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• Director of Engineering Ops, 

  Jan, 2021 - Jan, 20232 years

  Yat Labs is a technology company that builds communication, blockchain, and NFT products, including the flagship product Yat, a digital identity platform that simplifies sharing personal and professional contact information.

  • Led a team of 15 Front End and Full Stack engineers, 4 QA specialists, and 2 Project Managers in the development and maintenance of Yat products. Oversaw the operations of multiple aspects of the engineering lifecycle including planning, development, testing, and release.

  • Successfully restructured the operations of the engineering team to utilize agile methodologies resulting in significantly improved on-time delivery of products and features.

  • Managed relationships between external, non-engineering teams (e.g., Product and Marketing) and internal engineering teams (e.g., QA, PjM, and Front End).

  • Conceptualized, planned, managed, and launched multiple new products, including a real-time blockchain data analysis engine that tracked every NFT-related transaction across multiple EVM-compatible chains.

• Chief of Staff & Head of Digital, 

  Jan, 2020 - Jan, 20211 year

  Refound is a company that offers leadership training and coaching services to individuals and organizations to help people leaders create positive and productive work cultures.

  • Mentored and managed two direct reports and led multiple functions, including staffing the CEO of this leadership development company, providing strategic advice to the product team, and building new products.

  • Designed and developed a new platform for the group coaching product that significantly streamlined onboarding of new corporate customers and improved program participants' regular work.

• Chief Technology Officer, 

  Jan, 2018 - Jan, 20191 year

  Partydash was an e-commerce site providing boxes for parents that made it easier for parents to throw parties. Additionally, they ran an online summer camp for kids.

  • Conducted regular code reviews and mentoring sessions for a small engineering team consisting of two junior developers.

  • Successfully developed and launched Dash Camp, a virtual summer camp for children aged 6-12 years. Dash Camp was a small portal powered by an Apollo GraphQL server (deployed on Heroku) and a Vue.js front-end (deployed on Vercel).

• Lead Developer, 

  Jan, 2017 - Jan, 20181 year

  Travrse was a SaaS company that built tools to help technical teams work together with decision-making and code collaboration. Travrse was shut down in 2018.

  • Implemented a React-based Chrome plugin to facilitate code sharing and communication between developers.

  • Provided strategic technology advice to the founding team.

• Director of Technology Evangelism & Partnerships, 

  Jan, 2014 - Jan, 20173 years

  Built.io was a SaaS platform for enterprise organizations to create automation workflows using existing REST-based APIs. Built.io was acquired by Software AG in 2018.

  • Managed global partnerships and developer evangelism for Built.io; primarily focused on Built.io Flow, a visual automation tool that connected different APIs together.

  • Prototyped, developed, and managed multi-party technology partnerships between US and multinational organizations such as Cisco, Meraki, Box, and MongoDB.

  • Represented Built.io in the OpenAPI Initiative.

  • Created and presented technical lectures at conferences, including: Cisco Live! Las Vegas, Cisco Live! Berlin, Api World 2015 & 2016, and DeveloperWeek 2017.

• Technology Strategist & Lead Developer, 

  Jan, 2012 - Jan, 20142 years

  Youth Radio empowers thousands of young people to tell their stories and make an impact in their communities through media and technology training. Over 80% of the youth that go through the program are accepted to college.

  • Provided strategic technological advice to the organization and developed and integrated a real-time metrics server to track listener interactions for Youth Radio’s Internet radio station.

  • Developed and managed the server architecture for the launch of the new Youth Radio website.

  • Created inclusive learning environments that promoted technology skills among diverse urban youth, fostering a curriculum that supported equitable access to technology education.

• Co-Founder & CEO, 

  Jan, 2009 - Jan, 20123 years

  Enole was a single sign-on solution for the real world. The platform enabled developers to securely identify a person in the real world using near-field communication technology and DNS on any capable device. Enole was shut down in 2012.

  • Led a team of four (three engineers and one marketing) in building the flagship product and establishing and managing strategic partnerships with political organizations, retailers, technology startups, and enterprise organizations.

  • Raised a small seed round of financing of over $250,000, including angel investors from VeriSign and Visa.

  • Built revenue from $0 to a $40,000 quarterly run rate in less than a year.

• Vice President of Business Development, 

  Jan, 2008 - Jan, 20091 year

  Ustrive2 (aka: Cartfly) was an e-commerce plugin provider that allowed online merchants to sell their products on social networks.

  • Managed rollout and daily upkeep of the Sellit Ad Network, an ad network for online merchants to increase the visibility of their products.

  • Quadrupled the total number of users on Sellit.com in one quarter

  • Developed and maintained strategic partnerships with organizations such as Cafepress, Ning, Yahoo! Small Business, RockYou, and AdBrite.

  • Collaborated with the engineering team to build metrics into the product that informed strategic decision making.

• Director of Business Development, 

  Jan, 2007 - Jan, 20081 year

  AddThis was a social bookmarking widget that allowed users to share content to social sites.

  • Distributed the AddThis Launchpad product, a widget distribution tool, across multiple social media platforms including MySpace, Bebo, Piczo, and more.

  • Established partnerships with 100+ developers in the Web 2.0 community to enhance the Launchpad product distribution.

• Manager of Business Development, 

  Jan, 2006 - Jan, 20071 year

  Photobucket.com is a photo-hosting and sharing website.

  • Pioneered a new user acquisition strategy through building partnerships with typically ignored businesses (e.g. – MySpace theme and background providers)

  • Increased the total number of daily registered users from 50,000 to 85,000 new users a day within one year.

  • Managed technological integration partnerships with Adobe, Electronic Arts, Friendster, Facebook, Bebo, LiveJournal, and others.

• Software Engineer, 

  Jan, 2004 - Jan, 20051 year

  WirelessGamingReview.com was a review site for games and apps on mobile phones. In 2004, WGR was acquired by CNET and became GameSpot Mobile.

  • Built and launched Gamespot MobileDex, a first-of-its-kind mobile gaming industry analysis product that tracked availability and pricing of games and apps on mobile devices in North and South America, Mexico, and the UK.

  • Led new feature development, database management and migrations, day-to-day operations, and customer service for MobileDex.

  • Managed members of the data-collection team and gathered sales leads.

• Co-Founder, 

  Jan, 1999 - Jan, 20034 years

  Privet Drive Interactive started out as a technology company and pivoted to become a startup accelerator. As co-founder, I was primarily responsible for technology evaluation, product analysis and advice, and helping our companies with software engineering. Over the course of four years there were ten companies that came out of our accelerator, three of which had successful exits.

  • Wireless Gaming Review was acquired by CNET Networks in 2004.

  • Krom Interactive was acquired by Base Six in 2002.

  • VectraSense sold some of their smart shoe IP to a notable shoe manufacturer. (Still under NDA.)

• Software Engineering Intern, 

  Jun, 1998 - Aug, 19983 months

  SGI was a computer manufacturer building high performance servers. This was an internship role focused on repairing low-level operating system bugs and implementing internationalization solutions.

  • Repaired low-level operating system bugs in IRIX 6.5 within the Desktop Environment Group.

  • Implemented internationalization and localization solutions for the desktop environment using C and C++.

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