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Seattle, Washington, US

• Reduced front-end build time by up to 73% by implementing build caching
• Increased test coverage for 29% for the frontend authentication flow and migrated 80% of the frontend code to React
• Resolved over 1200 accessibility issues within a month by implementing a holistic plan that addressed the root cause of the issues and ensured all new development automatically includes the fixes moving forward
• Developed a reusable component library that is leveraged by over 150 developers to quickly build Gen AI features
• Established bug bash and tech spec standards across 4+ crews
• Formal tech mentor for over 7 developers (Jr. - Sr. level)

Seattle, Washington, US

Seattle, Washington, US

• Integrated Mastercard PCI tokenization gateway on the make a payment flow, ensuring PSD2 compliance and 3D Secure (3DS) support for payment processing
• Led a team of developers through all phases of the development process to migrate the make a payment application from AngularJS to React and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

Seattle, Washington, US

• Implemented a new gift card payment option in the primary booking funnel, allowing guests to purchase cruises using gift cards and a mixture of gift cards and credit cards.
• Built an automated CSS regression testing tool that compares screenshots taken from production and the lower environments to identify any visual regressions, reducing CSS regression testing time by 90%.
• Wrote a script that automated updating Adobe DTM URLs in 32 locations, reducing the completion time by 93%
• Cross-trained new developers transitioning from the legacy tech stack over to the new React and AEM stack

Seattle, Washington, US

• Created canonical feeds that aggregate data from various backend systems, such as Oracle and MongoDB, allowing us to standardize the data format used for each brand before importing the data into Adobe Experience.
• Implemented data layers across 5 applications to send analytics data to Adobe dashboards
• Automated resource allocation recording, reducing the completion time by 66%.
• Refactored code to make online check-in and the secondary booking funnel ADA compliant, successfully passing an audit from the U.S. Department of Justice
• Increased code coverage for Online Check-In application by 15%.
• Won 3rd place (as part of a team) in Holland America's first hackathon by creating a reusable component library and living style guide.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Reduced CSS by 52% on the Holland America homepage and 62% on interior pages.
• Decreased page weight for www.hollandamerica.com by 20%.
• Automated WebX login, reducing login time for WebX meetings by 58%.
• Created a virtual machine that reduced the setup time for our development environment by 94%.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Coded headers, promos, and interactive carousels for Cyber Monday, seasonal holidays, and other site-wide marketing campaigns, maintaining a 99% accuracy rating for any code sent to test.
• Reviewed other developers’ code; troubleshot issues with lower environments; published code to production.
• Maintained documentation for legacy code base, Pop-In testing, and SPACE testing.
• Ran smoke tests, regressions tests, and integration tests on Olivia Kim's Pop-In and SPACE projects, identifying any bugs or functionality issues and communicating those to the devs.

Seattle, WA, US

• Initiated, created, and defined media query and responsive design standards for Kindle teamsworldwide, allowing Amazon to tailor CSS styles to specific Kindle devices and screen sizes.
• Promoted to QA lead (within 3 months of starting) in charge of overseeing quality assurance for 9contractors during the production of 43 Kindle Interactive textbooks.
• Designed 1,000+ tests to check KF8 support for media queries, tables, SVG images, HTML5 tags, and CSS3 properties across Kindle for PC, Kindle for iOS, and 7 generations of Kindle devices.
• Increased the production speed of QA notes by 66% by writing macros in PhraseExpress.
• Designed eBook prototypes with HTML, CSS, Photoshop, and InDesign that demonstrated possible solutions to design-related conversion issues for Amazon Publishing and major New York publishers.
• Reverse-engineered eBooks for high-profile publishers (such as Kaplan, Hachette, and Pearson) and debugged HTML and CSS issues across different Kindle eBook formats and software platforms.

• Helped authors navigate the print and digital landscape so their stories can get out of their heads and into the hands of readers. Clients have been published by Lyon's Press, Writer's Digest Books, Pink Fish Press.
• Setup WordPress sites for authors, modified themes, created email templates in HTML, and formatted blog posts in HTML and CSS.

• Coded complex eBooks in W3C standards-compliant HTML and CSS and ensured all code was validated in FlightCrew and EpubCheck.

• Increased website traffic by 300%.
• Collaborated with the senior editor to set editorial standards and cut the training time of new editors by 50%, ensuring editorial consistency across all Pink Fish Press titles.
• Reduced the amount of steps in the submission process by 50%, increasing the speed in which Pink Fish Press could respond.

Seattle, WA, US

• Resolved inconsistencies by establishing the grammatical, stylistic, and structural standards used for each blog post and its metadata.
• Created a style sheet their blog authors could follow to ensure that any future blog posts would match stylistically with the previous ones.

Certificate, Front-End Development

Certificate In Editing

B.A., English: Emphasis In Creative Writing