marketing teams.
• Refactored and extracted monolith image processing code into standalone microservice, greatlyfacilitating maintenance and enabling hardware performance improvements.
• Rearchitected code for our primary system (used to edit and serve sites), greatly improving clarity, stability, scalability, and maintainability as the team grew from a dozen to hundreds of engineers.

New York, New York, United States

• Designed, built, and tested complete payment system for limewirestore.com, serving over 120,000 registered users via secure integration with Bibit Global Payment Services.
• Utilizing a custom batch framework, introduced threshold-based aggregation of small financial transactions to reduce service provider overhead costs.
• Implemented unique cohesion of credit transaction, gift card, promotional, and monthly subscription payment methods on a per-user, per-product… Show more
• Implemented unique cohesion of credit transaction, gift card, promotional, and monthly subscription payment methods on a per-user, per-product basis.
• Retained comprehensive data on all transactions for use in reporting and user purchase history.
• Integrated dependency-injected system architecture utilizing Spring, Hibernate, Wicket, and JUnit. Show less

New York, New York, United States

• Introduced SearchRouter engine on coldwellbanker.com, increasing the number of searchableproperties tenfold by allowing users to expand their searches on local real estate websites. It waslater ported to a completely.
• Integrated Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and MapPoint geocoding service with Coldwell Banker’s onlineproperty management… Show more
• Integrated Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and MapPoint geocoding service with Coldwell Banker’s onlineproperty management system.
• Simplified entry point for LeadRouter system, connecting customers to Coldwell Banker agents inminutes. It has remained bug-free since release, processing thousands of leads daily.
• Built email rendering engine to replace fragile WebMacro templates with standard JSPs.
• Implemented XML feed for external property searches (ie, the Coldwell Banker Yahoo widget)

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Oversaw numerous aspects of the Boston College Athletics AV Department.
• Filmed events in Conte Forum, including Pops On the Heights and guest speakers.
• Coordinated real-time display of stats, graphics, instant replays, and live action on both the dual Jumbotrons in Conte Forum as well as the video walls of Alumni Stadium in front of sold-out crowds of over 44,000.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Working directly under the company webmaster, updated and maintained individual web sites for Boston radio stations WAAF, WRKO, WEEI, and Star 93.7 using the OSA site management system and standard HTML.

New York, New York, United States

• Managed several clients at a new media firm specializing in print and web design.
• Projects have included laying out designs for the 2000 Topps Chrome, Stadium Club, and O-Pee-Chee trading cards and packaging distributed nationwide, New York Yankees advertisements in the New York Post, and the ad.

Connecticut, United States

• Maintained network for upstart media company specializing in interactive video programs targeted to abroad range of health care professionals including Pfizer, Focal, and Ciba Vision Ophthalmics.

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Bs, Computer Science