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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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)
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
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
- 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
- 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
- Integrated TuneIn Radio application with GM-designed car stereo using Livio Connect library
- 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
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Led supplemental instruction sessions for Philosophy 202 (Introduction to Logic). Organized group study sessions, individual tutoring, and delivered guest lectures.
Substitute teaching for grades 7 through 12.