Professional Summary
Strategic engineering leader with over 20 years of experience driving scalable web architectures, optimizing development workflows, and leading high-performing teams.
Passionate about technical business strategy and operational excellence, serving as a key driver of innovation, growth, and efficiency by aligning engineering initiatives with company objectives.
Proficient in both front-end and back-end development, I collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, accessible, scalable solutions.
Skilled leader constantly exercising clear communication, strategic planning, and continuous growth, ensuring that teams stay aligned and productive while meeting business goals.
A forever player-coach: staying in-tune with a deep understanding of company operations while building genuine, trusting, working relationships with my team; growing capabilities through mentorship and delivering high quality work over the long-term.
Technical Skills
Front-end Development
- JavaScript, ES6+, TypeScript
- Semantic HTML & Responsive CSS
- Vue, React, Svelte
- Lit, Web Components
- Astro, Eleventy, SSG/SSR
- Nuxt & Next.js
Back-end Development
- Node.js, Deno, Serverless
- REST, GraphQL, APIs
- WordPress, PHP & MySQL
- Headless CMS Integration
- NoSQL, Firebase, MongoDB
- Application Architecture
Devops & Cloud
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
- Vercel, Amplify, Cloudflare
- Git, GitHub, Bitbucket
- Vite, esbuild & Build Tools
- DNS Management
Leadership & Management
- Strategic Planning
- Agile/Lean Leadership
- Design Innovation
- Prototyping & MVPs
- Product Strategy
- Engineering Budget Oversight
- Tech Presentation & Consulting
Career & Professional Experience
- Led the Web Development, DevOps and QA Teams; owned strategy, optimized development workflows, and drove innovation in scalable web technologies for enterprise clients in the pharmaceutical sector.
- Created and owned company-wide web development standards and best practices, improving quality and consistency across engineering projects, leading to a consistent reduction in QA tickets and bugs, and improvement in code quality.
- Served as a critical technical and strategic consultant, enhancing collaboration between developers, digital producers, project managers and client teams.
- Architected diverse product and web solutions tailored to specific client business needs and technical constraints.
- Led a team of web developers in building complex, performant, accessible web applications and websites for the pharmaceutical industry.
- Architected scalable and efficient technical solutions, including an Astro and Vue based website boilerplate, reducing project development time and costs by 25-50%.
- Mentored and upskilled engineers, instituted code reviews, technical and operational team goals, weekly 1-on-1 and team meetings, improving capabilities, team unity, and overall productivity, satisfaction, long-term retention and improved code quality.
- Built and managed projects built in Vue/Nuxt, React/Next.js, Angular, .NET, Gatsby, WordPress, Drupal, Veeva and other web frameworks, offering valuable services in being a trusted one-stop development shop.
- Led a five-member web development team to build complex, high-quality, accessible, performant client websites; maintained low-stress, low burn-out.
- Developed high-performing websites using many modern web stacks including: Wordpress, Astro, Eleventy, Nuxt.js and Next.js.
- Architected and led digital strategy efforts for clients; advised clients directly on adopting technologies to fit their business goals.
- Consistently met rigorous timelines and partnered successfully with designers and account managers to prioritize and manage features, timelines and project budgets.
- Contributed heavily to the creation and execution of the company’s future growth strategy via the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS).
- Implemented successful transition to agile work processes, increasing project productivity and collaboration.
- Led a five-member design and development team to develop user- and business-driven web-applications from concept to launch.
- Architected and led development and design of a custom in-house training platform with angular.js, Contentful and Vue, saving over $300k per year over an off-the-shelf solution. Used agile processes to launch and iterate on applications quickly.
- Ran low-cost “unconference” event five times, recognized as a major culture-building corporate event, accompanied by a Vue- and Firebase-based scheduling app that streamlined event logistics and management.
- Rebranded Multimedia Team to Experience Design Team, increasing its recognition and value beyond Training to support Operations, Marketing, HR, IT and Finance.
- Cut six-figure budget by 25% while exceeding team goals and meeting business needs by turning strategic goals into prioritized, actionable project plans.
- Developed interactive training content and assessment apps and tools to support the needs of restaurant operations and HR.
- Built and taught HTML5 & CSS, responsive web design, JavaScript, JQuery, mobile programming concepts, and business of digital media courses.
- Instructed students on Intermediate and Advanced ActionScript 3.0, covering comprehensive topics from fundamental programming and OOP to game development and API design.
- Implemented the 5-step training methodology — Prepare, Tell, Show, Do, and Review — to structure lectures and ensure effective student engagement.
- Independently designed and administered a tailored class curriculum, ensuring content relevance and student comprehension.
Web & Flash Developer
Intercasting Corp
03/2006 - 02/2009
- Collaborated on web integrations and managed content using HTML, CSS, XSLT, Flash, and Javascript.
- Crafted branded graphics for web/print using Photoshop and Illustrator, and developed Flash Lite mobile apps.
Data Admin & Interactive Developer
i-Safe America, inc.
05/2005 - 09/2005
Software Engineering Intern
Napster
06/2004 - 09/2004