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Longmont, Co, Us

Longmont, Colorado, United States

Pleasanton, California, Us

• Evaluated and recommended new tools and technologies to enhance front-end development workflows and maintain competitiveness in the market.• Documented migration processes, architectural decisions, and best practices for future reference and onboarding of new team members.• Implemented best practices and design patterns in UI/UX development, resulting in a streamlined development process and improved user experience.• Conducted training sessions and workshops to upskill team members on modern front-end frameworks and development practices.• Optimized front-end codebase and build processes, achieving significant improvements in application loading times and overall performance metrics.• Led the modernization initiative to transition from Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to modern front-end frameworks to enhance performance, scalability, and maintainability.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

◦ Worked with cross functional teams to define performance metrics and acceptance criteria for end-to-end testing of the user experience.◦ Coached product owners and engineers on SCRUM techniques, how to break down initiatives, and guided the team to what is needed for MVP.◦ Headed the development of new Geocode APIs, utilizing Melissa Data, for use by clients for looking up provider locations by city, state, and/or zip.◦ Coordinated with Product owners and user interface teams to simplify the API contracts to improve performance and maintainability.◦ Designed component logic flows as state machines using Xstate to deliver robust user experiences aligned with intended functionality.◦ Educated engineers through presentations and lunch and learns on topics such as accessibility, First Contentful Paint, Time to Interactive, and First Input Delay.• Implemented end-to-end and regression testing for the entity admin and entity manager UIs using TestCafe and Jest.• UI components modularized and unit tested with React Testing Library up to 95% coverage, resulting in fewer bugs and easier maintenance.

• Chart successful course for scoping, planning, developing, testing and deploying software in multiple languages and frameworks in direct partnership with the CTO• Designed and executed an analytics site enabling clients to monitor and analyze traffic patterns and ride data for a fleet of autonomous Local Motors shuttles.• Oversaw architecting, planning, and implementing conversion from Angular 1.6 to React/Redux, focusing on fast user interactions and future proofed code choices.• Maximized speed and security from improved middleware layer by expertly converting Django installation from 1.8 to 3.5.• Mobilized fellow engineers to overcome challenges in maintaining standards through adept mentoring.• Developed custom Redux form scripts for updating Redux store using Immutable.js and Redux Sagas, which reduced the amount of boilerplate code and improved performance.

New York, Ny, Us

° Spearheaded resourcing for all production-ready projects while acting as team lead and mentor to cross-functional group of Tech Leads, Associate Technical Directors, Developers, and Producers.° Led technical aspects of projects outsourced to external vendors to ensure quality of the code and timeliness of the deliverables. ° Determined technical feasibility of ideas and supervised prototyping.° Boosted productivity, reduced errors and improved quality of work through effective oversight of development and project workflows. Projects went from being days late to having more than enough time to polish them to make them award level.° Instituted coding standards for efficient onboarding of internal and external developers while increasing maintainability of the codebase for each client project.° Won the FWA (thefwa.com) site of the day award for cpbgroup.com, dominosdxp.com, tuckeffect.com and dominospizzaschool.com.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

° Helmed technical aspects of most of the firm’s digital projects coming through AKQA’s Washington, DC office, setting technical direction and approach. ° Mentored all 19 developers and QA testers. ° Orchestrated the launch of large sites such as USPS.com, leidos.com, Verizon ETR, bethsoft.com, and a custom CMS for Bethsoft that powers the content for all of their game sites as well as support technical initiatives with Nike CRM, Ubisoft, and Google.° Performed comprehensive launch of the Verizon ETR application used nationwide by employees in all Verizon stores. Evolved application from a tool providing basic information on customers to an application handling all aspects of the customer's profile include billing, phone line management, and products owned.° Redesigned USPS.com site and oversaw implementation, focusing on the checkout experience, accounts, schedule a pickup, package manager, and every door direct mail.

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