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Houston, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

-Managing a robust group of 10 engineers across 3 front end web applications (1 React/RoR, 2 React/NodeJS), including contractors and remote resources, both in the US and Internationally.-Empowering direct reports with an ownership mentality through career coaching, 1:1 mentorship and cultivating a peer-to-peer mentorship ecosystem -Successfully guiding multiple reports to promotion through individualized year long career development plans-Collaborating with product and business leadership to develop, maintain and evolve a comprehensive banking solution, including CMS and internal tools-Enabling 2 teams of 10+ engineers each as Scrum Master, exemplifying SAFe agile methodologies through servant leadership-Functioning as Scrum Master to Utilize Agile methods and processes to coach 2 product owners through complex problem-solving and solution strategies-Supporting Agile development by coaching continual improvement, resulting in an increase in the productivity of 3 teams by over 30%

Austin, Tx, Us

-Led the rewrite and UI refresh of legacy monolithic React/RoR multi-tenant application-Architected a containerized multi-platform Orchestration Layer microservice -Conducted Microsoft Azure (Cloud CI/CD) pipeline migration including successful platform integration and best practice (CI/CD & SDLC) implementation-Drove automated unit, service, integration, and UI testing as well as automated security scanning through Checkmarx and Whitesource-Created product and process technical documentation

Austin, Tx, Us

-Contributed to the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of a banking web application (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby, Postgres)-Owned the implementation and monitoring of recurrent security scans and subsequent remediation of all flagged vulnerabilities -Refactored 20% of application to meet ADA compliance standards at a AAA WCAG 2.0 rating-Reduced the bug backlog by 65% by creating a process for triaging in order to efficiently address bugs within the SLA

Austin, Tx, Us

Assisting in the mentoring, coaching, guidance and learning of students in the 311 Applied Javascript course at the downtown location of Austin Coding Academy.

Austin, Tx, Us

Focus on Javascript and its frameworks and libraries. Emphasis on MERN Fullstack Development (Mongo DB, Express, React.js, Node.js).

• Update ADA compatibility of existing enterprise websites. Build out mobile app components based on designer mockups. Participate as a member of a development team with code reviews and progress checks.• Setup application structure using React, Redux, Bootstrap and SASS.• Created Large Scale SPA using React by using React-Router to Implement SPA • Used jQuery and AJAX for service calls on pages to interact with the server for information.• Analyzed the response of JSON to update Document Object Model(DOM) and Involved in writing application level code to interact with APIs, Web Services using AJAX, JSON and XML.• Conducted unit testing by using Jest and Enzyme frameworks. • Implemented CRUD operations in Node.js (Express Framework) using MongoDB and handled them in React application.• Worked with mongoose for database communication with MongoDB.• Developed web applications with best Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques.• Extensively used Git for version controlling and regularly pushed the code to GitHub.

• Enhance UI/UX by targeting problems and bugs, debugging, creating solutions and implementing these changes to various existing professional business websites.• Fully Migrated Complex Legacy jQuery Codebase to React• Responsible for Maintaining a Current Website that included Updating the Web Pages, Uploading Additional Content/Changes in Addition to Developing and Designing Front-End/UI.• Involved in Designing UI Screen, Created Several Mock up using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.• Handled all the client-side validations, slide show, hide and show controls, dropdown menus and tab navigation using jQuery.• Built Web pages that are more user-interactive using jQuery plugins, AJAX, JavaScript.• Involved in writing application level code to interact with APIs, Web Services using AJAX, JSON. • Used AJAX to make asynchronous calls to the server to fetch data and update the DOM. • Responsible for transforming design mock-ups to W3C standards compliant HTML pages using HTML, XHTML, CSS.• Written and implemented CSS throughout the site, both as in-line and imported files and created cross-browser compatible and standards-compliant CSS-based page layouts.• Developed solution definition and technical design documents

Business Administration And Management, General

Software Engineer (Full-Stack Javascript), Focus: Javascript/React.Js/Express/Node.Js/Mongodb

Computer Software Engineering