Resume
Engineering and design leader with nearly two decades of experience building products and nurturing teams.
Experience
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November 2023 - Present
Principal Front-end Engineer
- Building something
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February 2021 – April 2023
Director of Engineering
- Built a work culture that attracts talent and kept long term team members from leaving
- Managed engineers and engineering managers across teams responsible for core product development and internal experimentation platform
- Helped grow the NYC engineer team from 3 to ~60
- Led the Product Design team of 9 split between New York and Sydney
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May 2020 – January 2021
Lead Engineer and Designer (contract)
- Built a technology and design foundation for the budding venture studio
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June 2018 – May 2020
Lead Front-end Engineer and Design Lead
- Pitched, nurtured and executed product features to help grow and support our community of players
- Led the design and development of our iOS/Android application built in React Native
- Established high quality design and engineering best practices to grow our team
- StreetCred was acquired by Snap in 2020
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February 2017 – June 2018
Co-Founder / Designer / Front-end Engineer
- Partnered on product vision, concept, strategy, and business model
- Designed and built a slow-on-purpose profile form to help candidates take their time and think in-depth about their ideal work
- Built an intentionally minimal, progressively-enhanced JS scaffold using Gulp, Rollup.JS, and ES2015
- Produced a pattern library for consistent and collaborative design
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September 2014 – September 2017
Senior Software Engineer
- Built software that powered Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign responsible for 9MM donations totalling $600MM
- Led a remote team of 7 engineers and designers. Conducted team meetings, helped define and clarify OKRs, and set expectations
- Built the front-end event system for hillaryclinton.com used by over 14,000 to RSVP for the campaign kick-off rally in NYC
- Designed products to serve dozens of nonprofits and NGOs including UNHCR and NYCHA
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March 2014 – September 2014
Designer & Engineer
- Designed the second version of their popular iOS app
- Designed and built a mini marketing site to announce the app
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November 2011 – February 2014
Product & Design Lead
Readability (at Arc90)
- Led a team of five engineers and designers. Held 1-on-1s, set and kept project pace. Worked with the CEO to define and execute product vision
- Oversaw a redesign and rebuild of our iOS app, web site, and Chrome extension
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September 2008 – February 2014
Designer & Engineer
Arc90
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September 2007 – September 2008
Designer & Engineer
Freelance
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September 2006 – September 2007
Web Designer
Digi Craft Productions
Skills
- Design of all variety; product, UX, UI, graphic, and more qualifiers
- Writing
- Producing and using pattern libraries and design systems
- People leadership
- Hiring
- HTML
- CSS
- Old timey JavaScript
- New-fangled JavaScript
- Sass
- PostCSS
- React
- React Native
- Redux
- Webpack
- Rollup.JS
- Gulp
- So many JS build tools
- Python
- Flask
- Django
- Ruby on Rails
- PHP
- Consuming RESTful and GraphQL APIs
- CI tools; Travis, Circle, Buildkite, GitHub Actions
- Asking hard questions
- Written communication
- User stories
- Meticulous project documentation
Education
November 2004 - September 2006
Bachelor of Science in Digital Arts and Design
Full Sail University, Orlando Florida