North Greenville University

VP of Engineering at What If Media Group  -  I'm Hiring!

Otto Quotes

VP of Engineering

I oversee 4 teams which comprise the Product Engineering department. In this role I am responsible for the planning and execution of the product roadmap supporting our first-party sites, list-management, and omnichannel marketing (email/SMS/push) capabilities.

Key Accomplishments:

* Developed and promoted a senior engineer into engineering manager.

* Delivered portions of a reimagined internal CMS that was scoped and built around users’ workflows resulting in fewer errors and many hours saved. This was a modernization effort and was built using a service-oriented architecture on top of a constellation of existing legacy backend services and newly built services.

* I rolled out agile development practices across the entire product engineering department, bringing consistency to how the teams planned and delivered their roadmaps and greatly increasing the department’s efficiency and productivity.

* Built a near-real time event stream to bridge the gap between disparate systems and replace periodic batch jobs with real time data processing.

What If Media Group

Key Accomplishments
* Launched and managed a new engineering team responsible for cross-team data pipeline and data transformation projects.

* Built and released a new service that acted as a single source of truth for tens of millions of users’ data and received and processed millions of events daily.

* Maintained a high standard of code quality through tracking of quality metrics and testing.

Director of Software Engineering

I oversee the team responsible for the applications supporting the acquisition of hundreds of thousands of users daily.

Key Accomplishments:
* Introduced agile development methodology to the organization, improving the team’s ability to plan and execute their sprints and deliver milestones on time.

* Established monitoring and alerting around baseline performance metrics, decreasing the team’s response time to production issues and ensuring new releases did not degrade performance.

* Improved the team's ability to deliver milestones within the committed time and with fewer bugs.

Senior Engineering Manager

I manage a geographically distributed team responsible for testing and release pipelines for the entire engineering organization (12+ teams).

Key Accomplishments:

* Facilitated code quality improvements by introducing code analysis to the CI/CD pipeline for the entire engineering organization.

* Introduced on-demand environments to better support acceptance testing.

* Standardized the creation and deployment of new microservices

Conductor

Engineering Manager

Tibrio

I was recruited into Tibrio (a spinout from Zeeto) to build and grow technology and engineering for the company. I hired a lean team of 6 and managed product and software development following an agile development process. Collaborating with the CPO, I led the planning and execution of our product and technology roadmap.

Key Accomplishments:
* Established a culture of product-focused engineering

* Instituted code review and QA processes and implemented a CI/CD pipeline

* Reduced AWS monthly costs by 52%

* Launched a re-imagined concept for one of our sites and reached $50k monthly revenue

* Collaborate with the rest of the executive team to determine project scope and identify meaningful KPIs and ensure those KPIs are met.

Director Of Engineering

Reporting directly to the CTO, I manage multiple teams and am responsible for the complete development lifecycle of our registration marketing SaaS platform. I work closely with the DevOps, Business Intelligence, Data Science, and Optimization teams to lead product-focused engineering efforts. I oversee all infrastructure and code architecture decisions to ensure our various applications are scalable and resilient.

Key Accomplishments:

* Act as chief architect in the development of our proprietary lead routing platform

* Own the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

* Own and maintain Reference Architecture documents and guide technical documentation

* Enforce code reviews, ensuring that code meets quality standards and is thoroughly tested

* Work closely with the product team to deliver quality products while following an agile-based workflow

Zeeto.io

Director of Engineering

I joined Zeeto as the second engineering hire and was responsible for the redevelopment of our core data monetization platform.

Key Accomplishments:

* Introduced unit/functional testing and TDD methodologies to the business

* Built CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments to our various environments

* Worked on architecture and development of our internal proprietary lead generation platform

* Managed production infrastructure on AWS

Senior Software Engineer

I worked on a small team to administer on-site servers and to build software projects for clients.
 
Key Accomplishments:

* Combine large amounts of geospatial data to build reports that tracked the inspection of oilfield pipelines.

* Administer a network of windows and linux servers to host over a dozen client-facing websites.

* Work with management (internal and 3rd party) to gather requirements and plan out software projects tailored specifically to the client’s needs.

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