Experience

Cured

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Engineering

  • Jan 2022 - Present

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Jul 2021 - Jan 2022



Pie Insurance

• United States
• Insurance
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Manager, Engineering

  • Oct 2020 - Jun 2021

  Leading four Application squads through a major phase of growth resulting in $118 million Series C.Continuing to build out the platform and applications leading to new, major revenue sources and efficiencies for internal operations.Coaching and supporting teammates through transitions to new roles and continued, rapid growth of Pie Engineering.

• Engineering Team Lead

  • Nov 2018 - Oct 2020

  Led teams from inception to launch of Online Account, multiple internal and external applications for Agencies, new integrations with Box for Document Management and Stripe and Plaid for ACH.Heavily involved with planning for and scaling Engineering at all levels from individual contributors to leadership through competency based interviewing.Coached and supported direct reports through rapid growth and critical deliveries.



MapQuest

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Tech Lead, Search and Geocoding

  • Aug 2017 - Nov 2018

  Led team through design, implementation, optimization and deployment of Mapquest’s initial use of machine learning (Deeplearning4j) in a real-time, user-facing system. The system supports fast, flexible, cost effective and trainable search query parsing which, to date, has resulted in a 50% reduction in error rate relative to the previous system.Led implementation of Point of Interest type classifier using Apache Spark and Deeplearning4j. This POI type data drives iconography on Mapquest maps and is used to enrich search relevance calculations which has led to a 40% increase in map interactions.Led design and development of modern, geospatial core search engine using Scala, Play Framework, Apache Spark and Elasticsearch while maintaining API backwards compatibility. Concurrently, coordinated the multi-stage migration from the Legacy core search engine with web, iOS and Android teams which was achieved successfully with zero down time and zero negative user impact.Willing presenter to varying audiences (from executives to junior engineers) to effectively communicate what the team has done, how technologies have been utilized, and how best the learnings of the team can be leveraged by other teams. Highly motivated by opportunities to leverage work the team has done to positively impact other areas of the organization.Vocal member of Mapquest Architecture Council.Named inventor on 2 Utility Patent Applications filed with the USPTO with more applications in flight.

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Oct 2015 - Aug 2017

  Major contributor to modernization of Mapquest’s predictive search engine using Scala, Spark, Play, and Elasticsearch. Focus included API and Elasticsearch query performance optimization, repeatable and reliable automated processes for search index data generation of baselines and updates and high availability and scaling on AWS infrastructure.Championed the use of Gatling + Jenkins to understand, track, and optimize the performance of Mapquest’s predictive search engine. Harvested test data from production logs, developed benchmark test, and implementing multiple optimizations driven by benchmark test results. Resulted in 75% reduction in latency relative to legacy predictive search engine. Enhanced the benchmark test to track number of results returned which has proven to be a valuable regression testing heuristic.Named inventor on 2 Utility Patent Applications filed with the USPTO



Accenture

• Ireland
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Manager (Development / Tech Lead)

  • Sep 2009 - Oct 2015

  Development/Technical Lead on multiple projects at multiple clients involving new applications or technologies. Quickly building high performing teams and applications from scratch with both Java and Microsoft technologies in large, enterprise environments.Quickly became expert on Apache ServiceMix, Maven, and Camel in order migrate fromexisting Weblogic environment. Engineered and Implemented a flexible, re-usableframework that enabled a rapid and seamless migration to ServiceMix app server.Transferred knowledge to and built skills within multiple onshore and offshore dev teams.Troubleshoot and resolve high priority, high complexity issues in test and productionenvironmentsEnterprise SME for Apache Maven and ServiceMix. Guided numerous applications onmigration to ServiceMix environments.Developed MetaSolv integration techniques in a Weblogic environment to design andimplement a SOAP interface to MSS allowing for the conversion to MSS from multipledisparate systems

• Consultant

  • Sep 2006 - Sep 2009

  Development Lead – Common Desktop - Technical Lead for successful POC of Jacada WorkSpace and Winfuse which led to business adoption of Common Desktop at 2 clients.- Built a team of onshore and offshore developers for the implementation of additional releases and production support.- Primary vendor interface for all things technical. Identified and drove vendor enhancement requests to full implementation.- Trained pilot group of users on-site in the call center prior to go live.Development Lead – Email/Fax Transformation- Mobilized and led a team of five onshore developers and two offshore development teams during design, development, testing, and deployment phases- Instituted processes and standards that ensured all three development teams work at a high level- Interfaced with functional team to identify requirements and frame releases

• Analyst

  • Sep 2004 - Sep 2006

  Development Lead – MS CCF 2.0- Mobilized and led a team of six developers with no CCF experience from multipleorganizations through design, development, testing, and deployment phases- Managed the project’s relationship with a key third party provider requiring daily interactionwith the organization’s Chief Technology Officer and Chief Integration OfficerDeployment Technical Lead - MS CCF 1.1- Designed and developed three custom components as add-ons to Microsoft’s CCF- Developed troubleshooting application that became a best practice for CCF