Senior Full Stack Platform Engineer
Urner Barry/Expana
10/2012 - 03/2025 | Toms River, NJ
Leadership
- Led and collaborated with contractors and external partners to design and implement a unified Single Sign-On (SSO) solution across three major company websites, enhancing user experience and security
- Spearheaded cross-functional teams to merge data from multiple companies, leveraging Databricks to ensure seamless integration and consistency
- Managed code integration and coordinated communications between in house development and contracted UI/UX developers to ensure project success on relaunch of COMTELL
- Mentored interns and junior engineers by setting them on educational paths and pairing when necessary, resulting in increased team productivity and technical capability
Platform
- Architected and executed migration of two AWS subscriptions and four Azure subscriptions during merger operations to facilitate better communication and management of resources between companies
- Managed and integrated over 30,000 time series data points into a unified system during company mergers, ensuring data consistency and system reliability
- Implemented security measures to mitigate security vulnerabilities found through penetration testing
- Provisioned and maintained Azure virtual machines including backups and maintenance
- Managed network interfaces and firewalls to improve the security of all Azure resources
- Conducted contingency planning for failover of websites and associated resources in disaster recovery situations involving on premises and Azure services synchronization
- Planned new construction network wiring configurations for company headquarters relocation
Software
- Engineered an in-house system for entry of new proprietary data for the purpose of IOSCO Audits
- Orchestrated re-launch and re-design of COMTELL, SeafoodNews, and FoodMarket websites including all aspects of front-end and back-end development
- Developed mobile apps for COMTELL and Urner Barry's Executive Conference
- Executed Mobile Website Development for COMTELL, SeafoodNews, FoodMarket, Foreign Trade Data, and Meat Buyer's Guide