Apr 2025 – Dec 2025 · 8 mos · New York, New York, United States · Hybrid

Apr 2022 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs · Manhattan, New York, United States · Hybrid

• Developed features, conducted testing, and resolved bugs for internal Merchant Experience and scheduling tools at Warner Bros. Discovery.
• Mentored junior developers and interns, conducted code reviews, and provided technical leadership in leveraging tools like Storybook, Cypress, and Cucumber for testing and debugging.
• Innovated living documentation for an extensive set of tools within a large mono-repo, contributing to improved efficiency and collaboration.

Aug 2021 – Apr 2022 · 8 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

• Spearheaded the development of custom schema-driven solutions for SKU and IAP management features, enhancing functionality and usability.
• Led a cross-functional team of backend engineers to successfully implement versioned components with 100% code coverage.
• Developed comprehensive testing protocols using Storybook stories and Cypress tests to ensure high-quality code and user experience.

May 2016 – Oct 2021 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Responsible for designing and developing advanced software systems, and providing for their management and maintenance. Recruiting, retaining, and managing a software development team. Directing and collaborating with that team to accomplish company goals.
• Support clients with the expertise to quickly spin up new projects using modern frameworks like Angular and React with ReST or GraphQL(w/Apollo). Generate, code, debug, test, build and deploy using industry standard tools: Yeoman, Chrome debugger, Redux Dev-Tools, Webstorm, Mocha, Enzyme, Protractor, Cucumber, Node/NPM, Webpack and Jenkins.
• Provided the initial architecture for the NYC/DHS capacity planning tool for the cities shelters.
• Mentored junior developers and performed code-reviews.

Dec 2014 – May 2015 · 5 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Provided architectural leadership and AngularJS expertise for the Credit Sales Link application. Coordinated efforts between New York and London teams, establishing a component based architecture using Yeoman generators for consistent hierarchical component generation as well as paving the way for future migration to Angular 2.0. Generated components included test stubs for Karma and optional data stores (repository pattern) with switchable local mock data (useful for both development and testing). The Sales Link team fought for and succeeded in establishing the use of git (Stash) and demonstrated dramatic productivity gains using pull-requests vs the existing Perforce workflow. Adapted an in-house SlickGrid directive to easily handle 10’s of thousands of rows of rich data that could be scrolled and filtered (on a per column or global basis) without noticeable lag. High-fidelity client-side export to Excel using web-workers to prevent locking the UI thread. Efficient and intelligent use of Appcache to speed loading and improve cacheability.
• The Credit Sales Link team won praise from management for it’s parallel development effort, adding features to an existing app while simultaneously re-writing with additional features, enhanced UX and a dramatically more performant and maintainable code base, seamlessly flipping the switch between old and new applications, all in record time.

Feb 2012 – Oct 2021 · 9 yrs 8 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Built on and off-device Activation, Registration and Sign-In features for HBO GO and NOW.
• Championed executable specifications as a single source of truth for software development.
• Fraud detection using AWS based Machine Learning resources including Tensorflow and Jupyter Notebooks.
• Principal Architect for a suite of internal/b2b tools.
• Notable Features:
• Shared style-guide.
• Single Sign-On for both Authentication and Authorization.
• Use of generators to quickly spin up new applications.
• An onboarding tool for new hires
• FE Architect for the HBO GO/HBO NOW Admin Tool built with React/Redux/Redux-Observable.
• Architect for an internal B2B project powered by AngularJS + Express. Innovations include consumer facing and admin components that shared the same UI to provide WYSIWYG publishing for Image, Video and PDF Release content. The application supports the full CMS lifecycle. Designed and implemented a custom request/response system using JSON diff to optimize data transfer between the frontend and backend. This system sent only the changes in the request and updated the local state from the response, significantly improving efficiency and reducing bandwidth usage. Demonstrated expertise in creating tailored solutions to enhance performance and streamline operations.
• Tech lead for the mobile version of HBO.com, a highly-interactive visually-rich HTML/CSS3 application using AngularJS. Emphasis on performance techniques. Introduced continuous unit testing with Testacular/Karma.
• Delivered Ignite style talks for both Time Inc. Water Cooler talks and Google hosted AngularJS Meetups, laying out HBO’s strategy for leveraging AngularJS to produce responsive, SEO friendly solutions.
• Participated in the first HBO hackathon as one of the primary developers on the audience favorite which was one of 4 selected for productization.

Apr 2011 – Jan 2012 · 9 mos · 355 Park Avenue South, New York NY

• Took over the lead GUI architect role in the early development stage of an Agile Mobile Web project for American Express, seamlessly adapting to as well as championing and extending the existing micro-framework based architecture. The micro-frameworks used were Backbone, Zepto and Underscore.
• Incorporated modern best-practices to improve performance and scalability in the relatively high-latency, low-bandwidth and memory constrained mobile space. Specific techniques included heavy usage of CSS3, html5 appcache, local and session storage as well as dynamic script loading, consolidation, minification, gzip and resource inlining.
• Developed an ANT build script to combine, minify and pre-compress CSS and JS resources as part of the effort to reduce download latency and improve performance. Debug code was also stripped and Docco style docs were generated as part of the build process.
• Introduced unit testing using Jasmine BDD (behavior-driven development) framework.
• Demonstrated the existing Web App deployed as a Native App (via Phonegap) capable of running on IOS, Android, Blackberry and Palm.
• Assisted in deploying in a hybrid IOS App running in a remote web view.

Aug 2006 – Apr 2011 · 4 yrs 8 mos

• Designed and developed an N-Tier, Cross-Browser Model Driven Architecture (MDA) based on industry standards: HTML, CSS, XML, XML Schema (XSD), XSLT, XPath, SCXML (State Chart XML) and Schematron (a rule based validation language for XML). The approach was similar to that taken by XForms (a W3C standard), having the advantage of reducing the amount of javascript required. The approach minimized side-effects and unit test complexity (more declarative, less imperative).
• Devised a high performance XSLT merge template to incrementally synchronize models across all tiers, drastically reducing network traffic and latency. The technique is suitable for both AJAX and Comet style applications.
• Integrated third party widget libraries (ExtJS/Sencha, DhtmlX) with an XML-based MDA in the browser. The approach allowed different third-party widget libraries to be "plugged-in", typically with only a small amount of javascript bootstrap code and an XSLT template, reducing vendor lock-in and as well as the number of unit tests required for full coverage.
• Worked directly with our major clients to define and meet both usability and performance metrics critical to client acceptance of our software.
• Served as GUI Team Lead, on a large scale (150,000+ user) web based time keeping and work force management application, for a team that varied in size from 5-10 developers while also performing as Lead Architect and full-time developer, we coordinated with ~60 other developers in the middle and database tiers.
• Mentored more junior programmers on coding style and architectural compliance with a focus on leveraging the unique strengths of each developer, merging disparate viewpoints into a coherent whole.
• Trained team members on usage of browser based debuggers and standalone xml/xslt debuggers/profilers.
• Worked with team members to understand rules based state management, how to write rules and how to generate unit tests for their rules.

Jul 2003 – Aug 2006 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Applied graph theory to describe and visualize complex interoperability characteristics of C4ISR (DODAF) and net-centric architectures, with use of industry standard graphML as a data exchange format between Eclipse Modeling Framework (Java) based plugins and GUESS: The Graph Exploration System (with Jython for the user interface).
• Developed a uniform method for navigating and converting (when necessary), extracting, transforming and loading (as XML) DOD service-specific configuration data from disparate sources (RDBMS, HTML, RTF, XML, CSV). The method ran inside the Eclipse IDE and made substantial use of Ant.
• Devised and instituted requirements and configuration management plans for a suite of C4ISR architecture assessment tools.
• Trained team members on Model Driven Architecture (MDA) processes in the context of the open-source eclipse modeling framework (EMF).

Aug 2001 – Jul 2003 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Architected robust software solution for Navy-wide timekeeping system (globally distributed) that was both scalable and user friendly. Innovations included dynamic resource loading (classes, menus and screens) based on the users permission set.
• Performed Load Testing and performance analysis on existing timekeeping system prior to proposing and architecting a solution to scalability issues.
• Reduced data bandwidth for a typical operation from 25MB to 50K by combining AJAX, mid-tier and client-side caching along with selective compression of data.
• Spearheaded the migration of a CMMI level II organization to CMMI level III.
• Trained team members on use of XHTML, object-oriented JavaScript, XML and XSLT.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2006 · 7 yrs

Aug 1998 – Aug 2001 · 3 yrs

• Performed software design, development, testing and maintenance along with database design and administration.
• Facilitated data collection, verification and management from C4I systems.

May 1996 – Aug 1998 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Served as Lead developer for Virginia Department of Transportation’s (VDOT) Overhead Sign Inventory and Inspection Application Suite, as well as a similar application for the Louisiana Department of Transportation (LDOT) to support analysis of bridge scour.
• Trained on and performed traffic control, inspection and non-destructive testing of traffic structures.