Andrew Hunt's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

Director Of Engineering @ LearnVest (a subsidiary of Northwestern Mutual) From May 2017 to 2018 (1 year) Greater New York City AreaSenior Technical Architect @ NYU Langone Health Greater New York City AreaSenior Director, Software Product Development @ OnDeck • Led 5 teams: Partner, International, Mobile, Acquisition Channel and public website• Led partner team to successful launch...

Director Of Engineering @ LearnVest (a subsidiary of Northwestern Mutual) From May 2017 to 2018 (1 year) Greater New York City AreaSenior Technical Architect @ NYU Langone Health Greater New York City AreaSenior Director, Software Product Development @ OnDeck • Led 5 teams: Partner, International, Mobile, Acquisition Channel and public website• Led partner team to successful launch of historic Chase/OnDeck partnership, on an extremely aggressive timeline• Updated JIRA process for development teams for unifed workflow and meaningful metrics• Overhauled and vastly improved tech team onboarding• Created and continue to curate very successful bi-weekly Tech Talk series From August 2015 to March 2017 (1 year 8 months) Greater New York City AreaDirector of Engineering, Front End @ FreshPlanet My mission at FreshPlanet is to increase developer velocity, product quality, and employee engagement. My responsibilities include:• Mentor and grow a team of 10 developers building casual mobile/web games• Define project, build, process, release management and coding standards to allow the developers to stay focused on product development• Define core sdk approach for server/client interaction• Own all cross-project tech initiatives, such as analytics, live operations monitoring, core development platform, development tools• Optimize QA approach to balance velocity and product quality• Implement CI and process automation throughout product life cycle• Foster a culture of autonomy, empowerment, support and egoless collaboration From September 2014 to August 2015 (1 year) New YorkEngineering Manager @ Yodle • Delivery of new CMS system: Led successful development of completely revamped CMS system for building client websites. The component-based publishing system was a huge improvement in terms of render speed, extensibility, ease of development, maintainability and client satisfaction• Mobile advocate: Fixed chronic underreporting of mobile usage statistics
• Email Deliverability Czar: Redesigned and optimized email infrastructure for enhanced reliability, simplicity, lower costs • Scala evangelist: Pushed and cajoled at every opportunity until officially embraced by tech organization
• Worked to white label product for Yodle resellers, with focus on localization issues, branding, achieving feature parity with core product• Overhauled legacy system from acquired company. Added new business segments to base product, modernized legacy codebase, migrated monolithic app to micro-services From November 2012 to September 2014 (1 year 11 months) New York, NYVice President/Technical Director @ Cline Davis & Mann • 
Managed development team, UX and QA departments. • Hands on solutions architect. • Interfaced with client IT groups, managed vendors, contractors.• Restructured and turned around demoralized development group
• Active hand in business development
• Developed internal iPad eDetailing platform, internal IP sold to multiple clients • Upgraded internal processes, introduced cloud-based solutions
• Developed HTML5 content approach for easily localization, integration with CMS • Established strong culture of people development• Built numerous eDetailing and other iPad apps, using Objective-C, Adobe AIR• Created SMS real-time messaging system using Twilio From November 2011 to November 2012 (1 year 1 month) Greater New York City AreaVP Director, Technology @ Digitas BUSINESS• Strategic technical lead for multiple American Express business units: ES, GABM, and Open. Very organized, handling 15+ simultaneous projects (micro-sites, social media campaigns, mobile, and more!) developed onsite, offshore, and with vendors. Effectively delegate to project managers to keep focus on consulting and strategic tech decisions. • Also manage the Digital Studio (OLA Production team, Production group), foster outsourcing and manage training of the remote team.TECHNOLOGY• Leader within Digitas Labs, internal directed R&D group• Introduced and evangelized ANT to automate workflow in the creative tech team• Introduced Augmented Reality within Digitas• Developed Flash Super DuperTM CSS system • Python FLV Slicer to automate adding cuepoint metadata into FLV filesProject Work• American Express Syndicated Content playerA rich media flash ad unit, built in 3 different flavors, in short and tall modules. Technical Lead – Complete refactoring of over-engineered, unusable mess, to make modular easily customizable system that supported production of simultaneous versions with substantial skin/functional differences. Devised a very customizable MVC IoC architecture with support for plug-ins. Relied heavily on ANT scripts to manage the complicated build procedures, introduced Super Duper CSS system.• Bristol-Meyers Squibb ESP-Integrated canvasA Flash-based playback system for medical content, part of an enterprise engagement with BMS, working with Accenture. Technical lead/Co-architect – Strategic leadership of Flash tech effort, oversaw junior architect, added noisy error detection/ notification scheme to simplify collaboration. Lots of on-site work to resolve varying interpretations of the massive functional specifications and typical integration problems. From May 2007 to November 2011 (4 years 7 months) Greater New York City AreaTechnology Director/Partner @ Animal Joy Lead developer for many projects using Flash, Director, and PHP. Projects include the iRead phonics remedial reading prototype for Scholastic (Flash/Director), PHP programming for e-commerce, the Flash portion of the Sony CineAlta web site, a series of teaching widgets for ExploreLearning’s online educational system, and the Little Bill Thinks BIG CD-ROM for Scholastic.Scholastic’s Little Bill Things BIG! (CD-ROM, Director), 2002An entertainment CD-ROM for very young audience (3-5), based on Bill Cosby’s popular animated TV show • Developed technology to generate lip-synch animations based on sound files, greatly reducing animation budget • A large, ambitious 7-month project, programmed entirely with team of only 2 programmers using a rapid iteration development approach • All games configurable by external script files, allowing client to tweak game “feel” to their satisfaction From September 2001 to September 2008 (7 years 1 month) Greater New York City AreaSenior Interactive Developer @ Roundarch, Inc. Lead developer on Flex- and Flash-based projects. Highlights include a suite of Flex-based financial information dashboards for a Citigroup Portal project, and an interactive timeline for the History channel. Roles include software architect, lead developer, and data analysis.Citigroup Portal (Flex), 2007Led team of Java programmers to develop 4 Flex dashboards to display financial information and a notifications service, part of a portal for hedge fund clients. Project was built in BEA Portal. • Formulated interface to Java Remote Objects within Flex Data Services • Analyzed data available in existing schema vs. functional requirements• Programmed real-time financial notifications service From August 2006 to May 2007 (10 months) Greater New York City AreaDirector Of Engineering @ Northwestern Mutual • Built and maintain digital marketing acquisition platform and custom deep experimentation engine• Led effort to completely revamp distribution of leads to sales force, using data science to maximize impact• Completely revamped Kubernetes/Docker/AWS infra and implemented complete monitoring/alerting scheme for system and KPI metrics • Greatly augmented tech team by recruiting almost 10 talented, senior technologists from my network to join the company From May 2017 to April 2018 (1 year) Greater New York City Area