Mick Johnson Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

• I currently serve as a technical lead for our Activation team, delegating and interfacing with team members from across the product and engineering orgs in order to drive home projects like a major overhaul of our payment gateway or a re-imagining of the parking experience.• Devised and orchestrated an overhaul of our error reporting software, resulting in a 66% reduction in error noise and the ability to detect and solve longstanding issues that were leading to drops in conversion.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Founded and headed up a team devoted to our React Native mobile app, resulting in less siloed knowledge, more frequent and scheduled releases, more developer attention towards technical debt, and a better development experience.• Steered the team as a technical leader, driving projects including: re-architecting several legacy pages in React, creating multiple address functionality, enabling advanced mobile updates, and more.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Architected an internal Warehouse Management System and partnered with product to scope project and plan out future developments.• Devised unique solutions for the specificities of the project, including photo capture, label creation and printing, pdf viewing, and integrating a web app with barcode scanners among other unique technical problems.• Oversaw the rollout of new applications, traveling to all packing facilities to meet with stakeholders and work one on one with end users to see what parts of the experience needed changing.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Trained the team in all things React and Redux: frequently mentoring other developers, answering questions, doing thorough code reviews, and giving tech talks.• Strengthened a relatively young codebase by highlighting what I saw as anti-practices and potential causes of buggy behavior. Coached team in what the problems were, why they were issues, and how to best solve them.

London, England, Gb

• Spearheaded a team focused on the company's newest product, developing and maintaining critical features, participating in key discussions on the direction of the product, and serving as project manager in the scrum master's absence.• Crucial projects I worked on include: engineering a dashboard with a number of complex "smart" widgets, auditing, organizing, and strategizing the translation of all of our website text, and transitioning our many graphs to a completely new charting library (from D3.js to Highcharts). In addition to working on my product team, I owned two major cross-team React libraries.• In addition to working on my product team, I owned a major cross-product React component library, where I established and enforced a series of development best practices, maintained its backlog, led bi-weekly meetings with other members of the "core team", communicated with the design team to stay in sync, and mailed out regular updates to the entire Product and Software Development teams.

Willowbrook, Il, Us

• Connected all levels of talent in all branches of the IT and Engineering sphere with companies across the Chicago area. • Helped pioneer a new division specialized in providing local start-ups with the best in tech talent• Served as the technical expert for the new division, coaching my team in how to speak tech and keeping them informed on current technologies

Taipei, Tw

• Developed a cohesive curriculum consisting of daily 2.5 hour lessons for kindergarten-aged children • Continually reworked my curriculum and classroom approach based on what students responded to• Taught a daily kindergarten class• Taught after-school English classes to elementary school-aged children• Prepped 20 students over the course of several months for 20 minute kindergarten graduation performance• Selected to be the open house teacher, the face of the school to prospective students and parents• Designed a behavior rewards system that successfully minimized distraction and increased student performance

Monrovia, California, Us

• Maintained, organized, and represented what was once the most overlooked section of the store• Re-envisioned my section and reshaped it in accordance with that vision in order to attract customers• Outlined a series of best practices for working my section and taught these practices to co-workers• Listened to a variety of customer concerns and cooperated with co-workers to address these concerns

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English And Film & Media Studies

Certification In Python/Django, Mean, And Html/Css, Python + Django & Flask, Ruby + Rails, Mean, Front End Development

Creative Writing