Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
New York, New York, United States
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
New York, New York, United States
Build and maintain backend systems for advertising workflows across trafficking, billing, ad server integrations, targeting, and delivery operations.
Lead implementation for complex ad tech features involving Google Ads, DFP/Google Ad Manager, Adswizz, internal targeting services, billing setup, campaign creation, and operational data flows.
Modernize legacy systems while preserving production behavior, business rules, and compliance-sensitive release processes.
Design internal AI-assisted engineering workflows using multi-agent systems, persistent memory, Jira/Bitbucket/Confluence integrations, and automated worktree orchestration.
Created agent workflows for code implementation, PR review, release coordination, ticket synchronization, team digests, documentation maintenance, QA, and engineering operations.
Translate ambiguous business and operational requirements into maintainable systems, tests, rollout plans, and team-readable implementation paths.
Mentor through code review, architecture feedback, debugging support, and practical engineering judgment across backend and cross-functional work.
2019 — 2022
2019 — 2022
New York City Metropolitan Area
2015 — 2019
2015 — 2019
New York City Metropolitan Area
Web Apps:
Designed UX/UI and developed full stack web applications used internally. Applications were developed using backends such as Python, Django, and Postgres, and Front end languages such as HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, javascript, and jQuery.
Designed and developed web application called Vendor DB based on internal need to track information about the 100's of applications used by Pandora Employees. It tracked important admin notes, how it was used, main contacts, contracts, sox compliance, etc. Notification system to help remind procurement groups of expiring contracts, and remind business to review info to make sure it was up to date.
Developed internal Office Maps utility. Integrated with the staff directory and generated searchable office maps to search and find employees, rooms, and printers at each corporate office.
Enterprise Integrations:
Responsible for delivering enterprise integration solutions and services using Enterprise Integration Technologies like Mulesoft Anypoint Studio ESB, Java, ActiveMQ, Django, and REST/SOAP api's.
ETL of business data sources from and into our Hadoop/Hive warehouse.
Providing technical expertise and leadership to develop integration architecture solutions spanning business processes, systems, hardware, operating systems, apps and networking environments and platforms
Reviewing or designing complex enterprise integration architectures for business stakeholders, making recommendations, implementing the designs either onsite or through remote services.
Strategic proof of concepts using open source and/or commercial products.
My team helped with migrating to Workday HCM and built out mule integrations and workday studio integrations to send data to and from benefits providers. Developed integrations between workday and Pandora's internal directory for automation of employee new hire, updates, and termination processes.
Helped refactor and upgrade integrations Mule ESB v3.4 Community Edition, to v3.9 Enterprise Edition.
2014 — 2015
2014 — 2015
New York City Metropolitan Area
Position Based on CEB report "The Future of Corporate IT 2013-2017," User Experience Guru.
Design and Configure user-centric interfaces for in-house and cloud applications.
Designed UI/UX wireframes and CSS samples for internally developed web applications.
Worked directly with cloud vendors to design and improve user experience from a Pandora Employee perspective.
Worked with procurement group to help find, test, and onboard new cloud applications.
Helped upgrade the internal wiki to make it more user friendly and easier to navigate and locate the correct materials.
Designed, wire framed, and developed a mockup of web app for a Vendor Database, that would be used to track all information (Business Owners, Contracts, Notes, Black listed applications, etc) about 100's of internally developed and cloud applications and vendors used by Pandora.
Education
University of North Carolina Wilmington Cameron School of Business
BS
2003 — 2009
The Ohio State University
Management Information Systems
2006 — 2007