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Old Lyme, Ct, Us

UI / UX Developer

Maintained a tier 1 PCI compliant application for user & account management, using: React, Redux, Web components, Node JS backend delivered via ECS, EC2 with Cloudfront CDN. Built tooling for managing the complexities of RBAC permissions inheritance in the UI. Reduced development time in this area by 3x.Facilitated the removal of technical debt related impediments to developer experience by meeting with team members, identifying technical concerns, and facilitated the gradual remediation of all technical issues within product timelines along with product deliverables. Core contributor of the React based implementation for the platform design system (Helix UI). Created and maintained browser based acceptance test written in Codecept JS & WD as well as unit tests in mocha chai 90%+ coverage.Created and supported pipelines in Circle CI, Github Actions, Jenkins, as well as deploy bots.Functioned a lead in several initiatives including cross account linking UI, user-groups RBAC support, and identity federation enhancements, and more. On-call and dev-opts responsibilities included using tools such as Pagerduty, Datadog, Sentry, New Relic, and Cloudwatch to detect and diagnose application and infrastructure issues.

Warwick, Rhode Island, United States

Responsible for building, researching, vetting, and testing front-end frameworks and libraries to help our development team do their most maintainable work.Developed the front-end architecture used for the company's most prominent web application. Frontend layer was built with Vue JS and Vuex on top of a LAMP stack.Proficient in writing tests in Karma, Mocha, Chai testing libraries, and Selenium based E2E tests.Worked with product owners to scope and build out project timeliness and managed expectations.Created coding style guides, component style guides, and overall best front-end practices for Javascript, CSS, HTML and templating for the development team.Mentored development team in front-end best practices.

Warwick, Ri

Responsible for maintaining and improving upon existing Javascript & PHP applications. Built a set of user-friendly profiling and cache management tools that allowed our team to boost server response times over 200% on most crawl able areas of the site.Improved upon existing in-house MVC architecture adding layouts, partials and alternative templating methods which substantially reduced the size of view and controller level code.Functioned as technical resource for marketing and data teams for technical SEO and Analytics.Trained the development team in scalable approaches to CSS (LESS, BEM & OCSS) which reduced the time needed to make style related changes by more than half. Also noticeably reduced the number of visual bugs related to style changes.Lead a massive rewrite of the front-end layer of our largest website. The project was considered “The most successful project in the recent history of the company” because of the measurable effect on overall productivity. Implemented Processwire as a headless content management system (CMS) to replace a legacy in-house CMS. Wrote REST services for querying live and staged CMS content, as well as an image sizing API and page redirect manager. Created custom modules for Processwire for staging and drafting content to exactly meet the company's unique workflow requirements.

Developed a business around delivering content management solutions applications to niche markets. Built sites and applications using Processwire, Wordpress, Expression-Engine, Modx and in-house CMS tools.

Designed and developed a new web presence for the University.

Designed the front-end application layer for a Linux-based hardware/software firewall and network monitoring device for medium to large scale computer networks. The completed product, named IGG, can shape traffic do packet sniffing, function as proxy and protect mid to large scale networks. Wrote routines for reading and writing Linux config files, restarting services and reporting on server health to Progressive Data Systems.Gained a deep understanding of Linux services, firewalls, shell scripting and networking.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Compter Graphics, A

Activities and Societies: Visual Arts Club

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Computer Science & Computer Graphics