Complete work history and additional information available on LinkedIn.
5+ years managing software engineering teams and 20+ years software engineering.
5+ years managing software engineering teams and 20+ years software engineering.
Experience
Postmark (under Active Campaign) - Software Engineering Manager | April 2024 - Current
Postmark (under Active Campaign) - Software Engineering Manager | April 2024 - Current
- Leading Postmark's transactional email and delivery product engineering.
Let's Colab - Software Instructor & Curriculm Director | Jan 2024 - Current
Let's Colab - Software Instructor & Curriculm Director | Jan 2024 - Current
- Online education programs for a variety of skillsets with a unique take on micro-interships to help early career professionals build their future.
- Leading the development for software engineering and MERN stack curriculums. We provide end-to-end education beyond writing code.
Upright Education - Part Time Software Instructor | Nov 2023 - April 2024
Upright Education - Part Time Software Instructor | Nov 2023 - April 2024
- Teaching 10-20 student cohorts software development and the MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, and Node) stack. My goal as an instructor is to teach end-to-end how to work successfully in the software industry paired with technical, professional, and leadership skills.
Active Campaign - Software Engineering Manager | May 2023 - Aug 2023 (Layoff)
Active Campaign - Software Engineering Manager | May 2023 - Aug 2023 (Layoff)
- Led and hired the Velocity team (3 reports) delivering special projects, features, and applications/tooling supporting the BTS org., finance, growth, and internal services teams.
- Coached engineers across BTS growing their technical, product, user experience, and business skill sets.
- Collaborated closely with cross functional partners and business stakeholders developing cross team product/technical roadmaps.
- Redesigned agile/SDLC processes from ideation to delivery and adopted across all BTS teams.
- Analyzed and reduced defect rates (~16 %) leveraging new SDLC processes and testing requirements including reintroduction of Playwright E2E testing suites.
Arrive Logistics - Senior Software Engineering Manager | July 2022 - Apr 2023
Arrive Logistics - Senior Software Engineering Manager | July 2022 - Apr 2023
- Responsible for the TSO (3 reports), finance/accounting (8 reports), and load service (9 reports) teams responsible for core business operations from shipping to financial transactions.
- Worked closely with cross functional partners and teams to deliver on highly coupled organization wide applications including a Docker to Kubernetes migration.
- Delivered complex E2E shipping workflow UIs leveraging federated modules, new finance microservices, 3rd party accounting integrations, and re-architected the service domain model.
- Delivered an automated, real time AI/ML based shipment pricing model in collaboration with the data science team.
DocuSign - Software Engineering Manager | May 2020 - June 2022
DocuSign - Software Engineering Manager | May 2020 - June 2022
- Built and led CLM's Buy/Sell team hiring 7 full stack engineers responsible for developing buy/sell contracts and party management, global user experience, and accessibility.
- Coached team on our mission, values, SDLC processes, and implementation of measured performance metrics sprint-over-sprint.
- Worked closely with product managers to build and deliver roadmaps on aggressive deadlines., Delivered WCAG 2.1 accessibility on major UI components in collaboration with enterprise customers.
- Implemented on-call rotations (Tower) and E2E automation increasing coverage by 60%+ and reducing regressions/escalations (~9%).
Software Engineering Manager | May 2018 - May 2020
- Managed 3 product engineering teams (12 engineers, 2 contractors, 1 manager) composed of React, Node, Java, and Python engineers.
- Led the OpenLane (KAR) acquisition of integrating DRIVIN engineering and built a redefined, cross functional SDLC.
- Hired with internal and 3rd party recruiters to expand the Web and OTS delivery capabilities. Coached team on new processes enabling rapid scaling.
- Delivered complex financial and analytics products using TensorFlow pricing models developed in collaboration with the data science team for enterprise customers.
Lead Engineer | July 2017 - June 2018
- Led the Web and OTS teams development strategy along with coaching engineers/contractors ranging from junior to senior.
- Delivered multiple enterprise applications in React/Webpack/Node with supporting Java APIs to production across product and engineering teams.
- Designed front end standards of practice including software design, reviews, documentation, testing, and overall architecture.
- Maintained legacy applications refactoring highly coupled code, increased testing coverage (~42%), reduced defects (~21%), and stabilized release processes.
StarterPak - Technical Co-founder | June 2015 - July 2017
StarterPak - Technical Co-founder | June 2015 - July 2017
- Co-founded startup company (dba Get20) deploying native mobile applications to enable real-time connections and communication between professionals.
- Led product and technical strategy over mobile application development with 3rd party app development company.
- Raised $75k seed funding from multiple investors.
ClearStory Data - UX Software Engineer | Sept 2014 - May 2015
ClearStory Data - UX Software Engineer | Sept 2014 - May 2015
- Collaborated with the Chief UX Architect using LucidChart and Sketch creating wireframes/UI for complex interaction flows and custom visualizations for enterprise customers.
- Developed a large scale data ingestion, management, and BI tool using React, Backbone, and D3.
- Tested with Mocha, Jasmine, Casper and Selenium (E2E) including visual regression testing.
- Delivered data ingestion UI and proxy service steaming custom data sources from enterprise customers such as APIs, CSV, SQL/PSQL databases, and Aurora/Snowflake warehouses.
Apartments.com - Lead Front End Engineer | Dec 2012 - Aug 2014
Apartments.com - Lead Front End Engineer | Dec 2012 - Aug 2014
- Led 3 front end developers to build a content management, advertising, and MLS product with Angular 1 replacing custom Knockout implementation.
- Maintained and sunset legacy applications post Angular release and testing with customers over 4.5 months.
- Developed and successfully delivered a PPC advertising platform ($7MM ARR) for marketing and a site-wide API for engineers with Javascript and Google Ads.
- Trained associate to mid-level engineers on Javascript architecture, patterns, and best practices.
Fusion92 - Web Developer | May 2011 - Dec 2012
Fusion92 - Web Developer | May 2011 - Dec 2012
- Developed pixel-perfect, responsive interfaces in HTML, CSS, and Javascript to meet design specs for multiple large scale clients including AT&T, Bosch, H&R Block, and Mazda.
GTHAUS - Web Developer & Technical Manager | Apr 2009 - Dec 2010
GTHAUS - Web Developer & Technical Manager | Apr 2009 - Dec 2010
- Designed and developed the core e-commerce website and product micro-sites. The architecture was built to enable rapid development and deployment to rival competing brands and better position the Meisterschaft brand in an aggressively growing mid-market.
Adexa Media - Owner | Oct 2004 - Oct 2009
Adexa Media - Owner | Oct 2004 - Oct 2009
- Personal freelance agency specializing in mid-to-large scale web development and design projects. Self taught and serviced over 30+ clients starting starting at the age of 14.
Education
The Art Institutes - IL Institute of Art | 2007-2010
Bachelor's Degree, Web Design & Interactive Media
Other
- React Loop Conference Organizer
- Chicago JS Camp Volunteer Staff
- Plato, MentorCruise, and Private Mentoring
- Technical Leadership Content Creator
- Upright Education Software Instructor
- Startup Institute Javascript Teacher
Complete work history and additional information available on LinkedIn.