Jarod Taylor Email & Phone Number

Frisco, Tx, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Plano, Texas, Us

• Planned, directed, coordinated, and oversaw the digital transformation of JCPenney’s e-commerce experience• Lead the Digital Engineering’s PMO team of Project and Program Managers;managing the delivery of cross scrum and enterprise level initiatives• Lead, mentor, and coach engineering managers• Identify and implement culture and process improvements to improve morale,productivity, and quality• Partner with business and product leadership on the planning and prioritizationof features, projects, and digital strategies• Drove collaboration between UX, Product, and Engineering and lead the delivery of a robust Frontend UI System

Plano, Texas, Us

• Lead multiple global teams consisting of Software Engineers, QA engineers, Scrum Masters, and Business Analysts responsible for the development and optimizations of JCPenney’s Dotcom experience• Managed an annual budget of $4M+ and strategically allocated resources to annual operating plan goals• Member of the corporate interview panel for all of technology• Lead strategic initiatives by collaborating with executive, product, engineering,and design teams to deliver an optimized shopping experience that improvedconversion by 25%• Built and grew a Core UI Team to develop processes, systems, and tools toimprove the quality, performance, and efficiency of feature development across the organization

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

• Developed a custom CSS Framework for Aetna Digital’s engineering teams to speed up development, enable cross-browser functionality, and reduce defects• Created an extensive React UI Library to standardize best practices, reduce maintenance overhead, drive consistency, ensure cross-browser compatibility, and ultimately reduce the time it took to build products• Designed and developed an internal site to document our organization’s Design System, CSS Framework, and UI Library

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

• Managed multiple remote engineering teams consisting of both backend and frontend developers• Collaborated with the Product, Engineering, and Design teams to build application experiences for making shopping for healthcare easier•. Lead teams in a re-platforming initiative where we decoupled our current monolith application into microservices and lean web clients using React JS

Purchase, Ny, Us

• Lead all aspects of the user experience; building all the HTML, CSS, Custom JavaScript components, AJAX, and Front--End Development for multiple Ruby on Rails web applications• Designed and developed reusable UI components for the Ruby on Rails backend teams to speed up the delivery of features• Worked closely with the business, marketing, and design teams to implement a redesign of Teladoc’s internal applications

• Maintained more than 30 internal and external websites by designing and developing interfaces using current technologies and best practices, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and AJAX• Highly recognized and complimented by the board of directors and the president of Dallas Morning News, for playing a significant role in the design and development of the #1 Dallas’ Nightlife Magazine Website resulAng in more visits in three weeks than it had in the last five months with its old design

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• Conceptualized and developed a user interface for a social media web application and was held responsible for improving the user experience using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XSLT, and Cold Fusion

• Managed the scouting, booking, and promotion live concerts and festivals• Designed print media, banner ads, web layouts, and other promotional and marketing materials in support of upcoming events