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I'm a successful software engineering leader who has operated in both early-stage startups as well as the largest bureaucracy in the world. I have designed, built, supported, and scaled complex system, as well as led multiple in-house and contracting teams. My experience spans across healthcare, finance, print and media, and entertainment industries. I am a proven leader with a strong executive presence, capable of blending big-picture viewpoints with tactical considerations to achieve north star goals.
Working for the White House, Health and Human Services, and Centers for Medicare and Medcaid Services.
The U.S. federal government spends tens of billions on tech products each year, but entering the market and scaling is expensive and risky. Dcode's 10-week accelerator provides private sector tech companies of all stages and sizes a simpler, faster way to break into and scale in the federal market successfully, and expert mentors are critical to that process.
Lead a team of engineers in developing multiple mission critical products spanning from allowing users to make onetime payments against their Payoff loan to building a Payoff savings account from the ground up. These deliveries helped Payoff to stand out from the typical peer-to-peer lending company and converting Payoff’s borrowers to savers, fulfilling Payoff’s mission.
Developed flagship loan product along with five other engineers. Frontend emphasis with most applications developed on top of AngularJS. Ruby on Rails generalist. Responsible for entire tech stack that crossed Nginx, Elasticsearch, Redis, RoR, AngularJS, Sass, Qless job servers. Lead developer and architect for major initiatives. Experience in developing product requirements and specification development. Development included a high emphasis on code compliancy in the financial industry. Helped grow Payoff to become a leader in the fintech space. These efforts have allowed the company to lend well over 100MM to date.
Provided research and development for the frontend encompassing HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, and jQuery as well as establishing best practices and standards for the company. Lead developer for many frontend projects that were built leveraging AngularJS. Project development spanned progressive enhancement methodologies, media queries with mobilefirst development, jQuery plugin development and reuse, and hardware skunkworks projects. Helped design custom hardware utilizing the open source Arduino project and Android to create a smart pointofsale magazine rack. These efforts allowed Source Interlink Media to excel in both lead generation models and provide dynamic content to millions of automotive enthusiasts.
Lead developer and architect for projects that included teams from two to six engineers. Built and maintained highly scalable applications that served streaming online auctions. Developed custom PHP MVC framework and jQuery modules. Designed and implemented database applications that handled multi million transactions daily. Designed and developed automated SEO campaigns through Google, Yahoo, and Bing APIs. Numerous API wrappers developed for marketing campaigns.
Designed and built custom reporting tools, A/B testing system, referral tool, and various other tools and features for the Final Motive Gaming Network. Maintained code for six separate Webbased Massive Multi Online Role Player code. Played a crucial role in a small development team to drive Final Motive to be a leader in their field. Heavy PHP, MySQL, prototype, Javascript, and AJAX used along with XHTML and CSS.
Had the unique opportunity to travel to Northern Uganda and meet with 20+ Non Government Organizations (NGOs) that were focused in sponsoring students affected by Northern Uganda’s long running 21 years war. After meeting with Northern Ugandan NGOs, politicians, and community leaders, I designed, built, and implemented a tracking device for all the sponsored students in the different NGOs. There were 6,000+ students in the system. The system, Northern Ugandan Scholarship Database (NUSD) dubbed by political leaders, allowed for cross checking between NGOs for double sponsored students between the different NGOs. This saved countless money for the different NGOs upon identification of a student that was receiving more than one sponsorship. OOP php was used with flash, AJAX, javascript, and XML to interface with a SQL(2005) database. NUSD is still being used in Northern Uganda.
Sample of projects
Planned, designed, built, and maintained company's ecommerce site from the inception of the company. Built both Access and SQL (2000) databases that were the backbone for the site. Developed a custom, easytouse backend for the site, making updates seamless. Maintained all ASP, HTML, and SQL server code. These efforts helped J & D Sales start as a small, oneman dot com company to a company that now has a store front with ten employees.
Built and maintained custom developed applications per client requests as well as several boxed products. These consisted of a mixture of web applications, data mining and reporting, windows applications, and integration projects. Responsible for keeping projects on schedule and creating innovative, ground breaking software. These achievements helped mold Metronome from a small startup company to a large competitor in its market.
The Medicare Payment System Modernization (MPSM) allows Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rapid adoption of new technologies and value-based payment models by modernizing Medicare’s 30-50 year-old claims processing systems—which currently process over $500B in claims, roughly 3.5% of GDP.
The Quality Payment Program (QPP) is the largest payment reform effort in Medicare’s history. The program began the shift from a fee-for-service model to value-based care.
Awarded by the CMS Administrator recognizing the outstanding contributions to the Medicare Payment Systems Modernization.
Awarded by the CMS Administrator recognizing the outstanding contributions to the Quality Payment Program.
Each year the USDS Administrator recognizes the team members who have demonstrated exemplary performance in each of the six USDS core values. I was recognized for demonstrating the "Optimize for Results, Not Optics" value -- working for the people, without want of credit, prestige, or headlines.