The affiliate product engineering team is working to expand Raptive's ability to help creators monetize their content with relevant product recommendations.

After several months of building MVPs as a part time consultant, I'm excited to be a full time member of the Beanstalk team. Beanstalk is a Techstars-backed e-learning platform for live and on-demand interactive kids programming, from home.I'll be responsible for all aspects of Beanstalk's tech stack across multiple platforms, and building a team that can execute same at a much higher level than I can.

Laser-targeted upsell offers delivered to your shoppers at the perfect time. Acquired December 2019.

Merchant Protector detects and prevents fraudulent orders in real time. Fraudulent orders cost millions of dollars every year, and merchants bear all the risk. Customers are protected by credit card companies, and credit card companies just pass the cost on to the merchant. No one in the chain protects the merchant. Merchant Protector helps merchants be vigilant by automatically checking every order as it happens. Merchant Protector can alert you or even cancel orders automatically - it's fully customizable to give the store owner maximum safety and control.

Hybrid sales/marketing/dev-ops position. Key thrills:* Scaled Ruby/Rails API backend to handle Christmas Day-sized loads.* Drove growth in all key metrics of web performance* Growth-hacked ecommerce sales channel from an afterthought to one of our most productive channels* Worked with cross-functional teams to implement scalable customer communication strategies across the customer journey.

One man web department at rapidly growing robotics startup.* Working closely with marketing to explain our totally new, category-defining product.* Drive down fraudulent online orders by 2 orders of magnitude.* Extensively A/B test conversion funnels and product education paths to achieve gains in marketing ROI and direct B2C sales.* Manage API for thousands and thousands of devices already in the wild.* Leverage inexpensive third party services to make it possible to handle the ever shifting web needs of a growing company.* Produce automatic internal reporting systems to keep up to date on key business and play metricsKey Accomplishments:* Award winning responsive website design: http://socialdriver.com/2012/07/20-best-responsive-websites/* Scaled web and API backend to handle 1000x holiday load spike* Oversaw dramatic increase in online sales revenue per website visitor, focused on improving conversion rates across web properties* Drove 95+% reduction in fraudulent online orders* Integrated online store backend with custom built fraud detection and B2C shipping appCurrently owning a tech stack of Ruby on Rails / Wordpress / jQuery / Socket.io / haml / sass / redis / PostgreSQL / whatever else around. Technology agnostic.

Implemented and managed a wide range of web projects for clients in the education, real estate, and entertainment verticals. Highlights included:* A fully custom CRM / call center management app with click to dial, automatic notetaking, chain of custody tracking, PDF report and legal document generation* An online course catalog now passing 10 years in service without requiring a major upgrade* Migration of thousands of webpages between incompatible web content management systems* Executed custom ad campaigns for a large media client, including custom in-browser games, video behavior tracking, limiting of ads based on user history.* Managed cloud infrastructure handling tens of millions of pageviews per month.* Delivered custom mobile apps and games* Implementation of machine learning algorithms for automatic moderation of user submitted contentAwesome Software did all this and more, day after day. In addition to gaining new and delightful technical prowess with the latest web technologies, I learned to speak fluent client and grew to appreciate excellent communication between business and technical concerns.

Represented various brands at Ironman & Ironman 70.3 races around the world. Several wins, numerous top 5 and top 10 finishes in strong fields.Coached several athletes to personal-best performances with methodical planning, hard work, and avoiding heroics.Learned, and taught, the importance of consistency to athletic performance.