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Program Manager, AI Implementation

Confidential - August 2022 — Present

I oversee multiple projects implementing Artificial Intelligence into existing work pipelines used throughout the organization.

  • Transformed business requirements into design specification.
  • Managing the resources for multiple Data Analysis projects
  • Daily meetings with key stakeholders and subordinates.
  • Oversaw expansion of data collection, storage and backup processes.
  • Data filtering and preparation, including anomaly detection.
  • Developed Data Visualization and Report Generation tools.

Primary Roles

  • Strategic Planning
  • Departmental Management
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Resource Allocation
  • System Design
  • Data Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Report Generation
  • Segmentation analysis
  • Server Administration
  • Training and Documentation

Technologies

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • Generative AI
  • Prompt Engineering
  • PHP8
  • MySQL
  • Google Maps API
  • DomPDF
  • Git
  • AWS

SaaS Platform Architect

Sparck, LLC - January 2020 — October 2020

Sparck is a recognition and engagement platform that helps HR management teams motivate and retain employees through workplace surveys and custom reward programs. I was brought in to transform their prototype into a robust application.

  • Participated in weekly strategy meetings with management.
  • Developed scalable client/server application framework to replace and replicate functionality of prototype.
  • Presented security concerns and recommended solutions to CTO.
  • Maintained source code and API developer documentation.
  • Liaised with offshore development team.
  • Oversaw development of a multi-environment build process.
  • Integrated Hubspot, Stripe payment processing, and evaluated other potential third-party API
  • Developed event system for triggering emails and notifications.

Primary Roles

  • System Design
  • Data Modeling
  • Database Development
  • API Programming
  • Deployments
  • Server Administration
  • Front End Development
  • Documentation
  • Training

Technologies

  • Docker
  • PHP7
  • MySQL
  • Smarty
  • Google API
  • Hubspot API
  • Stripe API
  • DomPDF
  • Bootstrap
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • Git
  • cURL
  • AWS

Lead Software Engineer

IFTI - April 2015 — October 2018

IFTI is a project management company in the concrete and resilient flooring industry. I developed and maintained the company's CRM/ERP system which coordinates project managers, field technicians, and clients on over 1500 construction projects throughout North America. Our clients are primarily big-box retailers, medical facilities, and discount chains.

  • Gathered project requirements from stakeholders and developed an implementation strategy.
  • Developed reporting tools to give management and staff greater operational visibility.
  • Improved employee productivity through updated process workflows and UI enhancements.
  • Developed a report writing tool that adhered to ASTM standards
  • Initiated a bug/issue tracking protocol and implemented redundancy/backup processes to mitigate downtime and data loss.
  • Opened up our platform for integration into clients' internal project management systems via a REST API.
  • Vetted applicants for new technology positions, managed junior developers, and liaised with external technology partners.

Primary Roles

  • Project Leader
  • System Design
  • Data Modeling
  • Database Development
  • API Programming
  • Deployments
  • Server Administration
  • Network Security
  • Front End Development
  • Training

Technologies

  • PHP7
  • MySQL
  • Smarty
  • Google API
  • Mailgun API
  • DomPDF
  • Bootstrap
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • SVN
  • Bash
  • cURL

Director of Engineering

CarOneOne, Inc. - March 2014 — March 2015

CarOneOne was a lead generation site that provided new car leads to over 17,000 car dealerships. As the company's head of technology, I worked with the rest of the executive team to define our strategic objectives, plan our strategy for implementing product features, and was the primary developer of our platform overseeing a small team of developers.

Our services mashed up our own data with third-party suppliers of dealer inventories and pricing information. Our lead generation system was developed around standard automotive industry data formats enabling our users' requests to be delivered directly into a dealership's CRM. We provided consumers with an anonymous channel to communicate with dealers, and tools to compare and calculate the best price on a new vehicle. Dealers received a dashboard where they could review inbound leads and communicate with potential buyers.

  • Designed system architecture around business requirements and marketing goals.
  • Built a load-balanced VPN cluster and wrote maintenance, deployment and recovery scripts.
  • Designed and maintained a database of 17,000 dealers and their inventory.
  • Developed dealer locator tool based on ZIP code information and Google Maps API.
  • Integrated ChromeData API services to build a real-time vehicle configuration tool.
  • Built user, dealer, and administration dashboards.
  • Oversaw offshore development of mobile site in conjunction with in-house development of primary web application.

Primary Roles

  • Requirements Gathering
  • System Design
  • Database and Server Administration
  • Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Data Analysis
  • UI Development

Technologies

  • ChromeData API
  • Evox API
  • Stripe API
  • Mailgun API
  • Rackspace Cloud
  • Google Analytics
  • Linux
  • Apache
  • PHP
  • CodeIgniter
  • cURL
  • HTML5/CSS3
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • MySQL
  • SOAP/XML
  • XML/ADF
  • SVN

Director of Online Operations

Auto Tours International, Corp. - January 2007 — March 2014

Auto Tours International, Corp is a purveyor of self-driving tours. I managed our engineering and online marketing resources; and was additionally responsible for development of both the consumer facing site and our administrative backend.

  • Wrote technical specification from business requirements.
  • Developed the data model and custom application framework supporting a multiple currency booking tool, geo-location detection and locale switching.
  • Built an administrative back-end allowing staff to manage tours, prices, itineraries, galleries, currency exchange rates, bookings, payment processing, and other site settings.
  • Coordinated with offshore vendors and consultants.
  • Managed advertising relationships, PPC campaigns and advertising budget.
  • Performed SEO targeting for international markets, resulting in growth of annual traffic, lower bounce rates, and increased average time-on-site by 35%.

Primary Roles

  • System Design
  • Database Architecture
  • Server Administration
  • Application Programming
  • Vendor Integration
  • UI Design and Development
  • Traffic Analysis
  • Online Marketing

Technologies

  • FirstData
  • PHP/CodeIgniter
  • ColdFusion
  • HTML5/CSS3
  • Photoshop
  • Javascript/jQuery
  • Linux
  • Apache
  • MySQL
  • SVN
  • Google Analytics

Senior UI Developer

Offermatic, Inc - March 2010 — March 2011

Offermatic was a transactional marketing start up funded by Kleiner-Perkins. I was the company's second full-time employee and worked with the CTO to develop our consumer dashboard and administrative interfaces. Offermatic was taken over by Linkable Networks.

  • Developed AJAX-enabled UI for consumer dashboard and corporate back-office administration.
  • Built landing pages for aggressive co-branded ad campaigns and conducted A/B testing on landing pages and homepage variants.
  • Integrated conversion tracking for a number of affiliate and ad networks.
  • Integrated Facebook and Twitter APIs and built the company's first Facebook App.

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Primary Roles

  • Front End Development
  • A/B Testing
  • Ad Network Integration
  • Facebook App Development

Technologies

  • Commission Junction
  • Facebook Apps
  • Google Analytics
  • Impact Radius
  • Twitter
  • HTML5/CSS3
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • AJAX
  • MySQL
  • PHP/Zend
  • SVN

Front-end Developer/QA Engineer

Tonic, Inc/GreenDimes - April 2006 — June 2007

Tonic began as an e-tailer that donated a portion of its revenue to worldwide charities. It later morphed into an aggregator and publisher of positive news stories that were featured on other sites, like Yahoo. A subsidiary of Tonic was GreenDimes, a service that eliminated postal junk mail for our subscribers by removing their names from hundreds of bulk-mail clearinghouses. As part of the engineering team, I developed our first generation web sites and store front.

  • Reporting to VP of Engineering, worked with Project Manager and in-house/off-shore engineering teams to design, develop and maintain the company's separate service and retail sites – including the launch of a new multi-currency eCommerce storefront.
  • Instrumental in the development and maintenance of the store's shopping cart system, site animations, and widgets that tracked inventory, goals, and statistics via XML feeds.
  • Optimized the output generated by the CMS resulting in 50% leaner code that reduced bandwidth and measurably improved responsiveness.
  • Assisted porting multiple websites from Joomla to a custom solution.
  • Conducted A/B testing, user testing and pre-release QA.

After leaving the company, I returned as a contractor to help push out the second generation site. The company eventually came under new management and ceased operations.

Primary Roles

  • Front-end Development
  • A/B Testing
  • QA Testing
  • Vendor Management

Technologies

  • HTML/CSS
  • Flash
  • Photoshop
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • PHP
  • Smarty
  • Joomla
  • SVN

Online Marketing Manager

Travel Express LA, Inc - 2003 — 2006

A partner with Cassis Travel Services, Travel Express LA was a premiere entertainment travel agency.

  • Web design and development.
  • Site optimization and SEO.
  • Designed print and digital marketing assets.
  • Bookkeeping
  • Posted regular site content and tour listing updates.
  • Implemented Google Analytics and reported performance metrics to owner.

Primary Roles

  • Design
  • Web Development
  • E-commerce
  • Project Management
  • System Integration
  • Marketing

Technologies

  • ColdFusion
  • MySQL
  • HTML/CSS
  • Javascript
  • Photoshop
  • Flash

Web Developer/E-commerce Manager

Wildcat Press, LLC - 2001 — 2003

Wildcat Press was a private book publisher and media company.

  • Redesigned and developed the company website.
  • Integrated Google Analytics.
  • Implemented onsite ordering.
  • Bookkeeping support
  • Designed print advertisements and web banners.
  • Managed Amazon book sales.
  • Assisted with order fulfillment.
  • Posted weekly content updates.
  • Assisted with planning and logistics of author book signings and events.

Primary Roles

  • Design
  • Web Development
  • E-commerce
  • Project Management
  • Order Fulfillment
  • Marketing

Technologies

  • PHP
  • ColdFusion
  • MySQL
  • HTML/CSS
  • WordPress
  • Javascript
  • Photoshop
  • Flash
  • Amazon

Technology Consultant

B-Bridge International, Inc. - Various Dates 2009 — 2012

B-Bridge is a US/Japanese biotech supplier. I transformed the company's static site into a CMS-driven e-commerce application with a multilingual framework and language detection. Later, I assumed responsibility for all web related system administration after their full-time MIS person departed.

System Administration

  • Introduced a staging environment, source control, and engineering best-practices.
  • Worked with the company's in-house MIS to manage email migration, DNS, and other hosting changes.
  • Installed and configured Ubuntu LAMP servers.
  • Performed database migrations and wrote deployment scripts.

Application Development

  • Built a multilingual framework for corporate site.
  • Developed a back-office tool for editing products, managing suppliers, category and application groups.
  • Created a MySQL export tool that generated CSV inventory lists for partner and distributor use.
  • Transformed static inventory list into a thousand-product eCommerce system with focus on SEO performance.
  • Took over maintenance of a separate Rails application and WordPress site.
  • Integrated VerticalResponse newsletter system.

Marketing and Analytics

  • Implemented a site optimization strategy which saw rapid growth and brought 82% new visitors — originating from 102 countries — during the first 4 months.
  • Introduced over 14,000 contextual internal links, greatly improving both usability and search engine performance.
  • Reviewed traffic patterns and usage funnels and tweaked UI to reduce mid-purchase abandonment.
  • Rewrote URLs for increased usability and search engine performance and mapped old non-existing URLs to new pages.
  • Generated XML sitemap and implemented recommendations of Google Web Master Tools.

After I decided to move on, I hired my replacement and worked with him for a few months during the transition.

Primary Roles

  • System Design
  • Database and Server Administration
  • Marketing Analytics
  • Ecommerce
  • Application Programming
  • Training

Technologies

  • Linux
  • Apache
  • PHP
  • HTML5/CSS3
  • Javascript/jQuery
  • MySQL
  • Google Analytics

UI Design/Web Development

Air Comet - Various Dates 2005 — 2007

Air Comet is an airline based in Madrid that opened an office in New York to offer direct flights between NY and Spain. I was originally hired to assist their marketing department, but ended up writing the booking tool for their American site.

  • Redesigned their US site to better match the standards of design adopted by the American airline industry.
  • Designed print advertisements and web banners.
  • Built a bilingual flight reservation and lookup tool that integrated with their existing European booking API.

Primary Roles

  • Marketing
  • Design
  • Application Programming
  • System Integration

Technologies

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • HTML5/CSS3
  • Javascript/jQuery
  • Photoshop

Freelance Consulting

Independent Consulting - 2001 — Present

In addition to my full time employment and long-term contract work, I have continually provided consulting services to a variety of clients throughout my career.

  • Artificial Intelligence Research
  • UI Design and Development.
  • System Administration.
  • Application Development.
  • System Integration.
  • Data modeling and database development.
  • Hosting and email support.
  • Marketing consulting.