Experience

EasyPost

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Technology

  • Apr 2016 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area



Where Angel Fund

• Limited Partner

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  Greater Boston Area Attend Investment Committee meetings, evaluate companies, provide insights and feedback to guide investments for the $1M+ associated with the fund.



Start Tank

• Mentor

  • Mar 2013 - Present

  Greater Boston Area Applicant review and diligence. Provide mentorship to various companies residing within the Start Tank incubator program.



Techstars

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Mentor

  • Sep 2012 - Present

  Greater Boston Area Met with companies, provide solutions for key blockers, make introductions, review architecture, product and business with founders.



Pebble Tech

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering

  • Feb 2015 - Mar 2016

  San Francisco Bay Area Directly managed the firmware team in Palo Alto, the largest single team within Pebble, and the Test Automation Infrastructure team. Mentor to other engineers across various disciplines, via both formal regular meetings and informal conversations. Directly contributed to software for the launch of multiple new Pebble watches and participated in several internal hackathons. Technical leadership for Pebble Time Round program, specifically in regards to Manufacturing and Recovery, the two most… Show more Directly managed the firmware team in Palo Alto, the largest single team within Pebble, and the Test Automation Infrastructure team. Mentor to other engineers across various disciplines, via both formal regular meetings and informal conversations. Directly contributed to software for the launch of multiple new Pebble watches and participated in several internal hackathons. Technical leadership for Pebble Time Round program, specifically in regards to Manufacturing and Recovery, the two most critical and error intolerant areas of firmware, as well as the in-store demo firmware which required gathering requirements, partnership with marketing and sales, as well as a custom OS variant and process definition. Provided leadership for initial foundation of Pebble Health, from collaboration with researchers and product team, to technical requirements definition and review and schedule management. Software lead and manager for the New Products teams at Pebble, inclusive of backlog management, grooming, and other agile ceremonies and practices intra-team, as well as ownership of requirements, staffing, and definition, and representation with executive staff. Show less



PayPal

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Site Engineering Manager

  • Dec 2012 - Nov 2014

  Greater Boston Area Lead team of 35+ engineers across services, merchant applications, internal tools, and consumer applications for the demand generation business. Stabilized organization, team, and projects post acquisition. Drove agile transformation and engineering best practices, gitflow, code review, tdd, pair programming. Provide strategic and architectural guidance across all relevant domains, ranging from detailed code and architecture review to long term roadmap guidance.

• Architect

  • Apr 2011 - Dec 2012

  Greater Boston Area Oversaw architecture on the PayPal consumer engineering and wallet group across East Coast, West Coast, and India Dev Centers. Owned and accountable for offers and demand generation technology domains for online and offline payments as well as projects including social service integrations, core mobile experience, and marketing solutions. Continued to lead demand generation application teams, with a focus on web and mobile web products. Led incubations, delivering a fully functional rapid… Show more Oversaw architecture on the PayPal consumer engineering and wallet group across East Coast, West Coast, and India Dev Centers. Owned and accountable for offers and demand generation technology domains for online and offline payments as well as projects including social service integrations, core mobile experience, and marketing solutions. Continued to lead demand generation application teams, with a focus on web and mobile web products. Led incubations, delivering a fully functional rapid prototype of a mobile gift card solution. Continued development and management of existing applications in support of the business.



WHERE, LLC

• United States
• Wireless Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Developer

  • Feb 2008 - Apr 2011

  Greater Boston Area Acquired by PayPal Managed and led architecture and hiring for web, mobile web, and our SMB platform teams. Replatformed web applications from SpringMVC to Ruby on Rails. Engineering lead for restful APIs which were leveraged by mobile client applications, performing hands on API interface design, application architecture, and deployments. Hired, trained, and mentored junior engineers across the entire company.



Zync Inc

• Software Developer

  • Aug 2006 - Feb 2008

  Greater Boston Area Acquired by Where (formerly uLocate Communications) Developed consumer facing web application to solve the problem of how to spend your free time. Co-architected early systems and with a focus on domain analysis and mapping for events and locations, as well as contributing to the recommendations engine.



Business Innovation

• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2005 - Dec 2005

  Greater Boston Area Met with clients, performing requirements gathering and facilitation. Developed eCommerce web based application leveraging faceted search (Endeca) for client as part of team. Mentored junior engineers.



Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Web Developer

  • Jul 2004 - Dec 2004

  Greater Boston Area Provided technical fixes for existing product defects across university properties, working directly with stakeholders and senior staff. Responsible for full end to end solutions including testing, debugging, development, and deployment. Implemented new features and updates across websites.