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Truckee, California, United States

Bend, Oregon Area

Course Director for cycling and running events, including National Championships in both Road and Mountain Biking.

United States

In this role, I pioneered the implementation of core infrastructure principles to enhance deployment reliability, stability, and speed while effectively reducing costs. I led the transition of our web applications from jQuery/vanilla JavaScript and HTML to React and TypeScript, with a strong emphasis on accessibility and design cohesion through the use of themes, templates, and component libraries.On the backend, I spearheaded the initiative to implement comprehensive backend testing across APIs and guided the redesign process, ensuring a smooth transition to TypeScript. Additionally, I coordinated closely with native application teams to maintain a seamless and consistent product experience across various platforms and devices.My responsibilities also included collaborating with customer support and technology advocacy/adoption teams from major clients to address, document, and resolve technical issues, ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction and product reliability.

Bend, Oregon, United States

As part of a dedicated team, I was responsible for the development and maintenance of Reporting, Accounting, and Membership services. This included full admin UI portals for both individual and corporate accounts and supporting the microservice architecture for these services, ensuring their reliability and scalability. Also part of a rotating on-call schedule.I transitioned the authentication process from obscure tokens to JWTs, enhancing security and efficiency. I proposed, designed, and implemented User Management UIs to improve user experience and administration capabilities.In addition, I played a key role in implementing GDPR compliance strategies and developing data deletion utilities to ensure our adherence to privacy regulations. I also helped pioneer the adoption of front-end testing across the organization, significantly improving code quality and reliability. This was in part to support accessibility compliance, part of a project to achieve a AAA accessibility rating to ensure our applications were accessible to all users.

Bend, Oregon Area

Freelance full stack web application development with specific focus on e-commerce and data management for small businesses. Designed and implemented relational databases for custom applications, supported existing applications (debugging / maintenance and new feature development) and built new websites. Worked extensively with WordPress sites, from managing content and theming to building plugins for custom features.

Bend, Oregon Area

In-house full stack web developer, business administrator, book keeper, and facilities maintenance. Nine years with an incredibly diverse range of experiences helping to build and grow a local non profit. Designed, developed, implemented and maintained the company's e-commerce platform encompassing all aspects of the product from database design and implementation to the storefront and administrative applications. Also managed the books, served as a business administrator and operated facility and fleet maintenance.

Bend, Oregon Area

I have been racing in the sport of cross country skiing since 2001, when I picked up the sport in Junior High School. In 2004 I qualified for my first US Junior National Championships and decided this was something I wanted to dedicate my life to. I went on to compete at the World Junior Championships, won the US Junior Nationals, was a varsity member and collegiate race winner for the Dartmouth Ski Team, 3-time US National Championship (plus 9 other podiums), US Super Tour victories, podiums, and the season Sprint Champion in 2016, represented the US at the World Cup for 9 consecutive years and finished in the top 30 at the World Championships in 2015. It was an incredible career that allowed me to travel the world and pursue, at the very highest level, one of my greatest passions. Words simply cannot describe how lucky I was to be able to live out this dream to its fullest.

Bend, Oregon Area

Responsible for all IT solutions for a local dental business. This included acquisitions, set up/installation, occasional troubleshooting and IT support, and performing upgrades for both hardware and software.