David Pierce

Summary

I'm a customer-focused product leader and full-stack engineer specializing in web applications development. I want to use my talents to help people and make an impact I can be proud of. My goal is to use my technical background to bring solutions to customers as a technical product manager, or as a software engineer in a role that can leverage my product background.

Work Experience

My Moz career included product management, software engineering, and leadership. Technologies used include JavaScript, Node.js, Express, Go, React, MySQL, Postgres, RethinkDB, Elasticache, Redis, and NSQ in both Linux VM-based and cloud-based architectures. I leaned heavily on Jira, Confluence, and Miro to manage sprints and document products and processes.

Leveraged my software background, entrepreneurial experience, and customer focus to build technical solutions for marketers. Worked with engineers to build a culture of customer empathy, iterative development, and prioritization to help our company learn and deliver to market faster. I oversaw and led the following:

• Local Market Analytics: a local SEO beta program within the Moz Pro suite with about 5,000 sites registered and 2 enterprise deals. I led customer research, prototyping, implementation, and launch and sales support.
• MozNext Applications Framework: an internal cross-functional program to improve product delivery. Projects include a standard component library based on React and Material UI and the creation of a Moz Labs alpha testing environment.
• Rapid Prototyping Team: a small team of engineers creating MVPs for use in alpha testing. I served as technical lead and alpha program coach. We produced 3 different alphas for Moz product teams within the last quarter of 2020.

Promoted consistency in design, implementation, and execution on product goals. Promoted org-wide engineering principles through architecture reviews and knowledge-sharing. Worked with product managers to steer product direction.

Full-stack Node.js engineer responsible for designing and implementing features, working with data vendor partners, and managing a fleet of VMs. Accomplishments include a redesigning a duplicate listings management experience, upgrading and expanding Moz' GMB API integration, and building a high-performance analytics data service.

I led the engineering team for a global non-profit building entrepreneurial communities. As technical director, I served as:

• Product Manager: Conduct customer interviews, map out pain points and opportunities, and manage roadmap. Work with stakeholders, builders, and third-party vendors to deliver projects.
• Team Lead: Build a healthy team through hiring, culture building, and supporting individual engineers.
• Architect: Design products across systems powered by connected API services.
• Engineer: Contribute back-end and front-end code on projects from internal tools to public-facing sites.

Full-stack developer on a small team building public and internal software for an Internet wine auction. Technologies and languages include C#, JavaScript, CSS, and MSSQL. Frameworks include ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Forms, and WPF. Notable accomplishments include:

• Research and development of custom hands-free, no-look inventory tool. Cut inventory process from an entire workday to a couple hours.
• Reconstructed site password algorithm with seamless upgrade for existing users.
• Built and maintained continuous integration test system with NUnit, WatiN, CruiseControl.NET, and NANT.

Worked on a SharePoint hosted services team. Accomplishments include writing specifications for service platform monitoring system, writing PowerShell scripts to manage VM instances in a dynamic service platform, and managing Microsoft's 5 month SharePoint Online 2010 Community Tech Preview

Education

Raikes School in Computer Science and Management at the Univerity of Nebraska-Lincoln

Management Information Systems Major, May 2009

Senior/Junior Design Studio Projects

• Nanonation: Platform-agnostic media rendering software using Qt framework and C++ – Team contributor.
• Jacob North: Closed-loop sales and marketing system using Groovy and Grails – Scrum master.
• Microsoft: Dynamics Great Plains vendor workflow extension using C# – Documentation Lead.