Jul 2020 – Nov 2025 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• Responsible for leading engineering teams developing new SaaS applications and features designed to simplify and streamline the deal related Amazon Demand Side Platform (ADSP) campaign management experience. This includes building new, and enhancing existing, user interfaces and providing APIs for advertiser integration into 3rd party advertising campaign systems.
• Results:
• Heavily involved in driving operational planning on an annual, bi-annual and quarterly level, providing input into human resources, finance and sales channels for Enterprise Resource Planning.
• Developed and deployed new deals functionality which grew ADSP Deals revenue from <$1M to $53.6M for deals within 3 years, between 2021 and 2024
• Re-architected, developed and deployed a new series of deal ingestion APIs which facilitated the Supply Side Platforms (SSPs) to automatically share deals, growing integrated SSPs from 3 to 9, within 6 months
• Established a cross-organization intake and prioritization process to remove barriers and enable the team to focus on new development and increase project deliverables from 25 projects in 2023 to 50+ projects in 2024
• Established, recruited, hired, mentored, trained and managed a new Deals engineering organization of 75 engineers, resulting in talent retention, product expansion and revenue growth
• Amazon Bar Raiser for interviewing across Amazon.

Jun 2016 – Jul 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Responsible for leading engineering teams developing new features designed to enhance, simplify and streamline the shopping experience of Amazon consumer electronics customers. These features and enhancements were focused on basket building, payments and promotions, trade-in, renewed, Heavy/Bulky and Private Brands.
• Results:
• Established the Attach program which utilized machine learning to curate complementary products and accessories for customers to be able to select and include after they have added an item to their cart. This resulted in attributed annual sales revenue growing from 0 to $215M within 3 years, between 2017 and 2020
• Grew the Virtual Bundles programs, a program to enable customers to purchase multiple complementary products at a discount with a single click, from $100M to $250M between 2018 and 2020
• Established, recruited, mentored, trained and managed a new CE Tech engineering organization of 70 engineers in Denver, resulting in talent retention, product expansion and revenue growth
• Established and facilitated Amazon onboarding for new hires, including New Hire Orientation, SDE Bootcamp, Making Great Hiring Decisions, and SDE Functional Interviewing
• Amazon Bar Raiser for interviewing across Amazon.

Aug 2012 – May 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Denver Metropolitan Area · On-site

• Hands on Senior Software Development Manager of a Ecommerce B2B SaaS Application team. Successfully brought enterprise influenced process and organization to the company. Led the team from a Kanban Development Methodology to a Scrum Development Methodology. As the Scrum Master, there was also a focus on continuous process and development improvement. Led the development & integration process for multiple new and high profile clients which led to an 18% increase in Sales Volume through the system.

Jan 2009 – Jul 2012 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Senior Development Manager of a team comprised of 4 Staff Developers, 12 Lead Developers with an overall team of 120+ developers worldwide. (45 onshore and 75 offshore resources concurrently) Successfully built applications to support a variety of online eBusiness operational needs, including site metrics, price and product availability, account management, online shopping and checkout. Effectively leveraged a variety of development methodologies from Waterfall and XP to a Hybrid Scrum methodology to transform the Qwest.com external-facing Consumer web presence which led to increased revenue in the eCommerce channel from 5% to 12% in 2010.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr

• Team Lead responsible for managing the work of a diverse IT development group. Achieved results through individual contributors and active contribution. Participated with management to establish strategic plans and objectives. Responsible for managing a team of development resources, scheduling development activities, application design, application development, unit testing, coordination of source code deployment and integration of third party purchased software packages for internally developed applications. Involved in strategic plans and objectives for IT development and ensures their effective achievement

Jan 2002 – Jan 2008 · 6 yrs

• Lead development efforts for Windows Live Gadgets and DirecTV partner applications
• Lead development integration between Microsoft Gadget Developers as well as Qwest Network engineers. Included involvement in architectural, design and implementation
• Built several web gadgets in Javascript utilizing Microsoft’s gadget API to provide a cutting edge portal experience for Qwest’s Residential internet customers
• Lead development integration between DirecTV application engineers and Qwest developers to complete a Visual Voice Mail application for residential customers with DirecTV
• Lead development of Qwest's internal Sales Lead Portal which included integration of numerous back end portlet applications from across Qwest

Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 · 2 yrs

• Unix System Integration Design - Designing, implementing, and integrating EDI Applications to backend OSS Telecommunication systems
• TCP/IP with SSL3 Implementation - Implementing the Cap Gemini Interactive Agent using SSL3 protocol based upon the Telecommunications Industry Forum Recommendations
• Oracle Data Repository Design - Developing, enhancing, and implementing an Oracle Data Repository for transactional information to and from the backend OSS systems.
• Application Manageability - Implementing an Application Manageability platform designed to monitor the health of the HP UNIX systems.
• Application Integrator Development - Developing System maps to out data to the Oracle Data Repository for transactional information to and from the backend OSS systems
• Internal Education - Creating and conducting internal education classes to facilitate the training of new and current technical representatives.
• Project Management - Coordinating multiple concurrent EDI implementation projects and ensuring that they adhere to the established timelines and are completed to the satisfaction of all parties.

Apr 1995 – Nov 1999 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Internal Education - Creating and conducting internal education classes to facilitate the training of new and current technical representatives.
• Project Management - Coordinating multiple concurrent EDI implementation projects and ensuring that they adhere to the established timelines and are completed to the satisfaction of all parties.
• EDI Interface Sales - Conducting the sale of EDI X12 interfaces, including the compilation and dissemination of contractual agreements.
• Program Specifications Development - Identifying the market and system requirements and developing technical specifications for developers to implement the identified changes or new applications.
• Quality Assurance Testing - Scenario and regression testing to ensure program modifications and enhancements function as specified.
• EDI Implementation and Documentation - Implementing and documenting newly tested electronic data interchange interfaces and file transfer applications.
• Conversion Utility Development - Developing file conversion applications using C++ to reformat data for use in alternate databases.
• Y2K Validation and Testing - Application testing and validation for Year 2000 compliance.