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• Technical Lead for PWA Kit (Composable Storefront), a Node / Express / React framework for SSR Salesforce Commerce / E-commerce storefronts that served 4.15 billion page views over the 2023 holiday season, enabling high availability retail use cases (29 of the 30 top retail brands in the world use Commerce Cloud)• Guided team through 350% increase in platform adoption in 12 months, with accompanying customer needs, feature requests, and deeply technical architectural challenges• Delivered innovative feature work on framework extensibility, reducing total cost of project ownership to customers by 70%• Advanced Salesforce "AI + Data + CRM" charter by delivering groundbreaking AI codegen functionality, which was featured as Dreamforce keynote• Technical advisor and mentor for engineers implementing websites including Marmot.com, BathAndBodyWorks.com, Adidas.com, JoAnn.com, Bulgari.com, Loewe.con, Yeti.com, Carters.com, SaksFifthAvenue.com, Nintendo.com/jp, Duluthtrading.com, Elfbeauty.com, Sweatybetty.com, Vineyardvines.com• Inform and guide VP+ level technical product direction, lead innovation, help drive the roadmap (as a developer experience product), and act as a change agent in a highly competitive technical space• Collaborate across a massive organization and break down working group silos to synthesize a unified technical strategy and cohesive direction • Mentor a growing team of 11 engineers, 4 of whom were promoted under my leadership• Facilitate best practices for processes and team work norms and foster a culture where people can do their best work

• UI Leader for two Salesforce products Elevate and Philanthropy Cloud• Helped lead efforts in Design System development, collaborating with UI / UX and hosting regular check-ins to monitor evolution of the system and its needs as the products evolved• Mentored other engineers in UI best practices in a Typescript / React / Redux / Apollo / GraphQL ecosystem• Helped build and maintain internal platform tooling to keep the team productive and unhindered• Estimate, break down, and coordinate with external stakeholders regarding roadmap, feature delivery, and long-range goals

• Founder• Engaged in research, development, and testing of tabletop RPG rules system design for 6 years• Launched successful Kickstarter that raised almost $200K• Led marketing, art direction, layout design, systems design and all other aspects of company while coordinating over 50 external contributors from freelance illustrators to a team of 15 volunteer system designers• Published two books that sold thousands of copies and managed the entire publishing lifecycle• Open sourced the whole project, listing the IP publicly• Company was acquired

• Employee #2 (on a team of 15) responsible for founding an ambitious digital experience platform that featured physical-world connections via IoT sensors for pressure, heat, and image recognition, a high throughput CMS for serving video and bundled web apps, and an API for managing synchronized digital playback across interconnected applications and devices.• Established and mentored in engineering best practices and defined team working agreements as the team scaled • Led UI / UX Architecture efforts as the team evolved and hired / managed specialists in those areas as the team grew• Engaged internal and external stakeholders in establishing product direction and vision regarding UI / UX

• Co-maintainer (with 2 other team members) of the core Angular UI module UI Select, a Select2.js port for Angular.• Introduced the "tagging" functionality from Select2.js which had been absent in the library, in the process, merged the largest community-contributed feature which was well received by the Angular community.

• Brought onto multiple projects as an external consultant, earned trust and respect among the team via empathy and thought leadership, and ultimately became team lead• Built multiple JavaScript web applications from day one of greenfield development in frameworks like Backbone, Angular, etc.• Worked closely with multi-disciplinary stakeholders including internal UI / UX, external product management, and engineering management to keep projects highly aligned and on-target for delivery• Established development culture of excellence and synthesized feedback from many engineers in instituting policies around code review, best practices, and technology stack recommendations

• Built over 40 web projects from the ground up with various technologies including WordPress, Magento, and various other open-source CMS platforms• Focused on frontend tooling from its earliest availability via Grunt / Gulp / LESS / SASS• Deeply focused on enablement of clients via highly customized admin user experiences• Deeply invested in UI / UX excellence and listening to client needs to deliver beyond expectations with logo, brand identity, design, and highly customized CMS admin experiences

Working on a small, yet effective front-end team for the All in One Events Calendar WordPress plugin and it's incubated enterprise web application Time.ly. Strong directional role in product design, branding, and UI / UX / Interaction design & development for both products.

Director of the collaborative and creative community of space-conscious entrepreneurs, freelancers, & creative professionals at the Newark CoWork.