OVERVIEW

Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building teams and products across mobile, web, and platform infrastructure. Proven track record of scaling teams from zero, driving revenue growth, and leading technical modernization initiatives. Deep expertise in iOS/Android development, developer experience, and cross-functional leadership. Passionate about building high-performing teams and creating products that matter.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Engineering Manager
November 2022 – Present
GameChanger (Dick's Sporting Goods) · Remote
Led engineering teams through critical platform modernization, developer experience improvements, and revenue-enabling initiatives. Progressed through three teams: Revenue Growth → Advertising → App Platform, driving technical strategy for mobile infrastructure serving millions of youth sports users.
App Platform Team May 2025 – Present
  • Leading team of 6 senior engineers (iOS, Android, platform specialists) focused on mobile developer experience and infrastructure
  • Led organization-wide evaluation and implementation of DX measurement tooling, establishing first-ever quantitative metrics on developer productivity at GameChanger
  • Leading development of Generic Data Layer (GDL) as next-generation data access layer, enabling teams to fully own and maintain their own mobile data
  • Modernized mobile CI/CD, achieving 30%+ build time improvements
Advertising Engineering Team 2024 – May 2025
  • Spun out from Revenue Growth team to focus exclusively on advertising infrastructure
  • Scaled team to 4 engineers
  • Grew advertising business from $0 to $1M+ in 6 months with only 2 engineers; enabled $8.6M+ annual advertising revenue stream
  • Led integration with DSG's GAM360 instance including PPID attribution pipeline
  • Built foundational infrastructure for DSG's Retail Media Network integration
  • Shipped Android Recommended Clips, Ad Pods experiments, and AdX programmatic ad units
Revenue Growth Team November 2022 – 2024
  • Founded and built the Revenue Growth team from scratch as first engineering manager role at GameChanger
  • Hired team of 3 engineers (iOS, Android, Web frontend)
  • Established A/B testing infrastructure and experimentation framework for the organization
  • Led rapid experimentation on paywalls and revenue-increasing workflows
  • Initiated advertising integration into the app, which grew into its own dedicated team
Key Accomplishments
  • Built and scaled three engineering teams from ground up
  • Established first data-driven developer experience program at GameChanger
  • Led infrastructure modernization impacting 40+ engineers
  • Hired and developed 7+ engineers with high retention and promotion rate
Engineering Director
October 2019 – November 2022
PLSC / C-STAR, University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI
First engineering hire, building and leading software development for two medical education research organizations from the ground up.
SIMPL (System for Improving and Measuring Procedural Learning)

SIMPL is a smartphone-based surgical assessment platform used across 15+ US general surgery residency programs as part of a multi-institutional research collaborative. Selected as the official assessment platform for required American Board of Surgery and Vascular Surgery Board EPA assessments, SIMPL is driving the national movement toward competency-based medical education.

  • Inherited and took full ownership of existing web app, iOS app, Android app, and backend as sole engineer
  • Paid down significant technical debt, improved CI pipeline, and shipped new features across all platforms
  • Handled all scoping, product management, and engineering execution as a one-person team
  • Built all data engineering infrastructure for the SIMPL Collaborative research initiative
  • Developed ELT pipelines to move data from application databases into research databases
  • Deployed machine learning models used to analyze surgical education data
  • Created reporting site enabling surgeons to track the progress of their residents
Simple Bedside
  • Wrote successful proposal and led design for new application contracted based on SIMPL's success
  • Built application for evaluating bedside procedures and medical education quality
  • Managed full product lifecycle from proposal through delivery
SIMPL v2 (ACGME Contract)
  • Authored winning proposal to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for second-generation SIMPL platform
  • Scaled organization from sole engineer to team of 5 engineers and a product manager
  • Responsible for engineering leadership, application design, and product management
  • Technologies: iOS, Android, Web (full stack)
Director of Advanced Projects
February 2016 – October 2019
Tome Software · Flint, MI
Led the Advanced Projects team, a for-hire technology research group serving automotive companies. Specialized in Bluetooth integration, phone connectivity, and safety-related software. Team motto: "Novel Solutions to Real Problems." Investigated and validated customer problems, generated designs, and rapidly prototyped solutions combining custom hardware, mobile apps, and vehicle integration.
Tome SAR — Real-time location tracking for search and rescue (Ford-funded)

Ford-funded R&D project creating a complete search and rescue tracking system for RF-starved wilderness areas far from cell coverage. Combined custom hardware, mesh networking, drones, and mobile apps to track SAR assets in real time.

  • Software Engineering: Built iOS app, Android app, Web app, and Node.js API for real-time personnel tracking
  • Engineering Team Lead: Managed team of 3-4 engineers, planned releases and milestones
  • Product Management: Conducted user interviews with SAR personnel, derived product requirements, designed features
  • Hardware Integration: Developed mesh network nodes deployed on drones (as flying antennas) and custom fat-tire e-bikes for wilderness rescue operations
  • Conducted test flights at NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
  • Led field demonstration with Marquette City Police Department in Northern Michigan during practice search and rescue exercise
  • Produced promotional video for Ford showcasing the technology
Ford Bicycle Safety System — Vehicle-to-bicycle collision avoidance (Ford)

Developed end-to-end bicycle safety system enabling Ford vehicles to detect and automatically stop for cyclists.

  • Engineering Manager & Product Manager: Led project from concept through live demonstration
  • Modified Ford onboard vehicle sensors to integrate with custom detection system
  • Built iOS application for cyclists to broadcast location data, augmenting data for sensor fusion
  • Designed custom hardware for bicycle mounting
  • System used both GPS location and Bluetooth signal strength for precise cyclist positioning
  • Demonstrated on live test track with real cyclists riding in front of moving vehicles—vehicles stopped automatically
  • Showcased cutting-edge V2X (vehicle-to-everything) safety technology
Mobile Team Lead
October 2012 – February 2016
IXL Learning · San Mateo, CA
Co-created and released the 1.0 version of IXL Math and English iOS application, enabling students to practice thousands of Math and English language arts skills.
  • iOS Development: Created and maintained the Practice Agent system for integrating web content with native iOS functionality
  • Mobile Team Lead: Managed and directed engineering activities of up to 6 iOS and Android engineers
  • Led the development and release of the Android application
  • Created project plans, milestones, and release schedules
Software Engineer
October 2011 – October 2012
Livio Radio · Ferndale, MI
Livio Connect iOS Library — Project Lead & Developer
  • Designed developer-friendly API for enabling external devices to control mobile applications
  • Implemented External Accessory framework communication and packet building to Livio Connect spec
  • Maintained backward compatibility across library versions
TuneIn Radio Integration
  • Integrated TuneIn Radio application with GM-designed car stereo using Livio Connect library
Software Engineer
May 2010 – October 2011
DCS · Sterling Heights, MI
  • Radio Remote Programmer — Lead Developer: Developed Java utility allowing users to load presets via XML files onto military radios for MRAP testing team
  • MRAP Smart Display — Developer: Developed application software for the smart display on MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) vehicles
SKILLS & TECHNOLOGIES

Leadership & Management

Team Building Scaled teams from 0 to 7+ engineers with 85%+ retention; hired and developed engineers across iOS, Android, and platform roles
Performance Management Individual development plans, mentorship, promotion paths, navigating difficult performance conversations
Cross-Functional Leadership Led teams spanning Engineering, Product, Design, QA, Data Science, and Ad Operations
Methodologies Shape Up (6-week cycles), OKRs, 4DX framework, Agile/Scrum

Product & Strategy

Product Management Roadmapping, scoping, requirements derivation, full product lifecycle ownership
Technical Proposals Authored winning proposals including ACGME contract for SIMPL v2
User Research Customer interviews, wireframing, problem validation
Design Sprints Facilitated 6 Google Design Sprints across Tome Software and SIMPL Collaborative
Developer Experience Established quantitative DX measurement programs, prioritized platform investments based on data

Technical Skills

Mobile iOS (Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C), Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Java)
Backend & Web Python, Node.js, Django, Express.js, TypeScript, React, Angular
Data Engineering ELT pipelines, ML Ops, Snowplow, PostgreSQL, research infrastructure
DevOps & CI/CD GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Fastlane, Tuist, Docker, MacStadium
Observability Datadog, Firebase, Embrace, crash reporting, on-device logging
Ad Tech GAM360, AdX programmatic advertising, PPID attribution, Retail Media Network
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
University of Michigan-Flint
2007 – 2010
Pragmatic Marketing Certified
Pragmatic Institute
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Supplemental Instruction Lead
University of Michigan · 2007 – 2010

Led supplemental instruction sessions for Philosophy 202 (Introduction to Logic). Organized group study sessions, individual tutoring, and delivered guest lectures.

Substitute Teacher
International Academy of Flint · 2009 – 2011

Substitute teaching for grades 7 through 12.