May 2025 – Present · 1 yr

• The Premier Digital Media & Peer Advisory Community dedicated to Elevating Technology Leaders

Nov 2022 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Remote

• Grew the engineering team from 2 engineers (including myself) to a team of 15+
• Shipped features that created 10x revenue growth over three years
• Managed delivery for two product lines: Personalization and Promotions, shipping strategic features such as Dynamic Offer Trees, Personalized QR Codes, Dynamic Ad Banners
• Established growth plan and implemented key monthly metrics for when we scale the team to 40+
• Promoted key staff into leadership roles and mentored them on mindset
• Created SRE plans, engineering metrics, and tools to measure organizational effectiveness
• Skills: AWS, Python, and SQL

Mar 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Filled mission-critical studio headcount quickly with organic hires (over ten personal referrals), including DevOps personnel responsible for 9 months of 100% uptime for a $200M product
• Cut team costs by 25% while maintaining quality by shifting from 40 San Francisco-based developers to an even split across San Francisco, Toronto, and Austin
• Presented structured hiring processes to 80+ managers
• Managed GDPR efforts for Zynga Poker, becoming the first and best implementation for Zynga, as acknowledged by compliance services, overcoming tremendous team challenges

Jan 2018 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

Oct 2013 – May 2014 · 7 mos · Burlingame, California

• Responsible for resolving team conflicts between client teams and server teams to launch their top-performing social casino product successfully
• Established early hybrid work processes between Austin TX and Burlingame CA, resulting in increased team satisfaction and faster releases of quality games

Apr 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Motivated short staffed team to launch full featured social games network on schedule.
• Managed full team transition from Java to C# to support Microsoft partnership.
• Directed and managed major infrastructure transition for 30m member social network.

Jul 2010 – Apr 2011 · 9 mos

• Responsible for sourcing, negotiating, closing, and launching 100 social games on a competing social network to facebook in six months.

Oct 2008 – Jul 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Built firmware for genre-defining retail product: Frame Wizard (with patent pending technology)

Dec 2003 – Dec 2004 · 1 yr

• Employee number 3, responsible for teaching launch staff how to ship mobile games from day zero.
• Responsible for best selling game Bubble Ducky, outselling the sum of all launch titles combined.
• Top ten casual game on Verizon.

Sep 2001 – Present · 24 yrs 8 mos · Tustin, California, United States

• Fractional CTO and Contract Enterprise Engineering Executive
• Hands-on architect capable of building end-to-end enterprise systems from line of code zero.
• Responsible for re-implementing database connectivity for customer applications, causing 40-second transactions to drop to under 2 seconds.
• Technical Advisor
• Top 50 Speaker at GDC (www.gdconf.com)
• Engineering Mentor (www.mofactor.com/blog)
• Hands-on software hobbyist (www.derfdice.com)
• Systems Builder
• Skills: C++, Java, Typescript/Javascript, PHP, Objective-C, C#, Python, SQL, MongoDB, CouchBase

Apr 1999 – Dec 2000 · 1 yr 8 mos

• 200% of sales quota quarter over quarter on closing customer business

Jun 1997 – Mar 1999 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Built and supported many b2b wireless products including cell diagnostic tools and some of the first real time wireless fleet management software.

May 1996 – May 1997 · 1 yr

• Built software and helped hire great people.