Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Professional Summary
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Managing two teams of eight software engineers
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Over fifteen years software development writing stand-alone & web
application
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Experience defining the structure of data and manipulating data in
relational databases
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Experience building service-oriented application (Web Services)
Current Experience
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Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Minted, San
Francisco, CA (2020 – Present)
A design marketplace which
sources creative content from a global community of independent
artists, then sell the best content in the form of art, home décor,
and stationery, directly to consumers.
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Takes a lead role in building complex software systems including
architectural proposals, code reviews and hands on coding
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Organizes work streams to meet deadlines
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Works closely with product management to implement and constantly groom
a complex backlog of projects
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Creates an engineering culture of ownership, accountability, testing and measurement
- A talent builder to attract, mentor, and retain best in class engineers
Current Software Teams:
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Community Team
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3 full-time engineers and 1 contractor
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Owns pages that support the minted community of designers and artists https://www.minted.com/participate/overview
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Current projects include updating the look and feel of the voting page
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Product Launch Team
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4 full-time engineers
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Owns pages that allow the minted community to launch their own product into minted.com
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Owns the internal tools that allow the merchandise operations team to launch the minted community's winning designs
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Current projects include Art Image Automation integration
Interim Software Team:
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Finance team
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1 full-time engineer and 1 contractor
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Current projects include ERP integration with Netsuite
Previous Software Teams:
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Direct From Artist team
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3 full-time engineers and entire contractor team (PM, BA, 3 engineers, and QA)
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Projects include Marketplace Alpha, which updates current minted.com to support sellers in selling their products, and Marketplace Beta, which integrates with Mirakl, a marketplace platform, to allow minted.com to scale the number of sellers
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E-commerce Purchase / Growth Team
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2 full-time engineers and a contractor team (PM and 3 engineers)
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Owns product customization, cart, checkout, and growth
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Projects include modernizing and upgrading our product customizer across all verticals, primarily focusing on
Holiday and Wedding
Education
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Master of Science Computer Science
Baylor
University
GPA: 3.58 (Overall) with full tuition
assistantship
Master’s Project: Implementing and Testing a
Distributed Control System
Concentration: Software Engineering
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Bachelor of Science Computer Science with Minor in
Mathematics
Baylor University
GPA: 3.51 (Overall), 3.70 (Major)
with partial tuition scholarship
Past Experience
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Staff Software Engineer
Minted, San
Francisco, CA (2016 – 2020)
Design and implement code for the minted.com website and related
systems. Create features that deliver industry-leading user
growth, retention, and conversion, in addition to features that
benefit Minted's community platform of graphic designers and
artists. Write robust code with high performance and low error rate.
Work with fellow engineers, product management, graphic designers,
quality assurance testers, business users, and user
experience designers.
Technology: Python, Java, PHP, Javascript, React, Backbone, and MySQL
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Senior Software Developer
Jenny Craig,
Carlsbad, CA, 2014 – 2016
Employs object-oriented design and
development while applying software engineering principles for
one-of-a kind wellness company that offers an array of diet and
fitness tools to meet consumers’ needs. Gathers requirements,
designs algorithms, and develops stand-alone as well as web
applications for local and remote users.
Technology: C#, ASP,
ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Pattern,
Object Oriented Design and Programming (OOD/OOP)
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Senior Software Developer
Curves, Waco, TX,
2006 – 2014
Employs object-oriented design and development
while applying software engineering principles for the world's
largest fitness franchise.
Honors and Memberships
- IEEE Computer Society
- Computer Research Association Grad-Cohort for Women (CRA-W)
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Upsilon Pi Epsilon (International Honor Society for the Computing and
Information Disciplines) invitation only