Feb 2025 – Oct 2025 · 8 mos

• Building the Native Android Onboarding Experience using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose

Oct 2023 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs

• Engineering Manager for the brand new Toast Now app
• Grew the team by 100% within the first year of the role, adding senior and principal engineers to the team.
• Established team norms which led to a very efficient team with monthly release cycles and impactful features with every scheduled release.
• Grew the app from 0 -> 300k users within the first year, working with marketing and product managers driving key levers to gain more downloads while retaining power users.
• Spearheaded and led multiple features within the app by driving communications to different teams around the company, leading to positive change.
• Both Android and iOS apps boast a 4.9 star rating with a 99.8%+ crash-free rate, showing both quality and rigor within our architecture. Along with having the highest NPS ratings at Toast currently.
• Grew my scope to take on an international backend engineering team based in Ireland, boasting my dynamic leadership skills.

Jul 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · McLean, Virginia, United States

• Promoted to Sr Manager within 18 months and now I lead 2 development teams. These are mixed platform teams(iOS + Android) that are responsible for impactful features in the Capital One App such as Card Activation, Paperless Settings, Welcome Experience, Account Setup, and Credit Card Delivery Tracker.

Mar 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · McLean, Virginia, United States

• My team works on the user experience for our credit card customers once they receive their credit card product in the mail. This includes the card activation and delivery tracker experience on Android.
• My responsibilities include leading and coaching an amazing Android team while empowering them to do their best work.
• Other responsibilities include hiring, interviewing, code reviews, and providing the technical direction of the team.

Feb 2020 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · United States

• Leading and coaching a team of 3 Android Developers
• Continuing to develop and push out features for our Android App
• Communicating with business leaders on our go-to-market strategy for mobile
• Acquired by Costar Group for 250 Million Dollars in December 2020

Dec 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bethesda, Maryland

• Developing features for our top rated mobile app using Kotlin.
• Scaled the app from 600k downloads to well over 1 million.
• Reduced the crash rate to less than 1% for daily active users.
• Developed features such as Google Listing Ads, Homesnap Pro Plus, Homesnap Stories, and Who's Viewed My Profile/Listing generating over a million dollars in revenue.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Small consulting company that develops various mobile apps
• Lead Android Developer for the Views App

May 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Arlington, Virginia

• Worked on a Java J2EE Spring/Hibernate Web App for a large government client. Used the Model View Controller pattern along with object-oriented design backed by an Oracle Database.
• Technologies used are: Solr, Oracle SQL Developer, Java JEE/J2EE, Java Hibernate and Spring.
• Developed a mobile application using HTML 5. Technologies used were JavaScript, HTML, and JSON along with JQuery and HandlebarsJs.
• Wrote native Android code to develop custom plugins for the Cordova application.
• Wrote a SOAP Web Service for the back-end of the app.
• Was apart of a highly agile team, using SCRUM methodologies along with Kanban.

Jan 2015 – May 2015 · 4 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Connected an Amazon EC2 Instance to a continuous integration server called Jenkins to run builds throughout the day and assure best quality assurance practices.
• Improved the design of a facial detection bio-metric Android Application to use Google Design principles such as Material Design, also developed features to make application more useful.
• Wrote Unit Tests for a Java Spring MVC application.

Aug 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Rockville, Maryland

• Worked with HTML 5 to develop a gaming application for the Centers for Disease Control. This was a port of an already built iPad Application to be reused as an Android application.
• Developed an Android application that gave questionnaires to patients at random times throughout the day for the National Institutes of Health and Duke University.
• Developed an Android application to use as a configuration tool to an already existing Java application. Performed code maintenance of larger system and wrote JUnit test cases to ensure that system worked as expected.
• Developed a mobile application for drug abuse education. The application assisted a proposal to help veterans recognize and help peers suffering from drug abuse and misuse. This was built using native Android code using Android Studio as an IDE.

Jan 2013 – May 2013 · 4 mos · Tallahassee Metropolitan Area

• Lead Developer of Android Mobile Application
• Built the Complete Front-End of the Application
• Developed using the Java Programming Language within an Eclipse Framework.

Oct 2010 – Apr 2011 · 6 mos · Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Maintained good relations between all chapters of Progressive Black Men
• Communicated with the National Office of Progressive Black Men through conference calls, emails etc.
• Facilitated various brotherhood events for members of Progressive Black Men.

Sep 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr

Aug 2010 – May 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Responsible for greeting guests, making copies, and faxing documents.
• Processed mail and organized files.
• Worked with the lab technician in troubleshooting computers and hardware.

May 2007 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Stocked inventory and maintained Peachtree Accounting
• Familiar with typing invoices for customers.