Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

Aug 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Lead a team of Data Engineers working to optimize Instagram’s ads rankings and delivery systems.

May 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Head of Data at a Series-C startup building data oriented services for the fintech and lending industry. Scaled the data organization building engineering, analytics and data science teams.

Nov 2017 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Technical architect aligned to shared data platforms group. I helped launch the the company-wide data lake and streaming data platform.

Sep 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

Oct 2013 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• I pitched and then founded the Data Engineering function at CFPB. The team provided platform, products, and automation for the Data and Analytics programs at large at the CFPB. We organized ourselves into three agile teams that included participants from our systems and development orgs as well. I served as product owner for all three teams.

Nov 2012 – Oct 2013 · 11 mos

Jun 2012 – Nov 2012 · 5 mos · Chicago, IL

• Developed data integration pipelines that allowed various units of the campaign to exchange and make sense of disparate data
• Managed data for the national polling location lookup tool that lived at barackobama.com/lookup. This critical technology product helped ~8 million voters find out where they were supposed to vote, and was the target of more than 10 million in ad spending.
• Supported the creation of data and analytics products for leadership at both the state and national level

May 2010 – May 2012 · 2 yrs · Washington D.C.

• NOI was a very entrepreneurial environment! I joined as a developer, and then was asked to lead a small team of developers and data managers
• Data management for the Voting Information Project during the 2010 election cycle: Partnered with Google to build an API that got ~7 million hits the week of the midterm elections. The first national polling location lookup tool ever to exist!
• Worked on the following websites as a web developer: neworganizing.com, candidateproject.org, presente.org, colorofchange.org, and fooddemocracynow.org.
• Helped with NOIs data bootcamps, and developed a SQL training to give to emerging data managers and analytics professionals.

Mar 2009 – May 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos · Washington D.C.

• Leveraged novel data assurance techniques to ensure the accuracy of voting information during critical 2010 election cycle. Managed databases for Michigan and Florida.

Sep 2008 – Nov 2008 · 2 mos · Michigan & Florida

• Led a distributed geocoding effort to provide accurate voting data and tracked all staging locations (over 70). Supported real-time reporting for the Florida boiler room Election Day operations.

Oct 2007 – Jun 2008 · 8 mos · Chicago, IL

• Supported campaign efforts at the campaign headquarters in Chicago for the presidential primary.