Helping food pantries & community organizations feed more people faster!Co-Architected and implemented an Instacart-like web application.Typescript & React on the front-end. Rust API layer deployed as containers to Google Cloud on the back-end.

Lead Consultant doing Research and Development on AR-enhanced Escape Room Game. Built a feature-complete Augmented Reality-enhanced Escape Room Puzzle in C#. Produced User Stories, Cost Estimates, and Estimated Maintenance Costs and calculated a Break-Even sales figure. Mentored Junior Engineers and worked with Product team directly

Engineering work:- Built Typescript components, wrote tests, worked on front-end animations and transitions. Worked with API-layer.- Special exploratory project in React Native - reported directly to CTO.Leadership work:- Mentored Jr team members, and moderated team educational sessions.Introduced other team members to new tech or principals. E.g. JS Animation API, using Cypress for testing, WebRTC protocol, and more.- Sustained morale.- Made technical and strategic decisions when appropriate.Infra/Strategic work:- Hugely impactful efficiency enhancements - Decreased developer feedback cycles by over 90%. Decreased build and deployment times by 20% and enabled the company to begin doing CI/CD.- Introduced automatic deployment of active github branches to unique test environments via AWS CDK.Innovation work:- WebRTC - Live-broadcast of remote spatial geometry acquired from LIDAR sensors and sent over a WebRTC data channel.- Worked directly with the in-house R&D team on implementing computer vision and AI TensorFlow / Google AutoML models.- Prototyped emerging technologies including: WebXR, and React Native Web using Expo.

Lead Engineer responsible for helping the enterprise transform itself into a technology-centric company.Selected and Implemented our web-based tech stack using: React, TypeScript, & Next.js. Containerized in Docker, Styled with Material UI and SC, Headless CMS: TinaCMS. Federated Auth with Okta.Built CICD pipelines that deploy via CloudFormation.Testing: Jest, Cypress.Designed project templates as starting points for supervised engineers

Lead developer on the project to overhaul the ZeroMotorcycles.com website, in React using Gatsby, and a headless CMS. Live Link: https://www.zeromotorcycles.com/zero-srs-Implemented React-based SSR architecture, with i18n support for 11 locales, on a S3 Static Hosted site that handles 1M+ uniques/month at lightning speed.-Acted as Engineering liaison to the client, and to design partner.-Engineered a custom Webpack build, so that Gatsby could generate a separate navigation bundle, that could be deployed to legacy pages that were not yet a part of the SPA.-Built a portable/scalable Motorcycle component with animated wheels that rotate as the bike moves, so no matter where it's used, it can drive realistically. Used requestAnimationFrame. -Used advanced animation libraries like GreenSock, and Framer Motion to add animation to nearly everything, giving the site a very cinematic feel.

Chromaplex was my software consulting firm. At first a loose organization I used for freelance work, in 2013 I made it my full-time focus. I scaled it up to about a dozen engineers, and took the company through the EO Accelerator program.Over 6-7, years I architected and deployed 25+ projects, including:-XR, Computer Vision, Training Neural Networks, iOS Apps, eCommerce, matching algorithms, lead management, video processing, and more.-We provided research, scoping, systems administration services, produced scope documents, project plans, architected databases and shipped products.-In addition to writing software, as the owner, I was in charge of Team building, Sales/Biz Dev, Process development, and Strategy.

-Designed and built modular Ad Platform in JavaScript/jQuery/CSS which could be served directly from CloudFront, for horizontally scalable infrastructure on the Amazon Cloud (AWS). Backend was RESTful PHP API.-Worked with the Chief Scientist on statistical algorithms for data mining, and Design team on UX.-Reported directly to CTO and President.-Grew engineering team from 4 to 15 Engineers in 9 months.-Developed requirements and scope. Managed offshore team.

Designed, Built, Maintained and brought to market a complete group-buying platform written in PHP/MySQL by myself in an Extreme Programming environment.