DESIGNER DEVELOPER LEADER

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Nov 2023-Present

CTO, Wrangle. Remote (Durham, NC)

Hands on technical leader leading product and engineering efforts at Wrangle. I am responsible for all things product and engineering; people, processes, infrastructure, UX, and overall roadmap for the product. I lead a small team of engineers at this growing startup.

May 2022-Nov 2023

VP of Engineering, Wrangle. Remote (Durham, NC)

Led engineering for an early stage startup focused on process automation in Slack. I was responsible for growing and supporting the engineering team. Worked alongside the founders to develop the roadmap and strategy for the company, and manage inbound product and technical requests.

Mar 2022-Apr 2022

Director of Engineering, Mozilla. Remote (Durham, NC)

Responsible for ~25 engineers working on Firefox for Desktop, along with leading other major engineering and program initiatives across Mozilla. I managed a group of engineering managers and provided strategic input and guidance in support of technical teams working across multiple stacks.

Mar 2021-Mar 2022

Sr. Engineering Manager, Mozilla. Remote (Durham, NC)

Led multiple groups of core Firefox development teams. Responsible for Add-ons, the Installer, the Updater, and OS integrations. Managed a group of engineering managers, providing guidance on roadmaps, career development, and alignment with company objectives.

Sep 2019-Mar 2021

Engineering Manager, Mozilla. Remote (Durham, NC)

Supported several teams of engineers dedicated to building and maintaining core Firefox services; the Installer, the Updater, Sync and Push. Focused on improving engineering and operational processes, and working with teams to execute on organizational goals, and define technical roadmaps.

Mar 2019-Aug 2019

Sr. Software Engineer, Wrangle Labs. Durham, NC

Designed and built data manipulation software. Wrangle Labs* (*different company than the Wrangle I joined in 2022) was a very early stage startup (3 employees, closed doors in Aug 2019), where I wore a lot of hats in addition to writing code. I was responsible for design, front-end development, and product strategy.

Apr 2018-Mar 2019

Director of Product and Engineering, Automated Insights. Durham, NC

Managed the flagship product for Automated Insights; Wordsmith. I led engineering, design, and product direction for Wordsmith. I was responsible for the teams working within all codebases supporting the platform, driving product and feature level decisions, and coordinating with the rest of the organization.

Apr 2017-Apr 2018

Software Engineering Manager, Automated Insights. Durham, NC

Led a team of developers and designers supporting Wordsmith, Ai's self-service NLG platform. I led projects, mentored engineers, and designed features within a Rails/Flask/Node/ React stack. I was also responsible for hiring for the team.

Feb 2016-Apr 2017

Sr. Front-end Engineer, Automated Insights. Durham, NC

Designed and developed features for Wordsmith, the company's flagship product. Worked closely with other engineers and product managers to prototype, release, and iterate on features within a Rails/Node/Angular stack.

Jan 2015-Feb 2016

Sr. UI/UX Engineer, Bronto Software. Durham, NC

Led projects of varying sizes, from design to production on the front-end engineering team at Bronto. Worked closely with other engineers and product teams at Bronto to build and launch new features, and maintain existing web application.

Jul 2012-Jan 2015

UI/UX Engineer, Bronto Software. Durham, NC

Worked with the front-end engineering team at Bronto, on the core Bronto Marketing Platform. Designed and built a variety of features within the web based enterprise application. Worked primarily within a Backbone.js and Zend PHP based stack.

Jul 2010-Jun 2012

UI Engineer, Cloudmark Inc. San Francisco, CA

Front-end and UI expert on the web team in medium sized messaging security company. Responsible for creating and maintaining various customer facing corporate web properties. Led creation of UX guide along with redesign of several existing applications and websites.

Sep 2008-Jul 2010

Lead UI Designer, Hooked Media Group. San Francisco, CA

Front-end design and coding for casual gaming startup. Responsible for designing and applying all production assets. Front-end coding for corporate marketing website and online applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript within a .NET environment.

Oct 2006-Aug 2008

Freelance Web Design, New York, California

Website design and construction for personal websites for various artists, entertainers, and entrepreneurs. Created custom logos, and in some cases business cards and letterhead to accompany websites. Sites were created in PHP, using mainly jQuery based interactions and animations, along with some Flash.

Sep 2002-May 2008

Pratt Institute, Bachelor's Degree, Industrial Design. Brooklyn, NY

Academic Merit Scholarship recipient for duration of studies. Additional achievements included participation in design and construction for IEEE sponsored museum exhibition in 2007-08.

Jun 2006-Aug 2006

University of Oregon, Summer Programming Classes. Eugene, OR

Summer programming classes: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python.

Jul 2001-Aug 2001

Pratt Institute, High School Summer Design Program. Brooklyn, NY

Summer design studio classes: Graphic design intensive.

Technical

TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Node, Python, Ruby, PHP. Rails, Laravel, Flask, React, Express. MySQL, Postgres. AWS, GCP. Able to learn new acronyms quickly.

Professional

Creative, passionate, and dedicated leader. Excellent communication skills, semi-fluent french speaker, professional coffee consumer. Skilled graphic designer.


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