Jan 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · New York, New York, United States

• God’s Love We Deliver cooks and home-delivers nutritious, medically tailored meals for people too sick to shop or cook for themselves. To support the health of our clients, we also provide ongoing nutrition assessment, education, and counseling. God’s Love is a non-sectarian organization serving people in need and their children and caregivers. All of our services are provided free to clients and full of love.

Apr 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · New York, New York, United States

• Led a distributed team of ~1500 engineers across a large swath of the Card business: Rewards, Payments, Authorizations, Acquisitions, Customer Management, Orchestration, Fraud, CreditWise, Data Science and Bureau Engineering, Policy & Rules, Travel, FlexPay, Small Business, Mainstreet and Upmarket
• Accountable Executive for the Capital One Developer Academy
• Regional Lead for Women in Tech Chapters across New York, New England, Wilmington (DE), San Francisco and London
• Accountable Technology Executive for diligence on numerous acquisition efforts

Aug 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · New York, New York, United States

• Part of the team that delivered the first Commercial Bank in the world to be 100% in the cloud.
• Led the engineering teams responsible for the customer facing channels of the Commercial Bank
• Accountable Executive for the delivery of a cloud-based platform across all lines of business that won a 2019 Circle of Excellence Award

Jan 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · New York, New York · On-site

• Delivered, and personally contributed to, the Android app for Northwestern Mutual
• Delivered a digital underwriting experience moving allowing for same-day underwriting for life insurance
• Built the mobile team (iOS and Android) from the ground up in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Responsible for the maintenance and delivery of new features across both Northwestern Mutual and LearnVest
• Delivered a complete site redesign for LearnVest
• Responsible for the mobile strategy across the company (both client-facing and internal mobile apps)
• Led a team of software engineers in New York City, Minneapolis and Milwaukee, Wisconsin supporting the Client Experience
• Led the corporate digital transformation journey around Omni-Channel Client Servicing which delivered significant improvements around speed in underwriting.

Sep 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Los Angeles, CA

• Led a distributed team of software and quality engineers working across two locations in California and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Deconstructed a monolithic Ruby-on-Rails application in multiple physical data centers globally into a series of microservices in AWS
• Delivered a complete overhaul of ReachEdge, an award-winning marketing automation, analytics and lead management software
• Delivered a new mobile reporting app on both iOS and Android for global clients

May 2011 – Jun 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Oversaw the software development and delivery of the global platforms (both new and existing) as well as led the Credit Services Global Product Development for emerging products.
• Set strategy for software development approaches/methodology in a dynamic, demanding environment.
• Monitored emerging technology trends and best practices for new opportunities to assure optimum team performance.
• Worked in partnership with functional teams and provided a bridge ensuring a consistent set of techniques, approaches, and perspectives were shared across global environments.
• Responsible for high-level planning product roadmap and business cases to align with go-to-market plans for new products.
• Oversaw product life-cycle from conception to launch and maintenance
• Planned and directed activities including planning and implementing forecasts and budgets for approval and assure adherence once the budget is approved.
• Demonstrated leadership and vision in determining and driving strategy decisions, process changes, business initiatives, etc.
• Worked closely with executive teams to define the direction and overall roadmap, including analysis and review of hardware/software requirements.
• Selected, developed, managed and motivated the development staff to ensure optimum productivity, team effectiveness, and job satisfaction. Provided the team with a broader organizational perspective.
• Experience with major components in the Hadoop Ecosystem like Hadoop Map Reduce, HDFS, HIVE, PIG, Pentaho, HBase, Sqoop, and Avro.
• Experience using Java, Swift, Objective-C, J2EE, Struts, Hibernate, JBMP, Drools, SOAP, RESTful, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, JUnit, Robot Automated Test Framework, VersionOne, JIRA, GIT, Mavin, Jenkins
• Managed Intellectual Property process within Credit Services with numerous patents awarded.

Nov 2008 – May 2011 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Led the web development, co-brand and Search Engine Marketing teams using primarily open source technologies such as MVC (cakePHP) and perl in an agile (kanban) environment
• Personally created Experian's first mobile app (PriceGrabber) for iOS and scaled out the mobile presence to include Android and iPad specific apps.
• Developed and maintained public API used to drive significant traffic from partners such as Yahoo! Shopping.
• Was promoted from Director to Sr. Director
• Received numerous Experian awards for the ideation and development of the mobile apps and for the successful Yahoo! Shopping Product Launch and Integration
• Idea of the Year – FY 2010 - development of mobile apps
• Experian Elite Award – FY 2010 - contribution around mobile app development
• Product Launch of the Year – FY 2010 - backend integration with Yahoo! Shopping
• Key Innovative Contributor – FY 2010 - hands-on development of the mobile apps

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Los Angeles, CA

• Advising in technology matters, primarily pertaining to cloud technologies for image storage and delivery solutions.

Apr 2008 – Nov 2008 · 7 mos · Anaheim, California

• Came into a struggling business that was under-performing. Introduced agile (scrum) to both the business and development teams delivering visible value.
• Created an environment of accountability through close collaboration with business stakeholders. Brought stability to legacy applications and reporting solutions. Delivered to plan through Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.
• Primarily a .NET (C#), SQL, IoT environment using traditional e-commerce.

Aug 2006 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 7 mos · Huntington Beach, CA

• Since 1985, Radiant Systems (now NCR) has consistently provided innovative technology to the hospitality, entertainment and convenience store industries. With point-of-sale, self-service kiosks and back office technology that defines the customer experience, Radiant enables operators to drive top-line growth and improve bottom-line performance.
• Responsible for:
• Management and hiring of the software development team
• Timely and accurate completion of development tasks using C#, VB.NET, SQL Server, MS-Access, T/SQL and VBA
• Identification of necessary product features
• Established and maintained good software development practices
• Coordination of staff and priorities
• Code Reviews
• Quality Metrics
• Communication of product information with clients
• Preparing estimates and quotes for clients

Apr 2005 – Aug 2006 · 1 yr 4 mos · Los Angeles, CA

• Led a team of DBAs, analysts, engineers and testers working on MonsterTRAK.com
• Created a team in Prague, Czech Republic to drive down the cost of maintenance for existing websites.
• Delivered a successful major overhaul of the website
• Implemented an agile/hybrid approach for development and was able to successfully integrate other teams and the business into a new methodology through a series of steady successes

Oct 2001 – Apr 2005 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Goleta, CA

• Led a team of 30 globally-distributed developers, engineers, scientists and testers working primarily in C and C++ in a heavy IoT environment overseeing software and firmware.
• Led a successful acquisition of a Dutch Company and a merger of software assets
• Very hands on leadership by writing code and testing applications in a laboratory and live environment (at sea)
• Wrote internal application (LAMP stack) that allowed for the creation of a rental vertical

Aug 2000 – Nov 2001 · 1 yr 3 mos · Washington, District Of Columbia

• Staff Software Engineer responsible for internal applications that delivered broadcast solutions to Associated Press members and internal staff.
• Developed Line 21 solutions for automated closed-caption transcription of news across US major markets.
• Strong video, audio and VoIP development of client/server solutions and web applications using primarily
• Borland C++
• Delphi
• Visual Basic 6
• Visual C++
• perl

Jun 1997 – Feb 2001 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Responsible for the network operations of 88 channels of audio in a seamless 24/7 environment. Worked closely with and directed the work of IBEW Union staff.
• Responsible for ensuring timely coverage of breaking news (Death of Princess Diana), major sporting events (Super Bowl, March Madness) and for the production of major radio shows (Loveline, Tom Leykis, Larry King)
• Led the engineering efforts to build the CBS Marketwatch Studios in Washington D.C.
• Harris News Release from CBS MarketWatch Radio Project:
• http://harris.com/view_pressrelease.asp?act=lookup&pr_id=777

Apr 1992 – Jun 1997 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Jackson, Ohio

• On-air talent providing 24-hour local news coverage in the tri-state area covering Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky for a group of locally-owned radio stations.
• Morning and Afternoon drive news coverage. Attended local meetings and gathered news by attending hearings in local courts, making phone calls and nuturing local contacts.
• Provided voice-overs for commercials, sold radio advertising, oversaw a very heavy local sports schedule and made arrangements for technical coverage at all locations.
• Provided breaking news coverage for CNN Radio during the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility Riot.