Career

I am proud to be a member of an amazing team of engineers and designers at Vizify. We are building the future every day and having a hell of a good time doing it!

I get to play with Ruby on Rails, javascript, heroku, ec2, s3, etc. etc.. What keeps me motivated is learning something new every day and there is nothing like a small startup team to hone that skill!

Responsible for all aspects of development and delivery of Monsoon Marketplace Selling Platform which brings huge ROI to retailers who sell inventory on Amazon, eBay, and other online marketplaces. Oversee ~20 people on product development, QA and DevOps teams. Communicate strategic vision and business goals to these teams and ensure goals and schedules are met, making appropriate tradeoffs of scope, effort, schedule and quality. Responsible for recruiting, hiring and mentoring team members. Establish and maintain corporate technical strategy, software development, QA, and IT processes and procedures. Responsible for establishing and meeting budget for all technology spending.

Introduced Agile practices including short iterations and test driven development using nUnit.

Designed and implemented application to compile and package interactive television (ITV) applications, significantly increasing usability vs. previous process. Built Windows Forms user interface and a .NET remoting server. Redesigned user interface for ITV broadcast control application to significantly increase usability. Implemented a custom FTP client to update dynamic resources in a live, broadcasting ITV application.

ThinkShare was a venture backed startup in the mobile application space way ahead of its time. We developed some very cool (patent-still-pending) xml/xslt technology that enabled rapid development of mobile applications with bi-directional synchronization to corporate data stores.

Founded company and helped raise over $5M in angel and venture funding. Recruited board members, executive and technical staff. Grew company from 3 to 25 employees. Forged culture that kept original team together for 5 years.

Project Leader / Principal Software Engineer responsible for shipping several releases of the DynaBase XML content management platform. Coordinated development teams across multiple locations and actively managed risks and resources to ship quality software on time.

Promoted to Project Leader of EBT’s DynaTag product 1 ½ years after joining EBT from college. Built document conversion engine in C++ to convert various document formats to SGML.

Key contributor to the design and implementation of DynaBase, an award winning XML content management and dynamic content delivery platform. Built scalable, multithreaded server on Win32 and Solaris. Analyzed and greatly improved runtime performance using Quantify.