Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

- Led Payments and Frontend UI teams in Italic’s transition from Shopify to a fully custom ecommerce platform.
- Led a custom Stripe integration for full control over payment flows and reduced platform dependency.
- Led development of a high-performance, scalable React-based ecommerce frontend.
- Designed backend systems for subscriptions, manufacture product management, refunds, payouts, and fraud prevention.
- Defined technical roadmaps and staffed teams for core apps, including Manufacturer Portal and API.

Engineering Team Lead (Payments & UI)

Senior Business Development Representative

- Led two engineering teams (5 and 2 devs) to deliver projects efficiently and on schedule.    
- Oversaw team velocity, client product innovation, and client relationships from pitch to launch.

Founder & CTO

• Led lectures for all technical topics including data structures, databases, Angular 2, Scaling & effective learning strategies
• Managed Hack Reactor Prep (LA) curriculum structure, program growth, and student success metrics
• Mentored 20 junior engineers in algorithms, debugging, code clarity, and system design choices
• Conducted advanced technical interviews with prospective students

Lead Lecturer & Hack Reactor Prep Lead (LA)

- Shipped multiple production React/Redux apps for clients including USA Football, USA Soccer, and Bluestar Sports.
- Led frontend development for an esports employee and arena management system, including architecture and performance.
- Delivered a real-time esports wagering and stats platform for PUBG, from concept to launch.
- Extended a large jQuery/PHP legacy system with new features, improving stability and UX for thousands of users.
- Partnered with clients to ideate and scope features; successfully sold a 6-month esports platform expansion.

Senior Software Engineer

Business Development Representative

Serve as the technology leader and strategic director of a Cincinnati-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The mission of the organization is to shape young leaders throughout the US to become positive role models and promote civility, tolerance, and acceptance within their community and school system. We achieve this by creating programs at schools that provide students with the knowledge and the tools that they need to succeed in promoting our message. We are also heavily involved within the local community and help fundraise for charitable causes.

Duties include steering the strategic direction of the company, and managing a team of eight software engineers to develop and maintain the platform that all Civility International chapters use.

Chief Technology Officer

Software Engineer

- Led development and design of NativeFrame.com, a scalable live-streaming platform. 
- Built client-facing video analytics dashboards using React, Node.js, and custom data pipelines.
- Developed lightweight ML models for video metadata extraction and content tagging.
- Shipped internal tools for stream monitoring, analytics, and platform health diagnostics.
- Collaborated cross-functionally to define product specs, timelines, and technical strategy.

Turning organic acquisition into measurable pipeline for ABA & behavioral health.

Works directly with founders, product, and marketing leaders to turn search and AI visibility into a measurable acquisition channel. Oversees strategy across SEO, GEO, paid media, conversion systems, and custom software, aligning all growth efforts into a single operating system focused on pipeline, revenue, and long-term market authority.

Chief Executive Officer

Creator

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