Robert Higdon 🐶 Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, NH, NL

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Manage up to twelve direct reports across three teams comprising cross-functional full-stack and data science engineers.
• Supervise core aspects of our accessibility (A11y) SaaS product, including monitoring, test fix automation, AI/ML opportunities, and CI/CD test integration SDK as a product.
• Collaborate with internal and external engineering teams, product management, platform customers, and engineering leadership to understand and solve problems.
• Oversee the hiring, onboarding, and professional development of staff.
• Define and drive successful OKR (company goals) targets and timelines in collaboration with stakeholders across the company, including product, marketing, sales, and external customers.
• Conduct regular 1:1s with direct reports to provide feedback, ensure career growth and progression, coordinate team efforts, build relationships, and identify areas for improvement.Key Accomplishments:

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Defined and raised infrastructure for a functional suite of accessibility automation: Vanilla JS, unit tested with Jest, and E2E tested in Cypress

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Managed a team of twelve contractors responsible for creating custom dental practice websites.
• Led updates to the front-end architecture of legacy Laravel applications, including developing forms and interactive elements utilizing Vue JS.
• Implemented Agile practices such as scrum, standups, and sprints, and managed training and change in a company that previously had no formal process.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Team: Gameday
• Drove key technical decisions for Nike Go-To-Market's most visible project.
• Acted as a technical liaison to key stakeholders across the business, informing them of the deadline-driven process's critical milestones.
• Aided in the team's recruitment, onboarding, and continuous mentorship.
• Guided the workflow, processes, and architectural framework across features.
• Constructed the platform's client-side framework from scratch, utilizing React, Redux, GraphQL, and NodeJS. This was achieved by leveraging serverless AWS infrastructure, which included Lambdas, ECS/Fargate, Terraform.

Seattle, WA

• Worked under high-pressure timelines for large, global clients.
• Mentored developers to nurture talent and support their growth.
• Established a cross-team code review process.Client: Anastasia Beverly Hills
• Architecture lead for anastasiabeverlyhills.com revamp on a team of 6
• Developed front-end framework and build tools with vanilla (ES2015) and React JS
• Worked closely with creative and UX to bring client’s unique vision to lifeClient: Movado Watches

Seattle, WA

• Initiated processes for sharing knowledge to enhance the React skillset of other developers.
• Led the front-end team's development of an independently deployable application using a new framework on.NET, MVC5, and Web API.
• Collaborated with a small team to develop a pattern library based on UX guidelines, built on React, focusing on core UI fundamentals and accessibility.

• Collaborated with Intersection Cities for Squarespace development work on hyper-local ecommerce sites lincolnandrose.com and mainandpch.com
• Conceptualized logos and promotional materials for clients including Santa Cruz bicycles, Momentum Magazine, and various local bike builders and shops
• Contributing front-end developer for multiple holiday seasons with JibJab Media on jibjab.com and storybots.com

• Directed all aspects of front-end architecture on paulaschoice.com
• Provided front-end development training for the web production team
• Orchestrated front-end development for rollout of global platform for international affiliates, beginning with Paula's Choice Australia
• Executed rewrite of checkout flow as a single-page application using AngularJS; fully unit tested in Visual Studio with Jasmine and Karma
• Collaborated with one back-end developer to build a full mobile site for paulaschoice.com in jQuery mobile (in just one month)

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