Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Upwork

Upwork

Senior Vice President Of Engineering

VP, Engineering

- Led all engineering efforts for a major SAP/Ariba integration, where eBay inventory is surfaced in Ariba’s procurement software application, providing a seamless B2B buying experience for Ariba’s customers.• Assembled a highly functioning engineering team, as proven by the consistent delivery of projects & high praises received from interfacing teams and 3rd parties we work with.• Increased eBay user engagement by spearheading the development of the Rich-Pin API for eBay, which provides Pinterest users additional context on pinned eBay items (price, in stock, & seller information) directly in the Pinterest experience.• Successfully delivered eBay Digital Comics experience in 1 month, by leading all engineering and QA efforts, as well as managing a 3rd party integration.• Led the engineering assessments and implementation for multiple WeChat & eBay integrations.• Instilled a culture of continuous learning by spearheading internal trainings for engineering, resulting in increased engagement, team building and broadening of engineers skill sets.• Contributed to several M&A technical assessments, one of which lead to a successful acquisition.• Removed single points of failure in the organization’s personnel and systems, by leading a initiative to create leadership groups with access to all critical systems, allowing for any authorized engineering leader to address critical issues.

eBay Inc

Director of Engineering, Innovations and New Ventures

- Built team to develop eBay's Mobile Web site from ground up, scaling to support over $1.5B annually in gross merchandise volume.•  Led all Mobile Web development efforts for eBay Mobile, including software development, process improvement, production support, partner management, budget management, career development, & performance management.•  Managed an annual budget of more than $1 million and reduced spend by 70% via reducing 3rd party dependency and reduction of contractor spend. •  Spear headed the creation of a device detection service for mobile devices, allowing for on the fly detection of devices and its supported features, which has become widely used across the eBay platform.  •  Led the effort to develop a full client site web app for tablets, experimenting with a number of JavaScript frameworks such as SproutCore & Backbone.js. 

Sr Manager, Mobile Web Development

- Responsible for all eBay home pages, marketing pages, help pages for US and international sites.•  Managed a global team of 30+ web developers for 15+ web properties, with 24x7 site support responsibilities.•  Created initial version of eBay Daily Deals (<a href="http://deals.ebay.com">http://deals.ebay.com</a>), which has grown to over a billion dollar a year business.•  Managed team and multiple business units through a homepage re-architecture for all sites (US & International).•  Reduced content deployment times by 50%.

Sr Manager, Web Development

- Actively managed the global web development production team consisting of 15 team members. Conducted performance reviews, compensation assessments, career planning and recruited new talent as required to manage varying workload. Worked cross functionally with Product Marketing, Product Management, Design & Usability, & Operations.• Drove the development of content editing tools to support a self service editing model for our customers. • Supported site by 24x7 on call duties for P1 or urgent issues on the production site

Manager, Web Development

Responsible for all web development activity on all myCFO’s web properties: Public Site, Intranet, Extranet, & Internal web applications.• Architected, developed and implemented a web based Vendor/Contract application, using ASP/SQL Server technologies, which allowed management to plan, budget and monitor myCFO’s vendor contracts.• Installed, developed and managed rollout of a blogging application (<a href="http://www.movabletype.org/">http://www.movabletype.org/</a>) which enabled better communication on myCFO’s intranet.• Lead the development and gathering of front end requirements for the implementation of a new  Content Management System.

Harris myCFO

Senior Web Developer

- Led the Web development team in creating a full E-Commerce Web site in less than 3 months.  Worked cross functionally with teams completing the project on time and within budget.• Played a significant role developing the front-end functional design & definition of the Web pages to help ensure consistency and a manageable site .• Managed the team through a complete site redesign, which entailed changing over 75 templates and several major database modifications.

Great Entertaining, Inc.

- Project managed cross-functional teams to deploy services and content on the web. • Designed and managed the implementation of a process to get breaking news headlines on the Netscape home page and across many other Netcenter web pages.• Managed the technical definition and implementation of the Netscape News Channel.• Responsible for producing Netcenter News, Weather, Local, Travel & Humor Channels.

Netscape

Technical Producer

- Managed all HTML resources for the Netcenter 2.0 redesign & launch involving more than 2,000 web pages.• Wrote perl scripts updating ~ 18,000 static HTML pages.• Built extensive JavaScript code for the Netscape Channel to reduce size and make more efficient.