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New York, Ny, Us

Planned and implemented accessibility strategy across a K-12 platform. Led the building of a platform-wide design system to simplify implementation of accessible functionality. Led a team building new applications with accessibility in mind and retrofitting existing systems for full WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility compliance. Led learning initiatives to increase accessibility awareness, knowledge, and compliance for engineers, UX, and product owners. Facilitated external accessibility audits for VPATs. Integrated Axe-Core into an end-to-end testing suite for automated accessibility testing. Created enrichment and reference documentation for accessibility structures, behaviors, and testing. Consulted on accessibility remediation and implementation for teams across the platform. Spearheaded cross-practice accessibility chartering initiative to codify accessibility expectations and accountability.Led a team of full-stack engineers to build a new assessment authoring tool API on a tight timeline. Led team of twelve (local employees and overseas contractors), developing new features and optimizing existing features for the assessment authoring tool in Node API and Angular UI as business demand for the tool grew. People-managed the local full-time engineers on the team, encouraging technical knowledge-base enrichment and guiding career advancement.

New York, Ny, Us

Worked for several clients on a freelance basis, often concurrently. Created Symfony-based REST API service for leads submissions on sales site. Developed web application for political third party based around online voting and caucuses. Developed Symfony-based text-to-song Twitter application. Aided in last minute UAT and bug-fixing on multiple projects. Clients include R/GA, LBi, and Yale.

Developed web applications for multiple companies. Projects included developing an application utilizing JSON calls to view messages imported from an LDAP interface for a financial company. Gained experience in PHP, Drupal, and web services.

Developed web applications for several companies and start-ups. Developed large-scale site for directory start-up, including development of custom modules and views. Headed development on multiple applications. Gained experience in PHP, Java, Drupal, aMember, Facebook API.

New York, Ny, Us

Developed applications for several major companies. Created and overhauled web form controllers using Java, JSP and Spring. Shared duties in the development and detailed design of a .NET corporate intranet for a large company. Gained experience in Java, .NET, Javascript, and several software frameworks.