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Software Engineer & Product Manager

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About

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With 15 years of restaurant management & employee training experience (8 years as a co-founder), as well 18 months in web development, I bring a wealth of business experience to back up my talents as an Engineer & Technical Product Manager. I have trained and managed teams of up to 50 employees at a time. More recently, as the TPM of a Data Analytics Startup, I led a team of front end developers in an Agile environment, generated user persona reports to guide our product vision, conducted UX interviews, & wrote tickets as user stories & thorough API research.

Experience

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Snap! Mobile

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Mon Feb 13 2023 - Present

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    Technical Product Manager

    Bazari

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    Sat Dec 31 2022 - Fri Apr 01 2022

    • Refined the product vision with CEO/CTO based off my competitor UX research and user interviews
    • Fostered trust and rapport with leaders of all departments to consistently achieve cross-functional buy-in
    • Simultaneously managed remote developers in Brazil, Lebanon, Switzerland, and USA
    • Implemented Agile Methodology with daily standups, biweekly sprints & grooming sessions, and a major pivot
    • Researched available APIs (some without documentation) for our site to utilize six data sources
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    Snap! Mobile

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    Wed Sep 01 2021 - Fri Apr 01 2022

    • Built “Drive” Sales Support Analytics Dashboard from scratch on a two man team
    • Aggregated HubSpot API data with our own legacy database to create a new source of truth rendered on a single platform for the sales team.
    • Twice recognized as Engineer of the Month.
    • Worked with engineers in Romania, Ukraine, Russia, India and designers in Pakistan.
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    Co-Founder

    BrainDead Brewing

    Sat Jun 01 2013 - Sun Nov 28 2021

    • Data Driven decision making for bi-weekly ordering, quarterly menu changes, and new beer release schedule
    • Conducted Weekly Manager Meetings to keep communication open between Kitchen, Brewery, & Service Staff
    • Developed accounting practices for controlling labor, food, beer, and marketing costs
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    Assistant Beer Director

    Flying Saucer Draught Emporium

    Thu Sep 01 2005 - Sat Jun 01 2013

    • Marketed, Planned, and Executed Five Beer Festivals a year for six years averaging 500 attendees
    • Trained GMs, Managers, and hourly staff in Beer History, Style Guidelines, and Service Standards

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    Projects

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    Case Study 1 of 6: Admin Dashboard

    Full stack data visualization dashboard using MERN stack supported by Material UI & DMUI Data Grid as well as Nivo Charts. Redux & Redux Toolkit state management helped with Dark/Light mode and a User slice. I also mixed in an aggregate call to join some tables together and learn something new. It is deployed using a free version at Render.com so please be patient with the API calls on initial load.

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    Case Study 2 of 6: Midjourney Madness

    Work in Progress: Website showcasing the intriguing new world of Ai Generated art, specifically from the Midjourney art generator. I have spent quite a bit of time "designing" everything from logos, to website/mobile app UI, to imaginary worlds. This website has all of its graphics generated by Ai.

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    Case Study 3 of 6: Golf Loyalty Program

    Our platform allows users to easily input their existing credit card, and layer on additional rewards for golf related purchases. Every time you use your credit card, you'll be earning points that can be redeemed for discounts on golf gear, green fees, and more.

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    Case Study 4 of 6: Bazari

    As a blockchain gaming data analytics platform, we specialized in visualizing blockchain gaming market data alongside in game utility and perfomance statistics.

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    Case Study 5 of 6: Snap! Mobile

    Snap! Mobile is a fundraising launchpad for youth leaders. In my capacity as software engineer, we dove into their old Ruby on Rails Monolith and converted it to a JavaScript (Node and Vue) technology stack. I also built their internal Sales Support Dashboard "Snap! Drive" on a team of two from scratch.

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    Case Study 6 of 6: BrainDead Brewing

    Co-founded a brewery and restaurant recognized as Dallas' Best New Restaurant by D Magazine, and Best Burger by Dallas Observer, and Best Brewery by Culture Map

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