Lead Software Engineer, Planning Tools
The Knot Worldwide | September 2019 - Present
A company that helps you use technology to help plan for life's biggest milestones.
Head of Technology
Quiddity | October 2018 - August 2019
A publication designed to help people find the very best of the things that they love.
Engineering Director
Hungry Inc. | April 2018 - October 2018
A boutique creative agency based out of NOHO in Manhattan, Hungry specializes in creating unique web experiences for enterprise level clients. Here I work as a freelance front end developer specializing in Node.js microsites.
Lead Full-stack Engineer
Hungry Inc. | Jan 2017 - April 2018
A boutique creative agency based out of NOHO in Manhattan, Hungry specializes in creating unique web experiences for enterprise level clients. Here I work as a freelance front end developer specializing in Node.js microsites.
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Cause of a Kind, LLC | July 2017 - Present
A boutique digital design, development, and marketing agency specializing in helping social entrepreneurs and not-for-profits achieve the digital results they deserve.
Freelance Frontend Designer / Engineer
Bronz Agency | Jan 2016 - Present
A creative and marketing agency specializing in small to medium-sized business ecommerce solutions. Here I was charged with designing and constructing responsive sites for ecommerce as well as blogs and businesses for professionals in Magento, Shopify and Joomla. I was also responsible for designing and developing responsive email campaigns for clients.
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Bluecore | Sep 2014 - Jan 2017
Bluecore is a SaaS solution that gives brands the power to use both user and catalog behavioral data to reach their customers in more personalized ways. The core of the product is an email solution where I was charged with authoring javascript integrations that gathered catalog data using site scraping as well as tracked the users behavior on site. I was also charged with designing and developing responsive email templates for brands as well as develop a framework similar to bootstrap to allow others to rapidly develop responsive emails in our system. This grew into a drag and drop user interface for building templates, giving this power to the marketer.
Integration Engineer
Olapic | Nov 2013 - Sep 2014
Olapic is a SaaS solution for curating and showcasing user generated content from social channels like instagram alongside the products that are featured in them. Here my was changed with developing gallery widgets on client websites from large enterprise brands to medium sized businesses that were on brand and pixel perfect. My team was also responsible for ingesting product feeds to from clients to specification. I was responsible for being resident expert in responsive design and implementing responsive design best practices and standards across the organization.
Frontend Designer / Developer
Sysgen Media | Jul 2012 - Nov 2013
Web designer and developer responsible for front-end integrations of Joomla, Wordpress, and Magento sites.
Frontend Designer / Developer
New Dynamx | Mar 2012 - Nov 2012
A creative and marketing agency specializing in small to medium-sized business ecommerce solutions. Here I was charged with constructing both ecommerce sites as well as blogs and brochure websites for professionals in a varienty of CMS solutions. I also designed and built front-end user interfaces for companies looking for a front end implementation to later be incorporated into a platform.
The above is what they in the industry call relevant experience. However, if you are like me and think that how a career is forged is more important than the end product check out my irrelevant experience.
Head Route Setter
Island Rock | Mar 2012 - Nov 2013
Manager in charge of the route setting team at Island Rock. Set up systems for cleaning and maintaining holds, budgeting new equipment, training new staff in the craft, and setting routes safely.
Management Trainee
Enterprise Rent-A-Car | Aug 2010 - Dec 2011
Business management, customer service, sales, marketing. Received 5 customer letters noting exceptional service as well as being a top performer on sales and service matrices.
Waiter / Bartender
The Would Restaurant & Bar | Jan 2009 - Jun 2010
Restaurant management, event planning and coordination, fine dining service and bar tending.
Geography Lab Assistant
SUNY New Paltz | Sep 2008 - Dec 2008
Teaching students ESRI ArcGIS, ArcMAP, AutoCad, GPS, and hand drafting cartographic techniques.
Intern
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation | Jan 2008 - May 2008
Statistical analysis of ambient groundwater quality of lower Hudson Valley landfills utilizing Microsoft Excel and Access. Using this data to create GIS representations of our findings. Co-authored “Ambient Groundwater Quality in the Hudson Valley of Southeastern New York State” published in the International Journal of Soil, Sediment and Water Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2009.
Trail Crew Lead
Minnewaska State Park Preserve | May 2007 - Oct 2009
Utilizing skills in landscape architecture for the preservation of historic carriage roads. Heavy machines operation and maintenance. Wild land fire fighting. Crew training, management, and coordination.
Waiter
Beso | Sep 2006 - May 2008
Fine dining service.
