Experience

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  Angi

  • Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Software Engineering Manager

    • Feb 2022 - Nov 2023
    • Seattle, Washington, United States

    • Led a multidisciplinary full stack application development team - iOS, Android, Back end / APIs.• Built, grew and coached the geographically dispersed team across several international timezones.• Guided team members through promotion to Senior Engineer and to Engineering Manager.• Collaborated with Product and Design in a cross-functional team to address roadmap development and prioritization, identify, plan and deliver features which benefitted both our customers and our business partners.• Developed and released advanced filtering features which resulted in a +3% increase in job claims per pro in a workflow which has historically been highly challenging to impact.• Introduced operational excellence standards by defining and implementing monitoring, alerting, CICD and a test driven culture, reducing production incidents by over 15%.• Oversaw Devops for mobile/front-end.• Instituted, defined and managed On-Call rotations across suite of apps and platforms to address high impact scenarios quickly and definitively resulting in a reduction of developer maintenance time.

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  Force of Hope

  • Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Board Member

    • Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
    • Seattle, Washington, United States

    Serve as a volunteer board member at large, advising leadership of non-profit in general business management.

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  GoDaddy

  • United States
  • Technology, Information and Internet
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Manager & Technical Lead

    • Mar 2018 - Feb 2022

    • Developed and shipped previously unsupported native retail purchase path resulting in multi-million dollar transaction funnel, seeing initial sales of over $2million in year one.• Created flexible search and alerting for preferred domain names on mobile applications to expand user base and allow on-the-go participation in auctions resulting in significant customer satisfaction improvement.• Led rearchitecting of iOS and Android products by introducing modern Swift and Kotlin practices and patterns to increase performance, reliability and scalability.• Led a team of up to 8 engineers developing a collaborative software development process with a Product owner and a Designer on iOS and Android apps.• Mentored junior engineers and established innovative standards for quality mobile engineering across the company.• Established comprehensive CICD pipeline with automation, regression testing and quality control.• Merged acquisition business including products and team members into GoDaddy family.

  • Software Engineering Manager (iOS)

    • Jan 2016 - Mar 2018

    • Managed a team of up to 6 iOS Engineers with varying degrees of seniority and technical skills.• Provided iOS and Apple specific troubleshooting on all relevant projects as subject matter expert.• Mentored and developed the skills of individual team members identifying areas of opportunity.• Introduced engineering best practices which reduced software engineering time and increased consistency.• Mentored team on agile software development processes.• Completed performance evaluations for direct reports and contributed to 360 reviews.• Sole responsibility for development and maintenance of domain name auction application.

  • Lead Mobile Engineer (iOS)

    • Jan 2015 - Jan 2016

    • Contributed to a number of applications across GoDaddy’s suite of mobile properties (iOS).• Advised senior management on all aspects of iOS/OSX as well as consulting on mobile strategy overall (additional platforms).• Led development of foundational components to be used in a family of apps (Swift) allowing a modular approach resulting in increased continuity of product and decreased development time.• Led iOS Native team to delivery of first new native product in several years.• Served as Scrum Master on team – leading ceremonies and educating others on Agile processes.

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  Urbanspoon

  • Seattle, WA

  • Engineering Manager (iOS)

    • May 2014 - Jan 2015
    • Seattle, WA

    • Managed small native iOS development team.• Hands on coding for iOS products.• Lead first major codebase quality upgrade in several years.• Worked with design and UX to produce new UI.• Designed and built AppleWatch app on site in Cupertino at Apple Headquarters prior to AppleWatch public release.

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  StrategyCorps

  • Brentwood, TN

  • Mobile Developer

    • Apr 2013 - May 2014
    • Brentwood, TN

    • Worked directly with stakeholders and back-end engineers to design, develop and ship a new white label product which was then successfully sold to a number of large financial institutions.• Mobile work was featured several years running at a large Fintech conference.• Rebuilt PhoneGap apps natively for both iOS and Android.• Redesigned and built new UI/UX.• Added location aware enhancements and augmented reality interface.• Advised on functionality and security of web service (.Net/C#).

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  Harmon Group

  • Nashville, TN

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Jan 2010 - Apr 2013
    • Nashville, TN

    • Built bespoke iPad application allowing jewelry sales reps to showcase products. This included the iPad application (native iOS) and the supporting back-end/APIs.• Introduced mobile (specifically iPad and iPhone) application services to a national marketing agency resulting in an entirely new stream of business and revenue.• Created and maintained a portfolio of highly interactive client websites and social media applications.• Designed and implemented SEO and SEM strategies for many website clients resulting in significant traffic increases and in turn additional revenue generation.

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  Servpro Industries Inc.

  • Gallatin, TN

  • Web Administrator

    • Oct 2006 - Jan 2010
    • Gallatin, TN

    • Built and maintained all website properties for large franchise organization, including public/corporate website and internal intranet.• Worked cross-functionally with marketing team to create corporate franchise guidelines for websites.• Created bespoke websites for individual Franchise businesses following corporate guidelines.• Administered Sharepoint property for corporate office.• Designed and implemented SEO and SEM strategies for corporate web properties and for Franchise websites.• Created a CMS system to allow franchisees to administer their own corporate provided websites.

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  Studio42one

  • Greater Nashville Area, TN

  • Sole Proprietor/Self Employed

    • Jun 2003 - Sep 2006
    • Greater Nashville Area, TN

    • Held accounts with several local newspaper business worldwide (from US to UK and Australia) generating time sensitive print layouts and providing press ready files.• Liaised with print companies in several remote locations to ensure print work was completed correctly.• Designed and built websites and web applications for businesses nationwide.• Domain registration, DNS, email, hosting, design, SEO, SEM and all additional tasks required to run a small business website, resulting in a no-worry, stress-free digital presence for business owners.• Being self employed - marketing, sales, support, advertising.

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  The Ink Shop

  • Glasgow, Scotland

  • Graphics Manager

    • Mar 1994 - Jun 2002
    • Glasgow, Scotland

    • Helped grow the company from 4 employees printing 2 color litho to approx. 25 employees with 3 locations.• Oversaw first installation in the country of computer-to-plate digital workflow and Digital Offset Litho Press.• Maintained and troubleshot new hardware for the print industry, working directly with hardware engineers.• Took customer briefs from concept through design, QA and plate production, working with print operators to ensure quality product.• Managed a team of approx. 5 designers and reported directly to company owner and CEO.• Advised stakeholders on all digital subjects as company grew.