Director of Engineering

• Led the conversion of our architecture to dockerized containers, which streamlined our cloud costs and gave us better control over our resources.
• Led two teams across two different products, one B2B and one B2C.
• Led the team that rewrote the product from Laravel to Node + Next. MVP launched 4 months after the project kicked off.
• Successfully handled all engineering hiring processes, which led to a 2x growth in the engineering team.
• Worked with the SRE team to decrease cloud computing expenses by tens of thousands of dollars per month.
• Created and installed new project prioritization processes that allowed business, product, and engineering to have a voice in what was being built for the platforms, reducing friction amongst teams with competing priorities.

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

• Successfully led the transition from Vagrant to Docker for development.
• Assisted the SRE team in getting Docker into production.
• Provided code reviews and streamlined processes for the engineering team.

Consultant

• Identified and fixed bugs in software applications.
• Worked with other engineers to develop and implement solutions to existing software.
• Successfully delivered results in a timely manner.
• Improved the quality of software applications.

Development Manager

• Led a team of 6 software engineers to expand billing system for a major allied health company.
• Managed the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and analysis to design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Worked closely with offshore teams to ensure that all requirements were met and that the system was delivered on time and within budget.
• Developed and implemented a new process for managing the software development lifecycle, which improved efficiency and effectiveness.

Development Manager

• Increased income by 1100% in three years by reducing complexity, increasing stability, and allowing for a 1500% YOY growth from 2019-2020.
• Decreased server response averages to 227ms, maintained apdex averages of 0.95 (app) and 0.97 (browser), and decreased the 24 hour average error rate to 0.88% across all hosts.
• Decreased first contentful paint on the homepage by 63.64% to 1.2s with an average reduction of 40-80% over key metrics from HTTP archive in a single year.
• Led the development and QA teams to support the entire stack for the custom educational application suite utilizing virtual patients in multiple allied health verticals.
• Created a new video library application to expand reach into existing markets.
• Developed yearly project plans on a quarterly basis to help drive the direction of the software based on the business needs and assigned developers to projects they were interested in to keep engagement high.
• Replaced custom in-house billing technologies with third party technology to create subscription based accounts and further increase revenue.
• Refactored existing functionality into modular classes and methods to allow for easier future maintenance.
• Created a 5 year vision to split up monolith application into more modular components tied together using APIs and JWT tokens.

Lead Developer

• Developed and implemented an architecture plan that extracts and stands up applications on their own servers and code repositories, reducing downtime.
• Implemented a more robust billing system that included yearly automatic renewals, increasing monthly and yearly revenue.
• Developed and launched a patient video observation library, generating user growth.
• Developed and implemented a dashboard system that increased faculty insight into how their students were performing.

• Implemented a code review process for the team, improving the quality of code.
• Created a dynamic ticket workflow system that allows stakeholders to programmatically send tickets back and forth, improving efficiency.
• Implemented CKEditor with custom properties into the customized CMS, enhancing the user experience.

• Implemented a system to automate the watermarking of photos, which reduced the workflow for content creation significantly.
• Developed a custom high-resolution photo and video distribution center that allowed media team members to distribute photos and videos directly from the front lines of animal rights issues to the mainstream media.
• Designed and implemented a livestream system bringing animal rights issues to the media and millions of viewers worldwide.
• Developed issue-oriented websites specifically targeting areas of marine wildlife and ocean conservation.

• Developed custom web applications using PHP, MySQL, and CodeIgniter.
• Customized Joomla and ModX Evolution CMS systems.
• Developed online bill pay system for a non-profit hospital.
• Reduced direct phone calls by 20% by developing and designing online bill pay system.