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Wild Fork

2024

Wild ForkLaunched a React and next.js eCommerce site. The backend is headless CommerceTools with Adyen as the payment provider. I was the React and next.js lead for a large team of software engineers. We extensively used modern React with hooks, redux and custom Java APIs. The backend was hosted in Azure with an advanced CI/CD system that enabled quick and reliable deploys.

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MVP Healthcare

2022

MVP HealthcareLaunched a React and next.js health insurance site. The backend is Azure with an industrial payment provider. I was a React and next.js software engineer on a blended team of front end and fullstack engineers. We built the Employer Broker interface, that integrated with and leveraged a large pre-existing health care system that serves New York state and Vermont.

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Porzio

2021

PorzioLaunched a React pharmaceutical monetary compliance site. The backend is Azure with a custom invoice based payment system. I was the initial React software engineer on a team that grew to half a dozen. The React port was instrumental in a subsequent acquisition by RLDatix.

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Coach USA

2020

Coach USALaunched a React eCommerce site to sell bus tickets online. The backend is AWS with Adyen as the payment provider. I coded in React and node.js for AWS Lambdas and DynamoDB. The site is live selling bus Tickets online at CoachUSA.com.

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DevaCurl

2019

DevaCurlThis was a port from Shopify to a modern JavaScript architecture. I implemented Elastic search on an AWS instance to provide the main search functionality for the site.

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Volkswagen

2017

VolkswagenThis project was awarded the National Geographic Photo of the year. SGS won a large contract to inspect 300,000 Volkswagen diesels that needed to be removed from the road and repurchased per the EPA. I was the software engineering manager in charge of the app used to monetize the return and get VW vehicle owners a premium price on an immediate buy back. This business unit of SGS was subsequently sold to private equity based on the sucess of this project.

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Blue State

2015

Blue StateThis was an agency design and refresh to a modern JavaScript UI with a CMS backend, for a children’s health care provider. While working for this digital agency I also deployed a React upgrade to a financial site called LearnVest, that was acquired by Northwestern Mutual.

Jag

Jaguar Land Rover

2010

Jaguar Land RoverImplemented software to import several billion dollars worth of Range Rovers and Jaguars from the UK and into US ports, through customs, onto car carriers, and ultimately to their luxury dealership network.

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theglobe.com

2000

theglobe.comDirector of Software Engineering for the 34th largest website in the world at the time. theglobe was a vibrant precursor to Facebook, that was tragically ahead of its time. Managed 6 C++ and 12 web developers.

Ora

Oracle

1998

OracleWorked on a pioneering bill payment system for Chase bank. It was a tribute to how much could be done almost entirely with PL/SQL stored procedures.

Nic

Nickelodeon

1997

NickelodeonSoftware Engineer writing C, Java, and SQL for Nickelodeon’s www.nick.com June 1997 maiden launch. This site was heavily promoted on Nicolodeon's TV channel, and hence was crushed with traffic that was nimbly round robinned by the Silicon Graphics workstations that ran the website.

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Sony