Resume

• 2019

  BentoBox

  Greater New York City Area

  VP of Engineering

  BentoBox

• 2018

  Vettery

  New York

  New York

  •\tCollaborated with Head of Product to define tech roadmap and ensure operational excellence\n•\tBudgeted/Forecasted and planned engineering headcount.\n•\tCollaborated with Finance

  HR

  and Recruiting to hire and grow the engineering team by 3X.\n•\tEstablished appropriate processes to assure on time and high quality deliverables.\n•\tMentored senior managers as they oversaw design

  implementation

  and deployment of full stack solutions across microservices (JavaScript

  Python

  AWS).\n•\tManaged Dev-ops and QA to ensure a healthy release pipeline.

  Head Of Engineering

  Vettery

• 2017

  Rutgers University

  •\tInstructed an intensive 6 month coding bootcamp involving over 250 hours of in-class teaching.\n•\tTaught full stack development including the following technology\n\t- HTML5

  CSS3

  JavaScript

  jQuery

  AJAX

  React

  Responsive Design\n\t- Node.js

  Express.js

  APIs\n\t- MySQL

  MongoDB\n\t- Heroku

  Git

  Travis CI

  Rutgers University

• 2015

  Unified

  Greater New York City Area

  •\tPartnered with Product Management to coordinate technical and product roadmap with business strategy.\n•\tDirected multiple engineering teams and supervised design

  implementation

  and deployment of full-stack solutions across microservices including front-end user interfaces (React)

  back-end rest APIs(Node

  Python

  RDS

  Neo4j)

  and a data pipeline platform (Redshift

  Java

  Scala) all hosted in AWS.\n•\tEstablished hiring goals

  interviewed

  on-boarded

  and mentored engineers of all levels as well as engineering managers.\n•\tCreated career paths for all levels of engineering.\n•\tPartnered closely with the executive team to gain context and communicate risk and progress.

  Head of Engineering - Audience Intelligence

  Unified

• 2014

  Morgan Stanley

  NY/NJ

  •\tPlanned technical upgrades for a reusable library of components.\n•\tManaged a team of engineers in development using AngularJS

  Karma

  Jasmine

  and PhantomJS.\n•\tPromoted continuous integration through the use of gulp

  Jenkins

  and selenium.\n•\tProvided technical guidance through code reviews and paired programming.\n•\tChampioned a solid commitment to performance by having engineers analyze memory profiles to identify memory leaks.

  VP of UI Component Development

  Morgan Stanley

• 2012

  Audible

  Inc.

  • Planned and executed technical upgrades for Audible.com

  mobile.audible.com and Kindle storefront.\n• Worked closely with product managers to manage scope and provide realistic timelines.\n• Lead a team of engineers in development using Java

  html

  css

  javascript

  Angular

  AWS services\n• Provided technical guidance through code reviews and paired programming.\n• Promoted high quality production releases by teaming with testers to identify and fix bugs.

  Audible

  Inc.

• 2003

  Vanguard

  Malvern Pa

  •\tLead a team of engineers in development of a workflow management system using Java and IBM’s MQ Workflow system.\n•\tPartnered with 10 developers on the Component Based Development (CBD) team to create and maintain a reusable library of components based on JSF

  Java

  and JavaScript. \n•\tStreamlined interaction between Design and Development by creating templates and a clean deliverable handoff process.\n•\tRe-engineered the system for displaying 401k plan information to phone associates using Java.\n•\tConverted a VB6 application to a .NET Application and resolved bugs in third party code which was critical to the on-time project delivery.

  Software Engineer/Lead Engineer

  Vanguard

• 1998

  Master

  Computer Science

  Stevens Institute of Technology

  Bachelor

  Computer Engineering

  Stevens Institute of Technology

• CSS

  Software Development

  jQuery

  Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

  Responsive Design

  Agile Methodologies

  Web Applications

  User Interface

  Extract

  Transform

  Load (ETL)

  Thought Leadership

  IT Strategy

  User Experience

  Web Development

  Java

  JavaScript

  Javascript

  Scrum

  AJAX

  Solution Architecture

  IT Management

  Ferguson

  Kevin

  Ferguson