Resume

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Leadership

Experience managing successful, diverse software development teams and projects with aggressive timelines in Agile and startup environments; Skilled in leading teams by focusing on trust, empathy, and quality, while providing strong technical direction and mentorship

Software Development

Over ten years of professional experience developing applications with a diverse technical skill set, across all stages of the SDLC

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Eastern Michigan University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Manager of Engineering

Beam Impact (2023-Present)

  • Lead of all Engineering activity at Beam Impact, directly managing one team of six individual contributors, as well as an engineering manager which leads a team of four
  • Proposed, gathered buy-in, and implemented an Engineering reorganization from four teams to two, increasing development capacity of the org while also re-aligning key members to better suited roles
  • Partnered with People Ops to design and roll out a brand new Engineering Career Progression framework to provide Engineers more concrete understanding of the expectations of their roles, and how to advance in their careers
  • Worked closely with CTO to design and implement a new project prioritization framework, extending on the RICE pattern, which has allowed both Product and Engineering to make more informed decisions on roadmap that align to key business objectives
  • Partnered with Client Strategy team and a team of contractors to lead the strategy and build out of Beam Impact’s documentation for our partners’ integration engineers
  • Designed new sets of KPIs for Engineering around cost, reliability, security, and performance
  • Directly contribute to the NodeJS + Lit codebase as needed in both frontend and backend development, as well as assisting and teaching team members of all levels across the stack

Director of Engineering

Conga (2018-2023)

  • Promoted to Director of Engineering in March 2022, following years as a Manager of Engineering (October 2018) and Senior Manager of Engineering (February 2020)
  • Managing four teams totalling over twenty Engineers, as well as an Engineering manager, working on a new high growth eSignature product and platform initiatives
  • Work closely with Product team to define market needs, team priorities, and product roadmap
  • Plan and execute annual team summit week to drive knowledge sharing and alignment between product and technology goals for my engineering team
  • Oversaw migration of product infrastructure from AWS Elastic Beanstalk to Kubernetes to address scale and growth of 10x transactions over first 3 years
  • Driving engineering security initiatives, including SOC 2 Type 2 compliance measures of auditing and account security resulting in zero findings in the Engineering organization, and new secure application development training for engineers
  • Driving cost optimization of AWS resources, saving over $60,000 annually to date
  • Promoted to Senior Manager of Engineering in February 2020
  • Promoted to Director of Engineering in March 2022

Senior Software Development Engineer

Conga (2017-2018)

  • As a Senior Software Development Engineer, lead the development of the Conga Grid product for Salesforce
  • Implemented a new CI/CD pipeline to automatically run unit tests and reduce manual steps in the deployment process
  • Standardized the code review process and automated linting to greatly improve code readability and stability
  • Introduced a unit testing framework using Karma, Mocha, and Chai to improve product feature stability and overall quality
  • Built a shared microservice with C# to improve security and performance for Conga products communicating with Salesforce REST APIs
  • Promoted to Manager of Engineering in October 2018

Senior Manager of TV Apps Client Development

Nagrastar, LLC (2016-2017)

  • Lead the development of client-facing TV applications in the Pay TV industry
    • Manage a team of 9 software engineers working on large, cross-functional projects
    • Implemented 3 new team meeting formats to boost engagement, creativity, and collaboration
    • Promoted from Senior Web Developer to a leadership role in 2016

Senior Web Developer

Nagrastar, LLC (2014-2016)

  • Lead the development of multiple apps showcased at CES in 2016 and 2015, including Hopper Arcade, Disney, Dish Music, and Vevo
  • Utilized Node.js to run build and deploy scripts for web applications and as a local development server
  • Oversaw the smooth transition to a new application framework (React.js) to improve user experience and reduce development time
  • Collaborate with technology vendors, including Microsoft and Samsung, to drive technology solutions and provide a better customer experience
  • Establish best practices and processes to ship high-quality solutions with minimal bugs
    • Deployed a GIT version control system to improve code quality, code visibility, and reduce application development time
    • Implemented a new application build system to reduce complexity and errors in the application release process

Senior Web Developer

Live Smart Solutions (2012-2014)

  • Lead the Creative Development team and developed online content for a database-driven website
  • Utilized a customized CMS to manage website updates
  • Lead A/B testing processes to optimize the hiring funnel; implemented tests resulting in an online conversion rate of more than 70%
  • Lead daily scrum meetings for the Sales Engineering team

PROJECTS

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Eastern Michigan University

SKILLS

  • JavaScript (React.js, BackboneJS, Vanilla, Typescript)
  • AWS
  • SQL / MySQL
  • Salesforce
  • Security Ops
  • A/B Testing
  • GIT / SVN

ACTIVITIES

  • Current bass guitarist for “The Curmudgeons”
  • Former bass guitarist of rock bands “View” and “Death of a Hero”
  • Tabletop RPG crafting

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