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New York, United States

New York, Ny, Us

Topeka, Kansas, Us

- Tech Lead for Home and Auto insurance product, helping the business grow to 21M in ARR with a 2.5x YoY growth rate.- Led design and implementation to automate insurance quote generation, which saw a 2% increase in In-Force conversion and reduced quote turn-around-time by over 90%.- Spearheaded the implementation of a code ownership framework, where I synthesized leadership’s vision into a process that clarified responsibilities and led to more effective code maintenance.- Led ideation and established technical visions for multiple teams to align team goals with organization-wide goals.- Extensive experience collaborating with Product, Design, and external stakeholders to de-risk ambiguous features, break them down into concrete tasks, and deliver in a timely, iterative manner.- Mentored engineers on technical best practices and time management skills, leading to improved individual performance.

Topeka, Kansas, Us

Topeka, Kansas, Us

- Launched an internal React component library, which helped to shorten the development lifecycle of new features and instilled design consistency across products.- Oversaw the work plan and mentorship for a summer intern, coaching them to deliver improvements to the mobile user experience.- Core contributor to Life insurance and Renters insurance products, implementing React and Ruby best practices.

Topeka, Kansas, Us

Greensbury Market | New York, NY- Build out new features utilizing HTML, CSS and JavaScript for online organic meat vendor.- Maintain and update current features that fit brand and enhance user experience.- Utilize Shopify and configure external apps to fit the Greensbury ecosystem.Suits and Sandals | Brooklyn, NY- Take lead on updating and building new features for Shopify e-commerce website for BlueButterflyGF.- Incorporate mockups from design lead to develop new custom templates for collections and products.- Add new products to Shopify backend and configure collections that best align with client's new branding.- Refactor custom JavaScript from previous developer to fit new user interface for selecting protein meal options.

- Oversee the design and build process of a browser-based user interface for an embedded securities software.- Utilize the React framework to organize and construct the interface along with necessary node modules.- Implement full React/Javascript testing suite using Karma, Mocha, Chai and Enzyme.- Assist embedded systems engineer with building a custom HTTP server in C.- Implement JavaScript websockets and write C code to handle communication with the server.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Partner with leadership and associates to secure loans for multi-million dollar real estate investments.- Manage the organization and transferral of legal documents between attorneys and clients.- Liaise with internal and external parties to ensure post-closing procedures and deadlines were secured.- Analyze legal documentation to facilitate drafting new documents for future projects.- Oversee the integration and training of new paralegal hires into the firm.

New York, Ny , Us

- Generate performance reports for video-on-demand data to understand national market for Tribeca Film titles.- Compile master revenue report of external independent titles for leadership to determine market size for competitor's titles.- Analyze marketing practices of major video-on-demand vendors to best strategize promotion of Tribeca titles with these vendors.- Take lead on portions of marketing outreach by analyzing social media statistics to determine best business partners for particular Tribeca titles.

New York, Ny, Us

- Serve as first point-of-contact and main liaison for guests via e-mail, phone and at the Magnolia office front desk.- Compile press information regarding Magnolia releases for marketing to track performance of Magnolia titles.- Research business contacts for targeted Magnolia releases and update database with information for future use.- Set up promotional materials, prepared a theater and ushered guests as part of a Magnolia premiere screening.

New York, Ny, Us

- Write coverage on films and scripts as part of the evaluation process for choosing films for distribution under the IFC label.- Attend Tribeca Film Festival as a junior member of the Acquisitions team to screen and evaluate competition films.- Organize and update IFC’s master database of past and future films to facilitate research process on potential films to acquire.- Draft itineraries for executives and coordinate necessary accommodations with hospitality and transportation services.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Film/Cinema/Video Studies

Web Development

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