TREVOR PIERCE

Dallas, Texas | LinkedIn

RESULTS DRIVEN DIRECTOR / VICE PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERING SKILLED IN ENGINEERING TEAM PERFORMANCE

$10M+ ENG ANNUAL BUDGET | LARGEST TEAM 40+ | GLOBAL OVERSIGHT | CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION | VISIONARY LEADERSHIP

“...But what truly set Trevor apart was his exceptional leadership. He's a supportive leader who backs his team 100%. He has a knack for building cohesive high-performing teams by empowering his engineers and fostering a culture of innovation…”

San K. - Head of Platform Support at Cowbell

Professional Experience

Vice President of Engineering Application Development

Cowbell Cyber, Pleasanton CA

Reporting to CTO | Team 5 Direct ~40 total | $10M+ Eng Budget | Product Delivery and Process

• Contributed to and launched Cowbell’s flagship product taking Cowbell from zero $0 in revenue to over $150M+ in annual GWP (Gross Written Premium).
• Launched 4 major insurance products and 50+ major features while supporting the acquisition of 17,000+ brokers across 4,000+ agencies.
• Contributed directly to the design and authorship of Cowbell’s platform that supports over 50,000 policies, and 350,000 accounts. 
• ~35% reduction in TTQ (Time to Quote) by observing and resolving unspoken customer & internal user needs, providing tools and workflows that crossed not only Cowbell’s organization but our customer’s organizations.
• Imagined, authored, and shipped innovative projects that eliminated disruptive deployments formerly taking 2+ days, completely freeing engineers to focus on high impact work.
• Promoted and executed project and team measurement tools, leading to instant awareness when a project was going off track, and the identification of workload imbalances between team members.
• Provided clarity for executive leadership by spearheading efforts to enshrine project estimation methodologies across the software development teams.
• Displayed focus, consistency, and resolve despite resistance that led to a 84.8% reduction of a team’s weekly rolling production support issues.
• Adapted engineering process & resources to fulfill support commitments to a new business unit across 3 cross-functional teams while not incurring additional budgetary overhead.
• Spearheaded production support efforts, reducing user-reported issues by 93% through strategic goal setting, process optimization, and proactive issue detection / resolution.
• Contributed directly to SOC II compliance, security updates, and internal audits.
• Played the role as key hiring manager for specific engineering teams across multiple countries such as the United States, Canada, and India.
• Key decision maker in conjunction with CTO for annual engineering budget.

Tech Lead

Zimperium, Dallas TX

• Authored code that directly contributed to a drastic cut in engineering time & cost for repeatable features by 99.3% with increased quality lowering defects by ~85%.
• Reduced repeatable feature completion time from 3 days to 10 minutes, and cost of development dropped from ~$1,440 to ~$18.72.
• Reimagined and authored authentication & authorization to Zimperium’s Frontend React application, leveraging Redux and the React context API.
• Contributed to software version migrations by migrating Postgres tables to ElasticSearch indexes in Java and Spring Boot.

Sr. Full Stack Developer (Node JS)

Esi Estech, Plano TX

• Managed the health of the 5 internal microservices supporting business telecom services on web, mobile devices, and desk phone systems.
• Wrote integrations in Nodejs with Google’s contacts and call services.
• Support a real-time Frontend application in Node JS along with Web Sockets.

Software Engineer II

Ad Colony, Dallas TX

• Authored a React web application along with Redux that was embedded into mobile games, supporting iOS and Android platforms.
• Pivoted to a React / Redux web application used to configure AdColony’s SDK in mobile applications.
• Developed a major portion of AdColony’s component library in React leveraging Storybook for documentation.

Frontend Developer

Lifeblue, Allen TX

• Designed, prototyped, and developed multi-million dollar websites for clients such as The Dallas Morning News, Medieval times, The Perot Museum, Klyde Warren Park, and Heifer and international.
• Contributed to Lifeblue’s component library “Motif” (now archived) writing scripts for common features in Javascript & jQuery, LESS, and css.
• Participated in a client-facing role during the discovery phase of each project.

Project Manager & Web Developer

Atomic Design and Consulting, Plano TX

• Led in a client-facing project management role during the discovery phase of each ongoing project.
• Developed marketing websites for local businesses using modern Frontend technologies such as Javascript and jQuery.
• Wrote custom integrations for Joomla, Wordpress, and Drupal in PHP.
• Coordinated, designed, developed, and scheduled marketing emails for various clients using an email marketing manager predating SendGrid, and Mail Chimp.

Education

• University of Advancing Technology, Tempe AZ
• Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Enrolled & Pursuing)