Contract through TekSystems

- Contribute daily to several Ruby on Rails applications built on top of Pi Networks application platform.- Develop engineering requirements for building out and scaling apps in a fast-paced environment.- Manage and mentor almost twenty Ruby on Rails and React engineers.- Work with product and leadership teams to define both company and project requirements.- Stack: Rails, React, MongoDB, DigitalOcean, GCP, Docker

- Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.- Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.- Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.- Stack: Rails, React, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker

- Responsible for creating a technology infrastructure that supports the rapid growth projections of the company while being responsive to current needs.- Developing requirements for building out engineering, product team and overall IT organization.- Working on cross-functional teams to get framework of how IT is best able to support and drive business growth. - Stack: Flask, React, React Native, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform, Docker

- Part of a 150+ employee, NYC based hedge fund, working within its Healthcare initiative group as well as the investment company and our companion non-profit, Peter G. Peterson Foundation, to build B2C and internal software applications.- Work with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to create a vision to guide product development.- Lead engineers, designers, and user researchers in re-architecture of the company’s software into an Application Platform in order to build new product functionality and enhance existing features quickly.- Created product lifecycle workflow hand-offs and a system of troubleshooting feedback loops to continuously improve workflows.- Took over responsibilities for product requirements, establishing scope, drive development schedules and deliverables to completion, managing deliverable timelines and communications between end-users and teams all while maintaining >25% individual contributor status as an engineer.- Manage a team of 4 engineers, 2 designers/user researchers and one data scientist. - Stack: Confluence, Jira, Dovetail, GitHub, Balsamiq, Invision, Zeplin, Heroku Pipeline, self-hosted API documentation

- Brought on to identify significant architectural defects in existing Ruby on Rails application.- Created scalable software solutions.- Established a process of identifying modular software components to break interdependencies and enable engineers to easily refactor code.- Collaborated with data engineers and analytics teams on data collection micro-services.- Designed flexible engineering workflows that allow for growth of the organization.- Built out and lead engineering team on day to day execution and long-term architectural decisions.- Worked with PM, designers and cross-team stakeholders to prioritize features and understand customer needs.- Stack: Rails, React, SimulusJS, Webpacker, PostgreSQL, AWS, Heroku, Aptible

- Architected, implemented, and maintained second version of OZ’s ideation marketing software.- Rails, React, Redux, Flask, MongoDB, Redis, Heroku, AWS- RESTful API, websockets, yarn, webpacker, micro-services- Turned product owner theories and customer issues into requirements, designs, specs and prioritized those features for execution based on value added, resource requirements, and technical debt.- Aha!, Balsamiq, PivotalTracker, GrooveHQ- Collaborated with designers to simplify user story designs while adhering to style guidelines and front-end framework limitations.- Invision, Zeplin, SketchCollaborated with marketing and sales teams to automate all levels of the sales funnel by leveraging existing 3rd party integrations to do more with less.HubSpot, Marketo, Hull, Segment, Oz Content

- Architected, implemented, and maintained first version of OZ’s ideation marketing software.- Rails, Angular, Flask, MongoDB, Redis, Heroku, DigitalOcean, AWS- RESTful API, websockets, gulp, npm, webpacker, micro-services- Collaborated with Product Manager to prioritize features and schedule engineering resources.- Confluence, Jira- Advised data scientists on creation of algorithm libraries and analytical theories on SEO.- Led engineering team on architectural decisions, code designs, and daily feature execution.

- Architected, implemented, and maintained versions 1 & 2 of Salido’s iPad Point of Sale and cloud based restaurant operating system. - Rails, Objective-C, MongoDB, Redis, Heroku, AWS, Firebase- RESTful API, mobile, websockets, micro-services- Prioritized features and lead Ruby on Rails and iOS engineering teams. - Created internal documentation/communication infrastructure and gave structure to research and requirements gathering. - Built and managed Support and Validation teams. - Assisted CEO in hiring and corporate restructuring, on-boarding customers, sounding board for all aspects of company lifecycle.

- Collaborated with server-side engineers, iOS developers, designers, business people, and customers to give shape to nebulous product ideas in a rapid-prototyping iterative environment. - Within a month designed, developed and released a reservations system using Ruby on Rails and iOS. - Aided team in building an end-to-end restaurant platform from POS to customer-installed mobile applications.

Built the world’s first privacy-friendly mobile application to share common social network connections between two strangers. Back-end written in Ruby on Rails. Front-end written for iOS 7 using Apple’s Multipeer Connectivity library with a custom socket server.

Created and implemented MonkeyBananaRaffle™, a distribution network for games on Facebook, Apple's App Store, and Google Play. Wrote custom Flash/Unity3D/iOS/Android libraries that integrate 3rd party games with leaderboard and achievements, viral social media techniques, and network distribution. Back-end developed in Ruby on Rails using MongoDB to handle over a billion records. Experienced with running low-cost ads on multiple ad networks including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other 3rd party ad platforms.

Developed Ruby on Rails website to help customers improve social media decisions. Technological challenges included bulk importing Facebook page and ad data within Facebook's throttling limits, querying/summarizing Big Data in real-time, and creating custom algorithms to predict future social media content performance. Prototyped an in-house ad server to maximize ad-spend on Facebook.

Designed and developed Ruby on Rails/iOS applications for company and 3rd party use. Projects included first iOS version of BioGPS for Novartis and two virtual currency games, plus consulting for several Bay Area startups.

Programmed the first quiz platform for Facebook. Acquired 12 million visits the first month with best day of almost 800,000 visits, all done without spending money on user acquisition. Proved Ruby on Rails was scalable by running the platform on a $219/month server. Maximized client-side performance and secured private user data by integrating FBML.

Designed and developed custom Ruby on Rails e-commerce site to sell high-end industrial/commercial supplies worldwide. Technological accomplishments include the world’s first build-your-own toolbox widget and a custom worldwide shipping calculator for large industrial components. Obtained first search result rankings for products using innovative SEO "tricks of the trade". Cut online advertising spending by 75% while doubling online sales.

Developed web-based reporting software using Tapestry to display Neilson ratings; worked with 3rd party Java libraries to produce HTML, PDF, and Excel reports in real time; gained experience with loading and querying data sets using Hibernate/MySQL.

Modified Crystal Reports Enterprise to demonstrate integration with Guidewire's database.

Created HTML front-end and Java back-end web services to showcase Kasenna's media servers on 3rd party set-top boxes.

Developed front and back end Java Servlet/JSP web applications for internal use.