Apr 2014 – Mar 2024 · 9 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco · On-site

• ▪ Cost Saving/Outsourcing: Orchestrated handling of outsourced most engineering services, including web and mobile development, saving 70% of the annual budget YOY.
• ▪ Quotes/Negotiation: I maintained expenditures within budget and allocated funds for engineering, SaaS, and software purchases.
• ▪ Engineering Team Growth/Change Management: I led the team through five significant management strategy changes, ramping up our Engineering team from 3 to over 65. My main focus has been to economize developer acquisition and retention.
• ▪ Innovation/Tech Stack: I led on the cutting edge of technology, introduced new technologies, improved products or processes, drastically changed the tech stack, and built reliable and high-performing products.
• ▪ Leadership/Process Re-engineering: I coached and mentored developers regarding burnout, the long-term effects of product architecture decisions on business, and the alignment and prioritization of stakeholder requirements.
• ▪ Artificial Intelligence/OpenAI: As an "AI (Artificial Intelligence) enabler," I led the engineering team in building various Machine Learning algorithms using Vision, speech, open-source, to create recommendation systems, chatbots, a visual inspection system, and software evaluation tooling.
• ▪ Infrastructure/Data Synchronization: Rearchitected infrastructure to use Kubernetes upgrading to a more robust system.
• ▪ Process Improvements: Created new product development processes to standardize requirements and planning. Constantly improved technology tooling and product development processes to increase accountability and incentivization.
• ▪ Services Buildout: Create a full Quality Assurance (QA) team that manages automated testing. I also expanded our IT security services to include support for SOC2 compliance and M&A audits.
• Shaw and Partners was privately sold in March of 2024.