Key contributor on several high complexity, mission-critical projects with end-to-end accountability. Iterated tightly with cross-functional team. Installed and worked behind various feature toggle scopes. Installed unit test framework and grew coverage from zero to 50%. Installed fully mocked network integration tests and grew suite from zero to over 600 tests. Employed effective change management strategies to rollout Material-UI with a custom theme to consolidate our design system. Interviewed front-end engineer and design candidates. Coached coworkers on effective meeting practices including lean-coee and fist-of-five allowing quiet voices to be heard and quickly gauging consensus. Onboarded 5 engineers with decreasing time-to-first-PR. Lectured weekly on best practices. Produced monthly birthday celebration video with remote collaborators.

Unlocked code reuse and increased consistency throughout the React app by constructing an independently testable design system and component library focused on a11y and mobile. Led cross-functional team of 4 to deliver features across the stack. Increased test coverage and robustness by moving business logic into selectors and test data into factories. Broke down features into valuable yet actionable chunks of work that could be done by everyone on the team. Led organization-wide agile process transformation, set up ceremonies, working agreements, lunch and learns. Led several lunch and learns on a11y, reusable components, CSS techniques and pitfalls.

Actively develop in a variety of full-stack projects written in Ruby on Rails, nodeJS, Typescript, React/Redux. Dockerize apps to streamline testing and deployment. Work with team leads to design features based on customer desires. Champion functional paradigm for rapid development that produces maximally maintainable code. Untangle git messes and coach teammates on git plumbing best practices. Applied functional paradigms to legacy ExtJS front end codebase to improve maintainability. Profiled render times of initial page load and redraws caused by interaction. Based on that research, we shifted our focus from improving our pages written in ExtJS to rewriting them in React and have seen incredible performance gains along with increased maintainability. To aid the transition, we built a library of components in React to replace ones we were losing by moving away from ExtJS. The new components had to be CSS-proof, accessible, and work exactly as expected. Maintained and helped other teams adopt this new component library and convinced leadership that we needed a full time team to carry this initiative forward. Created tools to help developers adhere our working agreements without having to remember them.

Led development of automated UI regression test suite for the core web app with Selenium WebDriver using the PageObject paradigm. This 20 minute test suite saves 3 days worth of manual QA time and we now run it daily. Initiated integration testing by restructuring the build. This enables us to verify that our entire software stack works together. Collaborated as a member of the client-delivery team, configuring and customizing our core app to meet custom requirements. Provide development level support for multiple legacy code bases. Actively develop in Java, Groovy, JSP, JavaScript, JQuery, Spring MVC, Hibernate, SQL, Maven and Bash. Initiate conversations with stakeholders to gather and clarify requirements. Passionate about test-driven development, refactoring and high-confidence, maintainable code.

Taught myself HTML and CSS to build website for clients. Used strict XHTML standard and W3C validation to make sure websites are viewable on most browsers. Achieved desirable look and feel through iteration and discussion with stakeholders. Used Mercurial version control to save time editing. http://hudsonbaybound.com

Provided and taught safety techniques for rock climbers. Top-Rope and Lead Certified.

Assisted with Client-Server Applications, Software Design and Intro to CS. Managed development team of 14 to successful product launch. Kept team on track with stakeholder’s design requests through small group meetings. Designed evaluation criteria for each homework assignment to fit overall learning goals of the course. Wrote programs to facilitate homework submission and evaluation saving me time and my employer money. Lectured in Professor’s absence. Scheduled and led review sessions. Clarified difficult concepts on a 1-on-1 basis.

Provide table service to restaurant patrons over academic breaks. Responsible for an average of 7 tables a night. Keep track of guests’ dietary restrictions. Memorized menus to better provide recommendations. Learned professional wine service and bartending to cover in bartender’s absence. Devised way to vent smoke from kitchen when our fan burnt out.

Taught myself C# over Christmas break in preparation. Investigated technical feasibility and cost options for integrating an SMS interface into the website and assembled prototype from research. Collaborated on interface design and provided usability consultation. Presented design proposals to stakeholders and led discussion of design ideas.

Supervised and provided fun activities to kids age 11-14. Led team-building games and taught outdoors skills.

Sold Cutco Cutlery to family and friends. Expanded client base with personal recommendations.