Experience
2021 — Now
2005 — Now
2005 — Now
Norwalk, CT
CD and Automation Architect (Jan 2016 - Present)
• Our focus is in reducing cycle time in the deployment pipeline for the entire company
• Reducing technical debt
• Working with SRE and Unix teams to automate provisioning, configuration and application deployment
• Researching tools such as Mesos and AWS ECS in an effort in making a cultural shift towards DevOps
Replatforming the Web Stack (June 2014 - Jan 2016)
• Part of a team which replatformed the web stack from Java to NodeJS
• Worked with the SRE and Release Engineering teams to develop a new streamlined deployment pipeline, which reduced the cycle time and increased visibility of Production to developers
Hotel Product Tech Lead (March 2012 - June 2014)
• Team Lead on our effort to replatform our web stack by developing and deploying prototypes, starting with our company's flagship product, using modern web technologies in order to achieve an agile development process
• Worked with our Engineering Support team to change our deployment pipeline to allow for more frequent deploys and reduced cycle times
Mobile Group (June 2011 – March 2012)
• Responsible for maintaining our mobile API for our hotel and rental car products
• Lead the design, architecture and implementation of the API for a brand new product called "Tonight Only Deals" which offered special discounts for our mobile app users if they were checking in same day
Marketing Group (Jan 2008 – June 2011)
• Lead the design, architecture and implementation of many Marketing incentives such as an home brew CMS system, URL shortening service, automated promotional e-mail based on uncompleted transactions, and replatforming the Priceline homepages from ASP to Java
Airline Product (Jan 2005 – Dec 2007)
• Developed new features as well as monitored and fixed Production errors which increased conversion of the product
• Designed and developed new products such as Air+Car packages that allowed for incremental business
1999 — 2005
1999 — 2005
Developed Java Servlets, JSP pages, PHP pages, JavaScript, CGI scripts in Perl, and HTML for various sites and sitelets
Project lead on sites such as Just Retail, an online recruiting site for the retail industry, Herpes Help, a medical informational site, and Moneyopolis, an educational site for elementary students
Project lead for internal software development projects such as our company's Contact Management System, Rich Media E-mail Campaign System, and IMAP Archiving Tool.
As project lead, I was responsible for software code design and implementation, as well as database schema design
Performed administrative duties on UNIX boxes that were used for site development, quality assurance, and staging for clients
Setup and maintained the corporate network including Cisco routers, switches, Linux firewalls, and various servers
Education
Stony Brook University
Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science
1995 — 1999