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San Jose, Ca, Us

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Appointed as one of the first-ever team leads in the company, assuming key management responsibilities from the CEO and VP of Engineering. Leads a cross-functional team of four frontend and backend engineers, facilitating agile ceremonies, and consistently ensuring that project goals and timelines are met.• Introduced and implemented front-end testing frameworks, building the necessary infrastructure and promoting a culture of quality assurance among frontend engineers.• Developing essential application features that align with customer and internal business needs, prioritizing user experience enhancements and playing a key role in securing multiple sales deals.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Contributed as a key member of Heap's Product-Led Growth (PLG) team, actively shaping and executing strategies to drive product adoption and user engagement.• Guided Heap's Design System Working Group, leading initiatives to develop and promote Heap's component library to provide a more consistent, user-friendly, and accessible experience for Heap's users.• Architected and developed an email content generation service that provided highly personalized data insights to customers, resulting in 60% open rates and 10% click-through rates.• Championed the development and implementation of strategic paywall initiatives, proactively enforcing Heap's data usage standards and effectively distinguishing between Heap's free and paid plans. Achieved a substantial $200-300k/quarter increase in renewal and new ARR.• Created a custom Slack integration for interfacing with LaunchDarkly that saved Heap $100k/year in LaunchDarkly seat fees and resolved major points of friction for internal support teams.• Successfully refactored core Heap features from Backbone to React, unblocking major product initiatives and significantly improving developer velocity.• Enhanced the developer experience by optimizing CI/CD pipelines, fine-tuning webpack and ESLint configurations, and implementing comprehensive monitoring across the application stack. • Collaborated with product managers, designers, and other engineers to scope projects, refine requirements, and define timelines.• Advocated for on-call improvements and refined alerting and monitoring to reduce page frequency.

Phoenix, Az, Us

• Core member of Tuft & Needle's Design System team, helping to architect and build a component library utilized by multiple retail websites.• Conducted code reviews to ensure that design system components meet accessibility, brand, and technical standards.• Mentored and led pair programming exercises with mid- and junior-level developers.

Eden Prairie , Mn, Us

• Developed, maintained, and refactored customer-facing web applications using React, Redux, TypeScript, Redux Saga, React Testing Library, and Jest.• Built and updated a suite of reusable components in a monorepo environment.• Worked closely with a distributed team of frontend, backend, and QA engineers in an agile scrum setting.• Ensured that applications meet modern web accessibility standards (WCAG 2.0, WAI-ARIA, etc.).• Served as a subject matter expert for internal business stakeholders.• Handled front-end deployments to QA and staging environments.• Conducted code reviews and led technical demos.

New York, Ny, Us

• First development hire for Prosek Partners, a leading financial public relations and communications firm.• Responsible for defining the company's technical stack and development processes and procedures.• Spearheaded the creation and configuration of an internal, reusable component library.• Developed proprietary web applications using React and a custom-built internal API. • Performed full-stack WordPress development, including creating custom themes and plugins.• Created custom, reusable component libraries for websites and web applications.• Identified tools to assist in collaboration between departments and to improve the efficiency of Prosek's design, development, QA, and launch efforts.• Managed the development phase of projects, regularly communicating with clients and ensuring that projects adhere to scope, budget, and timeline requirements.• Lead search engine optimization efforts within the organization.• Drafted hosting contracts, maintenance contracts, and scope of work documents.• Conducted WordPress training sessions for clients after site delivery.

Austin, Tx, Us

• Lead developer for all custom WordPress site development.• Developed dynamic and static websites using HTML, CSS, JS (ES6), PHP, and various web APIs. • Built custom, reusable WordPress plugins and themes. • Conduct code reviews, lead team training sessions, and provide mentorship for junior developers.• Consistently completed projects within scope, budget, and timeline.• Completed maintenance tasks for projects post-launch, including implementing new feature requests, resolving issues, and performing security updates.• Assisted in project and requirement scoping.• Assisted in QA efforts for all company-developed sites. Sites developed while at Monkee-Boy Web Design, Inc. can be viewed from my profile's Projects section.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Developed DNN, WordPress, and static websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, and SQL.• Served as the primary point of contact for a number of entrepreneurial, private industry, and government projects.• Consistently completed projects within scope, budget, and timeline. • Delegated project tasks to the front-end development team.• Conducted one-on-one on reviews with front-end development team members.• Performed QA on managed projects. • Organized and lead training sessions for the front-end development team.

Medford, Massachusetts, Us

• Managed teams of front-end and back-end developers to create and maintain custom content management systems for our clients. • Trained and led internal and freelance teams on content entry and content management system use for all assessment-related projects. • Managed day-to-day operations for digital and print production projects. • Negotiated business terms and pricing with clients. • Regularly completed projects within the projected time and budgetary requirements. • Created schedules, workflow and pricing trackers, and budgets.• Performed IT tasks for the Austin office, including setting up networks and maintaining computer systems.• Was responsible for all office management tasks for the Austin office, including coordinating moves, ordering supplies, and communicating with building management.

Portland, Oregon, Us

• Lead business development efforts for a prominent securities industry licensing examination preparation firm.• Negotiated successful business transactions with prominent financial institutions and wealth management firms throughout the Pacific Northwest.• Marketed and sold study material for financial securities exams.• Maintained the company's website.

New York, Ny, Us

• Copyedited high school-level German textbook for print production. • Corrected German spelling and grammatical errors.

Ba, Anthropology, History, German

Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Anthropology, German

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