Aspiration

- Managing a diverse team of Software Engineers and Engineering Managers to deliver core Fintech product features and navigate technical problems. Areas of oversight include client side User Interfaces, Application Services, APIs, and distributed systems across Mobile and Web clients.
- Worked weekly with C-Suite and executive teams on tracking business revenue, setting revenue goals and KPI's. 
- Cross functional Product Roadmap planning in direct collaboration with Heads of Product, Program/Project Management, Marketing and Partnerships.
- Built cross-functional partnerships and worked closely with developers/product owners to identify productivity constraints, production quality, coverage issues.
- Defined Artificial Intelligence strategy and practical application within engineering org, lead efforts to leverage AI tools to improve development
throughput and productivity.
- Performance Management focused on Career growth and retaining top talent. Continually finding ways to inspire, create processes and standards to broaden and challenge the engineering organization.
- Technology Organization Planning and Design, developing Engineering Career growth frameworks and competencies.
- Directly managed delivery of new Credit Card Product launch, working closely with Software Architects and Engineers across multiple Cross functional squads focused on New Customer Acquisition & Onboarding, Account Management, and Payment Processing. 
- Hands-on technical management, guidance, and support including system/design/code reviews.

Senior Director of Software Engineering

GOBankingRates

- Building, leading, and managing a growing team of Software Engineers focused on building high quality and scalable web applications and software products across multiple Agile delivery Teams/squads.
- Proactively reviewing performance, driving accountability and ownership, and mentoring personnel with career growth and advancement. 
- Working with Talent Acquisition team to recruit and hire a team of exceptional software engineers and technical leads.
- Collaborating with C-Level Suite and Senior Management to develop online presence of brand, monetize website traffic, improve user experience, and grow business revenue.
- Established software development best practices, quality standards, and technical KPI's. Ensuring completed work meets high product quality expectations with test coverage, automated end-to-end & regression tests, proactive monitoring/alerting, and cross-browser compatibility.
- Partnered with product, analytics, and engineering teams to a build strategic roadmap, provide technical direction and solutions, and execute on business initiatives across multiple delivery teams.
- Lead key architectural decisions and software design of Web Applications utilizing Modern JavaScript and Web Application Frameworks such as React JS, Next JS, Node JS, HTML5, SASS/CSS, PHP on AWS cloud infrastructure using services such as Lambda, EC2, API Gateway, CloudFront, CloudWatch, S3, and other AWS services.
- Project Management of work in Agile (Scrum) teams with in house product and development teams, external resources, and business stakeholders.

Director of Software Engineering

Edmunds

- SEO & Website Architecture Technical Lead, managed a team of onsite and remote Software Developers responsible for development, management, and ongoing support of mission critical web applications including Web Publishing and Content Management Systems on Edmunds.com generating over $120 MM in revenue.
- Worked closely with Senior Product management to grow website traffic by 15% YOY, improve user experience, launch weekly project, and introduce new functionality that increased online revenue. 
- Project Management duties included working in Agile (Scrum) Software Development Environment utilizing JIRA with daily standups and check-in’s with onsite and remote teams to manage product initiatives and priorities.  
- Built RESTful web applications in full stack software development environment using technologies such as Java, Spring MVC, HTML5, Object Oriented JavaScript, Angular, React, Node JS to pull from distributed data stores (MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Solr, Redis) in Amazon Web Services infrastructure that serves more than 30 Million unique monthly visitors.
- Lead Global HTTPS Website Security initiative securing over 20+ public facing web applications & services including 3rd party integrations and multiple CDN’s for full website encryption over HTTPS.
- Mentored junior developers and contributed technical documentation and best practices to internal groups to enhance knowledge sharing and training initiatives.

Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead

Dealertrack

- Designed and programmed functionality for Enterprise SaaS web applications, including CRM and core Web Platform CMS serving more than 50 million unique monthly visitors.
- Worked within Web Platform Service Oriented Architecture built numerous CMS templates, plugins, and widgets including support for i18n internationalization.
- Built Object Oriented JavaScript applications utilizing various MVC/MVVM frameworks and JS libraries including jQuery, AngularJS, Ext JS, YUI, Underscore JS, Knockout JS, Node JS, and Phantom JS.
- Utilized Responsive Web Design patterns to support Mobile applications including HTML5, Object Oriented CSS, & SASS/CSS Preprocessors.
- Worked with various J2EE & JavaScript templating frameworks including Grails, Custom Tag libs, Velocity, Knockout and Underscore JS templates.
- Utilized numerous Database technologies including MySQL, MongoDB, HP Vertica, and Big Data Analytics Warehouse built on Cloudera Enterprise stack (Hadoop, HDFS, Avro, Flume, Impala)
- Developed technical design and implementation of cross-domain JSON /  JSON-P REST API’s for sharing data between internal and external applications including Facebook SDK.
- Heavily utilized performance best practices such as Object caching, HTTP Cache Headers, minifying JS/CSS, image Sprites, non-blocking JavaScript, Parallel Downloading of Scripts, and use of CDN’s such as Akamai.  
- Performance tested web application load using server side and client side tools such as Phantom JS, Siege, YSlow, Google Page Speed/Chrome Dev Tools.
- Daily use of Distributed Version Control (GIT), Continuous Build tool (Jenkins), and JavaScript build and package managers (Grunt/Bower/Npm)
- Mentored junior developers, established technical best practices, and contributed to developer community by presenting technical material to tech groups for knowledge sharing.

Senior Web UI Developer

Murad

- Worked closely with Senior management to develop online presence of brand, grow website traffic, improve user experience, launch monthly campaigns, and introduce new functionality to add to eCommerce revenue.
- Technical Lead and Manager of in-house and remote web development teams. Responsible for development, management, and operation of Open Source & Enterprise Web Applications including multi-million dollar eCommerce website, Content Management Systems, Web Services, and Web Publishing Platforms, and CDN’s.
- Designed and programmed Enterprise Web Applications utilizing: J2EE, Object Oriented PHP, MVC frameworks, XML, AJAX, JavaScript, Web Services, HTML, CSS, JDBC, SQL, Tomcat, Apache, Oracle and MySQL technologies on Linux/Unix and Windows platforms.
- Built and supported over 20+ custom WordPress CMS websites (including Multisite) from concept/design to launch and cloud based infrastructure support. 
- Developed custom WordPress plugins and themes utilizing core WordPress API’s such as Hooks/Filters, Metaboxes, Shortcodes, Settings, Users & Roles, Custom Post Types and Taxonomies. 
- Lead re-launch of eCommerce website on Magento Enterprise Edition, migrating over 10 years of existing custom JAVA eCommerce functionality to Magento PHP Extensions and Themes.
- Extensive experience integrating with Email Service Providers, Web Analytics Reporting, and Business Intelligence Systems.
- Project Management with in house teams, external resources, business partners and 3rd party vendors.
- Extensive communication with various business channels and departments  including marketing, customer service, international, business development, operations/distribution to introduce and adapt newly developed web applications into business workflow.
- Planned, coordinated, and designed all technical aspects of new web projects including web metrics, architecture, security, monitoring, performance tuning, load balancing, capacity planning, scalability, and connectivity.

Senior Manager, Web Development and Online Marketing

I'm high-value, results oriented technology leader with over 15 years of professional experience working in consumer facing software products. I have a proven track record in both technical hands-on and leadership roles building high performing teams of software engineers, evolving and growing technology organizations, and leveraging modern technology including artificial intelligence to solve complex problems. 

I have extensive experience leading product engineering teams and building products in multiple industries including SaaS, FinTech, AutoTech, eCommerce, and AdTech. 

I enjoy bringing talented people together, being a force multiplier, and amplifying collaboration between product, design, and engineering teams to deliver results.

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