• Develop and implement the company's technology strategy and roadmap. Identify emerging technologies that can create competitive advantage. • Manage all engineering and technology operations including infrastructure, software development, IT, cybersecurity, and technical teams. • Build, coach, and mentor a team of engineers and developers. Foster a collaborative and innovative engineering culture. • Oversee system architecture and integration, network infrastructure, and cloud/web services. • Ensure optimal performance and security. • Set technical standards, choose appropriate technology stacks, establish efficient processes and workflows. • Drive product development from conception to launch. Work closely with product team to turn business needs into technical solutions. • Control tech budgets, allocate resources efficiently, maintain costs. • Coordinate with executive leadership to align tech plans with overall business objectives. • Stay current on technology trends. Represent the company at tech conferences/events.

Currently teaching Software Engineering Career Prep (leetcode, resumes, interviewing, negotiating, etc) and this fall, Capstone project (build something interesting for someone in industry)

• Ring Announcer for Mixed Martial Arts, boxing, corporate events, & weddings. • Decades of experience on stage and running shows, and teaching these skills.

Modern web apps for large clients worldwide (e.g., Amazon, Nvidia, Backcountry, Mercado, at al) and pivoted to building & selling a hosted ecommerce SaaS product for medium-sized ($10m-30m annual sales) e-tailers. Company sold in 2010.

• Tech lead for our International expansion into the UK. Teach Public Speaking at our internal "Credit Karma University". • Heavily involved in hiring & promotion process. I mentor as many as time allows.

Rearchitected our new notifications pipeline and replatformed from monolith to managed big data services in the cloud

• Sr. Software Architect in charge of all front-end development across three lines of business. • Standardized our tech stack, came up with a migration plan from Angular v1 on python 2.7 to React on Node, build tools, code styles, micro-frontend architectures. • Architected platform utils for handing sensitive files, and wrestled with a 20-yo legacy system. Also very heavily involved in hiring and career ladder.

• Brought on to help with technology strategy, to build a cloud that can scale, give it a web interface, let it talk to our TrustPipe devices, and to R&D our mobile offering. • Helped grow the team, find and manage contractors, implement best practices for dev and dev ops, and plan for future growth.

Back-end and front-end development for a vast magazine-article aggregator. Company created by Louis Borders, of Borders books, and WebVan fame.