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• Engineering Manager, WW4B Team, WeightWatchers Intl

  Aug, 2024 - Apr, 20259 months

  I've led WeightWatcher's WW4B (B2B) team in several successful integrations

  • Led successful integration with Personify Health

  • Led successful multi-faceted integration with United Healthcare, (MFA, eligibility processing, claims processing)

  • Built entirely new stack with NestJS/Typescript to replace 34 microservices with 2 services

  • Build new upper purchase funnel with Remix/Typescript that lowered bounce rate and increased conversion

  • Integrated KSQLdb to all signups/cancellations event streams to filter out only B2B events

  • Built new claims processing functionality leveraging a decorator/template approach

  • Implemented MFA for member signup in 1 week!

• Staff Engineer, WeightWatchers Intl

  Feb, 2024 - Aug, 20246 months

  I got to play the role of Batman

  • Built the clinical integration webview that was used in WeightWatchers app

  • Built and handled new portals for customer preferences

• Engineering Manager, Upper Purchase Funnel, WeightWatchers Intl

  Oct, 2022 - Feb, 20241 year 3 months

  I led the Upper Purchase Funnel team as we built an in-house CMS

  • Oversaw ongoing feature work and maintenance of Drupal 9 backend and GraphQL Backend for Frontend

  • Facilitated integration with WW's internal A/B testing tool - replacing Optimizely

  • Designed and implemented custom offer-plan API to ensure stakeholders could easily modify plans, using NodeJS and PostgreSQL

• Senior Staff Software Developer, Overstock.com/Beyond

  Nov, 2021 - Oct, 20242 years 11 months

  I transitioned back to one of my favorite roles

  • Helped build and deploy a brand new NextJS app to replace the React/Redux app I built in 2017

  • Built a new Reviews experience that drastically reduced our time-to-interactive score

  • Served as a leader in the Java Guild

  • Gave a presentation at Tekno (internal conference)

  • Spiked out API orchestration layer in Go

  • Increased performance on NextJS app by finding performance bottlenecs in our use of EmotionJS

• Senior Staff Software Engineer, VideoPeel

  Feb, 2021 - Nov, 20219 months

  I worked arduously to develop an entirely new customer experience and backend

  • Brought unit testing and E2E testing to all apps

  • Built all new customer experience with a 'blank canvas' approach using React

  • Built customer plugin using Svelte

• Engineering Team Lead, Onboarding Team, tZERO Group Inc

  Jun, 2020 - Jan, 20217 months

  I led the onboarding team to release several key features

  • Oversaw the migration to our own internal Broker Dealer service

  • Built a new transaction clearing service in NestJS that handled FIX messages and SFTP/API communication

  • Built internal mock testing tool in Kotlin/Micronaut to simulate KYC/AML decisions

• Senior Full Stack Developer, tZERO Group Inc

  Aug, 2018 - Jun, 20201 year 10 months

  I built and worked with backend services in SpringBoot/Kotlin and NodeJS/Express

  • Built very well-tested customer onboarding service in NodeJS with PostgreSQL

  • Built internal admin portal for customer services teams in React/Redux

  • Built customer preference service/API in Kotlin/SpringBoot

• Senior Frontend Developer, Overstock.com

  May, 2014 - Aug, 20184 years 3 months

  During my time at Overstock.com I worked as a mobile web application developer. My main focus was creating an engaging customer experience with a fast mobile web application. I helped transition the application to React.js in 2016. I later joined the Product Page team to create an application that output builds for several platforms (Mobile/Tablet/Desktop). During this time I decreased our application load time to 3 seconds until interactive on a 3G network.

  • Built first publicly facing React app for our mobile Product Page, leveraging Redux for state management

  • Worked on its Backbone/Marionette predecessor to perfect its performance metrics

  • Integrated with internal Java services to build our shopping experience

  • Mastered Webpack, Grunt, Less, JavaScript promises

  • My app was demoed on stage by Google at the 2017 IO event for its performance characteristics

  • Invited by Google to participate in 2017 Hackathon

• Full Stack Developer (Contract), Webmap Solutions

  Sep, 2011 - Jan, 20142 years 4 months

  WebMap Solutions is an ESRI partner specializing in mobile and desktop web mapping applications. I worked on several solo projects as well as being part of a team

  • Built a mobile (iPAD) water supply tracking utility for Suwannee County, Florida using Dojo and the ESRI Framework

  • Ported a Google Maps API-based application to ESRI's web mapping API using C# and ASP.net

  • Water conservancy district software for reservoir level tracking for the State of Utah using Dojo and ESRI Framework

  • Part of the original developer team for Strategic Fishing Systems, Contour Elite Pro fish-tracking software using Dojo and Apache Cordova

  • Built the original Utilisync mobile app pilot in Dojo and ESRI Framework

• Full Stack Developer, Redcastle Resources

  Jul, 2010 - May, 20143 years 10 months

  Redcastle Resources is a primary contractor for the US Forest Service/USDA. In my position I created and maintained many fire-related applications. These included everything from significant fire weather, to incident mapping applications, to rapid assessment of post-fire damage. I worked on a great mix of server, desktop and web applications using many languages and frameworks.

  • Built strategic fire ignition point monitoring with US Navy using Java and PHP

  • Built pre-fire monitoring systems to account for significant fire conditions using Java

  • Build daily ICS209 Fire monitoring ingestion to support multiple other internal tools

  • Built Multi-Agency Fire Reporting tools with a Ruby on Rails API and a C# desktop app.

  • Build GeoJSON, TopoJson export tools from Shapefiles in Scala

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