Experience
Web Lead - Product Development
MavTek Inc | 09/2021 - Current
Creator-centric platform bringing together safe for work and adjacent communities. Currently coordinator for all customer facing domains including streaming, ecommerce, social media, and communications. Identification and facilitation of connecting systems ensuring north star metrics are at the forefront of all decisions. Fostering a growth mindset for team members and our end user community. Held lead positions in both live streaming and e-commerce divisions bringing data driven approach to product development and team performance.
Head of Technology
4th Whale Marketing | 12/2016 - 09/2021
Affiliate marketing company specializing in reviews and traffic acquisition. Responsibilities centered on modernizing the tools, practices, and processes needed to level up the organization. Scaled engineering to a team of 25 supporting a dozen products with multiple releases per week. Migrated all infrastructure to AWS significantly reducing technical debt, development, and infrastructure costs. Championed a data driven progress release approach to product development significantly increasing output and positive outcomes.
Lead Software Engineer
Ex-Situ Marketing | 06/2007 - 12/2016
Ex-Situ Marketing is an affiliate marketing company specializing in web traffic management. Responsible for development, infrastructure, and roadmaps for mergers & acquisitions. Architected and implemented a high-performance ad network with non-blocking low latency rendering, serving 30 million users and a half billion writes per day.
Application Consultant
FTW Marketing | 2004 - 2008
Fetch the Web was a full SDLC (software development lifecycle) consulting company specializing in SEO/SEM with automated content creation and bid submissions. Client projects varied from low latency multi format video transcoding to e-commerce and social networks.
DevOps Engineer
Starmedia Communications Inc. | 2006 - 2007
Full service advertising agency specializing in website creation and management. Operated and developed both infrastructure and applications, automating the delivery pipelines. Video transcoding, payment gateway integration and project management.
Full Stack Engineer
Belmont Web Services | 2000 - 2004
Belmont specialized in subscription-based entertainment websites. Progressed from web integrator into full stack Perl developer. Implemented redundant payment gateways, multi-threaded web crawlers, and automated real time bidding systems.
System Technician
IBM - Bromont | 1999 - 2001
Internship on the systems installations team of the Bromont fabrication plant performing system installations as well as tier 3 support on premises. Responsible for automating the installation process of systems increasing the installation rate by a factor of 10.
