Resume

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SUMMARY

Collaborative technology leader with keen ability to translate complex operational concepts into tangible action plans. Blends big-picture vision with tactical execution to inspire teams, build trust, and drive growth. Expertise spans full-stack development, cloud architecture, testing, infrastructure, and robust CI/CD and DevOps practices. Proven track record in migrating legacy systems, optimizing workflows, and leading high-performing international engineering teams.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Cloud & Serverless: AWS (API Gateway, AppSync, Aurora, Cognito, Control Tower, DynamoDB, EventBridge, Fargate, IAM Identity Center, KMS, Lambda, Organizations, S3, Secrets Manager, SES, SQS, Step Functions, VPC), AWS CLI, serverless architecture

Frontend Development: React, Ember.js, JavaScript (ES2020+), TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3 (Sass, Less, CSS-in-JS), Material Design, Twitter Bootstrap, UI/UX Principles

Backend & APIs: Node.js, Express, PHP, RESTful APIs, JSON API, GraphQL, microservices, event-driven architecture

DevOps & Infrastructure: AWS CDK, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD Pipelines (AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, CircleCI, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, TeamCity, TravisCI), GitHub, GitLab, AWS (CloudFormation, CodeArtifact, ECR, CloudTrail, Route 53), Datadog, Cloudflare

Testing & Quality: Playwright, Cypress, Jest, QUnit, Mocha, Sinon, Mirage JS, BrowserStack, Testing (Unit, Integration, Smoke, End-to-End, Visual Regression), Test-Driven Development

Methodologies & Tools: Servant Leadership, Pragmatism, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Linear, JIRA, Notion, Asana, Confluence, Fullstory, Segment, Visual Studio Code, Postman, Vanta

AI: AWS Bedrock, Amazon Q Developer, Claude, Cursor, Devin, OpenAI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ScreenSteps
Oct 2021 – Present

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

  • Increased ARR $1.8 million by guiding the team in quick iterations of AI-driven features.
  • Managed team of 10 across multiple countries, reduced currently to 5 in two countries.
  • Maintain SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, completing annual audits.
  • Oversaw migration of databases hosted on AWS EC2 instances to AWS Aurora.
  • Implemented automated testing with Playwright and BrowserStack.
  • Drove adoption of use of AI tools in daily development.
  • Hands-on development of microservices leveraging AWS services and AWS CDK.
  • Sole developer of browser extension.
  • Hands-on contributions to upgrade legacy Ember.js application to the latest version.

AdvisoryCloud
Jan 2019 – Oct 2021

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Sep 2020 – Oct 2021

  • Led the organizational transition to a product-first development mindset, fostering a customer-centric approach.
  • Led a 10-person remote, international Agile team in a CI/CD AWS environment.
  • Managed crucial balance between aggressive business delivery timelines, feature needs, and acceptable technical trade-offs.
  • Authored strategy documents to assist in attracting venture capital funding.

Director of Engineering
Jan 2019 – Sep 2020

  • Implemented Scrum, rescuing a project a year behind schedule and achieving its first-ever production release within six weeks.
  • Increased advertising ROI by 130% in 3 days through strategic streamlining of checkout flows across multiple teams and 3rd-party APIs.
  • Ensured continuous, synchronized data accuracy across Salesforce, Recurly, and other critical data stores, a first for the company.
  • Championed and adopted serverless architecture to enable robust, easily modifiable workflows, automating complex manual processes.
  • Introduced Terraform to manage infrastructure across the AWS Organization.

BorrowWorks
Jul 2018 – Jan 2019

UI Architect

  • Architected and developed a comprehensive self-service React and Express portal for lending platform users, providing account management, document access, and flexible payment options (payments, deferrals, principal contributions, payoffs).

Ciena
Nov 2016 - Jul 2018

UI Platform Lead
Oct 2017 – Jul 2018

  • Managed and maintained a large ecosystem of 71 npm packages (primarily Ember CLI Addons) supporting various application teams.
  • Devised and implemented a robust solution for ensuring consistency of dependency versions across the entire repository landscape.
  • Significantly improved developer experience through enhancements resulting in faster test runs and optimized application build times.
  • Integrated headless browser testing and parallelization into CI builds, reducing build times by a notable 18 minutes.
  • Hosted weekly discussions amongst other developers in the organization.

Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Developer
Nov 2016 – Oct 2017

  • Delivered new features for key product lines within planned sprints.
  • Enhanced overall code quality and maintainability by improving testing approaches and strategically addressing technical debt through refactoring and adoption of common programming patterns.
  • Kept the team informed of best practices and integrated them into ongoing development.

ClickFunnels
Feb 2016 – Nov 2016

Senior Frontend Developer

  • Developed core Ember.js applications for the next generation of ClickFunnels.com and associated properties.

SoftLayer, an IBM Company
Feb 2013 – Jan 2016

Advisory Software Engineer (Team Lead)
Feb 2014 – Jan 2016

  • Proposed and architected the development of a foundational Ember-based platform for future UI projects, leveraging ES6 modules and Ember CLI Addons.
  • Developed and maintained coding style as well as architectural guides.
  • Provided technical oversight for the successful conversion of an existing Ext.js application onto the new platform.
  • Participated in technical interviews of potential candidates.

Software Engineer III
Feb 2013 – Feb 2014

  • Led development of Ember.js application supporting new purchasing experience.

EARLIER LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT ROLES

  • Senior Frontend Developer | Media Distribution Systems
  • Senior Developer | AgencyMatrix.com
  • Software Architect/Team Lead | Brightspot Incentives & Events
  • Senior Web Developer | Heritage Auction Galleries
  • Developer | Teradata
  • Owner | Atlantis Group of Ohio, Inc

COMMUNITY & SERVICE

  • U.S. Air Force veteran trained in electrical engineering and communication systems
  • Author of 16 open-source npm packages
  • Co-founder of Ember Dallas User Group