I am an Engineering Manager with 23 years of experience in software development and a strong passion for team building and mentorship. I have a proven track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams by fostering a culture of “Professional Development” where engineers understand the business impact of their work, prioritize collaboration, and strive for consistent, high-quality outcomes. I am a certified Scrum Master with expertise in frontend development and UI/UX.
RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS
Architected a fully composable headless e-commerce site and spearheaded the development and implementation.
Collaborated with the design team to create a component library & made it visible in Storybook.
Leveraged Contentful CRM to create a platform that allowed the marketing team to launch initiatives with 0 dev support. This effectively reduced what was previously thousands of dev hours to zero and greatly reduced time to market for the marketing team.
Modernized FE tech stack to typescript, nextJS, led the conversion of the site (75% complete).
Increased code test coverage from near 0% to 80%.
Improved site speed by up to 40%.
Enabled the consolidation of 3 active checkouts to 1.
Introduced the company’s first CI/CD pipeline via Vercel.
Retired manual QA & weekly deploy schedule for FE.
Greatly reduced Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) & time to market.
Spearheaded the adoption of LaunchDarkly for A/B Testing and led the company’s testing efforts.
EXPERIENCE
Engineering Manager: Lovevery, Boise ID Aug 2022 – Jan 2025 – 100% remote
Responsible for all pre-purchase portions of the site, supporting 4 regions and 5 languages.
Collaborated closely with design, SEO, data & analytics, affiliate marketing, product managers, and marketing teams to plan new features and product launches.
Managed and mentored a high-performing, globally distributed remote Agile development team of up to 8 engineers across all US time zones, Mexico, Brazil, Amsterdam, and Poland while acting as Scrum Master.
Successfully mentored my direct reports to the following promotions: 1 principal engineer, 1 engineering manager, and 2 leads.
Senior Engineer: Lovevery, Boise ID Nov 2021 – Aug 2022 – 100% remote
Developed Team Lead role and successfully advocated for adoption across eng org.
Became acting manager after 4 months.
Senior Engineer: TrueCar, Santa Monica, CA Aug 2015 – June 2020 – Austin office then 100% remote
Significant contributor to the complete rebuild of all apps, and supporting infrastructure. (React & Rails)
Tight collaboration with the design team on UI component library.
Extensive use of A/B testing of visual components using LaunchDarkly.
Part of the team tasked with performance and SEO improvements.
Front End Developer: projekt202, Austin, Texas Oct 2014 – Jan 2015 – 100% remote
Front End Developer: Perficient, Austin, Texas March 2014 – June 2014 – 100% remote
Front End Developer: Predictive Science, Austin, Texas November 2013 – March 2014 – 100% remote
Front End Developer: projekt202, Austin, Texas Aug 2013 – Sep 2013 – 50% remote
Front End Developer: Marketvine by Dell, Round Rock, Texas 2011 – 2013
Led the visual integration team.
Received Scrum Master certification.
Contributed to the development of templating engine, Jhmal.
Front End Developer: Perficient, Austin, Texas April 2011 – November 2011
