Washington DC-Baltimore Area
With over 20 years experience in web application and software development, I am a passionate leader who thrives on solving novel challenges.
Agentic change safety and engineering productivity.
Providing interfaces that allow engineers and other platform teams to create, configure, interact with, and troubleshoot their deployments.
Oversaw multiple high-growth products in boutique fitness and marketing automation with teams including engineering, QA, data, and infrastructure, totaling over 100 engineers. Provided mentorship and guidance in all layers of the tech stack, e.g. Python, Django, Node.js, Vue.js, Ember.js, React, and cloud infrastructure. Collaborated with product and commercial leads to develop overarching strategy and vision, and building the roadmap to support them. Identified opportunities for efficiency and revenue growth across SaaS products serving multiple industries by establishing Xplor’s Core Services capability. These services are at the heart of Xplor’s strategy, creating revenue generating services that can be deployed quickly across multiple SaaS products. • Enabled Mariana Tek to achieve > 50% YoY revenue growth for past 4 years with delivery of new features and platform stability during rapid growth. • Reduced incidents in Growth Products by 90%. • Implemented continuous delivery practices and DORA capabilities across product teams.
Oversaw multiple engineering teams building boutique fitness management products for Mariana Tek: e-commerce, mobile, API, and SRE teams. Led improvements to process, architecture, CI/CD with a focus on agile, iterative delivery. Acquired by Xplor in 2019.
Led multiple teams working on rapid digital marketing efforts, long-running software products, and internet connected hardware for experiential activations. Projects included web development, mobile, chatbots, voice (Alexa and Google Home), microcontrollers, physical interactivity, multimedia and more.
Built numerous open source projects to democratize access to data and shine light on the influence of money in politics: - Influence Explorer - Upwardly Mobile - Sitegeist (Webby honoree in collaboration with IDEO) - Public Markup - Open States - Sunlight Academy - Sunlight Live - Sunlight CMS
Managed a team of developers building a Java-based workflow system for the FBI. Worked with project manager and the client to gather requirements and plan the development schedule. Oversaw architectural design and development by a multi-site team. Implemented the DOJ's first cross-agency API and prompted adoption of agile methodologies at the FBI.