Lead software engineer with management experience. Enjoy leading teams to productive, profitable, and generally beguiling outcomes.
I’m a principal software engineer with extensive experience in areas such as training, mentorship, project management, and cross-functional team leadership.
● Interim Engineering Lead, summer 2023. Reported to Head of Product and Software, ran standups, software, product, & design syncs. Conducted interviews. Communicated team objectives, set release schedules via semi-monthly sprint planning meetings. Oversaw critical app projects, including SSL certs, firmware integrations.
● Technical Lead, managing member experience initiatives across apps, portals, marketing landing pages. Cross-team planning & facilitation. Built backend logic & front end pages (eg Daily Insights, Educational Clips, BofA Plus 1, & Invoy In a Box).
● Backend engineer responsible for internal APIs providing members and analysts access to reports, serving educational clips & daily insights to members during daily check-ins, and rendering weekly program snapshots.
● Achieved key efficiency improvements: Upgraded shipping & fulfillment automations, reducing manual shipping work. Implemented self-service in-app member program changes, freeing analysts for higher-level personalized coaching. Enacted low code Webflow marketing pages, freeing hours of backend engineering time.
2 year appointed volunteer position on the NYC DOHMH's HIV Planning Group, re-appointed for second, third, and fourth term. The primary goal of the New York City HIV Planning Group (“NYC HPG”) is to reduce the incidence of new HIV infections and disease in New York City. Members of the NYC HPG work to inform the update of a comprehensive New York City Jurisdictional HIV Prevention Plan.
Mobile Commons by Upland runs text-messaging-based campaigns that integrate seamlessly into companies' existing communications outreach. We process millions of text messages daily. Our clients include the American Red Cross, USPS, Planned Parenthood, Hillary Clinton Campaign, Viacom, AARP, The College Board, Univision, Rock the Vote, the NYC MTA, and United Farm Workers.
Recent emphasis has been major SMS delivery speed improvements for specific clients (5x or more), building out text-to-donate functionality for the Red Cross, enabling multi-part SMS (via ruby-smpp), pure SQL for reporting needs, expanding special character sets in our message body processing to insure multi-lingual functionality, allowing custom help and opt-out messages in Spanish, and integrating features into our platform with newly acquired text message partner (HipCricket).
Mobile Commons by Upland runs text-messaging-based campaigns that integrate seamlessly into companies' existing communications outreach. We process millions of text messages daily. Our clients include the American Red Cross, USPS, Planned Parenthood, Hillary Clinton Campaign, Viacom, AARP, The College Board, Univision, Rock the Vote, the NYC MTA, and United Farm Workers.
Recent emphasis has been major SMS delivery speed improvements for specific clients (5x or more), building out text-to-donate functionality for the Red Cross, enabling multi-part SMS (via ruby-smpp), pure SQL for reporting needs, expanding special character sets in our message body processing to insure multi-lingual functionality, allowing custom help and opt-out messages in Spanish, and integrating features into our platform with newly acquired text message partner (HipCricket).
