Work Experience

Senior Director of Engineering, The Muse, October 2018 — July 2022
Responsibilities:
• Managed an engineering team of 16 with five direct reports, including multiple managers.
• Defined the technical strategy, team structure, and staffing to execute the product strategy.
• Rebuilt the team’s agile processes in partnership with the product management team.
• Recruiting, hiring for new openings in the engineering team, as well as transitioning folks out.
Achievements:
• Rearchitected the .com site to a set of stateless web services (Next.js) powered by RESTful APIs (python and CraftCMS) from a Tornado-based monolithic application.
• Migrated the application initially designed for Heroku to a distributed application hosted in AWS.
• Reduced monthly AWS spend from $20k to $12k
• Directed rebuilding the client portal from a homegrown application framework to Django.
• Partnered with our head of product to realign the application efforts into three teams focused on growth, job marketplace mechanics, and client tools.
• Over that time, was able to:
  • Implement an experimentation strategy.
  • Increase readership to a company high of over 7 million monthly unique visitors from slightly over 5 million.
  • Saw a 90% growth in job applications by improving the site SEO and user conversion rates.
  • Launched a new onboarding tool and portal for clients, reducing client onboarding time by 60% while supporting account management retention objectives of over 90%.
Associate Director, Technology Management, Ogilvy, Inc, August 2017 — October 2018

• Led technology teams on campaign-based projects by working closely with creative leads and campaign producers to ensure successfully integrated and delivered projects.
• Directed 2-4 concurrent projects with teams of 2-5 technologists.
• Clients included: IBM (https://www.ibm.com), Lupus Foundation (http://befiercetakecontrol.org/), FEMA, and USAID.
Sr. Engineering Manager, Monetization, SoundCloud, May 2017 — July 2017

• Supported the NYC engineering team's wind-down and hand-off of all active development to Berlin.
• Led the Payments and Subscriptions team focused on the user acquisition funnel and user features on our mobile platforms, iOS and Android. Managed a group of 5 mobile engineers.
• Worked with product leads to organize and build a 3-month roadmap and identify and implement team process improvements, including surfacing and scheduling technical debt.
Engineering Manager - Pattern, Etsy, January 2017 — May 2017

• Partnered with product managers, designers, and engineers to prioritize, plan, staff, and schedule work.
• Co-managed a team of 11 full-stack developers with three direct reports.
• Led an initiative with the creative, product, and marketing leads to migrate specs to utilize more user-centric practices such as user stories.
Director of Engineering, Huge, Inc, August 2011 — January 2017

• Directed technology teams on client engagements by working closely with other leads to ensure successfully integrated and delivered projects. Served as the primary technical contact point for clients.
• Identified and managed third-party vendor relationships when designing software solutions.
• Achievements included developing a new engineer skills matrix for ongoing career development and goal setting, managing a new technologies lab, and creating a software architecture training course.
• Managed and mentored 20+ engineers across several disciplines, including client-side development (web and mobile), server-side development, DevOps, and quality assurance roles.
• Clients included: Walmart (https://careers.walmart.com/), Google (https://blog.google and https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com), and Royal Caribbean (http://www.royalcaribbean.com).
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Solutions Architect, Wireless Generation, January 2009 — July 2011

Software architect and technology subject matter expert (SME) for consultative engagements at a K-12 software and solutions firm.
Software Architect, McGraw-Hill Education, June 2004 — September 2008

Architect for a suite of K-12 reporting products for The Grow Network business unit, which supported state-level educational assessment student reporting.
Software Developer, TradeCard, Inc., May 2001 — May 2004

Worked as a developer on a web-based financial supply chain management application.
Software Developer, Quidnunc, Ltd., June 2000 — April 2001

Worked as a developer on various client projects for a London-based software consultancy.

Education

B.S. Computer Science, University of Rochester, received May 2000 with honors. Dean's List. Concentrations in Systems and AI. Additional coursework in Economics and Studio Arts (photography).

Papers and Presentations

• Introduction to Programming Robots with Huge, Creative Mornings, New York, NY, October 16th, 2015.
• Introduction to Programming Robots, SXSW Interactive Festival 2015, Austin, TX, (workshop accepted).

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