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Seattle, Washington, United States

Replaced deprecated UI components for Disney's OneID user management software with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React. Incremental updates allowed ESPN, National Geographic, and more to gain security and UI benefits without interrupting service for millions of users.Created a bridge between web apps and native mobile Android apps with JavaScript and Kotlin. The user login and management experience remained consistent on web and mobile apps with this change.Used JavaScript and CSS to include features for business partners, including themable components, and user flow opt-in controls. These kept other teams from building their own tools, saving The Walt Disney Company hundreds of man-hours of development time.Participated in bi-weekly sprint planning meetings, and daily SCRUM meetings to manage task completion. Logged task progress and user stories using Jira.Participated in on-call cycle, monitoring software health using New Relic Metrics. Wrote SQL queries to monitor effectiveness of newly released features.

Greater Seattle Area

Co-authored a client-sided task orchestration framework in JavaScript and Ruby. This software powered workflows within fulfillment centers around the world, improving the performance and safety of hundreds of fulfillment associates.Used React, HTML, and SCSS to build over 50 responsive, animating components. These components rendered smoothly on all screen sizes and old hardware, saving millions of dollars on replacing technology.Integrated React web app with Java microservices to create a simplified associate login process. By scanning a badge instead of typing credentials, associates could log in and start their workday in 1/10th of the time.Promptly addressed customer feedback of components to improve their experience, including word-based truncation, progress bar completion rate, manager-to-associate messaging, and content-aware notifications.Documented a process to test changes to front end software directly on fulfillment hand scanners. Bugs that were not identifiable in device emulators were caught and removed before changes went live.Removed cross site request forgery (XSRF) threats in HTML forms within fulfillment tools. Created a JavaScript bookmarklet to find vulnerable forms, fixing XSRF vulnerabilities in a quarter of the time.Replaced end-of-life, custom JavaScript build software with NPM and Webpack. Affected software packages now used standard front end tools, and saw build times for JS packages reduced by half.Collaborated with UX Designers to document human centered UI best practices. Created a CSS package to bring those best practices to HTML elements, regardless of technology stack.Monitored and managed CI/CD pipelines. Presented code changes to teammates in staging environments, and promoted code changes to production when they were ready to ship.Participated in weekly sprint planning meetings, defining and estimating tasks, and presenting project updates. Participated and led daily SCRUM meetings. (needs more impressive)

Irvine, Ca

Developed a robust tournament management web application using Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. This software managed weekly local tournaments, and national tournaments at Gen Con.Replaced cumbersome HTML templates with AngularJS components, improving developer experience. New features were released in half the time when the technology was introduced.Added features to the tournament management interface using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, including drag-and-drop player assignments. Feedback from tournament organizers was positive, citing easier match and score assignments.Created a live-updating leaderboard with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Ruby. Used the Pusher client to send messages from Rails APIs to an AngularJS frontend. Tournament players reported that seeing their standings instantly change was a delight.

Master Of Science (Ms), Games And Playable Media

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science: Computer Game Design

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Film And Digital Media: Production Concentration

Activities and Societies: Film Production Coalition