Partners with our technical and executive leaders to develop strategic roadmap to modernize and elevate enterprise data capabilities across Nike. Acting as thought leader and Chief of Staff to senior engineering team, translates strategy into actionable, cross-functional items to manage data governance, communications, execution and delivery. Operationalizes systems and processes to ensure clear visibility of potential issues, risks, and roadblocks across functions. Liaises with executive teams and global technology partners to ensure operating models work effectively to deliver against commitments.

Established architecture and SDLC best practices for front-end and back-end teams across various enterprise-level client engagements while promoting a strong culture of team collaboration. Pitched clients on firm offerings to win and maintain new business. Served as account lead and grew the Chicago Office's largest account by 300%.

Established interviewing and technical best practices and helped grow the startup from 9 to 50+ employees before successful acquisition by projekt202. Led a 20-person cross-functional, multi-vendor team across a 2-year engagement for a Fortune 500 client. Conducted a microservice re-architecture of their monolithic back-end system to handle 25 million daily transactions.

Engaged directly with venture capitalists and angel investors to raise $8.5M in funding. Led the development and delivery of a machine-learning platform to detect malicious trading activity. Hired, managed, and established best practices for a 15-person technology team of developers and research scientists.

Conducted client-centered consulting through the design and development of trading strategies in C# and the creation of a reusable code base for order management, position tracking, and market data consumption.

Implemented multi-threaded user interfaces in C# to create custom user experiences by gathering requirements and feedback directly from traders and business analysts. Conducted performance analysis to optimize memory management.

Implemented real-time, high-frequency trading strategies using C# in a joint trader, quant, and development team. Designed new software architecture for numerous trading strategies to increase the modularity of the code base.

Developed an interactive real-time Flash UI that enabled management to monitor how human resources and time were allocated to the various areas of responsibility within Allstate Technology Operations.