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Enthusiastic Engineering leader scaling teams and platforms with clarity and momentum. Known for aligning stakeholders, unblocking stalled work through focused sessions, and developing strong engineers and managers who deliver quality results while contributing to the codebase and mentoring junior team members.
A clear and trusted communicator who aligns product, data, design, and engineering stakeholders around shared outcomes, especially when priorities compete or decisions stall in endless corporate loops.
I lead with a pragmatic, hands-on style that balances strategic intent with a strong bias for action, empowering the team to be self sufficient but stepping in where needed to move work forward.
Creates user-experience and function through understanding analytics, technology and natural user behavior In any ecosystem or product.
Designs information architecture with full stack capabilities across domains –
I am the liaison between design, technical development and deployment.Applies agile methodologies throughout, focusing on accessibility and measurable success for the product.
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Engineering Manager / Platform & Team Lead | 2021 – Present
Ameriprise Financial
2021 – now
Leading a platform enablement team delivering secure, compliant customer-facing systems including headless CMS, APIs, video platforms, search, and AWS-based cloud services across Ameriprise and its subsidiaries, aligning platform architecture with enterprise digital strategy.
Manage and mentor a distributed team of 6–10 frontend, backend, TPM, and QA engineers; drive roadmap execution, performance management, and modernization initiatives while improving operational excellence through disciplined Agile delivery.
Partner with product and senior business stakeholders to assess regulatory risk, define technical tradeoffs, and prioritize roadmap investments that balance feature velocity with long-term platform sustainability. Serve as escalation and incident lead for Tier 1 services, directing triage, stakeholder communication, and systemic remediation.
Led the global rollout of a centralized React and TypeScript video platform, integrating external REST APIs to standardize version governance while enabling interactive capabilities without disrupting revenue-generating properties.
Directed the design and production adoption of AI-powered customer engagement solutions, implementing secure input filtering, response validation, and LLM governance controls in regulated public-facing environments.
Integrated AI services via React, TypeScript, Node.js and Python orchestration layers supporting prompt routing, context injection, and response governance while owning roadmap delivery for LLM initiatives.
Designed and delivered an internal developer onboarding platform using Next.js and PostgreSQL, reducing time-to-first-contribution by 75% and strengthening engineering scalability.
Established reliability governance through SLIs, SLOs, and error budget frameworks across Tier 1 and Tier 2 services, aligning engineering prioritization with business impact and service stability.
Key Achievements
Team Leadership & Process Improvement
Increased delivery velocity by ~30% and average sprint points per developer by ~20% through team restructuring and adoption of engineering best practices.
Reduced re-engineering costs by ~30% and cut onboarding time from 4 weeks to 1 through documentation standards and structured onboarding curriculums.
AI & LLM Leadership Experience
- Led GitHub Copilot proof of concept and enterprise rollout, evaluating productivity impact, code quality, and security considerations before scaling adoption across development teams in Visual Studio and VS Code.
- Designed and implemented a “360 Copilot” internal support model, enabling developers to use AI for real-time technical questions, architecture clarification, and debugging guidance, reducing reliance on ad-hoc peer support.
- Delivered AI-assisted feature development in React and TypeScript, leveraging LLMs end-to-end for component scaffolding, refactoring, test generation, and documentation, while enforcing human review and quality gates.
- Authored an AI-assisted development playbook for fintech environments, defining guardrails around secure code generation, data handling, prompt usage, and compliance-safe workflows for regulated systems.
- Led chatbot proof of concepts and production implementations on public-facing sites using IBM Watson Assistant and Haptik, focusing on intent modeling, content governance, analytics, and escalation paths.
- Implemented Apache Elasticsearch for large-scale content discovery, improving search relevance and performance across complex enterprise sub-sites.
- Advanced QA automation using Cypress and Playwright, integrating AI-assisted test generation and maintenance to increase coverage and reduce regression risk in fast-moving web applications.
Platform & Architecture Modernization
Led Next.js/Node monorepo migration and API modernization, reducing maintenance overhead and enabling faster feature deployment.
Delivered enterprise-level Brightcove Video Player component, unifying platform dependency and vendor integration.
Developed internal AD role visualization tool, improving access management efficiency and decision-making for engineering teams.
CI/CD & Operations
Led CI/CD migration from Bamboo to Jenkins (JSL) across 15 repositories, improving build reliability, release visibility, and operational efficiency. Provided hands-on build support for frontend teams by troubleshooting failed pipelines, guiding engineers through console output analysis, identifying root causes, and making targeted configuration and code adjustments to restore successful builds and unblock releases.
Established team-wide guidelines for responsible AI and Copilot usage, partnering with engineering, TPMs, and business stakeholders to drive adoption. Led AI proofs of concept and operationalized AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate code reviews, improve feature delivery, and scale development efficiency across teams.
Chairmans Award 2023
Frameworks: NextJS, Typescript, React, PostgressDB, Node JS, Tailwind, SpringBoot, REST API,
Support Frameworks: Jenkins, Cyberark, Podman, dbadmin.
Engineering Manager, Senior Web Developer,
Team Lead | 2017 – 2021
College of the Holy Cross
2017 – 2021
Served as a product owner in the Colleges first agile development team, creating and prioritizing development goals and reducing project backlog from the pipeline.
Led the internal UX/Web development team in creating student journeys, user personas and information architecture by coordinating deliverables with the network group and external developer and writing plugins and templates for cross domain information sharing.
Collaborated with the digital marketing team and campus partners to visualize data for campaigns and news to measure impact. Streamlined content management and delivery workflows through continuous iteration.
Manager, Digital Technologies and Web Developer
College of the Holy Cross
2011 – 2017
Led the College’s first Agile development team of 5 IC software engineers, contributed as an IC software engineer reducing project backlog and feature development.
Managed UX/Web team, creating student journeys, personas, and information architecture.
Coordinated cross-functional deliverables with network group and external developers.
Partnered with digital marketing to visualize campaign data and measure impact.
Streamlined content management workflows through continuous iteration.
Web Developer UX
John Hancock Life Insurance Company U.S.
2009 – 2011
Led UI design and tracking analytics, collaborating with design, video vendors, and stakeholders.
Served as FE Dev and IC software engineer for 20+ micro-websites and 3 standalone apps using HTML, JavaScript/XML, and PHP.
Developed B2B/B2C applications, including dynamic calculators, video players, and database search tools.
Built machine-readable search tools integrated with XML and MySQL.
FE Web Developer / UX Design
TechTarget
2007 – 2009
Spearheaded the development of HTML pages and templates for the companies B2B marketing team. Directed the department in the development of custom Flash apps and animated digital assets.
Created wireframes and graphic design work for web vehicles and collaborated with stakeholders to deliver marketing materials for the international market and professionals in the U.S.
Web Developer, IC software engineer
BT – British Telecom
2006 – 2007
Responsible for the development of Flash E- Learning Apps to support the international marketing team.
Created web vehicles wireframes for the U.S. marketing department.
Partnered with project managers, coaching professionals, voice actors, and digital music professionals.
Collaborated with the design department and product stakeholders to deliver marketing and training materials or documentation.
Graphic Design and IT Project Manager
Puma – North America
2004 – 2006
Developed Flash Apps and HTML pages to support the international marketing team for various online campaigns for the company website and multiple microsites.
Facilitated with the international marketing team in the development of web assets for PUMAs popular „I’m Going“ series, conceived by Tank in 2006.
Supported the international stakeholders and their partners in Germany and Austria. Led the U.S. team through conventions and exhibitions in Germany
Graphic Design UX – Web Development
Arsmedium Advertising Agency
2002-2005
Responsible for HTML pages and templates for events and products for a variety of national clients.
Responsible for User Interface Design of product pages and micro sites.
Created vector graphic assets for web vehicles and UI.