Set direction for client and internal projects, including selection of technologies and setting of target capabilities. Oversaw dozens of product launches for clients of various sizes and across multiple industries including healthcare, insurance, and finance.
Responsible for hiring and staff assignments. Identified top talent and grew a high-performing team by realigning roles, hierarchy, and compensation. Made first fully remote hires, expanding geographic footprint.
Generated client-tailored service and product pitches responsible for securing $MM business relationships
Led design of Digital Product Platform, now used by client projects to reduce time-to-market, complexity, and repetition on subsequent software product builds. This reusable set of foundational technologies powers more than 50% of projects within one year of its introduction.
Led the technical side of product builds. Blended management and hands-on implementation in Agile development process to deliver web and mobile software applications for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies.
Delivered products include e-commerce and IoT device management systems for enterprise LoRa networking provider, compliance administration and in-field supervisory tool for train management service, industry-first combined data warehouse and knowledge services API for independent insurance agencies, and a comprehensive, EHR-adjacent data workflow tool used to power medical research and clinical decision making in the field of fetal and pediatric medicine.
Founding member of startup team building collaboration tools for project and task management. Led team in design of high capacity and high availability email processing system.
Built integrations with email systems responsible for capturing and processing 7.5M+ messages across thousands of user accounts
Designed and authored intelligence functions, content extraction, and basic language processing tools within a real-time synchronization system which tagged messages and optimized storage
Awarded patents for shared email storage mechanism that enabled secure collaboration
Provided expert consultation to clients in varied industries as developer of service APIs, “small data” administration systems, and full-stack web applications.
Led projects with six figure budgets, managing technology efforts as well as internal and external staff.
Worked directly with clients as lead engineer in custom services division, developing marketing products tightly integrated with social media platforms.
Executed campaigns for enterprise companies and scaled products to over 20M active users.
Second hire at a startup building social media marketing applications on Facebook, Twitter, and Google platforms for Fortune 500 companies.
In multi-role, performed product design, project management, and software engineering on 25+ products for clients including Microsoft, McDonald’s, Timberland, Electronic Arts, Fandango, Zagat, NBC Universal, and Live Nation. Scaled products to support user bases peaking at 10M active users.
Contributor to internal build and product delivery system used by all engineering staff in company; maintainer of customized stack software including Apache, Resin, MySQL, and Solr servers.
Supported team efforts in development of major APIs and products used in all editorial verticals, including search engines and real-time data services.
As a Hall Director (2005-06): Supervised staff of six Resident Assistants, advised student government serving 600 students, and oversaw academic programming and physical operations in two residence halls housing 220 students.
Resident Assistant (2003-05): On a staff of nine, oversaw floor of 42 resident students and developed academic and cultural programming for residential complex serving 350 students; held leadership role in technology.
Education
M.Ed Technology
University of Delaware
Coursework: Adaptive Interfaces for Learning Needs
±Partially complete; postponed to take employment at CNET Networks
