Summary

I'm a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 15+ years in software development and 7+ years in engineering leadership. Proven track record of building high performance teams, delivering complex technical initiatives, and aligning engineering execution with strategic business goals. I had led multi-team efforts across departments and driven innovation while mentoring talent from junior engineers to future leaders. I am known for fostering a culture of experimentation, accountability, and excellence.

I recently led a cross-brand tracking initiative involving four distinct websites each with unique tech stacks, teams, deployment models, and objectives. I partnered with teams from the front end, data engineering, infrastructure, and executive leadership to deliver a unified solution from data capture to data ingestion.

Experience

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Gartner Digital Markets

Apr 2023 – October 2025 (2 years +)

  • Led a strategic cross-brand tracking initiative across four websites with distinct front-end frameworks and deployment pipelines. Unified efforts across engineering, data, and leadership to deliver a scalable solution using Snowplow, enabling consistent data capture and ingestion into the enterprise data lake.
  • Built consensus across four front-end teams, collaborating with engineering managers, project managers, directors, and MVPs to align implementation and delivery.
  • Defined and enforced data contracts in partnership with data engineering, ensuring integrity and usability from capture through processing.
  • Delivered under executive strategic direction, translating high-level goals into actionable engineering outcomes.
  • Maintained a multi-language monorepo with 100's of microservices and across a dozen of applications.
  • Improved uptime from 98.5% to 99.999% on critical applications.
  • Adopted technology efficiently to maintain the lowest operating cost across the departments

Software Engineering Manager

Gartner Digital Markets

Sep 2019 - Apr 2023 (3 years +)

  • Managed a team of 4-8 mid-level and senior software engineers, including full time and contractors.
  • Practiced Scrum and Agile methodologies to lead the only team in the department to consistently deliver on quarterly goals.
  • Focused on Developer happiness through growth and learning in safe environments
  • Architected Event-based solutions and CICD operations
  • Continued Learning in Leadership and Software Engineering skills
  • Coached my team how to best deliver for the business without compromising engineering principals.

Engineering Lead

Gartner Digital Markets

Apr 2018 - Sep 2019 (1 year 6 months)

  • Led a team responsible for platform related changes
  • Drove the migration away from unsupported PHP versions
  • Conceptualized and built a new approach to production deployments.

Senior Software Engineer

Software Advice

Feb 2017 - Apr 2018 (1 year 3 months)

  • PHP API development and testing
  • Mentoring Interns
  • Working with QA and the Project Architect to improve CI

Senior Software Engineer

Mattersight Corporation (now NICE)

Apr 2016 - Feb 2017 (11 months)

  • Lead Developer migrating from a Layered Architecture to a Micro-service/ Space Based Architecture.
  • Lead Developer of Continuous Integration at the component level.

Software Engineer

Mattersight Corporation (now NICE)

Dec 2011 - Apr 2016 (4 years 5 months)

Software Developer

NCSOFT

Mar 2011 - Nov 2011 (9 months)

Student Web Developer

Northern Michigan University

Jan 2007 - May 2009 (2 years 5 months)

Education

Northern Michigan University

Bachelor of the Arts Cum Laude, Computer Science

2005 - 2009

  • Major: Computer Science
  • Double Minor: Mathematics and History
  • Cum Laude with a 3.31 of 4.0 GPA
  • Dean's List 5 Semesters

Skills

Engineering Leadership Team Development Cross-Functional Collaboration Stakeholder Alignment Technical Architecture Event Based Systems Streaming Systems Change Management Technology Innovation Automation Kafka AWS SQL Polyglot Programmer PHP Python TypeScript JavaScript