Experience

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  Gravis Law, PLLC

  • Richland, Washington, United States

  • Director of Software Development

    • Jun 2024 - Present
    • Richland, Washington, United States

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  SimplyFun

  • Bellevue, WA

  • Director of Information Technology

    • Apr 2016 - May 2024
    • Bellevue, WA

    Managing all facets of operations and development of a direct-to-consumer Shopify E-Commerce website and overseeing the technical requirements for a team of 20+ employees. • Senior team member actively contributing to the development and execution of business strategy. • Advisor to CEO on transition and implementation of direct-to-consumer business model and selling games on Amazon. • Served as Chief Information Security Officer. • Ensured the security and integrity of IT systems, networks, and data through the implementation of robust cybersecurity measures, including Sophos end point and server threat protection, Keeper password management, and MFA with Microsoft Authenticator. • Developed and deployed risk management, PII and disaster recovery policies and procedures. • Served as Lead Software Engineer. • Designed and developed a sales dashboard for consultants using ETL, MySQL, PHP and Angular. • Designed and developed a faceted product search web application using Amazon Cloudsearch. • Designed and developed a fully responsive, mobile optimized, image intensive website to showcase 150 games. • Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand business needs and provide technology solutions to drive innovation and productivity. • Spearhead the implementation of direct-to-consumer Shopify web site as the brand moved away from the direct selling industry to support business growth. • Led migration to 100% cloud-based services and storage. • Negotiated contracts with multiple vendors for Internet, phone system, payment processing, and web hosting. • Established relationships with multiple vendors during office redesign, including cabling, construction, networking, and physical infrastructure.

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  Upmod, Inc

  • Issaquah, WA

  • CTO

    • Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
    • Issaquah, WA

    Upmod (formerly UpcyclePost) is a Social Sharing Marketplace that enables upcycle artisans to sell their goods to a consuming public who are increasingly aware of the need for responsible consumption.The company represents an exciting opportunity to help shape the Sharing Economy with a marketplace business model that combines social media integration to support buyer/seller communication, a mobile sharing app to enable used goods to be supplied by consumers to artisans, and a marketplace platform built specifically for upcycle artisans.Upmod is fun, innovative, inspired & most of all a force for positive change - at a time when society is adopting a more balanced approach to sustainable living.• Hired to architect, design, develop, and implement an online marketplace supporting hundreds of merchants and tens of thousands of products.• Integrated with 3rd party payment processing gateway, for authorization, capture, refunds, and distribution of funds to merchants.• Established SDLC (Agile), bug tracking (Jira), Customer Support (Zendesk), Configuration Management & Source code control (git/github).• Assumed all operating and financial responsibilities after one of the co-founders left company.

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  ClassifiedAds.com

  • Bellevue, Wa

  • V.P. Engineering

    • Jan 2012 - Nov 2014
    • Bellevue, Wa

    Responsible for all aspects of Software Development, Quality Assurance, and Information Technology.• Hired with the express purpose of building out the engineering team from 2 FTE to current 6 FTE, and establishing an SDLC, Configuration management, and Systems management processes• Executive management team member responsible for Strategy, Financial and Performance Goal setting• Designed, developed and implemented a web based internal reporting solution for reporting, managing and bidding on ~500,000 online ad buys• Designed, developed and implemented the ClassifiedAds.com web site, supporting 20 mm page views / month, and ~ 10 Million listings with sub second response time• Integrated with numerous 3rd party services, including Google, Bing, and Yahoo• Project managed company move, including coordinating with multiple vendors for build out, networking, etc.

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  Intellectual Ventures

  • Bellevue, Washington

  • Director of Software Engineering

    • Sep 2009 - Oct 2011
    • Bellevue, Washington

    • Expanded Software Engineering team from 25 to 60+ employees and contractors in 18 months, including direct management of software engineering and quality assurance teams• Directed Global development staff with offices in U.S., Singapore, Argentina and India• Introduced formalized project management lifecycle that increased the number of projects delivered by 50%, while reducing overall cost and improving quality• Implemented monthly release program that increased efficiency (number of projects delivered) by 20% and reduced planned outages by 75%, including on demand builds and continuous integration• Introduced Agile/Scrum SDLC that resulted in improved predictability and realization of business value• Managed multiple offshore staff augmentation vendors with 20+ contractors, that reduced costs by 30% and improved ability to support round the clock business centers• Managed multiple project based outsourcing vendors with annual expenditure of $1.5 mm• Directed implementation of SalesForce.com as central Customer Relationship Management repository• Responsible for $8 mm product development budget• Responsible for all aspects of vendor contract negotiation, including, but not limited to RFP process, technical qualification, pricing and licensing terms• Utilized a combination of .Net and Open Source (Primarily Solr/Lucene) technologies to increase cost effectiveness

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  Lexis Nexis Applied Discovery

  • Director Of Product Development

    • Dec 2003 - May 2009

    Responsible for overall product development execution, led a staff of 30+ employees, including development, quality assurance and program management.• Expanded the Software Development team from 6 to 35 employees, including overseeing one downsizing and subsequent rebuilding.• Implemented an Agile/Scrum development methodology.• Led the design and development of a document processing platform that doubled pages per year processed to 2 billion total pages in 2008.• Led the design and development of an online document review application with the ability to search up to 30 million documents and simultaneously maintained sub-second document to document time for up to 250 reviewers.• Responsible for $5 mm product development budget.• Actively participated in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 TAP (early adopter program).(http://www.microsoft.com/servers/sql/2008/sqlserverenergy/en/us/default.aspx?page=case-studies)• Member of due diligence team for several acquisitions

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  CobWeb

  • VP Development

    • Aug 1998 - Dec 2003

    Hired to architect and implement an n-tier hosted (SAAS) online transaction processing electronic commerce platform. Platform included full online payment, fraud detection, and tax integration via Cybersource, as well as fulfillment integration with multiple suppliers and shippers.• Part of Executive team that took a start up from 3 to 50 employees and the brink of a merger and IPO before the dot com fallout.• Proven ability to deliver exceptional applications on time and under budget.• Demonstrated ability to excel in a fast paced high growth atmosphere.• Key Employee status as CobWeb was shuttered and technology was sold off to Unisoft, Inc.