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Kilgore, Tx, Us

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

Bellevue, Wa, Us

- Led the development of an Angular application which served as a vital tool for the High-Speed Internet team, enabling quick and accurate determination of customer eligibility and availability. Played a key role in driving cross-functional collaboration, ensuring that all teams were working in alignment towards a shared goal.- Championed accessibility within the team by proactively identifying and addressing potential issues before and after an independent accessibility audit. Played a key role in ensuring that all aspects of the Angular application were fully accessible to all users.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

- Conducted reverse engineering of a video streaming API, resulting in the successful implementation of streaming video functionality using Fairplay and HLS for a native streaming application in the new H&E division.- Developed and integrated video streaming using Fairplay and HLS, in conjunction with metadata and ad partners, to deliver seamless and uninterrupted streaming experiences for customers.- Spearheaded implementation of analytics from industry leaders such as Nielsen, Adobe, and Google, effectively tracking and measuring customer engagement and satisfaction, resulting in significant improvements to the application's overall performance.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

- Worked on streaming media prototype using Typescript and React.- Primarily responsible for creating and owning the 10ft experience for set-top boxes and smart TVs.

Dallas, Tx, Us

- Headed up the component library team, creating complex components using native javascript, React, and Redux in order to be reused across internal applications. Embedded with teams to guide implementation and refactoring efforts, and led the architectural process surrounding integration with the larger Southwest ecosystem.- As the sole internal front-end tech lead, consulted other teams on front-end best practices and approaches and audited potential front-end acquisitions and vendor solutions.- Took part in tech lead quora, guiding and advising Southwest's technology stack from a front-end architectural perspective.- Worked as part of an architectural committee, creating reference architecture for adoption of new frameworks and patterns in the overhaul of our internal apps.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Rewrote the majority of the Product Information Page application, moving from a monolithic, jQuery-based app to a modular, testable, ES2018-compatible, MVVM-patterned app, designed with SOLID principles in mind and using modern toolsets including Webpack, Jest and Babel.- Evangelized development best practices in Javascript by giving frequent presentations as part of the Front End guild. - Created, configured and administered pipelines with Concourse and Docker, enabling us to leverage CI/CD to automate our build and deploy processes.- Led the Digital Décor squad in delivering quality customer-facing features on the Product Information Page, becoming a top performer in the Home Depot organization and spearheading the small-team model that was later adopted org-wide.- Actively mentored junior developers in my role as squad lead, both by pairing with them and offering asynchronous feedback through pull reviews and regular check-ins.

Hillsborough, Nc, Us

- Delivered performant, clean and modern experiences as lead developer on various client projects in the e-commerce space.- Refactored monolithic front-end projects using a modern development approach, leveraging JS build tools and employing ES2015/2016, significantly reducing page weight and load times as well as developer productivity.

- Architected company-wide modular, MVVM-based rapid prototyping framework for use on client project proposals using Javascript, SCSS, Gulp, and other tools.- Lead developer across multiple client projects. Responsible for communicating with clients, overseeing proposals, and guiding architectural discussions, working directly with the CTO and UX leads.- Direct supervision and guidance of front-end developers reporting to me, including the establishment of a front-end training track.- Subject matter expert for front-end development and best practices.- Consulted with backend developers on API development and cloud integrations.

- Worked in close collaboration with UX and backend developers to deliver quality user experiences for clients in a wide variety of sectors including healthcare, retail, and auto. - Modernized the existing development environment in order to bring development best practices to the table, including updating the VCS and build system, moving hosted servers to cloud providers, and moving from WebForms to MVC.

- Worked with a wide range of technologies to create projects of varying complexities for a wide range of clients in numerous industries. - Provided solutions which delivered elegant customer experiences using modern approaches to development and incorporating accessibility, development and UX best-practices.- Responsibilities included both front and backend development, as well as infrastructure, ops, and design work.- Aside from Front End development, responsibilities included setting up hosting and networking for clients, including cloud infrastructure, load balancers and caching services; monitoring performance and SLOs/SLAs leveraging third-party tools; providing UX and design expertise; designing and deploying APIs for existing apps and wholly new ones delivered as part of the same project.