Designed a reusable, configurable, modular mosaic tile grid component for our homepage experience in SwiftUI and UIKit, focusing on performance optimization and scalability across devices and screen sizes. Included comprehensive developer documentation within the Swift code using inline documentation comments, ensuring that future developers could easily understand the functionality and purpose of the component. Translated an existing design system component from SwiftUI to UIKit. Collaborated with design systems engineers to ensure code implementation aligned with best practices. Gained hands-on experience working on a proof of concept (POC) for the Apple Vision Pro during a hackathon, exploring new interaction paradigms and adapting design patterns for emerging technologies. Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and an Accessibility partner, to ensure the component adhered to accessibility standards and provided an inclusive user experience for all users, aligning with the iOS Human Interface Guidelines and relevant accessibility best practices. Ensured the app met accessibility requirements, including support for screen readers, dynamic text, and color contrast, by implementing voiceover functionality and making sure UI elements were usable for individuals with various disabilities.

Leading the end-to-end redesign of the church’s website, with a focus on enhancing user experience and creating an intuitive, welcoming digital presence for first-time visitors.Conceptualized and developed the church’s brand, message, and goals, translating them into a cohesive and engaging online experience.Managing the project using Agile methodologies with JIRA, overseeing task delegation, tracking milestones, and maintaining clear communication between cross-functional teams.Leading the design process, including wireframing and prototyping in Figma, to ensure the website’s layout and functionality align with the church’s mission and values.Coordinating photo shoots and curating visual content that aligns with the church’s identity, ensuring all imagery enhances the overall experience.Collaborating with ministry leads to gather content for individual pages, ensuring it effectively communicates their messages and meets the needs of the church community.Building the website with a strong focus on mobile-first and responsive design, ensuring a seamless experience across multiple devices and screen sizes.Focusing on accessibility to ensure the website is usable by all visitors, including those with disabilities, and adhering to best practices for accessibility in web design.Overseeing the integration of interactive features, such as a sermon archive, event calendar, and donation tools, to improve engagement and support the church’s mission digitally.

Identified and led an initiative to address significant technical debt in a critical area of the app, improving its stability, scalability, and maintainability, and reducing future overhead for the team. Successfully drove the effort to completion, ensuring that the area of the app was brought up to modern coding standards. Mentored a junior engineer, providing guidance on best practices, code reviews, and troubleshooting, and fostering their professional growth within the team. Helped them integrate async/await into their codebase for cleaner, more efficient asynchronous operations. Led pair programming sessions to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues, collaborating with team members to enhance code quality, reduce bugs, and improve the development process. Gained valuable hands-on experience using async/await to streamline asynchronous workflows, improving the app's responsiveness and reducing the risk of potential race conditions and deadlocks. Contributed to team knowledge sharing by presenting technical concepts and solutions, helping to raise the overall technical proficiency of the team. Successfully balanced technical debt reduction with ongoing product development, ensuring that this cleanup work did not impede critical new feature development or project timelines.

Led feature enhancements, bug fixes, and general maintenance for the StitchFix client-facing iOS application, ensuring a seamless user experience and app stability for thousands of active users. Developed a modular accordion component for the design system, optimizing for both reusability and performance, contributing to the system's scalability and consistency across multiple app features. First experience leading a team to complete a feature that involved a significant design change, where I guided the team through the technical challenges and collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure the design vision was implemented successfully. Gained leadership experience by overseeing the integration of new backend services for a large feature, working closely with backend engineers to ensure smooth functionality and effective communication between the frontend and backend teams. Regularly collaborated with external partners to ensure project requirements were met, helping to align teams and ensure smooth execution of product features. Gained experience in gathering requirements from stakeholders and effectively communicating project timelines and objectives to internal teams, ensuring clear expectations and timely delivery of features. Focused on becoming more engaged in team discussions, actively communicating my perspective and contributing to decision-making, with the goal of having a meaningful impact on team decisions. Achieved goal of becoming a lead engineer, reflecting both technical leadership and the ability to mentor and guide a team through complex technical challenges.

Worked on feature enhancements, bug fixes, and general maintenance to the Wayfair iOS application. First experience driving a feature to completion. Significantly improved communication skills. Learned how to be more proactive in communication. Gained experience collaborating with other teams to meet deliverables. Regularly worked with QA to ensure implementation met quality standards. Regularly worked with design to ensure implementation met design specifications. Gained experience working with product management to ensure each ticket consisted of clear and well defined requirements. Gained experience mentoring newer iOS engineers. Worked within VIPER architecture. Achieved goal of becoming an approved code reviewer. Joined the design systems / shared components working group, contributing to the creation and refinement of reusable components and ensuring alignment with company-wide design standards.

Continued working on app redesign until release to the App Store. Gained experience working with Google Analytics, Push Notification, and PassKit.

Contracted to Panera Bread. Aided in redesign of Panera Application. Gained experience working with MapKit and MVP architecture. Increased knowledge of Swift programming language and ability to work with both Objective C and Swift.

Developing features for Fidelity IOS application. Working on an agile scrum team in sprints to meet deliverables. Working on feature enhancements to the latest version of the application released in the app store. Worked with UX team in order to implement design changes to the Advanced Charting feature.

Assisted Principal Software Engineer in creating an automated testing framework. Framework was written in Java, compiled as a Java application and test cases ran against mobile application using Appium. Modified framework to use Cucumber BDD framework to write test cases. Took more of a leadership role on team. Trained and assisted test case developers on writing test cases in the framework. Majority of work was on test case development during this time frame.