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Senior Strategy Consultant, SevenDesign2017-Present — Sausalito

Initially brought on to offer technical expertise to agency's involvement with marketing, partnership, and sales efforts for Visa's global launch of Visa Direct. Role has expanded to encompass business development, client management, branding, and organizational leadership.

Role Highlights
• Closed sale on new client engagement, generating $250k in first 2 months
• Team lead on development of brand identity platform for new client and website strategy & redesign
• Strategy and execution support on go-to-market efforts for launch of Visa Direct payment technology
• Client relationship management across multiple departments within Visa

Chief Technology Officer / Head of Product, Red Clay2013-2017 — San Francisco

​Red Clay is an online marketplace for industrial design. The platform enables brands to match with a community of top industrial design talent to turn a product idea into manufacture-ready designs while providing skilled design professionals the opportunity to focus their creativity on a variety of projects that speak to them.

As Chief Technology Officer, I had ownership over the product vision and assembled a team of developers to create and operate an industry-leading SaaS platform used by companies including Target, Walmart.com, and GE within the first year of launch.

Role Highlights
• Ownership of the technology direction, architecture, design and development of our industrial design matchmaking and workflow SaaS platformRuby on Rails, BackboneJS, JQuery, Javascript, PostgresSQL, Redis, Memcached, SendGrid, Pusher
• Implemented / ran agile development lifecycle with continuous integration and deployment practices Pivotal Tracker, SemaphoreCI, Github, Jasmine, Capybara
• Designed and built multiple marketing sites Ruby on Rails, Concrete5 CMS, PHP, JQuery, Javascript, Pardot
• Lean approach to user behavior analysis / requirements gatheringMixpanel, Google Analytics, Informant
• Performance optimization NewRelic

Software Development Supervisor, Exponent 2010-2011 — Menlo Park

Led efforts for internal software development to achieve corporate goals and modernize processes on systems including employee certification management, evidence handling, purchase requisitioning, and more. Lent expertise and executed a number of external client engagements in similar fashion. Heavily involved in requirements gathering, system design, team/project management, and roll-out planning for initiatives spanning multi-office, organization-wide technology solutions within a primarily Microsoft (.Net, MSSQL) ecosystem.

Role Highlights
• Coordinated software development efforts within the multi-office IT organization
• Identified technology opportunities crucial to organizational success, working directly with senior executive team in many cases to prioritize and define requirements
• Provided systems design & project management, along with hands-on software development in many cases
• Piloted cross-departmental user groups for feature analysis, usability testing, and process refinement
• Managed a small internal team of developers and an implementation specialist as well as several ad-hoc, off-site teams.
• Mentored internal development team
• Designed, managed and delivered custom solutions addressing a variety of initiatives throughout the organization, as well as a number of confidential but vital consulting projects for outside clients

Project Highlights
• Evidence Tracking / Chain of Custody System C#.Net MVC, MS SQL, Javascript, jQuery
• Project-Based Document Management SystemSharepoint 2010, Windows Workflow Foundation
• Confidential Case Investigations
  Records Search and Evaluation Apps with Maps, Charts, etc.Google Maps API, Lucene, C#.Net MVC, MS SQL, Javascript, jQuery

Senior Systems Analyst / Programmer, Exponent2005-2010 — Menlo Park

Product management, web application development, database development, systems analysis & implementation.

Project Highlights
• Purchase Requisition System + Signature Authority Approval SystemC#.Net, MS SQL, Integration with Vision Accounting System
• Corporate Marketing SiteInformation Architecture, Managed External Consulting Team, Assisted Design & Feature Prototyping
• Learning Management System Implementation Dokeos LMS, PHP, MySQL
• Employee Training Certification SystemASP, VBScript, MS SQL, Javascript, jQuery
• Materials Safety Data Sheet Management System ASP, MS SQL, Javascript, jQuery
• Facilities Work Order System MS Access, VB, ASP, MS SQL, Javascript, jQuery
• Multiple Departmental Intranet WebsitesHTML, ASP, MS SQL, Javascript, jQuery