Co-Founder, CEO, and Developer
(Rhinebeck, NY; February, 2020 - present)
Made Up Games
Made Up Games is a small indie game studio
- Managed all aspects of the corporation: contractor hiring and management, publisher relationship, finances, etc.
- Sole developer, handled all technical direction and execution
Pine: A Story of Loss
- Debut title, published by popular indie publisher, Fellow Traveller
- Niche narrative game exploring grief and loss, released on Nintendo Switch, Steam, Android, iOS
- Kickstarter raised $116k, well over $80k goal
- Features a custom render pipeline to acheive the game's unique visuals
- Unity, C#, HLSL, Compute shaders, Image analysis, Computational Geometry
Independent Consultant
(Rhinebeck, NY; February, 2020 - present)
- Worked with new and existing clients
- Assisted with new feature development, debugging, and performance improvements
Engineering Practice Lead
(New York, NY; August, 2019 - January, 2020)
Meetup
Meetup is a platform for finding and building local communities
- Collaborated with engineering directors and managers to break down silos and reduce development cycle time
- Worked with mobile development teams to prioritize consistent user experience and sustainable delivery
- Partnered with VPs to create a strategy for addressing a decade of technical and product debt
- Node, React, Lambda, AWS, Fastly
Senior Engineering Manager
(New York, NY; March, 2018 - July, 2019)
WeWork
WeWork provides space and services to growing businesses around the world
- Managed a team of 6 engineers to migrate wework.com to more performant and maintainable technologies
- Coordinated development across several teams to maintain and expand WeWork's web presence
- Doubled the size of the department from 10 to 20 engineers in partnership with recruiting
- Worked with product management to establish more regular releases and smooth out release cycle
- Node, React, Rails, Heroku, Postgres, Fastly, CircleCI
Director of Software Development
(New York, NY; February, 2013 - November, 2017)
SYPartners
SYPartners is a boutique management consultancy that works with Fortune 500 leadership teams
- Founding member of digital product department that developed new products based on SYP's consulting practice
- Hired, managed and empowered a diverse team of 8 engineers across NYC and SF
- Established software development as a practice at SYP, managing multiple teams developing several properties
- Collaborated with executives, product, and design to support sustainable delivery and high design fidelity
- Rails, React, Postgres, Redis, React Native, Heroku, AWS
Technical Lead
(New York, NY; July, 2009 - February, 2013)
Cyrus Innovation
Cyrus Innovation was a software consultancy focused on iterative delivery and process coaching
- Collaborated with client stakeholders and development teams to establish sustainable development practices
- Rails, Java, iOS, Python, Postgres, various CI/CD platforms
Senior Software Developer
(Exton, PA; 2004 - February, 2009)
Ternary Software
Ternary was a software consultancy that specialized in iterative delivery and founder partnerships
- Developed alongside client engineers, training them in iterative delivery and evolutionary architecture
- Introduced iterative engineering practices to the firm (TDD, CI, story points, refactoring in flow)
- Part of small, close-knit group of developers, deeply passionate about software design and best practices
- C#, Java, Python, Rails, Spring, ASP.Net
BusinessWeek client highlights
- Led team of 5 client developers and 3 consultants to create BusinessExchange, BW's social news site
- Introduced organization to iterative product development
- Developed sophisticated caching systems to achieve near-static page load times on a highly dynamic site
- Java, Spring, Velocity, MarkLogic, Coherence
Graduate Research Assistant
(Lexington, KY; 2002-2004)
Laboratory for Advanced Networking, University of Kentucky
- Implemented a Network Processing Engine and Ephemeral State Store on the IXP1200 network microprocessor
- Wrote clean, efficient assembly capable of gigabit throughput in narrow time and space constraints
- Findings published and presented at IWAN2003 where the paper won best submission
- Submitted a patch to the pktgen Linux kernel module for a bug found during performance testing