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A timeline of roles and the outcomes that came with them. Prefer the one-page version? Download my résumé.

  1. Nov 2025 — Present · Houston, TX

    Product Engineer

    Camelot

    • Built the orchestration layer end to end: an LLM-driven routing policy that selects the next speaker and advances the meeting through phases in real time
    • Designed a hybrid context strategy (recent turns verbatim plus rolling orchestrator summarization, capped by hard turn limits) to bound token spend per session
    • Engineered conversation pacing with direct-address handling and founder interrupt windows so the founder can redirect the debate mid-meeting
    • Abstracted model providers behind a unified layer, with Anthropic primary and OpenAI fallback behind a circuit breaker, plus full session-state persistence so meetings survive disconnects
    TypeScript React Next.js Python FastAPI PostgreSQL AWS

  2. Aug 2022 — Nov 2025 · Remote, USA

    Full-Stack Developer

    Bridgenext

    • Led delivery of enterprise web platforms for the American Heart Association and Blackstone, owning execution from planning through launch across 4 concurrent projects.
    • Acted as player-coach for a team of developers: mentored engineers, unblocked complex builds, and kept high-visibility projects consistently on schedule
    • Owned work estimation, resource planning, and sprint execution, improving predictability and delivery efficiency across concurrent projects
    • Served as technical lead in stakeholder meetings, partnering with product, business, and design to translate requirements into scalable solutions
    • Led the American Heart Association's multilingual multisite serving millions of visitors, including a custom health center directory built on the Google Maps API
    JavaScript PHP React WordPress SCSS AWS

  3. Mar 2020 — Jul 2022 · Tamarac, FL

    Lead Web Developer

    Paragon WP

    • Delivered custom WordPress/WooCommerce platforms for multiple clients, owning projects end-to-end from architecture to deployment.
    • Extended WooCommerce well beyond its core with custom plugins: LMS integrations, event systems, membership flows, and customer dashboards.
    • Led a small team of developers and built reusable components (calculators, generators, custom dashboards) that cut development time across projects.
    WordPress WooCommerce PHP JavaScript MySQL

  4. Jan 2016 — Feb 2020 · Tamarac, FL

    Lead Web Developer

    Shift4Shop

    • Architected a flexible core templating engine that removed long-standing design constraints for the roughly 20,000 merchants on the platform.
    • Led the admin panel modernization with a dual-version strategy: two versions running concurrently, enabling a phased rollout with full legacy support.
    • Shipped major platform features (page builder, theme editor, delivery calendar) and owned sprint planning, delegation, and hiring for the front-end team.
    ASP VBScript HTML SCSS jQuery JavaScript

  5. Jun 2014 — Jan 2016 · Tamarac, FL

    Web Developer

    Shift4Shop

    • Led the redesign and responsive overhaul of the company's 1,000+ page website, delivering successfully after earlier attempts had failed.
    • Created base templates and a custom SASS framework that standardized front-end development and sharply reduced revision cycles.
    • Introduced version control and structured deployment processes across the theme ecosystem, cutting production issues.
    HTML SASS JavaScript jQuery

  6. Jan 2014 — May 2014 · Weston, FL

    Web Developer

    Showpitch

    • Built the platform's news and blog presence as a custom WordPress theme from design comps.
    • Contributed front-end features to the core ASP.NET (C#) product using Bootstrap and LESS.
    • Coded responsive marketing email templates supporting user acquisition.
    WordPress PHP ASP.NET C# Bootstrap LESS
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