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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Architected, co-designed, and co-lead the development effort of internal applications for the production and automation of producing accessible markup and documentation. Worked in a modern JavaScript (VueJS) front-end stack as well as a Python backend stack.

Chicago, Illinois

Worked in a small team of three on research and design for a small startup. Conducted competitive analysis, heuristic evaluations, user interviews, and contextual inquiries. Synthesized affinity maps, site maps, user personas, and journey maps.

Greater Chicago Area

Developer of complex web solutions in a professional technical consulting environment. Responsible for building and maintaining client application solutions.Consultant Tracker Web ApplicationReact Developer• Created an internal application to track consultants, projects and clients.• Worked with a small team to utilize the React and Materialize frameworks to create UI elements for the application.IOT Web ApplicationAngular Developer• Worked on a two-person team to create a front-end application for an internal IOT project.• Collected data from sensors and parsed weather data to gauge soil conditions for plants.Medical Web ApplicationRuby Developer• Performed an estimate for a medium size client project.• Evaluated potential for upgrading the project to a newer version of Rails.• Analyzed plausible pitfalls in security of planned features.• Worked in a solo capacity.Warehouse Logistics ApplicationReact and ASP.net Developer• Developed front-end features for an MVC application.• Worked with large team to integrate back end and UI.• Participated in AGILE development process.Law Firm SharePoint ApplicationJavaScript & SharePoint Developer• Developed and maintained a JavaScript widget for managing internal links on a SharePoint application.• Participated in AGILE development process.Financial Auditing Web ApplicationASP.net MVC & SharePoint Developer• Developed new features for five different MVC applications.• Handled list, content type, and field creation in SharePoint through a custom scripted process.• Built new UI elements for forms and JavaScript validation.• Educated teammates on site provisioning and content creation procedures.• Participated in AGILE development process.Healthcare Web ApplicationASP.Net Developer• Participated in the development of a Web Forms project built with a custom ORM.• Utilized a wide array of tools in an environment with sensitive database information.

Chicago

Analyst with emphasis on client and broker related fulfillment duties. Responsibilities include maintaining contact with clients and brokers regarding company services and coordinating routine bulk mailings as well as routine enrollment changes. Worked within HR software framework to update vital client information. Coordinated large mailings to various clients on a regular basis. Handled large scale spreadsheet data integrity checks with the use of macros and pivot tables. Maintained the organizational integrity of the fulfillment area in a changing environment.

Chicago

Professional client service administrator for a main office of a major corporation. Responsibilities include handling invaluable records and communicating and organizing details on major account transactions. Profiled and relayed daily communications between clients, brokers, accounting specialists, and portfolio administrators. Maintained client records and company documents including mail records. Maintained client records and company documents including mail records. Worked within Hummingbird, APL, and Excel datasets to maintain the integrity of client and broker files. Communicated regularly in ordering and shipping with offsite storage facility and maintained close contact with offsite facility representatives for the entire office. Directed bulk mailings of client files on a quarterly basis.

Northbrook

Temporary administrative worker within a professional office and laboratory environment. Handled bulk spreadsheet and image organization in time sensitive scenarios for both legal and research departments. Scanned and organized batch reports and various scientific documents for upcoming product research. Performed miscellaneous confidential administrative duties in office and laboratory.

Web Development

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