About

Work Experience

• API Engineer, 

  Oct, 2020 - Present

  Engineer with a focus on API and Reference documentation

  • Applied my Open API Specification and JSON Schema experience to a series of react-based user facing features.

• Senior Product Manager, API, 

  Oct, 2018 - Oct, 20202 years

  Managed the quarterly roadmap and high level processes of the API Services team and most projects that touched the internal GraphQL API

  • Managed two other product managers

  • Planned and executed a year-long, cross-team initiative to migrate from a legacy API to a new API

  • Planned and executed a year-long migration effort of assets for hundreds of local markets, supporting the larger merger of Gannett and GateHouse

  • Evangelized and built an improved developer experience for our consumers, including documentation, design guidelines and more

  • Assisted other product managers in defining and accomplishing their API needs

• API Product Manager, 

  Oct, 2015 - Oct, 20183 years

  Developed strategy & tactics for the API and Developer portal, along with managing the priorities and sprints of the API engineering team

  • Lead API designer

  • Transitioned the company to a design-first API process

  • Transitioned the company to a distributed API development process

  • Evangelized the benefits of API first development and helped ensure the first projects moved smoothly and successfully

  • Built developer surveys and testing plans for gathering developer feedback on our products

  • Selected our core KPIs and continued to improve them over time

  • Led the redesign of the developer portal including strategy, buy in, requirements gathering, specification, user experience and more.

• Lead API Engineer, 

  Feb, 2015 - Oct, 20158 months

  Engineering and strategy for Vimeo's developer portal and API

  • Responded to escalated support cases from external developers and partners

  • Managed two additional engineers and helped them grow personally and professionally

  • Managed technical writing projects

• Senior API Engineer, 

  Feb, 2014 - Feb, 20151 year

  Engineering and strategy for Vimeo's developer portal and API

  • Worked as the only full time developer on the new API, following REST best practices

  • Authored the new public Node.js library

  • Co-authored the new public PHP library

  • Responded to escalated support cases from external developers and partners

• Application Developer, 

  Sep, 2011 - Feb, 20142 years 5 months

  Full-stack engineering for various Vimeo features

  • Helped rewrite the framework for the old API a testing suite and a node.js library.

  • Wrote the intitial spec and most of the back-end work for the Dropbox upload integration

  • Created the XBOX Live authentication integration

  • Created the IOS push notification integration

• Developer, 

  Sep, 2010 - Sep, 20111 year

  • Helped with a major overhaul of the core site framework

  • Worked with a Scribe + MongoDB based stats system

  • Built the subscription system and Facebook Credits integration

Skills

Education

Interests