Experience
Talkiatry New York
Chief Technology Officer May 2021–
Built the technology team for a behavioral health practice devoted to responsibly solving the mental health treatment crisis in America in previously unimaginable ways using technology. Led Product, Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure functions through multiple periods of hypergrowth, from a clinical staff of a dozen to a clinical staff of over 400. Responsible for all technology decisions, including architecture, hiring, and vendor relationships.
Lively (later Jabra Enhance) New York
Director of Patient Care Engineering April 2020–May 2021
Led technology team in development of an FDA-registered cross-platform mobile app that integrated Lively's high-praised teleaudiology platform with controls for the company's advanced bluetooth hearing aids.
Cityblock Health New York
Staff Software Engineer February 2019–April 2020
Tech lead for several major projects in Cityblock's care coordination tool Commons, including a rewrite of the charting and task management features.
Zocdoc New York
Principal Front End Engineer March 2017–January 2019
Worked on migrating Zocdoc’s flagship appointment booking site’s front-end from C#-based monolith to modern, microservice-backed React/Redux web application. New York-based tech lead and point of contact for new engineering team being established in Pune, India to support the needs of Zocdoc’s enterprise clients and backoffice staff.
Remedy Partners (later Signify Health, acquired by CVS) New York
Director, Front End Architecture January 2015–March 2017
Led front-end development team responsible for building interface for care coordination tool, streamlining processes to the point that front-end development ceased to be a critical path dependency for software development.
C & P Bibliography Services, LLC New York
Bibliographer and founder July 2010–
Work with collectors, dealers, and libraries to develop catalogues—both online and paper-based—that meet the needs of the discerning bibliomaniac.
Inovance, Inc. New York
Lead Front-end Developer June 2014–February 2016
Developed an interactive dashboard to communicate foreign exchange market insights derived by Inovance's machine learning algorithms.
ByWater Solutions West Haven, CT
Lead Support Specialist January 2011–June 2011
Point person for more than fifty customers of a library technology vendor. Provided comprehensive technical support to customers and ensured that customer concerns were addressed in a timely fashion by collaborating with cross-functional team.
American Numismatic Society New York
Assistant Librarian March 2009–December 2010
Managed several technical projects, including both integrated library system migration and major cataloging initiatives.
Various libraries and private collectors Edinburgh, Oxford, and New York
Librarian and Cataloguer January 2008–December 2010
Various bibliographic projects for multiple clients, including Brooklyn College, Virginia Tech, the New York Public Library, the American Numismatic Society, and the Bodleian Library. Projects included processing manuscript collections, developing library instruction videos, cataloguing rare book collections, creating bibliographies, and integrated library system migrations.
American University of Afghanistan Kabul, Afghanistan
Librarian October 2007–December 2007
Acted as university librarian, including supervising staff, managing acquisitions and donations, and administering intergrated library system.
Education and Certifications
MS, Library and Information Science Palmer School of Library & Information Science, Long Island University
BA, English The College of New Jersey
Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) International House Budapest
Service
Koha open source project
Module Maintainer (Authorities) for Koha 3.16 October 2013–May 2014
Release Manager for Koha 3.12 October 2012–May 2013
Release Maintainer for Koha 3.6.x June 2012–October 2012
Elected three times to participate in the governance of the international Koha open source project. As Release Manager for Koha 3.12.0, managed project and led development for a major release that added new architecture for plugins and a modernized user experience for intranet interface. As Release Maintainer for Koha 3.06.5–3.06.10, ensured ongoing stability and security of system used in production by thousands of libraries world-wide.