Experience

Highway Benefits

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP of Engineering

  • Sep 2021 - Present



Wayfair

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Engineering - Supply Chain

  • Aug 2019 - Jul 2021



The Home Depot

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Innovation & Principal Engineer

  • Nov 2017 - Aug 2019

  Lead The Home Depot's Innovation Center, evaluating emerging technology and future use cases within retail. Work with teams throughout the company and vendors throughout the innovation landscape to determine and prototype what's useful now / keep a pulse on what use cases may be possible years from now. Lead a team of ~60 to generate approximately 40 POCs, white papers, and experiments per quarter.Create the vision, communication and tools of paved roads for engineering. Ensure alignment across the company on recommended technologies, processes, tools, and best practices.Own the strategy and execution of the technology internship program consisting of over 250 interns across 5 locations. Achieve a top 5 engineering internship program honors.Oversee and expand engineering attraction, growth, and retention programs. Work directly with University officials to interconnect needs and create a strong and attractive engineering pipeline for new graduates. Iterate on internal rotational program to increase knowledge sharing and promote best practices cross pollination.

• Staff Software Engineer

  • Aug 2015 - Nov 2017

  Invent strategy and software to provide our engineers a world class toolset, community, and experience. Strengthen The Home Depot's presence in the open source landscape. Train, teach, and mentor on architecture, API design, XP and cloud-native practices.Increase The Home Depot's IT productivity through the delivery of enterprise solutions. Guide development community through an agile/extreme programming cultural transformation. Teach workshops and individuals on cloud-native development, TDD/BDD, continuous integration/delivery/deployment, and microservices.

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2014 - Aug 2015

  Lead efforts and contribute to the successful delivery of front and back-end workstreams• Coach, guide and direct development team through Agile product deliveries• Establish, teach and enforce standards and best practices• Implement processes and tools to automate or eliminate tasks requiring manual intervention• Determine enterprise solutions driving a migration to Agile development

• Software Engineer

  • May 2013 - Jan 2014

  Work on internal application to optimize The Home Depot's competitive advantage• Build UI using client-side JavaScript (JavascriptMVC, CanJS, Handlebars)• Design and construct RESTful APIs (Jersey/JAX-RS)• Write complex queries to support non-standard services (Oracle/DB2)• Invent and automate the delivery of meaningful analytics to stakeholders• Serve as Scrum Master



Macy's

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Developer

  • 2011 - 2013

  Deliver products using Agile methodologies. Plan, design, and execute technical approach for projects reaching large audiences. Execute test plans and review developers' work to ensure quality. Development in J2EE, all client-side web formats (XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) as well as server-side. Develop, test, deploy, and support production applications and their servers (IBM WebSphere 6.0, 7.0 and Glassfish) -- as well as appropriate stress testing. Database development / planning in large and small scales (DB2, MySQL, Teradata, Exadata, PostgreSQL). Develop and transmit messages between applications through HTTP sockets.



Christine Galvin Design, Inc.

• Technology, Information and Internet

• PHP / Web Developer

  • 2010 - 2011

  Worked closely with the company owner/designer and customers to deliver custom web solutions. Responsible for independent technical design and implementation. Served as mentor to other developers. Constructed and implemented a custom CMS to minimize development efforts. Worked closely with the company owner/designer and customers to deliver custom web solutions. Responsible for independent technical design and implementation. Served as mentor to other developers. Constructed and implemented a custom CMS to minimize development efforts.



Agile Software Factory

• PHP / Web Developer

  • 2008 - 2009

  Design, plan and construct unique products through interaction with stakeholders, strictly utilizing Agile processes. Fully constructed websites for a streaming radio station as well as an employee training application for an international bank. Design, plan and construct unique products through interaction with stakeholders, strictly utilizing Agile processes. Fully constructed websites for a streaming radio station as well as an employee training application for an international bank.