Portland, Oregon, United States
As a leader I enjoy mentoring and coaching engineers to help them reach their full potential. I have a successful track record of building self-organizing, high performing agile teams. I am a good listener who values constant improvement in himself and his teams.
Engineering Leader overseeing 8 engineering teams, including QA, Solutions Architecture and Software Development. Grew overall headcount from 15 to 40, through hiring and acquisitions. Drove AI adoption in Engineering, QA Automation, and larger organization, through targeted pilot programs, upholding best practices for privacy and compliance, and measuring outcomes to ensure ROI. Led technical due diligence and integration planning for five company acquisitions, mapping acquired technologies, reassigning engineering talent, and developing unified strategies for customer and product mergers. Enabled effective collaboration with distributed teams through asynchronous communication and goal alignment. Redesigned the engineering hiring and onboarding process, improving candidate quality and ramp-up speed while successfully scaling and strengthening the team. Managed relationships with senior business stakeholders to align on priorities, delivery timelines, communication frameworks, and success metrics across multiple strategic initiatives. Oversaw partnerships with third-party software vendors, driving joint solution design, feature delivery, and contract negotiations to ensure scalability, performance, and commercial alignment with business needs. Built strong partnerships with internal technology groups, including Architecture, DevOps, and Information Security, to deliver compliant, secure, and resilient platform solutions. Grew, mentored and scaled the “next level leaders” around me, promoting three folks to people leadership roles.
Led cross functional sprint team to deliver revenue driving features in native iOS and Android Mobile Apps Collaborated closely with Product leaders to refine Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) and roadmap initiatives, establishing clear timelines, dependencies, and gathering requirements. Spearheaded the creation of spikes and prototypes, and conducted estimations to ensure project success. Enhanced the team's agile processes, emphasizing efficiency and effectiveness in ceremonies and deliverables, resulting in improved productivity. Led technical initiatives aimed at decomposing a Ruby monolith into layered Node.js, Go, and Elixir services, enhancing scalability, extensibility, security, and performance. Revamped the recruiting process by standardizing interview questions and response rubrics, leading to more efficient and equitable candidate evaluation. Championed outbound recruiting efforts, with a particular focus on attracting underrepresented candidates, fostering diversity and inclusion within the team
Grew a team of software engineers and engineering leaders from 8 to over 30. Supporting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives through inclusive team processes and practices. Defined engineering levels, competencies and skills matrix. Worked with team members to define career paths, improve skills, grow impact, and navigate the organization Continuously improved the software development processes. Set expectations for delivery of high quality and timely deliverables. Focused on measurable outcomes that result in Improvements of scale, usability, user engagement, security, and capabilities of the platform. Partnered with executive leadership on longer term company goals, mapped them down to scoped objectives, then defined quarterly initiatives and OKRs per product area. Provided a direct through- line of business value from company leadership all the way to individual JIRA tickets on sprint teams. Collaborated with Product Owners and Engineering teams in planning sessions to interpret the product roadmap, prioritizing highest impact work, assessing complexity, and delivering accurate estimates and risk analysis. As part of the leadership team, helped drive organization wide improvements and policy changes to continuously improve employee experience, and support employee engagement.
Oversaw cross-functional teams of engineers for Services, iOS, Android, React Native, and Web projects, ensuring timely delivery and efficient use of resources. Developed technical roadmaps to balance sustainability and support work with new feature initiatives, for critical products with 24x7 support and on-call rotations. Prioritized team focus by managing multiple work streams and ensuring optimal productivity. Proactively identified and addressed roadblocks to keep the project moving forward. Managed project timelines and velocities using agile methodologies, providing regular updates to stakeholders and resolving issues promptly.
Led a team of developers across Android, iOS, Web, and Server platforms to deliver high-quality and scalable enterprise solutions within tight timelines. Collaborated closely with cross-functional stakeholders such as Product Ownership, Quality Assurance, Scrum Leadership, Site Reliability Engineering, User Experience, and Information Security. Worked to connect with and understand everyone who reported to me, and mentor and coach them in their unique situation to be as successful and productive as they can be. Worked with each of my direct reports to craft a career plan that helps them achieve their goals. Consistently led cross-functional teams to deliver on roadmap commitments, through building trust and legitimacy with the team. Dependably follow through, and lead by example. Clearly communicated expectations, sett the teams up for success, buffered them from outside distractions, rewarded successes and coached toward constant improvements. Led teams that included both local and remote engineers. Worked creatively to help ensure good communication and collaboration regardless of geography. Worked effectively with diverse teams, to always ensure an inclusive environment where the best idea wins, not simply the loudest voice.