Experience

Sharp Notions, LLC

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead

  • Apr 2019 - Present

  During my time with Sharp Notions, I have worked on several projects. Some were quick MVPs while others have been well-established household names. - Recently, I've spent the last year or so as the team-lead for a smallish contract frontend team working with Chime.com. I've had the opportunity to code everyday, architect some pretty neat stuff, and lead and mentor some developers at different points in their careers. - Previously, I spent a year working with Bestow.com helping to build out some of their really unique onboarding tools. - My first year was spent leading the front-end development and UI of a large SPA in the political fundraising and campaign management space. - I've also contributed to "greenfield" React Native gaming application and a relatively large React web frontend for a client in the financial services sector. - Throughout, I've worked with modern Typescript React with occasional Redux, and a little bit of MobX and Apollo. Additionally, I've occasionally dusted off my old Ruby on Rails and Php skills for smaller projects.



MeetEdgar

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP Product and Engineering

  • Jan 2015 - Aug 2018

  I began at Edgar as a "unicorn" full stack developer and designer, and was promoted to Product Owner and then to "Product Advocate" ( ME titles all their VP-level as "Advocate") reporting to the CEO, meaning I managed the Product & Engineering teams as well as the day-to-day direction and priority of the SMB-focused SaaS application itself. - Participate in setting company strategy at a senior level - Lead hiring and management of the Product & Engineering team - Managed a mid-sized product and engineering team that was 100% remote throughout North America - Lead the product roadmap, defining and prioritizing product features - Product design coordinator - PMP relationship forging and management (Facebook and LinkedIN, etc.) - Rails and React + Redux development



3Pound Health

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services

• Full-stack Software Developer (Rails, Javascript, MongoDB)

  • Jul 2013 - Jan 2015

  I worked as part of a lean development team, on a multi-platform product designed to revolutionize patient engagement in the healthcare industry. I started as the second full-stack developer (mostly Rails), eventually transitioning to mostly JS as we filled out the engineering team. I worked as part of a lean development team, on a multi-platform product designed to revolutionize patient engagement in the healthcare industry. I started as the second full-stack developer (mostly Rails), eventually transitioning to mostly JS as we filled out the engineering team.



StrategyOne / Edelman Intelligence

• Rochester, New York Area

• VP PluggedIN; Later: Independent Consultant

  • Jul 2011 - Mar 2013

  We sold PluggedIN to the market research arm of Edelman in the summer of 2011. I continued my duties for a three-month transition period before formally leaving and transitioning the relationship to an independent consultant role. We sold PluggedIN to the market research arm of Edelman in the summer of 2011. I continued my duties for a three-month transition period before formally leaving and transitioning the relationship to an independent consultant role.



PluggedIN

• Partner and CTO

  • Aug 2008 - Jul 2011

  I became the third partner of a small but successful startup that provided online communities to large corporate clients for market research. My role was leading the design and production of the PluggedIN technology products from front-to-back; including the company's PluggedIN Platform MROC (Market Research Online Community) platform and the PluggedIN Outlet client dashboard. As well as coding and pushing pixels myself, I spent a great deal of time managing a small team of remote developers and managing product roadmaps, budgets and requirements, as well as the day-to-day management of a web-application w/ hundreds of thousands of users.



Form Collective

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet

• Partner, Founder

  • 2005 - 2008

  Co-founded the multimedia studio with a friend, eventually bringing on a third partner and a few interns and contractors. I continued my role as a generalist, working as both a designer and developer (also painted walls, took out trash, fed the cat). Did a lot of PHP and Flash, taught myself Ruby on Rails (pre 1.0!) We became a contract resource for Attik and Odopod from San Francisco, FK Interactive in NYC, and a handful of local agencies in Rochester. These relationships allowed us to work with notable local clients like Wegmans, Xerox, Kodak and Baush & Lomb, as well as clients outside the area like Atlantic Records, Tommy Hilfiger, Scion and Warner Bros. Music. We also continuously spent a portion of our time building our own products, like a social network platform (did everyone build one of these?), a network for political debate and a "wish-list" type of application for registry building.



Coombs Media

• Multimedia Developer

  • 2005 - 2005

  Spent a few months as the "techy guy" on creative team at a small-ish agency. Created client web sites and online rich-media advertising. I designed and developed internet connected applications, delivered on the desktop – and more fancy corporate PowerPoint presentations than I care to remember. Notable clients included Kodak and Bayer Spent a few months as the "techy guy" on creative team at a small-ish agency. Created client web sites and online rich-media advertising. I designed and developed internet connected applications, delivered on the desktop – and more fancy corporate PowerPoint presentations than I care to remember. Notable clients included Kodak and Bayer



LogicalSolutions.net

• Web Designer

  • 2003 - 2005

  Designed client web sites and created online rich-media advertising as part of a small design team in a large dev shop. I was also one of the lead Flash developers, so I had the opportunity to design and develop internet connected applications, delivered over both the web and on the desktop. Among other projects, I designed frontier.com, the Highfalls Brewing website, and many sites for Jim Beam Brands. Designed client web sites and created online rich-media advertising as part of a small design team in a large dev shop. I was also one of the lead Flash developers, so I had the opportunity to design and develop internet connected applications, delivered over both the web and on the desktop. Among other projects, I designed frontier.com, the Highfalls Brewing website, and many sites for Jim Beam Brands.



Self Employed Freelancer

• Rochester, New York Area

• Web Designer / Developer

  • 2001 - 2003

  Spent two years as a gun-for-hire working for mostly local clients. During this time, the projects included marketing pieces on the web, interactive kiosks, and CD-ROMs (remember those?), as well as my first real web-application for a client: a custom CMS for a photography studio on a LAMP stack. Spent two years as a gun-for-hire working for mostly local clients. During this time, the projects included marketing pieces on the web, interactive kiosks, and CD-ROMs (remember those?), as well as my first real web-application for a client: a custom CMS for a photography studio on a LAMP stack.



Buck and Pulleyn

• Web Designer / Developer

  • 2000 - 2001

  One of my college professors happened to also be an art director at B&P and I got recruited before finishing my degree (I went back part-time a year later and got the diploma.) My first project became part of an Addy-winning campaign for Kodak. Way back then, a lot of the ad industry was still getting up to speed. We used to present site comps to clients as printouts mounted on foam-board. I was part of a three-person team that created B2B and B2C web sites, online advertising, and multimedia kiosks for the agency's entire client list, including Kodak, Corning Semiconductor, Xerox, and Aventis.