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Senior Software Engineer for Programmatic Direct and Ad Server Teams @ OpenX Team Revenue grew 500% year-over-year. Press Release: https://www.openx.com/company/press-releases/programmatic-direct-openx-grows-500/Programmatic Direct Migration and Expanded Bulk Inventory Tools• Led a combined UI Team of 5 Engineers to rewrite the UI from a homebrew framework to Angular for Programmatic Direct's UIs.• Manage Tools Teams first Utilities UI in a...

Senior Software Engineer for Programmatic Direct and Ad Server Teams @ OpenX Team Revenue grew 500% year-over-year. Press Release: https://www.openx.com/company/press-releases/programmatic-direct-openx-grows-500/Programmatic Direct Migration and Expanded Bulk Inventory Tools• Led a combined UI Team of 5 Engineers to rewrite the UI from a homebrew framework to Angular for Programmatic Direct's UIs.• Manage Tools Teams first Utilities UI in a redesign and expansion of capabilities of bulk inventory. This handles large inventories from yet another homebrew framework to Angular, helped architect NodeJS server to help scale inventory importation and train up team members via presentations.• Efforts produced 500% revenue growth as of this press release Ad Server Specific Initiatives• Streamlined Private Market Places account management as well as streamlined forecasting and lineitem UIs• Created abilities to target across all customers in the organization which led to rapid revenue grew and was one of top two sources of revenue growth the other being Programmatic Direct mentioned above. From January 2016 to November 2017 (1 year 11 months) Lead User Interface Designer and Software Engineer @ eSped.com During my tenure here, we managed to rebuild the company's entire suite of SASS products for the 4th edition in our company's 10 year history. It was a ground up rewrite and expanded into several new markets.• Built web-based applications to manage education programs for over a million special needs & gifted students• Used HTML5 to overlay multiple features including drag-and-drop files and images into our website and JavaScript AJAX updates of the site. Took ownership of all website's CSS stylesheets and revamp using CSS3• Created programs to encourage data integrity, generate dynamic reporting, handle heavy loads of a million plus students, and ensured 100% compatibility with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, and Opera• Tracked workflow of the application and eliminated useless menus which halted customer complaints• Redesigned eSped's web services in Agile environment utilizing Java Server Pages (JSP), Java, JavaScript (with AJAX), HTML5, CSS, Tomcat, BIRT Report Engine, YUI libraries, XML, Voldermort DB and mySQL• Switched reporting from Crystal Reports to BIRT to improve report generation speed and visual appeal• Created the BIRT report generator Java applet which automated 95% of report design, saving significant hours for future states adaption. Previous versions required 2 to 3 full time engineers to generate custom reports• Tracked goals and services through progress reports, analyzed students through behavior plans, and set goals with individual education plans. All application rigorously followed strict legal state standards which differed between states. Each application generated XML pages behind the scenes as data sources for reports• Awarded 34% in raises and 3 performance bonuses for exemplary work From November 2010 to January 2012 (1 year 3 months) Andover, MaWeb Campaign Manager @ Grace For Congress This campaign was the best performing for a Republican Candidate in 20 years for a district that included Manhattan, NY.• Designed website, monitored web-traffic (85,000+ hits), managed DNS records, and advised on content and marketing From 2008 to November 2008 (less than a year) Manhattan, NYSoftware Engineer @ Farmer's Business Network, Inc. Helping farmers worldwide feed people Senior Software Engineer for UI Platform Team @ OpenX OpenX is an Ad Tech Company with 500+ employees. I was placed in UI Platform by upper management to run the top priority projects of OpenX: Mobile Parallel Mediation and Opt-In Mobile App Video Exchange, Press Release: bit.ly/openxoptinvideo Mobile Parallel Mediation• Led UI and NodeJS efforts to create company's top priority project.• We are the company's first product, done completely in ReactJS.• Rearchitected node servers to use modern javascript ES2018, which enabled cleaner constructs such as await and async as well push to upgrade to standardized testing framework of jest across projects. Coordinated updates with other teams to guide the Insights, Data Explorer, Tools Node Architecture. Wrote tech roadmap to streamline error handling and upgrade to http2 and use force push.Opt-In Mobile App Video Exchange• Led UI and API efforts for company's top project. Our first widely successful push into mobile advertising was able to deliver a billion impressions in our initial test run. From November 2017 to November 2018 (1 year 1 month) Menlo Park, CASoftware Engineer @ Jelli, Inc. During my time at Jelli, we achieved more US monthly ad reach than either Facebook or Google. We pivoted away from internet radio to ad tech and ended up powering all of iHeartMedia programmatic efforts with engineering team of ~10. The projects below are my contributions and describe how we were able to manage and achieve our scale.RadioDash for Affiliates (Monitoring, approving, and declining advertisement campaigns)• Built real-time analytics platform and dashboard in Ember, JavaScript to achieve 95%+ successful ad play vs industry's 70% • Programmed and designed web UI/UX to render and interact with 7,000+ cells across 1,000+ radio stations for a multi-week ad approval and release interface. Used Mithril.js (using a flux design pattern like React.js) to reduce rendering time by 90%+• Architected RESTful url handling for an asynchronous routing system throughout all single page applications for link sharingUser Management System (Application for creating and managing users)• Led the User Management System project building multi-user capabilities for over 20+ client roles and 1,000+ organizations • Created scalable components for complex design requirement including setting user roles, permissions, and access to all APIs in all applications using Ember and Twitter Bootstrap• Won biannual Golden Rocket AwardSpotPlan (Radio advertising buying platform) • Architected caching system to parallelize requests to load pages faster reducing load times by 70-80%• Analyzed memory, cpu, requests, and rendering using Ember Inspector and Chrome Developer Tools to identify bottlenecks• Implemented Web UI analysis tools for advertising proposals including cost metrics, time slots, and demographics• Improved targeting effectiveness by categorizing advertiser verticals and separating similar advertisements From June 2014 to 2015 (1 year) UI Developer (In Charge of Flagship Websites) @ Restoration Hardware During my tenure, Restoration Hardware IPOed and 3x to a multi-billion dollar in public markets.I was involved in creating record breaking sales some dozen times as part of our first redesign.• Executed major redesign of RestorationHardware.com, RhBabyAndChild.com, and created the RH.com web portal with input from designers and backend engineers to improve eCommerce customer experience Before: bit.ly/resto12 bit.ly/rhbc2012 After: bit.ly/resto13 bit.ly/rhbc2013• Rebuilt website using responsive web design principles and mobile friendly gestures for iPad, iPhone, Android Devices, and larger formats• Wrote code in ATG to improve user interface for the proprietary Concierge quoting system for sales associates including functionality to sort categories by price, date of quote, and customer information• Led major transition from CSS to SASS based stylesheets From August 2012 to August 2013 (1 year 1 month) Corte Madera, CA