Setting Project Happiness up for success by implementing essential industry practices while building a new community site, Circles by Project Happiness (circles.projecthappiness.org).Accomplishments- Lead full-stack developer on brand-new site circles.projecthappiness.org- UX-designed, user-tested, architected, developed and launched Circles in 7 months - Managed interns helping out with site development- Created a browser-based document management tool empowering the team to add new content to Circles, in 6 weeks- Wrote scripts that enable the team to send out custom promotional emails- Set up an automated stats email that sends weekly usage number updates to the team- Established practices needed for the Project Happiness technical efforts to succeed: version control, issue tracking, user experience design and user testing- Worked closely with a talented designer, pulling design elements and graphics directly from Sketch.- Assumed management of freelance team in India who created a hybrid mobile app for Project Happiness

Created a set of apps to connect individual retail salespeople with loyal customers.- Built two beautiful, responsive iOS apps in Swift from the ground up.- Lead technical design and architecture.- Created a web API served on a high-availability NodeJS server using ExpressJS, MongoDB and SendGrid. Hosted on Heroku.- Codesigner of the UX and UI. Designed and conducted user tests and translated findings to UI design.

Lead UI engineer, CaptureFlow Designer:Led team implementing a drag and drop user interface for designing document capture workflows. Focused on user experience.Led UI design and UI programming team. Released application to customers on schedule.Legacy system required users to write workflow code. In six months, designed and implemented a user-friendly GUI replacement tool.Implemented features incrementally, allowing for early release for internal user testing.Software Engineer, InputAccel Administration Console:Designed and implemented ASP.Net C# search and configuration pages as part of a large browser-based administration and configuration tool.Designed and implemented SQL Server database to store work-in-progress data to provide scaleable fast searching. Database handles thousands of updates per second, and returns search results in less than one second.Software Engineer, InputAccel Architecture Team:Designed and implemented C# client API for accessing data in performance-critical document capture client applications.Maintained and enhanced high-throughput C++ document capture server.Software Engineer, eInput:Designed and implemented a Java servlet, HTML and Javascript reference application for a Java browser-based document capture system.Software Engineer, InputAccel Client Applications:Architected and led development team creating a system of reusable Visual Basic 6 modules used to create document capture workflow Wizards. Enhanced and maintained a high-performance image processing client application.Designed and implemented a set of Java servlets to demonstrate connectivity between an IBM WebSphere Web server and IBM Content Manager, via dynamically-generated XML, in one week.Througout EMC Experience:Focused on designing productive, easy to understand user interfaces.Developed training materials and conducted training sessions on new software products.Quickly and eagerly learned new technology whenever opportunities arose.