Experience and Projects
I have a wide range of industries I've worked in. While the tech stack varies, the common denominator is analysis, e-commerce, and marketing. There are overlaps in the timeline, because I'm often involved in multiple projects at the same time.
Start to finish in nine months.
Developed and deployed an advanced RAG-based chatbot (Python) to enhance customer engagement and streamline support processes.
- Built and integrated the chatbot using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and MongoDB, with LangChain and Pinecone for real-time, context-aware responses.
- Utilized 11ElevenLabs to enable the chatbot to reply in a cloned user's voice, enhancing personalization and user experience.
- Developed the chatbot’s core functionality in Python and deployed components in Docker containers on EC2 to ensure scalability.
Architected an end-to-end machine learning solution (AWS) for predicting oil well production.
- Developed time series forecasting using Amazon DeepAR on AWS Sagemaker
- Replaced legacy Excel files with daily refresh of production data
- Created strategies to minimize oil well downtime and identified key areas of revenue loss for optimization
Analyzed school district zones and student populations to redraw zoning maps to efficiently utilize existing schools for the next three years, to defer another $100M bond for a new elementary school.
Python / Azure / Tableau / GIS
Developed Python-based tools for optimizing 401(k) portfolios, ensuring better asset allocation, fee reduction, and improved investment strategies, leveraging both software analytics and personalized financial advice.
Developed SEO plan that grew website to 500,000 monthly page views eighteen-months after launch. Analyzed Facebook audiences to optimize ad spend of $50,000/month, resulting in low CPC and 30% profit margins on ad spend.
Website Development / E-Commerce / Marketing Analytics
Authored a children’s book to help teach kids in pre-K about money.
Sold 20,000 copies of a self-published book about how to start investing.
Developed a comprehensive learning management system and e-commerce website focused on green building and LEED certification, serving eight of the top ten global architecture firms, including CBRE, Gensler, HOK, Perkins+Will, and HDR. Company was sold to a construction firm.
PHP / MySQL / Ecommerce / Marketing Analytics
The Match.com of embryo adoption. As a family that had extra embryos from IVF, we needed a way to find them a mom. This matchmaking service has resulted in hundreds of babies being born that might not have otherwise.
Java / Grails / AWS / Stripe / MySQL
Vimeo + YouTube before they existed. Managed a 3-person team that built an online marketplace where content creators could upload and sell their teaching videos. The name was a take on Festivus from Seinfeld – Video for the Rest-Of-Us!
Java / MySQL / Ecommerce
Designed and developed membership site and e-commerce engine for wireless networking engineers, supporting customers in 115 countries.
PHP / MySQL / Java
Full-stack developer at a start-up for an email marketing product. Developed a list management system to support tens of thousands of database lists for hundreds of customers. Later acquired by IBM.
Enterprise Java / JSP / Oracle
Full life cycle development of custom client solutions for UPS, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft. Originally a start-up that was acquired by First Data (now Fiserv).
Java / MS SQLServer / C++