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- Managed the frontend team and served as the technical lead, overseeing the technical design and direction for team projects.- Conducted regular one-on-one meetings, performed performance evaluations, and mentored team members.- Coordinated cross-team projects to maintain on-track release commitments.- Collaborated with external teams to design and implement customer integrations.- Led engineering support efforts across teams for all customer environments, ensuring reliable performance and prompt issue resolution.- Enhanced scrum processes to improve team velocity and provide greater transparency on epic progress.- Managed roadmap, tracking progress towards objectives, and led scrum ceremonies.

- Organized and lead multiple feature epics building features in React and Rails- Worked with team in building design patterns for a modern React application and designed multiple reusable components and hooks- Set up and built out initial Jest UI test suite- Refactored several key features in application to improve performance, code clarity, and enforce more predictable state flow- Built out partner integrations- Built out code splitting and bundling optimizations to reduce JS payload by over 50%

- Assisted with support and maintenance of a Rails/Ember application and customer integrations- Assisted in knowledge transfer in planning for migration of several hundred thousand users

- Modernized Ember app, migrating to glimmer components- Built out optimizations to render hundreds of thousands of records. Reduced load times from minutes to milliseconds- Built data entry tool that allowed for input and tracking of multi-dimensional data that improved efficiency significantly

- Lead development team and partner internally to develop and deliver a product roadmap expanding our client base from over 60,000 users to roughly 90,000 in 5 years- Continuously promote scrum methodologies to maximize team expertise, maintain velocity, and accelerate delivery by 100%- Design and champion solutions to expand platform capabilities while mitigating technical debt by decoupling major domains of platform, raising test coverage by 30%, and implementing architecture patterns and development standards- Deliver enterprise level API’s, SSO, and customizations to the platform enabling Sales to access new and more profitable lines of revenue.- Built multiple analytics systems for tracking and reporting on client activity and utilization- Increased security, reduced downtime, and increased time to market of new features through successful re-platforming from physical storage to cloud.- Build and drive technical roadmap for move from a monolith to microservice architecture to enable greater team proficiency, more efficient scaling, and faster development cycle

Portland, Oregon Area

- Led the design and development of rebuilding our platform into a fully responsive SPA to improve client experience both in speed of the site and functionality across devices.- Serve as point of contact with other teams for technology projects

Developed PoS, inventory management, package delivery, and purchasing tools

Inspect and sort incoming packages for the universityData entry and processing of Purchase Orders in the Banner software

Ran front of house sound, led setup and teardown crews, and designed new installs

Master Of Theology, New Testament

New Testament

Master Of Arts, New Testament

New Testament

Bachelor Of Arts, Biblical Studies

Biblical Studies