Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Princeton Junction, New Jersey, United States

• Web app, PWA, and Chrome extension to help well-organized travelers collaboratively plan trips and publish stories of their adventures!
• https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/turasapp/lpfijfdbgohlblnadiokliolkkeeblpo
• https://www.reddit.com/r/TravelHacks/comments/105s90u/i_built_an_app_to_help_plan_trips_collaboratively/
• (TypeScript, Vue.js, Firebase, Firestore, Google Cloud Functions)

May 2022 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Remote

• $8m seed e-commerce startup founded by ex-Amazon, ex-Walmart team. Leading full-stack, ground-up design and implementation of multiple products from omni-channel checkout landing pages to AI-generated SEO content pages to AI-powered real-time search overviews (demo: https://youtu.be/tWE8yGKOEDw). Special focus on improving team-wide velocity through improving the devops workflow and mentoring junior engineers.
• (React, Vue, AWS, DynamoDB, Postgres, TypeScript, Node.js, C#, ASP.NET, Next.js, Astro.js)

Jan 2022 – May 2022 · 4 mos · Bay Area, California, United States · Remote

• YCombinator alum building AI-powered productivity tools for individuals and teams. Full stack (backend bias) development of the Motion calendaring and scheduling system as well as establishing E2E test automation framework to increase delivery velocity.
• (React, Google Cloud, Google Cloud Functions, Firebase, Firestore, Node.js, TypeScript)

Sep 2021 – Nov 2021 · 2 mos · Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

• VC-backed startup building AR-powered tools supporting rigorously controlled processes in pharma manufacturing (pivoted to focus on regulatory process tracking). Fast-tracked first validated go-live by designing engineering process for GxP compliance through documentation, test, and process automation.

Jan 2021 – Sep 2021 · 8 mos · Princeton Junction, New Jersey, United States

• NLP powered platform for organizing, sharing, and consuming operational knowledge.
• Presented architecture at Microsoft's Azure Serverless conf: (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/azure-serverless-conf/surfacing-fda-covid-data-using-serverless-functions-and-cosmosdb-with-charles-chen)
• (Vue, TypeScript, Azure Functions, Azure CosmosDB)

Jan 2014 – Nov 2020 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Irvine, California, United States

• Managed the innovoPOINT product pipeline from requirements scoping with stakeholders to development to multi-million dollar go-lives and ongoing support.
• Technical architect for commercial product that supported all global clinical trials for the world’s largest pharmaceutical customers operating business-critical clinical trials such as Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide trials (Wegovy).
• Scaled the system to support global rollout and reduced latency of world-wide electronic delivery for critical safety letters (SUSARs) by 10x while improving visibility and monitoring of document acceptance rates across all sites.
• Technical interface for customers such as Novo Nordisk and Boehringer-Ingelheim for global rollouts to over 300,000 users at 60,000 trial sites around the world.
• Designed and implemented the core distributed, high-throughput batch event processing architecture using ZeroMQ to enable an event-driven architecture managing millions of nodes in a Neo4j graph database.
• Collaborated with customer IT leaders to scope and design enterprise systems integrations to eTMF (Veeva Vault, FirstDoc), CTMS (Impact), and SSO (Exostar, Ping Identity, Office 365).
• Built off-shore, near-shore, and on-shore engineering teams from the ground up.
• Implemented code quality standards, defined SDLC processes, evaluated emerging technologies, planned engineering roadmap, expedited the QA process via automation and streamlined documentation, and refined the DevOps pipeline.

Jul 2011 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Irvine, California, United States

• Collaborated with customer Roche Diagnostics to define requirements and lead engineering for new Clinical Trial Management Office product. Responsible for $1M engineering budget overseeing nearshore and offshore engineering, QA, and SME resources.
• Worked with sales team to prepare RFI responses including participating in the TransCelerate Shared Investigator Portal (SIP) effort.

Oct 2009 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos · Cranford, New Jersey, United States

• Managed consulting team to deliver full-stack solutions for clients in life sciences and financial verticals. Clients included Abbott Labs, Merck, Citibank, Bank of America, GSK, sanofi-aventis, and Cephalon.
• Supported sales team as a pre-sales engineer to review and respond to RFPs by mapping customer business requirements to solution architectures and technical deliverables. Built proof-of-concept prototypes and authored technical requirements.

Feb 2008 – Oct 2009 · 1 yr 8 mos

• ↑FCG acquired by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)↑ As a senior consultant, lead team of junior consultants on a client site providing senior technical leadership, guidance, and direction for development of a custom publishing tool with heavy OpenXML specialization.

Jul 2007 – Feb 2008 · 7 mos

• ↑Zorch Software acquired by First Consulting Group (FCG)↑ Continued working as a lead developer for Office and desktop components of the FirstPoint product after Zorch Software was acquired by First Consulting Group.

Mar 2006 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

• ↑Zorch Software↑ Lead software engineer of the FirstPoint product for management of documents for regulated workflows. Designed and implemented the Office add-in component, SharePoint integration, and various core framework runtime components for FirstPoint. Also responsible for technical architecture and development of SharePoint 2007 to Project Server 2003 integration components prior to starting FirstPoint.

Jan 2005 – Mar 2006 · 1 yr 2 mos · Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

• Performed solution design and development for various Fortune 500 companies including Pfizer and Northrop Grumman.
• Developed automation framework with deep interactions with Win32 API (P/Invoke) calls to automate Project Server cascading updates across hundreds of enterprise project plans for client Pfizer.
• (As part of International Network Services which was acquired by British Telecom)

Oct 2004 – Dec 2004 · 2 mos · Hopewell, New Jersey, United States

• Developed automated processes and tools for intranet HR applications and ETL packages.

Jul 2004 – Oct 2004 · 3 mos · Hopewell, New Jersey, United States

• Part of front-end team re-building Dow Jones Factiva with a focus on web and accessibility standards.

Jun 2004 – Jul 2004 · 1 mo · New York, New York, United States

• Developed various web applications for management of media campaigns utilizing both ASP and ASP.NET. Optimized performance sensitive SQL queries and improved responsiveness of complex analytics report generation.

Jun 2003 – May 2004 · 11 mos · Upper Saddle River, NJ United States

• Planned and executed database modernization, optimization, and upsizing. Rearchitected, consolidated, and modernized intranet HR applications. Evaluated portal technologies including Plumtree and built in-house solution.