• Maintain the VA.gov public-facing website for Veteran-facing information and services• Author technical documentation for applications as reference material for future teams• Partner with designers to assess technical feasibility of designs• Work with accessibility partner to identify and quickly triage accessibility defects• Troubleshoot and remedy production defects• Thoroughly review, test and provide feedback on pull requests• Mentor new team members help them become productive quickly

• Develop an application for life insurance agents to provide a quote and complete an application for potential customers• Rebrand the bestow.com site and build a new repository with server-side rendering with a headless CMSIntegrate API data into front end projects• Write and determine strategy for front end unit tests• Author technical documentation and best practices for the team’s front end code in GitHub project READMEs and wiki pages• Partner with designers to assess technical feasibility and propose alternative technical solutions when necessary• Review, test and provide feedback on pull requests (code review)• Improve site performance, accessibility and SEO using the Google Chrome extensions Lighthouse, WAVE and Axe DevTools

• Developed an application used by investment advisors to provide recommendations for investment portfolios to members• Developed a very large and dynamic form used by life insurance agents to determine health and lifestyle markers for underwriting• Mentored and pair programmed with fellow engineers as front end subject matter expert• Wrote and determined strategy for front end unit and integration tests using Jest, Mocha, Chai, Enzyme, Sinon and Cypress• Authored technical documentation for testing of web applications including user flows, test data and database queries• Wrote technical documentation and best practices for the team’s front end code in GitHub project READMEs and wiki pages• Wrote, recorded and distributed basic CSS instructional videos using Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop for presentations and Snagit to capture video and audio• Contributed to REST APIs using Java (Spring) and Groovy• Integrated API data into front end projects using Axios• Troubleshot, escalated and resolved production issues during regular on-call rotations and one month rotation in the Availability Command Center (ACC)• Mentored and pair programmed with IT intern for two months to help produce portfolio work and a capstone project

• Conceptualized, sketched and wireframed design comps for user interfaces using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Sketch• Built interactive applications using JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS and AJAX to assist with team capacity planning• Proofread, edited and composed content for UI/UX comps• Conducted competitive analysis to inform marketing strategies• Created interactive prototypes for user testing; watched and synthesized user feedback for improving design comps