Rob Abby Email & Phone Number

St Thomas, Us Virgin Islands

Chicago, Illinois, Us

In my time at PartySlate we have grown from a 12-person early-stage startup to a +50-employee Series-B company while averaging 258.33% revenue growth year-over-year. Collectively we shipped *many* in-depth features, embraced remote work, established a collaborative Design System, transitioned to Nextjs and GraphQL, and succeeded in building a world class events industry platform.- Spearheaded 10+ large-scale features from requirements phase through agile development and cross-functional definition process, resulting in a 25% increase in user engagement year-over-year.- Led the rewrite of Find Venues Page (https://www.partyslate.com/find-venues) to provide a Map-view, leveraging Google Maps API, React.js, Mobx, and React Router, resulting in a 150% increase in Venue inquiries.- Facilitated long-term project migrating from Monolith to Monorepo, breaking the front-end code out from the Rails backend. I oversaw the Implementation of TypeScript, Next.js, Zod, React Query, PNPM and Turborepo. Migrating away from Class-based components, React Router and Mobx. The new setup improved Developer Experience dramatically, reduced deployment costs substantially, and improved page-load times by 35%. Thus enabling the development of a living styleguide and subsequent increases in sprint velocity.- Achieved an employee retention rate of 90% over three years by implementing team-building activities, regular feedback sessions, and career development programs, fostering a positive work environment.- Member of the DEI Committee

Chicago, Il, Us

Working within a Product Experience team defining and developing processes and features for project44’s new User Interface products sitting atop their existing API based solutions.• Implementing features into a React/Redux-based solution within tight timelines and scope using modern development best-practices (Jest, Enzyme, ES6, SCSS w/BEM).• Co-leading the creation of a living style guide and UI component library with Ant Design & Rollup.js.• Building live-code prototypes and deploying them to AWS for gathering feedback and testing new features.

Chicago, Il, Us

Worked within Agile and Lean UX methodologies to take projects from discovery to implementation. Collaborates with Visual Design, UX Design & Research, Development, Product, and Delivery Managers to build quality, user-centered products. - Led the spinout of an autonomous, fully-functioning UI/UX team driving a user-centered process to influence product and feature prioritization.- Led the initiative to modernize the frontend architecture in order to deliver high-quality, consistent interfaces in an micro-service environment using GoCD & AWS.- Implemented & managed a set of Ember.js addons that compose a majority of SAVO’s User Interface with rigorous Acceptance & Integration Tests.- Co-lead the creation of a living style guide consisting of UI components, design patterns, design tokens, and development best practices.

Chicago, Il, Us

Collaborated across multiple teams in development and the business to design, build, test and implement new products and features. Mentored and coached developers and designers to utilize consistent user testing, frontend development thought-patterns, stronger feedback loops, and other design best practices.- Established the SAVO Front-End Guild - a bi-weekly meeting for all developers that covered Front-end development basics, best-practices, and industry trends.- Worked closely with UX Design and Developers to create a component-driven approach to front-end development at SAVO using Ember.js and Atomic Design.- Experienced a company-wide transformation from Waterfall to Agile and adoption of Lean UX principles- Implemented Responsive & Mobile First design patterns- Co-lead the adoption of the Ember.js Framework and the eventual implementation of Ember Engines in a CI/CD delivery environment

Highland Park, Il, Us

Hired as the first developer other than the founders to assist with a major redesign of the Web2Carz aging site, implement a new editorial segment, and develop an adaptive mobile solution. - Worked closely with stakeholders and designers to implement new car viewing galleries, contact forms, article layouts and widgets that directly impacted revenue, bounce rate and conversion- With a team of two developed a revamped standalone app for Web2Carz that adopted cutting-edge industry standards and increased conversions and revenue by 20%

Freelance Web Development

Chicago, Il, Us

Implemented HTML, CSS & JavaScript/jQuery changes for multiple micro-sites, and the Booth school homepage in a C#/.NET environment. Coded email marketing campaigns. Office applications included WebExpress CMS, @Task Project Manager, & Convio Email Campaign Manager.

Northbrook, Illinois, Us