John Oakley

• Developed features for Centric's product lifecycle management software, a highly interactive app that leverages ReactJS, MobX, ElasticSearch, NodeJS

FTD, established in 1910 as "Flowers Transwire Delivery" (now Flowers Transworld Delivery), is an e-commerce clearing how for it's florist network that has evolved with the times from wire, to phone, and finally to web applications. I was brought on to FTD to lead the digital transformation of FTD's e-commerce application, modernizing their stack

• Led 3 teams (15 engineers) in the digital transformation of FTD's three e-commerce applications, which upon launching, immediately resulted in a 200 basis point improvement on conversion
• Attracted, retained, and grew talent in a competitive (2019) hiring market and scaled a team from 5 to 15 engineers, as well as saw championed two promotions within the original tea. One team was local, and the other two were international.
• Made a case to senior leadership about the benefits of using a tight SDLC process, and orchestrated said process for three scrum teams and provided agile coaching. Feature delivery increased by 4x and became the basis for tracking performance via velocity in Jira
• Partnered with the Director of Product to build out a year-long initiative roadmap. When the Director of Product left the company, I served as interim Director of Product for six months
• Evaluated prospective vendors and partners, and developed integration approach
• Led best practice discussions and encouraged the teams towards effective, consistent implementations, making it easily refactorable, as well making the code bases easily understood by onboarding and junior engineers as well
• Drove technical strategy decisions which led to successful product launches in competitive markets.
• Enhanced user experience by collaborating closely with UX/UI designers throughout the development process.

• Developed highly interactive and secure applications for day-trading using real-time data (D3.js, Three.js, ReactJS, Vue.JS, NodeJS, Hapi)

• Developed hospitality applications, including an highly interactive application for reviewing rentable conference spaces for qualified lead generation, as well as an app for managing large guests lists in real time (ReactJS, NodeJS, RethinkDB)

• Lead a team of 3 engineers in the development of an application to broken the Transportation Research Board's research review process, the success of which led to a contract extension to build a conference resource schedule
• Provided mentoring, training, and performance feedback to the team
• Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into functional specifications for streamlined development processes.
• Improved user experience with intuitive interface designs, adhering to best practices in UX/UI principles.
• Streamlined application development processes for increased efficiency, implementing agile methodologies and automated testing tools.
• Enhanced software performance by identifying and resolving system bottlenecks through thorough code analysis and optimization.

• Developed FinTech apps on behalf of the FDIC (C#, .net, MVC.net, javascript)

• Developed strong communication and organizational skills through interdisciplinary, cross-function collaboration
• Performed competitive analysis
• Created a prototype legal contract document editor which boasted features similar to a software engineers IDE, such as syntax highlighting of terms of art, and context linking,
• Interviewed prospective client stakeholders to establish relationships and determine product-market fit
• Demonstrated creativity and resourcefulness through the development of innovative solutions
• Used strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop effective solutions for challenging situations

• Developed mobile biometric authentication applications
• Invented a patented process for securing email communications
• Proactively identified security vulnerabilities in application code, implementing necessary measures to mitigate risks.
• Established efficient communication channels within the team, leading to better collaboration among members during project development phases.
• Improved software performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks in the code.

• Developed RFID asset tracking solutions
• Performed on-site customer solution integrations
• Demonstrated example solutions for prospective clients
• Developed scalable and maintainable code, ensuring long-term stability of the software.
• Established efficient communication channels within the team, leading to better collaboration among members during project development phases.