Experience

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  Rosy Salon Software

  • Lombard, Illinois

  • Chief Technology Officer

    • Jul 2013 - Oct 2020
    • Lombard, Illinois

    Transforming the Salon and Spa industry through leading-edge technology with Floydware’s core product, Rosy Salon Software. The predominant technology stack is Java, Spring, MySQL, and jBoss, with three other built-from-scratch Ruby-on-Rails applications.On July 2019, Floydware was acquired by Fu...

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  SalonInteractive

  • Lombard, IL

  • Founder, CTO

    • Jan 2015 - Jul 2019
    • Lombard, IL

    SalonInteractive provides eCommerce to Salon's clients while still maintaining the necessary connection to the client's Salon or Spa. Our email marketing is geared for Salon and Spas but is also available for Salon, Brands, and Distributors, to provide education and marketing directly to...

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  Local Offer Network

  • Chicago, IL

  • Manager of Software Development

    • Jan 2013 - Jul 2013
    • Chicago, IL

    As a deeply hands-on technologist, grew and improved multiple Rails applications using both MySQL and MongoDB, as well as Sidekiq and Resque. In July 2013, while unfortunately facing financial hardships, the company was forced to sell its core product to Catalina Marketing, while shuttering what ...

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  Sears Holdings

  • Hoffman Estates, IL

  • Manager of Software Development

    • Aug 2009 - Jan 2013
    • Hoffman Estates, IL

    Partnered with business owners to deliver well-designed software solutions for the SHC internal cloud, currently comprised of 300+ hosts and 5000+ guests. Built from the ground up utilizing Ruby on Rails and MySQL, it quickly became the single solution within IT for all managing assets, both phy...

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  Centro

  • Manager of IT Operations

    • Jul 2007 - Mar 2009

    Built and actively managed all aspects of Corporate IT and IT Operations for the entire company.

  • Lead Software Engineer

    • May 2006 - Jun 2007

    A founding member of Centro’s technology department in 2006.

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  United Airlines

  • Manager, Ecommerce Applications Development

    • Mar 2005 - May 2006

    Managed an E-Commerce J2EE application development team with a mix of 22 FTEs and Contractors responsible for the united.com website.

  • Lead Software Engineer

    • Jan 2002 - Dec 2005

    Wrote more code, deployed more features, made more friends.

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  MyPoints.com

  • Schaumburg, IL

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • 2000 - 2001
    • Schaumburg, IL

    Wrote lots of code, deployed lots of features, made life-long friends.MyPoints was acquired by United Airlines on January 1, 2002.

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  Various Positions

  • Various Positions

    • 1900 - 1900

    Allstate InsuranceHewitt AssociatesKemper Insurance