Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Indianapolis, Indiana, United States · Remote

• Offering Fractional Chief Technical Officer, Fractional Chief Product Officer, management coaching, and freelance software development services.
• Building products and content around better software engineering managers and cultures.

Oct 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Jul 2022 – Oct 2022 · 3 mos

Jun 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Jan 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

• I managed a team of three to four engineers supporting both The Artist Formerly Known as Sigstr as well as new initiatives for Terminus. I helped guide the team through the acquisition, while trying to meld the best parts of Sigstr's engineering culture with that of the new team. In this time, I also helped Terminus identify improvements in engineering onboarding, remote processes and culture, and software development lifecycle.

May 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

• I managed the engineering team at Sigstr during this time - with eight to ten in-house engineers plus another dozen offshore contract resources. During this time, I helped define the engineering culture - from how we develop software (with an emphasis on delivery speed with safety) to how we hire developers and find talent to how we work to develop product. During this period, we launched an entirely new product line with new system design, new architecture and new core technologies suited to the purpose.
• I also helped lead the team to Soc II, Type 2 certification and helped define and implement our GDPR compliance.
• Ultimately, I also helped Sigstr exit into an acquisition by Terminus - participating in due diligence operations.

May 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr

• Among the things I was responsible for in this role:
• I created and build the core integration framework. This framework allowed us to quickly deliver new integrations to market and helped drive the company to 4x revenue in roughly two years.
• I developed our core scheduled campaign type, introducing my fair share of time-zone-related bugs to the system that I debugged over the years.
• I developed our Mac Outlook software agent - an unholy amalgamation of Ruby, Applescript, bash, and sqlite that could read the internals of Outlook to find email addresses and then pull a signature from our app and stick into Outlook. This software remains in use across many customers and thousands of customer computers to this day.

Apr 2015 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs · Indianapolis, Indiana

• Lead six cohorts of students - adult career changers - through a course teaching them the fundamentals of modern web development with Ruby on Rails. Also helped mentor other Ruby developers in the organization.

Oct 2014 – May 2018 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• I consult and offer products to help businesses grapple with and streamline their web and application analytics.
• Once those numbers are in hand, I work to make them _better_ through conversion rate optimization.

Mar 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• By day, I managed a team of nine web developers at Bradley and Montgomery and a gaggle of outside development resources.
• I helped drive digital strategy and tactics for ourselves and clients and manage our internal team such that we can strive for constant improvement.

Oct 2011 – May 2018 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Indianapolis, IN

• Creator of SaaS products and consulting engagements (see the projects list below for a handful)

Nov 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos

Oct 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos

Nov 2006 – Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Aug 2003 – Nov 2006 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• The first 2.5 years were as a page designer an copy editor in the Sports Department. The last six months were as a web designer and developer.