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Founder and hands-on consultant for digital product delivery at startup to enterprise scale. Focused on solution architecture, delivery, deployment/monitoring, design thinking, and DevOps philosophy. Passionate about the evolution and delivery of Design Systems and maturing design-development collaborative delivery through modern tooling, effective process, and shared nomenclature. Guest lecturer at University of Colorado CMCI graduate program, speaker at DVLP Denver. Clients include FedEx, Powdr Corp, Charter Communications, and GE Renewable Energy.Technologies implemented include Angular5-10, Redux/ngrx/Easy Peasy, D3js/HighCharts, Firebase, Node.js/Express/TypeScript, React, React Native, Mapbox, Redis, Docker/ECS, Headless Drupal8/PHP, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Terraform, GitLab

Denver, Co, Us

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Denver, Co, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

Responsible for building a UI development team from scratch to support delivery of future-facing digital products; scaled to 10 engineers in under 3 months in a market with a near-zero technology unemployment rate. Core contributor to transforming a waterfall organization to a scrum model to enable leadership visibility and data-driven product cycles. Architect of a Vue.js enterprise design system to deliver an implementation-technology-agnostic, versioned, and tested digital brand library for consumption in .NET, Java JSPs, and Angular Components. Responsible for defining and enforcing ES6, TypeScript, HTML, and SCSS coding standards, code quality expectations, application architecture, and DevOps pipeline practices to support multiple enterprise-scale Angular applications paired with a Java Spring Boot service tier. Manager of planning and delivery of a full site re-brand for transamerica.com delivered in 5 months in close partnership with an in-house UX team.

Anchorage, Ak, Us

Architect for a ground-up system integration effort delivered using a Docker-based microservice approach hosted in AWS. Evangelist for research-based user-centered design and lean startup approach to software. Responsibilities include initial technology selections and implementation for UI and back-end, HA strategy in AWS, graph database design, growing and managing a team of developers, and facilitating an on-time and high quality delivery on an aggressive timeline.Technologies implemented include Neo4j (graph database), Docker, Java, Facebook React/Flux, npm/gulp/webpack, ES6, Apache Cordova, and federated OpenID authorization implementations.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Responsible for evaluation and alignment of technical, business, and design needs to craft and deliver enterprise software solutions. Responsible for sales support, executive advising, and internal team leadership guiding delivery and superb quality. Code contributor in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (including AngularJS, Foundation, and others), Java, and NodeJS. Evangelist for agile process, test strategy, system integration, build design, and holistic development infrastructure. Clients include FedEx, American Express, Abbott Labs, Freeman, Vanguard Financial, Visa, Google, City & County of Denver, and Kaspersky Labs.

Responsible for technology selection, system architecture, project management, software development, and tech start-up consulting for a neuropsychological testing service. Responsible for all tiers of software design and development using the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, NodeJS) to manage a HIPAA compliant digital testing service.

Cloud-based mobile device technology architecture, web and mobile UX design, secure tablet communication, Java back end, Debian Linux platform. Designed and architected a solution for cloud-based teacher control over a 1:1 deployment of tablets in the classroom. Additional responsibilities include designing marketing materials, web presentation, and writing technical white papers.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Contracted to perform a heuristic technology and UX audit on the presentation layer of a tool designed to facilitate custom branding of Atlassian Confluence instances. Provided consultation on introduction of new UI technologies and the value of focus on user experience to drive future business.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

UI, middleware, and server design and development in HTML/JS/CSS, Flex, and Java. Designed and conducted UX testing and research for prototype refinement. VMware visdk integration and extensive work with EMC Avamar platform.

Assistant J3 Coach 06/07 & Assistant Age Class Coach 07/08

HTML/JS/CSS UI design and development and Java middleware integration.

New York, Us

Managed a repository of thousands of songs used for television and movie spots. Coordinated incoming and outgoing submissions from composers and players. Recorded, played bass, and sang on a number of nationally licensed tracks. Responsible for audio/video sync using Final Cut Pro.

Designed, developed and maintained the Skidmore College alumni affairs website. Experience included HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Photoshop, and Illustrator.

Human Factors In Information Design

Bs, Psychology, Music Technology/Recording Engineering