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Consultant
VaguelyConsultant
Nov. 2024Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Engineering Manager
Warner Bros. DiscoveryEngineering Manager
Mar. 2022 - Oct. 2024Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands* Introduced Engineering Management as a discipline to a highly performant engineering group * Held several successful alignment workshops in bringing the team closer and increasing collaboration. * Managed 4 teams of 25 developers through a merger transition * Mentored developers through career growth and performance despite uncertainty around titles and job-roles for over a year * Smoothly transferred client development of HBOMax to Max * Developed and launched Max on 8 different client platforms in the U.S., including over a third of streaming traffic * Developed and launched CNNi as the first live linear channel on Max * Developed and launched live sports events on Max simultaneous to CNNi work * Developed first Max implementations outside of the US, launching in February * Continued launch projects, including new device platforms
Engineering Manager
IKEAEngineering Manager
Dec. 2020 - Feb. 2022Amsterdam, North Holland, NetherlandsTackling all of the organisational challenges for digital transformation within the logistics and fulfilment planning areas. * Built seed team of four developers for insourcing legacy database application responsible for sending โ‚ฌ2 billion/year in orders to warehouse systems. * Reduced maintenance cost by roughly โ‚ฌ1.2 million/year through investment avoidance. * Created a plan to sunset the application. * Founded new team for logistics planning, mentoring a new Engineering Manager. * Screened thirty software engineering candidates, and at least five engineering manager candidates on behalf of other teams, hiring 7. * Hired at least 10 developers on behalf of other teams. * Organised domain-wide (55 people) single day remote workshop for alignment and team-building, including facilitator instructions, break-out rooms, social bonding, and tertial goal alignment. * Built culture by giving talks on direct practices of empathy and behaviours encouraging psychological safety.
Team Lead
Booking.comTeam Lead
Feb. 2018 - Nov. 2019Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsTeam lead for Account Security (from Q4-2018 to Q3-2019). Account Security is a development team responsible for building tools and systems for protection, detection, and response for user accounts, to prevent account takeovers and fraud for millions of users. * Team lead with 6 direct reports, including 2 data scientists. * Provided feedback, reviews, mentoring. * Facilitated road maps, planning, and external stakeholder guidance. * Produced resourcing and timing estimates. * Directly responsible for team and individual performance. * Acting product manager for 4 months. * Provided support and process changes for incident management. Team lead for Fraud Networks (Q1-2019 to Q2-2019) Fraud Networks is a development team responsible for the service tying different pieces of information together to ascertain connections that may indicate different types of abuse of the platform, including payment fraud, account take overs, and others. * Team lead with 2 direct reports. * Mentored team members on architecture. * Mentored new team lead for handover. * Arranged for a new front-end developer as the project would need it. Team Lead for IAM Corporate (Q2-2018 through Q4-2018) IAM Corporate is a team responsible for building systems related to identity and access management for internal Booking employees. It now owns the RBAC permissions system, and a new ABAC system called Passport. It's also responsible for audits and review of the permissions for SOx. * Team lead with 4 direct reports * Founded the team with 2 direct reports, growing it as needed to support requirements. * Took over the RBAC system from a different department and put together a roadmap for eventual decommissioning. * Successfully completed a 6 month remediation project with fluid requirements. * Built technical vision for the team. * Designed conceptual translation mechanism for SOx compliance for ABAC controls (from RBAC).
Engineering Manager
ZEFREngineering Manager
Apr. 2015 - Nov. 2017Venice, CA
Engineering Manager
RdioEngineering Manager
Jan. 2013 - Mar. 2015
Release Manager
OoyalaRelease Manager
Feb. 2011 - Dec. 2012Mountain View, California
Senior Software Engineer
Guidewire SoftwareSenior Software Engineer
Aug. 2006 - Feb. 2011San Francisco Bay Area
Developer
MAYA VizDeveloper
Jul. 2001 - Sep. 2002Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Software Engineer
Fujitsu Network CommunicationsSoftware Engineer
Aug. 2000 - Apr. 2001
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