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2017 - 2020Likemind- Designed, developed, and maintained the entire back end and admin platform that the entire digital publishing company ran on and everyone in the company used every day.
- Created the platform that combined analytics, automation, email marketing, gamification, loyalty, CMS, subscriptions, and much more to enable the business to reach and support millions of people every day.
- Built and led the engineering, optimization like conversion and SEO, and data analytics teams, including BI and data engineering.
- Designed and implemented the company's data warehouse storing many terabytes of data.
- Led regular day-to-day BI initiatives as well as larger strategic research projects to help gain an understanding of the business's audience and its successes and failures.
Technologies: JavaScript, React, SQL, MongoDB, Node.jsCEO | CTO
2016 - 2017Helpr Solutions- Developed the entire platform including backend REST API, iOS app and web app that allowed university students to pay and get paid to tutor each other via chat, meet-ups, and/or video sessions—think Uber for tutoring.
- Worked on email and Facebook login, question/answer forum, payments/payouts, text, image and video chat, promotion codes, social sharing, push notifications, and more.
- Built an algorithm to match students who needed tutoring with available tutors based on location, rating, subject, and other factors.
- Developed an administrator management app to review tutor applications, manage users, and view session reports.
- Developed the entire back-end REST API and deployed to Heroku with the ability to scale easily.
Technologies: CSS, Google Places SDK, OpenTok, SparkPost, Google Maps, Fabric, Crashlytics, Socket.IO, Redis, Passport.js, Mongoose, Express.js, Heroku, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Mapbox SDK, Facebook SDK, Stripe, MongoDB, Node.js, HTML, JavaScript, Xcode, Objective-CCTO
2011 - 2016Mobilogie- Developed more than 30 apps for clients ranging from small startups to large international corporations.
- Managed the development of more than 50 apps and platforms with teams consisting of product managers, developers, designers, and QA testers.
- Developed an entire iOS app that communicated with a baby monitor through WiFi and our back end.
- Managed the project team to develop the iOS, Android and back-end while also communicating and syncing with both the product and hardware teams in the US, Taiwan, and Japan.
Technologies: LinkedIn API, Facebook SDK, Google Maps SDK, Bluetooth, Stripe, OpenTok, JavaScript, C++, MacOS, Xcode, Objective-CMac Developer
2010 - 2010BlackBerry- Worked as a member of the BlackBerry Desktop Manager for the Mac OS X team.
- Helped to build, update, and manage the app.
Technologies: Git, Core Data, Xcode, Objective-C, MacOS